Patent ID: 9601091
Date: 2017-03-21
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06T,G09G

Claim:
1. An information processing apparatus, comprising: a data storage unit configured to store data of a content, which is configured from data of a plurality of images and a plurality of setting files to which, in order to make, when the plural images are to be displayed on a display apparatus through switching by a user operation, a processing procedure, which is to be used for determination of an image of a switching destination, different depending upon used operation means, information of different kinds necessary for the individual processing procedures is set; and a setting screen controlling unit configured to specify, on the basis of the plural setting files, preceding-succeeding relationships of the images when the image is switched by the processing procedures and display a correlation map in which the preceding-succeeding relationships are represented by reduced images of the plural images and graphics which connect the reduced images to each other thereby to represent switching orders of the images by the plural processing procedures through a single screen image; wherein the individual processing procedures include a first processing procedure, the first processing procedure being a first navigation processing for navigating the content according to a link between two images of the plurality of images, the two linked images being non-sequential images relative to one another based on a pre-determined sequence of the plurality of images; wherein the individual processing procedures include a second processing procedure, the second processing procedure being a second navigation processing for navigating the content according to the pre-determined sequence of the plurality of images; wherein the first processing procedure can be executed by direct selection of a link area, the link area being a region that triggers generation of the link, or by zooming the display area by a viewpoint moving operation until the display area is included in the link area; and wherein the pre-determined sequence establishes sequential groups of sequential images, such that in the predetermined sequence, a last image of a group is followed by a first image of a next group; and wherein each of the first images of the groups is a link destination from a respective link area identifying the group to which the first image belongs; and wherein a link area return operation by a user, when performed on a last image of the group to which the last image belongs, results in navigation to a link area identifying the next group, and when performed on other images of the group to which the last image belongs, results in navigation to a link area identifying the group.