Patent ID: 8615716

Claim:
A content display control method that is executed by a content display control apparatus that arranges and displays a plurality of images taking a given category as a criterion, the method comprising: grouping the plurality of images into respective content groups, each content group having one or more images which share a common item of metadata in a previously selected first category; determining a sorting order of content groups grouped by the first category in the grouping step, using one of the content groups as a criterion; and displaying the content groups on a display apparatus according to the sorting order determined in the determining step, wherein the determining step comprises counting the number of items of metadata of a second category, which overlaps between the content group serving as the criterion and the content groups to be sorted, and wherein the sorting order of the content groups is determined such that the larger the number of items counted for a particular content group, the closer the particular content group is to the content group serving as the criterion.