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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 01, 2010
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2005
Ikuya Sano, Kanagawa, JP;
Ryoji Amemiya, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiroshi Nagatani, Saitama, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus includes: a display control section which controls to generate a table with days of the week allocated in one of first and second directions and time zones of a day in the other direction and displays the table on a specified display device for showing setting status of recording reservation on a specified tuner; an acquiring section which acquires first information, second information, and third information, respectively indicating a specified broadcast station, a specified day of the week, a specified time zone of a day, inputted by a user; and an setting section which makes reservation for recording the contents that the broadcasted contents specified with the first to third information acquired by the acquiring section are received by the specified tuner and the received contents are recorded as data in a specified recording medium. When the recording reservation is set by the setting section, of all areas constituting the table displayed on the display device, the display control section controls to display the area identified with the contents, reserved to be recorded, by the setting section on the display device with a display format different from that of other areas.