Patent ID: 8599314

Claim:
A display apparatus capable of performing a scaling display of an input video on a display screen, the display screen including at least: a video region provided in contact with a left side section of the display screen for performing a scaling display of the input video; a top region provided at an uppermost part of the display screen for displaying a plurality of items capable of being selected by a user; a side region provided to on either a right side or a left side of the display screen for at least displaying a plurality of items set at a level lower than a level of an item having been selected by the user in the top region; and a key guidance region provided between the video region and the top region for displaying information describing a key for operating the display apparatus, the display apparatus comprising: item discriminating display means for displaying an item, being currently selected by the user from among the plurality of items displayed in the side region, in such a manner that the currently selected item is discriminated from another item among the plurality of items displayed in the side region; and guidance display means for, after the item discriminating display means has discriminatively displayed the currently selected item for a prescribed time period, displaying a guidance, describing the currently selected item, in the side region closely to the currently selected item.