- Patent Title: Display device that allows user to easily move icon and freely change order of icon, image forming apparatus having display device, and control method for display device
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Application No.: US17508465Application Date: 2021-10-22
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Publication No.: US11689671B2Publication Date: 2023-06-27
- Inventor: Akihiro Moriya , Atsushi Ikeda , Hiroaki Koike , Takeshi Kogure
- Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Venable LLP
- Priority: JP 20190219 2020.11.16
- Main IPC: H04N1/00
- IPC: H04N1/00 ; G03G15/00 ; G06F3/04817 ; G06F3/0483 ; G06F3/0486 ; G06F3/04883

Abstract:
A display device that allows a user to easily move an icon across tabs and freely change the order of the icon in the tab of a movement destination is provided. The display device comprising a display unit, a touch panel that is arranged so as to superimposed on the display unit, and a control unit configured to display a screen including a plurality of tabs capable of accommodating a plurality of predetermined numbers of icons on the display unit. The control unit comprises a switching unit configured to switch between a home screen for displaying icons accommodated in a first tab selected via the touch panel among the plurality of tabs and a setting screen for moving a predetermined icon accommodated in the first tab to a second tab by a drag-and-drop operation, and a display control unit configured in such a way that when the predetermined icon is dragged onto a heading part of the second tab on the setting screen, in a case that there is no space for inserting the predetermined icon in the second tab, a display indicating that a drop operation is not possible is performed on the heading part of the second tab, and in a case that there is a space for inserting the predetermined icon in the second tab, a display indicating that a drop operation is possible is performed on the heading part of the second tab.
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