Electronic apparatus, screen control method and screen control program
First Claim
1. An electronic apparatus comprising:
- means for issuing an instruction to display a list of available content items; and
control means for superposing and displaying the list on an image of a content item being played back, while playback of the content item is maintained without interruption, if the instruction to display the list is issued during playback of the content item.
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Abstract
A multimedia recording and playback apparatus of the present invention is a multi-functional electronic apparatus which can deal with content of plural categories, such as television broadcasting data, video data, music data and photographic data, and can output image data and sound data of each content item from a television apparatus. Further, during playback of any content item, if an instruction is issued, by control of a remote controller, to display a title list of content items available at present, the multimedia recording and playback apparatus display the title list of the content items available at present, in a manner superposed on images of the content item being displayed, while image display of the content item being displayed is maintained.
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21 Claims
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1. An electronic apparatus comprising:
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means for issuing an instruction to display a list of available content items; and
control means for superposing and displaying the list on an image of a content item being played back, while playback of the content item is maintained without interruption, if the instruction to display the list is issued during playback of the content item. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A method comprising:
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receiving an instruction to display a first list of available content items; and
superposing and displaying the first list on an image of a content item being played back, while the playback of the content item is maintained without interruption, if the instruction to display the first list is issued during playback of the content item. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A screen control program executed by a processor to playback a content item including image data, the screen control program comprising:
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a first subprogram to issue an instruction to display a list of available content items; and
a second subprogram to superpose and display the list on an image of a content item being played back, while playback of the content item is maintained without interruption, if the instruction to display the list is issued during playback of the content item. - View Dependent Claims (14)
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15. An apparatus comprising:
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a bus;
a processor coupled to the bus, the processor to execute a screen control program to generate image data, the image data being one of a plurality of different display screens; and
a graphics circuit coupled to the bus and the decoder, the graphics circuit to superpose the image data prepared by the processor onto the input video data and to set transparency of the image data to be superposed. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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