US 11,722,612 B2
Multifunction device, display control method of multifunction device, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing display control program
Ken Ikuma, Nagano (JP); and Toshifumi Sakai, Nagano (JP)
Assigned to Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on May 23, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/664,437.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-086727 (JP), filed on May 24, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0377189 A1, Nov. 24, 2022
Int. Cl. H04N 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC H04N 1/00509 (2013.01) [H04N 1/00413 (2013.01); H04N 1/00506 (2013.01); H04N 2201/0094 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A multifunction device comprising:
a reading unit that reads a document;
a printing unit that performs printing on a medium;
an operation panel that accepts instructions including an execution instruction and an edit instruction from a user and displays an operation screen including a plurality of icons and an edit screen including the plurality of icons; and
a display control section that switches display of the operation panel to the operation screen or the edit screen, wherein
the execution instruction to execute a function using the reading unit or the printing unit is accepted by using the icon in the operation screen,
the edit instruction including a hide instruction to hide the icon desired by the user is accepted by using the icon in the edit screen,
the plurality of icons include a first icon and a second icon whose display modes displayed on the edit screen are different from each other,
the first icon and the second icon have different behaviors in response to the hide instruction,
the first icon is hidden in response to the hide instruction, and
the second icon asks the user whether to hide the second icon in response to the hide instruction.