Patent ID: 7783419
Filing Date: 2010-08-24
Classification: G01C,G06F

Abstract:
1. A content display apparatus comprising: a metadata acquirer that acquires a collection of metadata including at least content location information indicating a geographical location linked to content and a resource identifier identifying a resource of the content; a location information acquirer that periodically acquires location information indicating a current location; a content processor that outputs, as a content list, a list of metadata matching a search condition that includes the location information acquired by said location information acquirer from the collection of metadata acquired by said metadata acquirer; a content display controller that generates a display list in which the content list is formatted for presentation to a user; and a search results display that displays the display list, wherein said content display controller, when generating a latest display list, compares a latest content list and a previous content list, and generates the display list arranged so that the metadata included successively in both those content lists has a same display position as in the display list created using the previous content list; and wherein said content display controller takes a previously generated display list as a base, and generates the display list in which a display position of the metadata included in only the previous content list is made a blank area and the metadata included in only the latest content list is inserted in the blank area or at the end.