Patent ID: 8484682

Claim:
A display control device comprising: a reception section configured to receive a television broadcast signal; a display section configured to display video information and a thumbnail image contained in the television broadcast signal; and a control section configured to control display on the display section of the video information and the thumbnail image contained in the television broadcast signal received by the reception section, wherein the control section causes a plurality of thumbnail images to be displayed in accordance with an order of priority, wherein the control section forms a main display area in which a video image of the video information is to be displayed in the display section and a sub display area in which thumbnail images are to be displayed in parallel with the main display area, causes the thumbnail images to be displayed in the sub display area such that an order of priority of a thumbnail image is increasing from a position in the sub display area farthest from the main display area to a position in the sub display area closest to the main display area, reassigns to the thumbnails to be displayed in the sub display area having the order of priority determined in accordance with an order of preference of a user the order of priority determined in accordance with a number of accesses, and in response to detecting a selected one of the thumbnail images in the sub display area, causes an enlarged version of the selected thumbnail image to be displayed in the main display area in place of the video image, wherein the thumbnail images remain displayed in the sub display area.