Patent ID: 8760418

Claim:
A display control apparatus comprising: a proximity detector to detect proximity of an indicator to a display surface; a touch detector to detect touch of the indicator against the display surface; and a control unit to control display of an indicant on the display surface when the proximity detector detects that the indicator is in proximity to the display surface and to determine whether the indicant is selected based on detection of the touch of the indicator against the display surface by the touch detector, wherein, when a display of at least one launch image is held in a standby mode and a proximity area corresponding to the indicator is detected on the display surface for a predetermined detection time, the control unit controls display of a plurality of indicants indicating a launch image as selectable information on the display surface as a list image displaying the plurality of indicants as a list, in which only a first indicant of the plurality of indicants is displayed with emphasis based on a result of a determination whether the first indicant is displayed on the display surface immediately before the display of the list image, wherein each of the indicants corresponds to an image which is expanded to be launched in a displayable state as the launch image upon selection of the indicant and has a same display contents as the launch image reduced relative to display size of the display contents in the launch image, and wherein the list image is displayed enlarged or reduced with only the first indicant displayed with emphasis same as the emphasis before enlargement or reduction of the list image in accordance with a result of a determination whether an interval of a plurality of indicators is changed when one or a plurality of proximity areas are determined not to be displaced in a predetermined direction.