Patent ID: 8863199

Claim:
A computer readable and non-transitory recording media having a program recorded therein, the program configured to: receive, at a display unit: (i) a video sequence including a plurality of images in which at least some of the images include a selected image element; (ii) time trace data for controlling display of the images of the video sequence; and (iii) linking information corresponding to the selected image element; when displaying a series of the images of the video sequence by the display unit in accordance with the time trace data, displaying an additional signal element corresponding to the selected image element, wherein the additional signal element is displayed in the series based on the time trace data, the additional signal element being displayed as an associated indicia and having a location adjacent to but distinct from the corresponding selected image element, wherein the location of the additional signal element is based on a location of the corresponding selected image element and the corresponding selected image element is displayed among other selectable image elements, wherein the additional signal element follows the selected image element as the selected image element moves in a viewable area of the display unit during the series, wherein the location of the additional signal element in the viewable area for each of the images in the series is based on the time trace data; receive a selection, with an input device, of the associated indicia displayed in a first image of the series distinctly from the selected image element to which the additional signal element corresponds; obtain, based on the selection and the time trace data corresponding to the first image of the series being displayed by the display unit when the selection is made, the linking information for the selected image element corresponding to the additional signal element; and display the linking information.