Patent ID: 8625957

Claim:
A reproduction apparatus, comprising: a display section to display a screen; a panel on which a key set including a plurality of keys and the display screen are adjacently disposed, the key set positioned externally to the screen displayed by the display section; a reproduction section that reproduces a video signal recorded on a record medium; and a display control section to select one display screen of a first display screen, a second display screen, and a third display screen and causes the display section to display the selected display screen, the first display screen to display a picture corresponding to an externally input video signal or a video signal that is reproduced by the reproduction section and information about the video signal in different areas, the second display screen to display information corresponding to a function each key in the plurality of keys in the key set performs upon operation, the information corresponding to and aligned with a position of each key in the plurality of keys in the key set, and the picture corresponding to the externally input video signal or corresponding to the video signal that is reproduced by the reproduction section in different areas, the third display screen to display only a picture corresponding to the externally input video signal or corresponding to the video signal that is reproduced by the reproduction section, and wherein, upon display of either one of the first and third display screens, each key from the plurality of keys that compose the key set is configured to cause, upon operation, the display section to switch the display from the first or third display screen to the second display screen.