Information processing apparatus
AssigneeSony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
InventorsToru Yamamoto, Yasuyuki Suki
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Abstract
An information processing apparatus displays a main screen image including a main content, displays a sub-screen image including a sub-content of a kind different from a kind of the main content in a time period same as the main screen image, receives a switchover manipulation from a mode in which a manipulation for the main screen image is received over to a mode in which a manipulation for the sub-screen image is received, and displays the sub-screen image in an emphasized manner when a switchover to the mode in which the manipulation for the sub-screen image is received is performed.
Claims10
An information processing apparatus comprising:
- a main screen image display control section that displays a main screen image including a main content;
- a sub-screen image display control section that displays a sub-screen image including a sub-content of a kind different from a kind of the main content in a time period same as the main screen image;
- and
- a manipulation receiving section that receives a switchover manipulation from a mode in which a manipulation for the main screen image is received over to a mode in which a manipulation for the sub-screen image is received,
- wherein, when a switchover to the mode in which the manipulation for the sub-screen image is received is performed, the sub-screen image display control section displays the sub-screen image in an emphasized manner.
An information processing method comprising:
- displaying a main screen image including a main content;
- displaying a sub-screen image including a sub-content of a kind different from a kind of the main content in a time period same as the main screen image;
- receiving a switchover manipulation from a mode in which a manipulation for the main screen image is received over to a mode in which a manipulation for the sub-screen image is received;
- and
- displaying the sub-screen image in an emphasized manner when a switchover to the mode in which the manipulation for the sub-screen image is received is performed.
A non-transitory, computer readable storage medium containing a computer program, which when executed by a computer, causes the computer to perform an information processing method by carrying out actions, comprising:
- displaying a main screen image including a main content;
- displaying a sub-screen image including a sub-content of a kind different from a kind of the main content in a time period same as the main screen image;
- receiving a switchover manipulation from a mode in which a manipulation for the main screen image is received over to a mode in which a manipulation for the sub-screen image is received;
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- displaying the sub-screen image in an emphasized manner when a switchover to the mode in which the manipulation for the sub-screen image is received is performed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.