Patent ID: 8878868

Claim:
An information processing apparatus comprising: circuitry configured to: start any one of a plurality of application programs and displaying contents on a display screen; determine at least one of identification information of a type of the display screen and identification information of a type of graphics model used with the display screen; obtain a plurality of image quality modes set for respective display purposes based upon the at least one of the identification information of the type of the display screen and the identification information of the type of graphics model, each of the image quality modes prescribing a plurality of image quality parameters for setting image quality of the display screen; determine the application program started; determine whether a user has manually selected one of the image quality modes; change the plurality of image quality parameters in accordance with the determined application program when the user has not manually selected one of the image quality modes; and change the plurality of image quality parameters in accordance with the one of the image quality modes manually selected by the user when the user has manually selected one of the image quality modes.