Sony Corporation

Masatoshi Ohta

Hideki Asazu

Yasushi Tsuruta

Junya Ohde

Koji Matsuura

There is provided a display apparatus including display means for displaying images, electronic program guide display means for causing the display means to display an electronic program guide, selection means for draggably & droppably selecting the part of the electronic program guide displayed by the electronic program guide display means, icon display means for, when the part selected by the selection means is dragged, causing icons corresponding to the part to be displayed by being superimposed on the electronic program guide, and execution means for, when the part is dropped onto the icon caused by the icon display means to be displayed by being superimposed on the electronic program guide while the part displayed in the electronic program guide being dragged by the selection means, causing a function associated with the icon to be executed.

Display apparatus and display method

A schedule-table presenting apparatus including: a schedule acquisition section configured to acquire a schedule including the broadcasting start time and a descriptive text describing each of the events; a schedule-table generation section configured to assign a specific one of the events to a first program frame and assign a plurality of events other than the specific event to a second program frame in order to generate a schedule table including the first program frame allocated to the specific event as a frame showing the broadcasting start time of the specific event as well as the descriptive text describing the specific event and the second program frame allocated to the other events as a frame showing the broadcasting start time of each of the other events; and a display control section configured to display the schedule table generated by the schedule-table generation section on a display section determined in advance.

Schedule-table presenting apparatus and schedule-table presenting method

An information processing apparatus may include a channel list generating unit that performs primary selection of channels as primary candidate channels for switching candidate channels from channels in a predetermined order, secondary selection of channels as secondary candidate channels from the primary candidate channels, and generation of a channel list having pieces of specifying information arranged in the order which specify details transmitted on at least one channel, a display control unit that controls displaying the channel list, and a final candidate channel selecting unit that performs, in the case of performing a selecting operation for selecting a channel from the channel list, determination of the selected channel as a final candidate channel when the selected channel is one secondary candidate channel, and determination of a different secondary candidate channel included in the channel list as the final candidate channel when the selected channel is one secondary candidate channel.

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Tokyo, Japan

Masatoshi Ohta