Information processing apparatus

An information processing apparatus comprising:

• a display unit;
• a storage unit that stores a plurality of content images to be displayed on a screen of the display unit in a predetermined display order and a plurality of sample images respectively corresponding to the plurality of content images and smaller in size than the content images;
• and
• a control unit including a processor and configured to act, when the processor executes a control program, as:
• an instruction identifier that identifies, when a user operates the display unit, a type of an instruction corresponding to an operation, and
• a controller that (i) acquires the content image from the storage unit and causes the display unit to display the content image on the screen and (ii) acquires from the storage unit, when the instruction identifier decides that an instruction to display the sample image has been made, a predetermined number of sample images respectively corresponding to a predetermined number of content images subsequent in the display order to the content image currently displayed on the screen and causes the display unit to display the predetermined number of sample images on a part of the screen,
• wherein, when the instruction identifier decides that an instruction to switch the display of the sample image has been made, the controller erases the sample image first in the display order out of the predetermined number of sample images displayed on the screen, acquires another sample image next to the predetermined number of sample images in the display order from the storage unit, and causes the display unit to display the acquired sample image on the screen, and
• upon erasing the sample image first in the display order out of the predetermined number of sample images displayed on the screen, the controller causes the display unit to display the content image corresponding to the erased sample image in a region of the screen other than the part of the screen.