Sony Corporation

Tomoe Tanaka

Junichiro Sakata

Yoshihiro Yamaguchi

Keigo Ihara

Tetsuya Kohno

Yasuo Nomura

Naoki Fujisawa

Junji Ooi

Tota Hasegawa

Mitsuru Nagasaka

Akio Koresawa

Tetsuro Kida

A display of 'scroll up by 1 hour' is overlaid on sections of station name of a program schedule Fawhen an up arrow key of a cross key provided to a remote commander is operated when a cursor K is on the upper border of a program frame, and when there is any preceding program (past program) not currently displayed in the program schedule Fa. Then when an enter key provided to the remote commander is operated, the 1-hour-scrolled-up program schedule Fais responsively displayed after reconfiguration. In such a manner, the display range of the program schedule can be changed with ease, and the present invention is applicable to television receivers for digital broadcasting.

Image processing unit, method, and program

According to the present invention, when displaying a jog-dial window menu on a liquid crystal display, hierarchically-structured menu items are displayed with a hierarchy icon, thereby enabling the user to easily recognize whether or not that menu item is hierarchically structured and improving the operation of menu selection. Furthermore, scroll display of a character string indicating a menu item is performed in an identification frame, thereby enabling the user to read the entire character string from beginning to end for easy recognition thereof and improving the operation of menu selection. Still further, a character string of a menu selected from among a plurality of menu items is displayed in a different color from other character strings, thereby enabling the user to easily recognize the selected menu item and improving the operation of menu selection.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program storage medium for controlling and displaying a menu

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Kanagawa, Japan

Tomoe Tanaka