Patent ID: 8239894

Claim:
An electronic apparatus, comprising: a storage section for storing display data of a plurality of representation images individually representing a plurality of selection object items; an operation inputting section for accepting an operation input of a user for images displayed on a display screen and including the plurality of representation images and outputting the corresponding operation output signal; and a display control section for displaying said plurality of representation images using the display data stored in said storage section such that the plurality of representation images are arrayed along one direction of said display screen and one of the representation images can be selected in response to an operation input through said operation inputting section; in a normal mode, said display control section emphatically displaying a noticed representation image selected from among the plurality of representation images with the display position of the selected noticed representation image fixed on said display screen, said display control section changing the noticed representation image in response to the operation output signal based on a selection operation of one of the representation images through said operation inputting section, said display control section displaying explanation information of the noticed representation image in the proximity of the display position of the noticed representation image; said operation inputting section being operable to accept an operation input of the user for scrolling the plurality of representation images in the one direction and output a scrolling operation output signal affecting change from the normal mode to a continuous-scrolling mode; in the continuous-scrolling mode, said display control section executing the scrolling in response to the scrolling operation output signal such that in addition to explanation information of the noticed representation image, additional explanation information of one or more additional representation images of the plurality of representation images which are different from the noticed representation image and are arrayed along the one direction on the display screen is displayed and the noticed representation image is successively changed during the scrolling, wherein, in the continuous-scrolling mode, the explanation information of the noticed representation image is displayed emphatically together with the noticed representation image, and wherein, in the normal mode, the additional explanation information is not displayed, and in the continuous-scrolling mode the additional explanation information includes information related to content and further includes a smaller number of explanation items for each of the one or more additional representation images than that of the explanation information of the noticed representation image.