Patent ID: 8009232

Claim:
A display control device, comprising: reproduction means for reproducing content; evaluation value operation means including a system controller for operating evaluation value for specifying a notable scene in the content, based on characteristic data included in one of video data and audio data of the content to be reproduced by the reproduction means, and for detecting a predetermined scene in the content; scene detection judgment means for judging whether or not the notable scene in the content has been detected, based on the evaluation value operated by the evaluation value operation means; and related image display control means for displaying, in response to the judgment of detection of the notable scene in the content by the scene detection judgment means, a related image based on an image of the notable scene thus detected, wherein the related image is obtained by generating a still image from a video picture reproduced at a previously designated time point, the video picture being included in the video data of a predetermined period of time to be reproduced previously to the notable scene.