Patent ID: 8358907

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 recording and reproducing unit configured to record and reproduce the image information; a player information acquiring unit configured to acquire, from the remote broadcast image information, player information regarding players in a sports game included in a broadcast image signal; and a recording and reproducing control function unit configured to receive an audio signal contained in the television broadcast signal and generate an excitation graph representing a level of excitation of the broadcast sports game along a time line of the image; wherein the recording and reproducing control function unit associates the generated excitation graph with the image of the sports game, time information, and the player information and records the generated excitation graph, the image of the sports game, the time information, and the player information in the recording and reproducing unit, and wherein, upon receiving information indicating a break in the sports game, the recording and reproducing control function unit instructs the display unit to display the excitation graph together with the image of the sports game recorded in the recording and reproducing unit, wherein the excitation graph comprises one or more predetermined periods, and wherein when a player is designated, the excitation graph includes an indication of each predetermined period of the excitation graph that corresponds to the player's appearance in the images of the television broadcast.