Patent ID: 7159172

Claim:
A display apparatus for displaying a sequential presentation of words from a section of text, comprising: a display device; and a display controller for controlling an image displayed by the display device; wherein the display controller controls the display device to generate a display image comprising: a first display region in which words from the section of text are presented sequentially one after another in time; and a second display region of which at least a portion is overlapped by the first display region, and in which there is presented a thumbnail view of the section of the text from which the words in the first display region are sequentially presented; and wherein the display controller in generating the display image controls movement of the thumbnail view relative to the first display region in the display image, as the words from the section of text are sequentially presented in the first display region, to indicate at least an approximate location within the thumbnail view of the word currently presented in the first display region by where that portion of the first display region overlaps the thumbnail view.