Patent ID: 8326115
Filing Date: 2012-12-04
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. An information processing apparatus, comprising: a first display control section configured to control displaying of a plurality of content representative pictures so that the content representative pictures are displayed and arranged in a first direction, the content representative pictures representing a plurality of titles of content, each of the plurality of titles of content being made up of a plurality of structural units; a first input section configured to input a first user operation to select a content representative picture of a title of a content from the displayed content representative pictures; a second input section configured to input a second user operation to select one structural unit representative picture of the displayed structural unit representative pictures; and a reproduction control section configured to control reproducing of the structural unit of the title of content so that the structural unit is reproduced when the second user operation is input; and a second display control section configured to control displaying of structural unit representative pictures so that the structural unit representative pictures simultaneously with the content representative pictures, the structural unit representative pictures being displayed and arranged in a single file in a second direction, a first structural unit representative picture being displayed adjacent to the selected content representative picture in the second direction when the first user operation is input and remaining structural unit representative pictures being displayed in the single file after the first structural unit representative picture, the structural unit representative pictures represent chapters of the title of content, the second direction being different from the first direction, each of the titles of content is a moving picture made up of a plurality of frames, the structural units are chapters which segment the moving picture into a plurality of regions, each of the structural unit representative pictures is a thumbnail picture of the start frame of each of the chapters, the second display control section controls displaying of the thumbnail picture of each of the chapters so that the thumbnail picture is displayed in the second direction in the time series, the reproduction control section controls reproducing of the moving picture of the selected chapter so that the moving picture is reproduced from the start frame when the second user operation is input, and the second display control section controls displaying of the thumbnail pictures so that the thumbnail pictures are displayed and the durations of the chapters in a total reproduction duration of the moving picture are correlated with the distances between the thumbnail pictures.