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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2009
Mamoru Tokashiki, Tokyo, JP;
Fujio Nobori, Kanagawa, JP;
Mamoru Tokashiki, Tokyo, JP;
Fujio Nobori, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A client device includes a display control unit for setting a current time line indicating a current time on the display screen to divide the display screen into a fixed region and a moving region across the current time line as boundary, for moving a program object set in the moving region toward the current time line at a predetermined speed to set, among program information contained in the EPG data obtained by the EPG data obtaining unit, a program object describing therein program identification information contained in the program information on certain program information whose program start time is earlier than a current time, which is contained in the program information, at a position reaching the current time line in the moving region when the program start time comes, and for, when the program object reaches the current time line, shifting the program object to the fixed region.