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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 20, 2010
Filed:
Jul. 22, 2004
Akihiko Ito, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroaki Nakano, Kanagawa, JP;
Shusuke Eshita, Tokyo, JP;
Tetsuo Maruyama, Tokyo, JP;
Kazuhiro Fukuda, Kanagawa, JP;
Akihiko Ito, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroaki Nakano, Kanagawa, JP;
Shusuke Eshita, Tokyo, JP;
Tetsuo Maruyama, Tokyo, JP;
Kazuhiro Fukuda, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A screen display apparatus for controlling the size each display area to appropriately display content information of each display area into one display screen. The screen display apparatus includes a selection accept block for accepting selection of first content information displayed in a first display area, a content information acquisition block for acquiring the content information associated with the selected first content information, this content information being second content information located on a layer below the first content information, and, in order to allocate a second display area for displaying the second content information to the display screen, a display area control block for controlling either or both of the first display area and the second display area.