Patent ID: 7657847

Claim:
A copy control information deciding apparatus comprising: a control information obtaining unit operable to obtain plural pieces of copy control information, the plural pieces of the copy control information being respective pieces of copy control information of plural scaled-down images which are to be displayed in a menu simultaneously; a deciding unit operable to determine a piece of representative control information as a piece of copy control information of a menu display image in which the plural scaled-down images are to be displayed as a menu, based on the plural pieces of the copy control information obtained by said control information obtaining unit, the piece of the representative control information being one of the plural pieces of the copy control information; and an output unit operable to output the piece of the representative control information determined by said deciding unit, in relation to the menu display image, wherein said deciding unit determines a piece of the copy control information of the plural pieces of the copy control information having a strongest copyright protection function among the plural pieces of the copy control information as the piece of the representative control information.