Patent ID: 7844916

Claim:
A multimedia reproducing apparatus capable of reproducing digital contents, comprising: an operation unit which acquires a user's instruction pertaining to reproduction of contents; a search unit which searches an external recording medium loaded in the apparatus for data necessary for constituting a menu screen for searching for contents; and a menu control unit which displays a reproduction indicator near a content icon that corresponds to content being reproduced by the apparatus when the content is reproduced in the apparatus, the reproduction indicator indicating that the content is under reproduction; wherein the menu control unit displays, when the icon having the reproduction indicator disappears from the screen is eliminated from the screen with such a movement that the icon retracts into an icon of the upper level in response to a user's instruction, the reproduction indicator near the icon of the upper level, and wherein the menu control unit selects, when icons of the lower level are unfold and displayed from the icon having the reproduction indicator, an icon corresponding to the content under reproduction from icons of the lower level and displays the reproduction indicator near the selected icon accordingly.