Patent ID: 9143821
Filing Date: 2015-09-22
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
1. An information processing apparatus, comprising: a program information acquisition unit configured to acquire program information of each of a plurality of channels over a plurality of broadcasting types, among which a transmitting form of a broadcasting signal is different; and a program table displaying unit configured to cause a program table, in which program information of the plurality of channels is juxtaposed in a classified state for each channel, to be displayed and cause both of program information of channels belonging to a first broadcasting type and program information of channels belonging to a second broadcasting type to be displayed in a juxtaposed relationship in the same program table, wherein the program table displaying unit causes the program table to be displayed in a region which is part of a screen image which displays programs being broadcasted and is smaller than a region in which the programs being broadcasted are displayed, the program table displaying unit causes a width of a region for each channel in the program table being displayed to be increased or decreased in response to a predetermined operation input by a user to increase or decrease number of channels whose program information is to be displayed at the same time in the program table being displayed, the program table displaying unit causes a scroll bar for causing scrolling in a direction in which the channels are juxtaposed in the program table and a scroll frame representative of a movable range of the scroll bar to be displayed and causes the scroll bar to be displayed at a position in the scroll frame which corresponds to channels being displayed in the program table, and the program table displaying unit causes a region of the scroll frame corresponding to channels belonging to the first broadcasting type and a region of the scroll frame corresponding to channels belonging to the second broadcasting type to be displayed in different modes from each other.