Patent ID: 7684678

Claim:
A disc reproducing apparatus comprising: a screen display control unit controlling display of a prepared screen; and a key input unit configured to be externally operated, wherein said screen display control unit comprises: mode setting means for setting, in accordance with externally provided instruction information, one of a screen display mode and a screen blanking mode; control means for permitting output of a display signal to said prepared screen when said screen display mode is set by said mode setting means and inhibiting output of the display signal to said screen when said screen blanking mode is set by said mode setting means, wherein said permitting and said inhibiting are in a case where audio information is reproduced from a disc; key determination means for determining, when said screen blanking mode is set and said key input unit is externally operated, a type of an operated key of said key input unit; and key information display means for displaying on said screen information according to the type of the operated key determined by said key determination means.