Image forming apparatus

Abstract

An image forming apparatus includes a control unit equipped with a touch panel display and a control unit-side controller. The control unit includes multiple image display modes supporting functions of editing image data. The control unit side controller includes an image display mode selecting function which, when the user selects a desired function, selects an image display mode that is most suitable for the user's desired function, from the multiple image display modes, in accordance with the user's control operation of selecting a function and displays a frame corresponding to the selected image display mode, on the touch panel display.

1 . An image forming apparatus comprising:
 an input unit receiving input of image data;   a storing unit storing the image data input through the input unit and,   an image display control device, characterized in that the image display control device, includes:   a display image generator generating a display image based on the image data stored in the storing unit;   a display portion having a preview region for displaying the display image generated by the display image generator; and,   a display controller for giving the display image generated by the display image generator, in a preview representation on the display portion, wherein   the image display control device includes multiple image display modes supporting editing functions of the image data, and   the display controller has an image display mode selecting function which, when the user selects a desired function, selects an image display mode that is most suitable for the user's desired function, from the multiple image display modes, in accordance with the user's control operation of selecting a function.   
     
     
         2 . The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein when the image display mode displayed on the display portion is for one page image display or two page image display at the time the user selects the desired function, the image display mode selecting function changes the image display mode to a mode that displays multiple page images greater than two pages, in a preview representation, in accordance with the user's control operation of selecting a function. 
     
     
         3 . The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the user's control operation of selecting a desired function is an operation of selecting and moving an image displayed in the preview representation on the display portion. 
     
     
         4 . The image forming apparatus according to  claim 2 , wherein the user's control operation of selecting a desired function is an operation of selecting and moving an image displayed in the preview representation on the display portion. 
     
     
         5 . The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the user's control operation of selecting a desired function is an operation of selecting an image to be edited and sliding the selected image leftwards or rightwards on the display portion. 
     
     
         6 . The image forming apparatus according to  claim 2 , wherein the user's control operation of selecting a desired function is an operation of selecting an image to be edited and sliding the selected image leftwards or rightwards on the display portion. 
     
     
         7 . The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the display portion further has a function selecting region displaying enabled functions for editing the image data, and, the user's control operation of selecting a desired function is an operation of selecting an editing function to be performed on the image to be edited, through the function selecting frame. 
     
     
         8 . The image forming apparatus according to  claim 2 , wherein the display portion further has a function selecting region displaying enabled functions for editing the image data, and, the user's control operation of selecting a desired function is an operation of selecting an editing function to be performed on the image to be edited, through the function selecting frame.