Patent ID: 7421655

Claim:
An information processing method executed by an information processing apparatus which has a display screen for displaying a menu window in which a plurality of selectable items are arranged, wherein information can be input to the information processing apparatus by using one of a plurality of input modalities after designating one of the plurality of selectable items, comprising: a read step of reading, from a storage unit, item information for each of the plurality of selectable items, wherein the item information for a single selectable item is for specifying a plurality of available input modalities for inputting information after designating the single selectable item so as to be capable of identifying a recommendation level of each of the plurality of available input modalities; and a display step of displaying symbol images, each of which being displayed so as to be attached to a corresponding selectable item displayed in the display screen, wherein a single symbol image is an image corresponding to a type of an input modality determined by referring to each recommendation level specified by the item information read in the read step, of a corresponding selectable item to which the single symbol image is attached.