Patent ID: 8730405

Claim:
A display apparatus comprising: a reception unit configured to receive, from a remote controller located remote from the display apparatus and having a selection member, a remote controller instruction that includes content identification information, obtained from one selection operation of the selection member, and operation amount information of the selection member, wherein the operation amount information is based on amount of operation applied to the selection member during the one selection operation of the selection member that results in obtaining the content identification information; a determination unit configured to determine a transparency amount to be applied to content, wherein, in response to receiving the operation amount information, the determination unit uses the operation amount information, obtained as part of the one selection operation that results in obtaining the content identification information, to determine the transparency amount to be applied to the content that corresponds to the content identification information; an output image generation unit configured to generate a first output image and, by applying the transparency amount to content that corresponds to the content identification information, generate a second output image; and a display control unit configured to display output from the output image generation unit on a display screen.