Patent ID: 7950034
Filing Date: 2011-05-24
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. An information processing method for an information processing apparatus for providing controls to have contents recorded in a recording medium for recording therein one or more broadcast programs broadcasted in the past as data displayed on a specified display device, said method comprising: acquiring program information including at least first information indicating a broadcast station, second information indicating a start time of the broadcast program, and third information indicating an end time or a time zone, corresponding to one or more broadcast programs recorded in said recording medium; generating a program table in which columns in one of a vertical direction and a horizontal direction are allocated to broadcast stations, columns in the other direction are allocated to time zones, program columns for the corresponding broadcast programs are allocated on each of one or more areas identified with said one or more acquired program information in the entire area constituting the first program table, and the program table is output as first image data, said first image data including at least one moving thumbnail image corresponding to a broadcast program; and controlling a display so that, when said first image data is outputted as a result of said program table generating step while the control is being executed to display a background image corresponding to second image data on said specified display device, data constituting each of said one or more program columns of said first image data which is currently selected is synthesized on corresponding data in said second image data with a first transmission percentage, remaining data constituting each of said one or more program columns of said first image data which is currently unselected is synthesized on corresponding data in said second image data with a second transmission percentage higher than said first transmission percentage, said background image is displayed in unallocated program column areas of the first image data without recorded broadcast programs to display, and an image corresponding to the resultant synthesized image data is displayed on said specified display device.