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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2013
Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
George Arriola, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Anahi Bagu Casas, San Francisco, CA (US);
Shinji Kimura, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Shigeru Enomoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Yasuhiro Yamanaka, Chiba, JP;
Motoki Kobayashi, Tokyo, JP;
Shuji Hiramatsu, Tokyo, JP;
Yumiko Tanaka, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Taku Sugawara, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A home screen display unit displays a global navigation screenthat is located on an upper layer with respect to a screen transition and that is used for selecting a category of content to be processed. The home screen display unit displays a content zone screenthat is located on a lower layer with respect to a screen transition and that is used for selecting a piece of content to be processed from among a plurality of pieces of content corresponding to the category selected in the global navigation screen. If a specific piece of content is selected in the content zone screen, a game screen display unit displays a screen of the selected content. The home screen display unit displays, in the global navigation screen, an image of at least a portion of the content zone screenwith image quality lower than that in the case where the image is displayed in the content zone screen