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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 04, 2008
Takuro Noda, Tokyo, JP;
Qihong Wang, Tokyo, JP;
Akiko Terayama, Tokyo, JP;
Takuo Ikeda, Tokyo, JP;
Hidenori Karasawa, Tokyo, JP;
Takuro Noda, Tokyo, JP;
QiHong Wang, Tokyo, JP;
Akiko Terayama, Tokyo, JP;
Takuo Ikeda, Tokyo, JP;
Hidenori Karasawa, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A display device for displaying a plurality of contents in a predetermined display area. The display device includes a content acquiring unit configured to acquire the contents, a content arranging unit configured to arrange the contents based on time information possessed by the contents, a time difference calculating unit configured to calculate a time difference between adjacent contents in terms of time based on the time information possessed by the contents, a display position setting unit configured to set a position of each content along a time axis based on the time difference between the contents, the display position setting unit determining whether the time difference between the contents is larger than a predetermined value, and a content display unit configured to display the plurality of contents based on position information on the time axis along the depth direction of the predetermined display area.