Patent ID: 8522280

Claim:
A display control apparatus comprising: an EPG data obtaining unit for obtaining EPG data from an EPG data providing server for providing the EPG data containing one or several items of program information; a display unit for displaying a display screen; and a display control unit for setting a static current time line indicating a current time on the display screen to divide the display screen into a fixed region and a moving region across the current time line as boundary and setting at least one static delay time line within the moving region indicating a delay relative to the current time, for moving a program object set in the moving region toward the current time line and away from the at least one delay time line at a predetermined speed to set, among program information contained in the EPG data obtained by the EPG data obtaining unit, a program object describing therein program identification information whose program start time is later than a current time, which is contained in the program information, at a position reaching the current time line in the moving region when the program start time comes, and for, when the program object reaches the current time line, shifting the program object to the fixed region.