Patent ID: 8479096

Claim:
A content display device for displaying content items on a screen and configured to operate in a scrolling mode and a content switching mode, the display device comprising: a monitor to display content; a content switching instruction receiving section for receiving, by a user's operation, a switching instruction to switch a content item currently displayed on a content display area of the screen to a previous content item or to a next content item; a content choosing section for, based on an order prescribed in a content list containing identifiers of respective content items to be displayed on a content list area of the screen and descriptors of locations holding the respective content items to be displayed on the content display area of the screen, choosing the previous content item which precedes the content item currently displayed on the content display area of the screen or the next content item which follows the content item currently displayed on the content display area of the screen, in accordance with the switching instruction received by the content switching instruction receiving section; a content display section for causing the content item, which is specified by a corresponding one of the descriptors of locations holding the content items and chosen by the content choosing section, to be displayed on the content display area of the screen; and a content list display section for displaying, on the content list area of the screen, identifiers contained in the content list, the identifiers being (i) an identifier of the content item currently displayed and (ii) identifiers, of content items that may be displayed after the content item currently displayed, which are provided above and below the identifier of the content item currently displayed, wherein the content list area overlaps a subset of the content display area when the display device is in the content switching mode, and the content list area is not displayed on the screen and the content chosen by the content choosing section scrolls within the content display area in response to the user's operation when the display device is in the scrolling mode.