Patent ID: 9131116
Filing Date: 2015-09-08
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An information processing apparatus comprising: a program guide displaying unit that displays a program guide on a predetermined display device, the program guide being such that program information is arranged in an area having a time axis of one or more time slots and a channel axis; and a popularity determination unit that determines the popularity of a program in accordance with an indicator, received from an external server, said indicator comprising: (1) a live indicator indicating a tally of the respective number of viewers currently viewing each of a plurality of programs listed in the program guide in a similar time zone, and (2) a programmed recording indicator indicating a tally of the respective number of viewers who programmed a device to record each of said plurality of programs, wherein a chapter is inserted into the recorded content when the program is ranked at or higher than a predetermined rank in the ranking of popularity; a thumbnail storage unit that stores data for a thumbnail image showing a part of the image included in the recorded content on a reduced scale, and associates the data with a recording ID of the recorded content, wherein said thumbnail image is set from the image of a popular scene in the program originating the recorded content; a program image acquisition unit that acquires image information of a program from a tuner; and a program image displaying unit that displays an image of the program on the display device in accordance with the image information, wherein the program guide displaying unit displays at least some of the plurality of programs in a mode indicating respective popularity, wherein the program guide displaying unit further displays a broadcast progress status of each program in association with the plurality of programs in the program guide, the broadcast progress status being measured as a ratio of elapsed duration to complete duration of a respective broadcast program, wherein the program guide display unit simultaneously displays the program guide by using transparency in a part of a display screen of the display device displaying the image of the program, wherein the program guide displaying unit displays a program guide in which currently broadcasting programs are arranged and non-currently broadcasting programs are excluded.