Patent ID: 9668013
Date: 2017-05-30
CPC Classifications: H04N

Claim:
1. A display device comprising: a display portion; an input portion that receives an instruction to select a program in a program list, with the display portion displaying a frame indicative of the program in the program list with a distinguishable expression; and a controller that links a first program with a second program that is arranged relative to the first program along a time axis of the program list while the first program has a program time period shorter than a predetermined time period, that merges frames indicative of the first program and the second program in the program list into a single frame indicative of the second program upon linking the first program with the second program, and that controls the display portion to integrally display the single frame in the program list with the distinguishable expression and to move the distinguishable expression between the single frame and an adjacent frame with a single operation of a cursor key.