Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Sony Corporation

Arriola, George

Anahi Bagu Casas

Taku Sugawara

Shuji Hiramatsu

Takahiro Fujii

Shinji Kimura

Motoki Kobayashi

Shigeru Enomoto

Yasuhiro Yamanaka

George A Arriola

Yumiko Tanaka

A home screen display unit arranges and displays a plurality of content icons indicating a plurality of pieces of content in a first area in a content zone screen. If a specific content icon is focused on by the cursor and if a preset determination operation is performed, a content playback unit starts playback of the content indicated by the focused icon. If a specific content icon is focused on by the cursor, a related information acquiring unit acquires related information relating to the content that is indicated by the focused icon that is registered in an external device from the external device without starting playback of the content. A home screen display unit displays the acquired related information in a second area of the content zone screen and displays, if related information is updated, the updated related information in the second area so as to replace the related information displayed until that moment.

Information processing apparatus and information processing method

A home screen display unit displays a global navigation screenthat is located on an upper layer with respect to a screen transition and that is used for selecting a category of content to be processed. The home screen display unit displays a content zone screenthat is located on a lower layer with respect to a screen transition and that is used for selecting a piece of content to be processed from among a plurality of pieces of content corresponding to the category selected in the global navigation screen. If a specific piece of content is selected in the content zone screen, a game screen display unit displays a screen of the selected content. The home screen display unit displays, in the global navigation screen, an image of at least a portion of the content zone screenwith image quality lower than that in the case where the image is displayed in the content zone screen

Display panel or screen with graphical user interface

Display panel or screen with a graphical user interface

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Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

Anahi Bagu Casas