Patent ID: 8321809

Claim:
An apparatus for displaying variable-sized, grouped display information on a touch screen, the apparatus comprising: an input unit that receives an input from a user on a touch screen on which several pieces of display information are grouped and displayed in a plurality of groups; a determination unit that determines which of the plurality of groups was input by calculating a location on the touch screen corresponding to the user input and determines if the input is within a group-size modification area of the group which was input; and a display unit that displays the several pieces of display information in groups, and changes a size of a region of the group which was input if the determination unit determines that the input was within the group-size modification area of the group which was input while a size of a region of at least one other of the plurality of groups changes corresponding to the size of the region of the group which was input, wherein each group region is divided into an execution area which controls execution of multimedia content and the group-size-modification area and wherein the execution area is within the group-size modification area, and the input within the execution area is of a same type as the input within the group-size modification area, wherein the display unit decreases the size of the region of the at least one other of the plurality of groups which is lamest among the other of the plurality of groups to the next smaller size.