Patent ID: 8789098
Filing Date: 2014-07-22
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An information processing apparatus comprising: an acquisition unit that acquires, according to user's operation, an instruction for selecting content information, which is related to plural contents and includes plural attributes, and related information having at least one of the plural attributes; a search unit that searches for, according to the instruction acquired by the acquisition unit, plural pieces of the content information or related information which are related to the selected content information or the selected related information; an image data generation unit that generates first image data in which the content information is arranged using axes of two attributes of the content information, and second image data in which the content information or the related information searched for by the search unit is arranged using at least two axes of at least two attributes of the content information or the related information in different directions from the two axes of the first image data; and a display control unit that controls a display screen to transparently overlay and simultaneously display the first image data and the second image data generated by the image data generation unit, wherein the image data generation unit generates the first image data using axes in a long side direction and a short side direction on a substantially rectangular display screen, the axes in the long side direction and the short side direction are arranged within a first visual planar layer, wherein the image data generation unit generates the second image data using axes in diagonal line directions, the axes in the diagonal line directions are arranged within a second visual planar layer that is the same as or parallel to the first visual planar layer, and wherein the second image data contains only the selected content information arranged in the first displayed first image data and content information related to the selected content information arranged in the displayed first image data.