Patent ID: 8190326

Claim:
An apparatus which accepts a selection from a hierarchical menu to provide content in accordance with an operation through a touch panel and an operation through a remote commander, wherein: said remote commander includes: a focus switching operator which switches a focus in a menu of a same hierarchy; a hierarchy upward operator which instructs switching of the focus to an upper hierarchy; and a selecting operator which instructs selecting of a focused menu, said apparatus displays an upper hierarchy menu relating to said hierarchical menu and a lower hierarchy menu corresponding to a selection among said upper hierarchy menu simultaneously, in the operation through said touch panel, a selection regarding both of said upper hierarchy menu and said lower hierarchy menu configured to be displayed simultaneously, and a display of said lower hierarchy menu is switched to a menu corresponding to a selected upper hierarchy menu in accordance with a selection of said upper hierarchy menu, and in the operation through said remote commander, after switching the focus from said lower hierarchy to the upper hierarchy corresponding thereto by an operation of said hierarchy upward operator, the focus is switched in said upper hierarchy menu by an operation of said focus switching operator, and the display of said lower hierarchy menu is switched to a display of a menu corresponding to said upper hierarchy menu focused by an operation of said selecting operator wherein a thumbnail image is displayed between said lower hierarchy and said upper hierarchy.