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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 12, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 17, 2009
Masaki Higuchi, Tokyo, JP;
Shigeru Enomoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Yasuhiro Yamanaka, Chiba, JP;
Shuji Hiramatsu, Tokyo, JP;
Masaki Higuchi, Tokyo, JP;
Shigeru Enomoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Yasuhiro Yamanaka, Chiba, JP;
Shuji Hiramatsu, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An instruction acquisition unit acquires a menu display instruction in a menu screen display device. When the menu display instruction is acquired while a game program is running, a menu-screen generating unit displays, by a function of a system, on a television set a second system menu screen in which an end icon for terminating the running game program is inserted in between a plurality of content icons that are arranged in a line in a first system menu screen and displayed. The instruction acquisition unit acquires the selection of the displayed end icon from a user. When the selection of the end icon is acquired, a menu screen constituting unit terminates the running game program and displays on the television set a first system menu screen by deleting the end icon from the second system menu screen.