Patent ID: 8773471
Filing Date: 2014-07-08
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A content managing device comprising: a display control unit configured to perform control of displaying, on a display unit, one or more display objects each indicating a content item and a plurality of regions each of which is a region for storing the one or more display objects, the one or more display objects including a first display object; an instruction accepting unit configured to accept an instruction for moving the first display object on the display unit; a determination unit configured to determine a position to which the first display object is moved by the instruction accepting unit; and a control unit configured to perform, when it is determined by the determination unit that the position to which the first display object is moved is located in any of the plurality of regions, control of storing the first display object in the region, and configured to perform, when it is determined by the determination unit that the position to which the first display object is moved is not located in any of the plurality of regions, control of generating, at the position that is determined by the determination unit, a new region in which the first display object is to be stored, and control of storing the first display object in the new region, wherein the dimensions of each of the plurality of regions are determined on the basis of the sum of sizes of content items corresponding to one or more display objects which are stored in each region or the sum of the numbers of one or more display objects which are stored in each region, and wherein if a change in the dimensions of the region causes any of all the displayed plurality of regions, including regions other than the region with the changed dimensions, to be unable to fit in a display region, the display control unit displays all the displayed plurality of regions by reducing the size of all the displayed plurality of regions so that all the displayed plurality of regions fits in the display region.