Patent ID: 8375332

Claim:
An apparatus for displaying multimedia contents stored in a memory, the apparatus comprising: an alignment condition determination unit which determines an alignment condition, from among a plurality of alignment conditions, corresponding to a first user command signal; a detailed condition determination unit which determines a detailed condition, from among detailed conditions included in the alignment condition, corresponding to a second user command signal; a contents extraction unit which extracts first multimedia contents, from among the multimedia contents stored in the memory, according to the determined detailed condition; and a display unit, executed by a display device, which displays the determined alignment condition in a first region, displays the determined detailed condition in a second region, displays a second multimedia contents selected by a user from among the extracted first multimedia contents along with parts of the first multimedia contents that are side-by-side to the second multimedia contents in a third region that is separate from the second region, and displays, at the same time as displaying at least the second multimedia contents in the third region, thumbnails that represent the first multimedia contents in a sequence according to the alignment condition and the detailed condition that correspond to the first multimedia contents and are sequentially arranged in a fourth region of a screen.