Patent ID: 7870489
Filing Date: 2011-01-11
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A content display control apparatus comprising: a user interface unit, which, during a current content being displayed on a display, receives an instruction from a user viewing the current content with reference information specifying a target content that is to be switched from the current content; a sequence creation unit that dynamically creates, while the user is viewing the current content, a content sequence in which one or more intermediate contents, which have been identified as related to at least one of the current content and the target content, are inserted between the current content and the target content; a storage, which stores the reference information and metadata related to the contents; and a display control unit, which displays content in accordance with the created content sequence starting with the current content, proceeding through the one or more intermediate contents, which are dynamically inserted in order, and finally ending with the target content, wherein the one or more intermediate contents are linked like a chain via the metadata that characterizes the contents, the insertion of the intermediate contents dynamically increasing a length of the chain, and the metadata characterizing the one or more intermediate contents matches the metadata characterizing at least one of the current content and the target content.