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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2011
Munetaka Tsuda, Kyoto, JP;
Shuji Hiramatsu, Tokyo, JP;
Shigeru Enomoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Motoki Kobayashi, Tokyo, JP;
Toru Morita, Tokyo, JP;
Munetaka Tsuda, Kyoto, JP;
Shuji Hiramatsu, Tokyo, JP;
Shigeru Enomoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Motoki Kobayashi, Tokyo, JP;
Toru Morita, Tokyo, JP;
SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Provided is an information processing apparatus including a novel user interface capable of switching a number of images for display on a screen. The information processing apparatus displays a menu image representing one or more menu item images on a screen, displays, when any one of the one or more menu item images is selected, a selection target image associated with the selected menu item image on the screen, stores a selected order of already-selected ones of the one or more menu item images, displays, when one direction along one side of the screen is specified, another selection target image, which is selected in accordance with the stored selected order and the one direction, and redisplays the menu image when an opposite direction to the one direction is specified in a state in which the selection target image associated with the menu image selected most recently is displayed.