Patent ID: 8078600

Claim:
An information processing apparatus that is to be connected to a plurality of peripheral devices and to have a display unit, comprising: a contents data acquiring unit adapted to acquire a plurality of contents data including image data from the plurality of peripheral devices, respectively; a first display control unit adapted to allow the display unit to, before said contents data acquiring unit finishes acquiring the image data included in the contents data which is being acquired by the contents data acquiring unit, display a predetermined graphical image representing at least one of the plurality of peripheral devices corresponding to the contents data which is being acquired by the contents data acquiring unit, wherein the predetermined graphical image is acquired from a memory of the at least one peripheral device; and a second display control unit adapted to allow the display unit to, after said contents data acquiring unit has finished acquiring the image data included in the contents data which is being acquired by the contents data acquiring unit, display the acquired image data instead of the predetermined graphical image; wherein the contents data acquiring unit, the first display control unit, and the second display control unit are implemented, at least in part, by hardware components.