Patent ID: 7865840

Claim:
An information processing apparatus, comprising: a content detector portion that detects contents belonging to a same time range from different types of contents each including time information; a display controller portion that collects the contents belonging to the same time range and having been detected by the content detector portion, that displays, on a display portion along a time series, content-related graphical information related to the contents of the respective contents collected in units of the respective time range used when collecting the respective contents, and that displays on the display portion a selector serving to select a desired content from among respective contents displayed through the content-related graphical information; an operation state detector portion that detects an operation state of an operation portion serving to perform an operation of moving the selector; and a popup display controller portion that operates such that, in accordance with time information of a content selected by the selector when a predetermined operation state of the operation portion is detected by the operation state detector, the popup display controller portion detects a content having past time information with respect to the time information of the selected content, and performs popup displays of content-related graphical information of the detected content on the display portion.