Patent ID: 8279282

Claim:
A display control apparatus comprising: a receiving unit configured to receive a television broadcast signal containing at least remote broadcast image information; a display unit configured to display image information contained in the television broadcast signal; a player information acquiring unit configured to acquire, from the remote broadcast image information, information regarding players in a sports game included in a broadcast image signal; a field information acquiring unit configured to acquire field information from the remote broadcast image information; a player position information acquiring unit configured to acquire player position information from the image signal on the basis of the player information and the field information; a player information providing unit configured to provide the player information acquired by the player information acquiring unit by displaying the player information on the display unit; and a cursor control function unit configured to set, using the player position information, a cursor on one of the players selected using the player information provided by the player information providing unit and displayed on the display unit, wherein when the cursor control function unit receives a movement command after setting the cursor on the player, the cursor control function unit moves the cursor in a direction indicated by the movement command, the direction corresponding to one of all directions determined by a user operation of a movement instruction switch of a remote commander.