An electronic apparatus includes an operation unit and a control unit. The control unit performs a guidance image display control, a step bar display control, and a step bar operation detection control. When the touch operation on a given position of the step bar is detected in the step bar operation detection control, the control unit causes the display unit to display the plurality of guidance images corresponding to the process associated with the position where the touch operation has been made, in the guidance image display control.

A system and method for customized multifunction peripherals includes a document processing controller including a processor and a memory, a scanner, a scanner engine, a printer, a user input and a display. The memory stores electronic customization groups, each corresponding to a unique business type. Each electronic customization group includes electronic files, such as forms, applications, screen backgrounds, company logos, screen positioning information, and labels. The memory also stores device customization data sets, each corresponding to document processing in the multifunction peripheral. Indicia on the display identify each of the customization groups by business type, and the user input receives a selection of a selected customization group. A customizations menu on the display lists available customizations from the selected customization group. A document processing options menu on the display includes document processing options corresponding to a portion of the device customization data sets associated with the selected customization group.

An information processing apparatus configured to authenticate a user in first authentication processing and second authentication processing and permit the user who is authenticated to use at least one of a plurality of functions includes a control unit configured to, at a time of authentication of the user in the first authentication processing, perform control to prompt the user to select an authentication method to be used in the first authentication processing.

An image forming apparatus includes a displayer, a controller, and an image former. The controller is capable of setting a screen to be displayed on the displayer, as an initial screen, and is capable of making settings as to whether a specific screen for displaying apparatus information is displayed on the displayer in preference to the initial screen. In a case where settings are made to display the specific screen on the displayer in preference to the initial screen, the controller displays the specific screen on the displayer in preference to the initial screen.

An information processing apparatus includes a first display control unit that displays an image on a display unit, a selection unit that selects an operation image from a group of operation images used to receive different operations with respect to the displayed image, depending on a magnification of the displayed image, and a second display control unit that displays the selected operation image on the display unit.

An application generator that generates a screen display application for causing an image forming apparatus to execute display processing includes: an acceptance section that accepts arrangement of any one of first objects each being prepared in advance for commanding to execute particular processing, to the screen, or accepts arrangement of a second object, and a third object arranged on another screen and to be associated with the second object, to the screen; a generation section that generates an application for displaying a screen on which one or both of the first object and the second object are arranged, for commanding to execute the particular processing relating to the first object when the first object is selected, and for giving notice of coordinates of the second object when the second object is selected; and an output section that outputs the screen display application and correspondence data.

A display device includes: a display unit capable of displaying a setting screen having an input area for an input value and a keypad screen having soft keys on the same screen; a determiner configured to determine an acceptable input value range of the input area displayed on the display unit; and a display controller configured to display only soft keys on the keypad screen, wherein the keypad screen has a fixed area in which the soft key is fixedly displayed and a variable area in which the soft key is variably displayed, the soft keys are classified into a common key and an individual key other than the common key, and the display controller displays the common key in the fixed area of the keypad screen and the individual key in the variable area of the keypad screen out of the soft keys.

An information processing apparatus capable of communicating with an image forming apparatus that performs printing using a sheet set in a feeding unit includes a controller serving as a processor that executes a program or a circuit that is equipped with functions, the controller being configured to function as a unit that causes a display device to display a screen in which a plurality of objects corresponding to a plurality of pieces of attribute information is arranged, a unit that sets, in the screen, attribute information corresponding to a sheet set in the feeding unit, a unit that updates, according to setting of the attribute information, count information associated with the set attribute information, and a unit that determines an arrangement of the plurality of objects in the screen based on the count information.

An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit acquires electronic data, and a display control unit that in a case where there is a page meeting a predetermined condition in the electronic data, performs control to display a thumbnail of the page.

An information processing apparatus includes a first execution unit, a second execution unit, and a display. The first execution unit performs a specific function. The second execution unit performs a common function which is commonly used from specific functions. The display displays, on an operation screen for a specific function, an operation receiving section for making a direct transition to an operation screen for performing a common function related to the specific function, not via another operation screen, and displays, on the operation screen for the common function to which a transition has been made through an operation on the operation receiving section, an operation receiving section for returning back to the operation screen for the specific function.