Patent ID: 7386809
Filing Date: 2008-06-10
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. A file list display apparatus, comprising: an input unit for inputting a display command for displaying a sub-list having a predetermined number of files selected in an entire list of the files recorded in a recording medium; a display unit for displaying the sub-list; and a controller for creating one or more sub-lists from the entire list, each sub-list being different from the other sub-lists, and controlling the display unit to successively display each of the sub-lists different from each other through the display unit whenever the display command is input through the input unit; wherein the controller groups the files successively listed in the entire file list by the predetermined number of files, and selects one file from each of the grouped files to create the one or more sub-lists having the selected files, and if the display command is again input while a predetermined one of the currently displayed files is selected, generating a new sub-list by changing the predetermined one of the currently displayed files with an adjacent preceding or succeeding file and continuing to display the remaining currently displayed files.