Display control apparatus, display control method and program

• US 20100037179A1
• Filed: 07/23/2009
• Published: 02/11/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 07/25/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Ito, Yumi
• Application Number:
  US12/460,737
• Publication Number:
  US 20100037179A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/838
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/54 Browsing; Visualisation therefor

Abstract

The present invention provides a display control apparatus including a display control unit that causes a display apparatus to display thumbnails of a plurality of pieces of content by associating with a date/time display showing date/time information of a predetermined period for each piece of the date/time information of thumbnails of the plurality of pieces of content, and a selection unit that selects one of thumbnails of the plurality of pieces of content displayed in the display apparatus in accordance with a user operation, wherein the display control unit causes the display apparatus to display thumbnails of one piece or more than one pieces of content corresponding to date information of a thumbnail of one piece of content selected by the selection unit by arranging thumbnails of the content clockwise in descending order of time.

Claims

1. A display control apparatus, comprising:

a display control unit that causes a display apparatus to display thumbnails of a plurality of pieces of content by associating with a date/time display showing date/time information of a predetermined period for each piece of the date/time information of thumbnails of the plurality of pieces of content; and

a selection unit that selects one of thumbnails of the plurality of pieces of content displayed in the display apparatus in accordance with a user operation, wherein

the display control unit

causes the display apparatus to display thumbnails of one piece or more than one pieces of content corresponding to date information of a thumbnail of one piece of content selected by the selection unit by arranging thumbnails of the content clockwise in descending order of time.

2. The display control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display control unit causes the display apparatus to display thumbnails of the content by associating with a clock display in which one turn corresponds to 12 hours and arranging thumbnails of the content clockwise in descending order of time.

3. The display control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display control unit displays thumbnails of the plurality of pieces of content corresponding to a date/time display showing date/time information of a period after a predetermined time passes or before the predetermined time passes from a period displayed in the display apparatus in accordance with a user operation.

4. The display control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display control unit causes the display apparatus to display information about a length of each piece of content together with the display of thumbnails of each piece of content.

5. The display control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the display control apparatus is connected to one or more than one other devices, comprising:

an acquisition unit that acquires a contents list containing thumbnails and date/time information of content recorded in the other devices; and

a classification unit that classifies thumbnails of content based on the date/time information of a plurality of contents lists acquired by the acquisition unit.

6. The display control apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the display control unit causes a display indicating the other devices connected to the display control apparatus to be made together with thumbnails of the content.

7. The display control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display control unit

causes the display apparatus to display thumbnails of the plurality of pieces of content by associating with the date/time display in which date/time information of a predetermined period is made to be chronologically arranged and displayed.

8. The display control apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the display control unit

causes the display apparatus to make a display showing a number of pieces of content corresponding to the date/time display in which date/time information of the predetermined period is made to be chronologically arranged and displayed.

9. The display control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display control unit

causes the display apparatus to display thumbnails of the plurality of pieces of content by associating with a date display in which date information of a predetermined period is caused to be arranged and displayed on a calendar.

10. A display control method comprising the steps of:

causing a display apparatus to display thumbnails of a plurality of pieces of content by associating with a date/time display showing date/time information of a predetermined period for each piece of the date/time information of thumbnails of the plurality of pieces of content;

selecting one of thumbnails of the plurality of pieces of content displayed in the display apparatus in accordance with a user operation; and

causing the display apparatus to display thumbnails of one piece or more than one pieces of content corresponding to date information of a thumbnail of the one selected piece of content by arranging thumbnails of the content clockwise in descending order of time.

11. A program causing a computer to function as a display control apparatus, comprising:

a display control unit that causes a display apparatus to display thumbnails of a plurality of pieces of content by associating with a date/time display showing date/time information of a predetermined period for each piece of the date/time information of thumbnails of the plurality of pieces of content; and

a selection unit that selects one of thumbnails of the plurality of pieces of content displayed in the display apparatus in accordance with a user operation, wherein

the display control unit

causes the display apparatus to display thumbnails of one piece or more than one pieces of content corresponding to date information of a thumbnail of one piece of content selected by the selection unit by arranging thumbnails of the content clockwise in descending order of time.