US 11,811,986 B2
Image forming apparatus with a hardware key provided on a back side of a display screen
Hirohisa Sawada, Abiko (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jan. 25, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/156,726.
Application 17/156,726 is a division of application No. 16/669,916, filed on Oct. 31, 2019, granted, now 10,944,879.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-210697 (JP), filed on Nov. 8, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0144268 A1, May 13, 2021
Int. Cl. H04N 1/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/12 (2006.01)
CPC H04N 1/00411 (2013.01) [G06F 3/1278 (2013.01); H04N 1/0044 (2013.01); H04N 1/00392 (2013.01); H04N 1/00477 (2013.01); H04N 1/00482 (2013.01); H04N 2201/0094 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image forming apparatus comprising:
an image forming portion configured to form an image on a sheet; and
an operating portion including a display screen provided on a front surface of the operating portion and a plurality of hardware keys provided on a back surface of the operating portion, the plurality of hardware keys including a hardware key configured to start a maintenance mode of the image forming apparatus, the display screen being configured to receive an input by touch operation, the display screen including a first edge and a second edge shorter than the first edge, the second edge being perpendicular to the first edge,
wherein the plurality of hardware keys provided on the back surface of the operating portion are provided in a direction along the second edge.