Patent ID: 8284639

Claim:
An information reproducing control apparatus comprising: a display control device for controlling to display a reproducing point in one sequential content data including audio information and/or video information and being able to be reproduced continuously; an operating device including an operator, a user being able to directly touch the operator, the operator being used for designating a desired point of the content data as a new reproducing point being a point on the way of the content data and being different from the reproducing point and; a specifying device for a) directly specifying a start reproducing point on the way of the contents data corresponding to the new reproducing point during the content data being not reproduced, or b) directly specifying a point on the way of the contents data corresponding to the new reproducing point as a reproducing point of the content data during the content data being reproduced, wherein the display control device controls to display a change of the contents data corresponding to elapsed time in reproducing the content data and the reproducing point corresponding to the elapsed time, wherein the display control device controls to display the elapsed time on a display device connected to the display control device, and wherein the operator has a operation area being touched by the user, the operation area including one end portion provided along with one end portion of a display area of the elapsed time on the display device and the other end portion provided along with the other portion of the display area of the elapsed time on the display device.