Patent ID: 8316299

Claim:
An information processing apparatus performing a predetermined process in accordance with an operation of a touch panel on a display, comprising: display control means for displaying, on said display, an item associated with predetermined content; detection means for detecting a contact of a user with said touch panel; determination means for determining whether or not said contact of the user is released, said contact being detected by said detection means; selection means for completing, when said determination means determines that said contact of the user is released, a selection of the item displayed by said display control means on a position where said contact of the user was detected by said detection means until just before; acquisition means for acquiring related content that has a certain relationship to the content associated with the item selected by the selection means, wherein the selection means selects, in accordance with the contact of the user detected by the detection means the item associated with the content, and wherein the display control means displays a first item on a center of a circle or polygon, and displays a first plurality of items related to the first item on a circumference of the circle or polygon, and wherein when the selection means selects a second item from the first plurality of items displayed on the circumference of the circle or polygon, the display control means displays the second item selected from the circumference on the center of the circle or polygon, and displays a second plurality of items related to the selected second item on the circumference of the circle or polygon; and playback means for playing back content associated with the item whose selection is completed by said selection means, wherein said playback means plays back predetermined content during a period from when said contact of the user is detected by said detection means until said determination means determines that said contact of the user is released.