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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 13, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 06, 2016
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Koji Nagahiro, Kanagawa, JP;
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The display unitdisplays an item-selection-screen, on which selectable items are two-dimensionally-arranged. The operation input unitreceives a user's operation. The controller unitselects, every time an operation input unit receives an item-change-operation, items two-dimensionally-arranged on an item-selection-screen in order in a predetermined selection-direction, selects an item at an end in the selection-direction, and then selects adjacent-items in order in the selection-direction from an item at an end in a direction opposite to the selection-direction, the adjacent-items being adjacent at a predetermined side of the selection-direction. Since the items are two-dimensionally-arranged on the item-selection-screen, a user may easily understand the selectable items. Further, only by executing the item-change-operation again and again, it is possible to easily select a desired item. It is possible to execute setting or the like of the desired item efficiently and easily.