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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 13, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2012
Ryuji Nakayama, Tokyo, JP;
Ryuji Nakayama, Tokyo, JP;
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A menu management unit relates items of contents received from a storage unit to multiple folder icons, which represent units for displaying contents. A menu screen generating unit generates image data for a menu screen, which includes a function icon arrayformed by multiple function icons-aligned horizontally, and a folder icon arrayformed by multiple folder iconsaligned vertically. With respect to each of the multiple folder icons, an effect processing unit receives, as a folder attachment image, one of content icons representing related contents from the storage unit, and then displays, in the folder icon array, the folder attachment imageand the folder iconso that the folder attachment image is included in the semi-transparent folder icon superimposed upon the image.