Patent ID: 7065710

Claim:
An information processing apparatus comprising: first display control means for controlling the display of one or more thumbnails that are permitted to overlap in a predetermined shape and non-sequential manner; determination means for determining whether or not a predetermined time has passed with respect to a selection of said one or more thumbnails; and second display control means for controlling, if said predetermined time is found to have passed with respect to said selection of said one or more thumbnails, the display of additional attribute information associated with said one or more thumbnails at a predetermined position corresponding to the display position of said one or more thumbnails, wherein a speed of selection of said one or more thumbnails determines a speed at which said one or more thumbnails are displayed, wherein the predetermined time determines the amount of time elapsed between the selection of said one or more thumbnails and the display of the additional attribute information, and wherein said second display control means controls the display so that said information associated with said one or more thumbnails are displayed in a semitransparent frame or on a semitransparent background.