Patent ID: 9201582
Filing Date: 2015-12-01
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
1. A display control apparatus for displaying a plurality of content items, the display control apparatus comprising: a memory; a processor coupled to the memory which executes the following: storing the plurality of content items and time information corresponding to each of the plurality of content items; allocating the plurality of content items into a plurality of groups according to attribute information associated with the content items; acquiring information about a scroll speed; and displaying the plurality of content items lines in a first order according to the time information corresponding to the plurality of content items, displaying a list of grouping method candidates for grouping the plurality of content items after the scroll speed is more than a first predetermined speed, each of the grouping method candidates having a different type of a set of groups, determining a grouping method from the grouping method candidates in the displayed list in accordance with a user's selection, changing a display, in accordance with the determined grouping method, from scroll-displaying the plurality of content items in the first order according to the time information to scroll-displaying a first set of images representing first groups into which the plurality of content items are allocated, the first groups being grouped in the determined grouping method, and changing a display, if the scroll speed is less than a second predetermined value from scroll-displaying the first set of images representing the first groups into which the plurality of content items are allocated to scroll-displaying the plurality of content items in a second order which is different from the first order such that the plurality of content items allocated into the same group of the first groups according to the attribute information which is different from the time information are displayed sequentially and adjacent to each other.