Patent ID: 8245155

Claim:
An information processing apparatus comprising: a display unit configured to display a dividing region dividing a main display region into two sub regions; a control unit, including a processor, configured to control said display unit to display a plurality of icons in said dividing region, to change position of said dividing region in said main display region based on user input, to display, when an icon of said plurality of icons is selected, information corresponding to said icon in at least one of the sub regions, to automatically display a first set of widgets at a first time of a day each day and to automatically display a second set of widgets at a second time of day each day, the first set of widgets being different than the second set of widgets, to display widget information including a plurality of widgets in one sub region of said two sub regions, and to automatically move the dividing region to a location where every displayed widget is entirely visible when a user moves the dividing region to a location where one widget is only partially displayed; and a detector configured to detect a gesture of a user with respect to said main display region, wherein said control unit is configured to control said display unit to change information in said sub region based on said gesture, wherein said control unit is configured to define a plurality of said widget information and said display unit is configured to display one widget information of said plurality of widget information in one sub region, wherein said control unit is configured to control the display unit to display other widget information as a substitute for said one widget information when said detector is configured to detect a flick gesture by the user with respect to said one sub region.