Patent ID: 8094089

Claim:
A content display system comprising: a plurality of display devices; a display control device that controls the display devices to display any of a plurality of standby content screens on the respective display devices that are in a standby state, the display control device controlling the display devices to stop displaying a standby content screen being currently displayed when detecting a usage starting operation from the display devices; a priority order managing unit that manages priority levels of standby content screens to be preferentially displayed on the display devices that are in the standby state; a state managing unit that manages a usage state of each of the display devices, and manages a standby content screen being currently displayed when the usage state is the standby state; a priority order searching unit that, when detecting a usage starting operation from the display device that is in the standby state, searches the state managing unit to retrieve a standby content screen that has stopped being displayed on the display device related to the usage starting operation, and searches the priority order managing unit to retrieve a priority level corresponding to the retrieved standby content screen; a display target designating unit that searches the priority order managing unit to retrieve standby content screens of lower priority levels than the priority level of the standby content screen retrieved by the priority order searching unit, searches the state managing unit to retrieve display devices displaying the retrieved standby content screens of lower priority levels, and designates a display device of a display target that is a display device displaying the standby content screen of the lowest priority level among the retrieved display devices; and a display control unit that controls the display device of the display target designated by the display target designating unit to display the standby content screen that has stopped being displayed on the display device related to the usage starting operation.