Patent ID: 7464336

Claim:
An information processing apparatus which lays out selectable processing items in a display window, and executes a corresponding process when one of the processing items is designated by a predetermined instruction, the apparatus comprising: display means for displaying video output; display controller means for generating video signals that are provided to said display means; window display means for controlling said display controller means to display an original display window in which selectable items, comments for the items, and a reference image display area are arranged; acquisition means for acquiring, from said display controller means, bitmap image data of a screen copy image of the currently displayed original display window; reduction means for reducing the size of the bitmap image data acquired by said acquisition means; and generation updating means for updating the displayed original window by arranging the image reduced by said reduction means within the reference image display area of the displayed original display window and drawing arrow lines connecting items in the reduced selectable items in the reduced image and comments in the displayed original display window.