Abstract: A content display device for displaying content items on a screen includes: an operation instruction receiving section (70d) for receiving, from a user, a switching instruction to switch the content items; a content list analyzing and choosing section (40) for, based on an order prescribed in a content list, choosing a content item that is displayed on the screen, in accordance with the switching instruction received by the operation instruction receiving section (70d); and a content acquisition and display section for causing the content item chosen by the content choosing section (40) to be displayed on the screen. This provides a content display device whose operationality has been improved by comprehensively optimizing a user's content browsing operation from the viewpoint of regarding, as a series of operations, access to the URL of a desired content item and an operation for controlling the display range of a displayed content item.

Abstract: A receiving device receives broadcast, information, etc. in response to a user selection by manipulation, in order to present the broadcast, information, etc. to the user. The device includes a channel set managing section (30) which collectively handles multiple channels corresponding to broadcast and content on the Internet or another network received by a receiving device (100) as channel groups which are preset handling units according to certain rules. The user can readily handle large numbers of channels when compared with cases where increasing channels are all handled equally without being grouped.

Abstract: [Object] An object is to provide a motion picture reproducing apparatus allowing a user to easily select a desired motion picture from a large number of motion pictures. [Solution] A terminal 300 having a motion picture reproducing function is for reproducing a motion picture distributed on demand, and it includes: a display device on which the motion picture is displayed; a motion picture reproducing unit 303, a still image drawing unit 310, a graphic output unit 308 and a video output unit 305, for displaying meta information related to the distributed motion picture on the display device superposed on the motion picture that is being reproduced; an input receiving unit 309 receiving an input operation by a user; and a screen transition control unit 306 and display description reproducing unit 307, for switching display of the meta information related to the distributed motion picture, in accordance with the user input.

Abstract: When a user selects a menu item, content associated with the menu item is displayed without activating an application. Further, the content is displayed in accordance with a layout corresponding to contents of meta-information of the content. A content display processing device (1) includes: a menu generating section (122) that displays, in a menu display area (42) of a display section, a plurality of user-selectable menu items; a menu selection detecting section (132) that detects a user selection of a menu item from the plurality of menu items displayed; and a content data generating section (128) that displays, in a content display area (43) of the display section, one or more pieces of content associated with the menu item selected, when the user selection is detected.

Abstract: A receiving device receives broadcast, information, etc. in response to a user selection by manipulation, in order to present the broadcast, information, etc. to the user. The device includes a channel set managing section (30) which collectively handles multiple channels corresponding to broadcast and content on the Internet or another network received by a receiving device (100) as channel groups which are preset handling units according to certain rules. The user can readily handle large numbers of channels when compared with cases where increasing channels are all handled equally without being grouped.

Abstract: A content display device for displaying content items on a screen includes: an operation instruction receiving section (70d) for receiving, from a user, a switching instruction to switch the content items; a content list analyzing and choosing section (40) for, based on an order prescribed in a content list, choosing a content item that is displayed on the screen, in accordance with the switching instruction received by the operation instruction receiving section (70d); and a content acquisition and display section for causing the content item chosen by the content choosing section (40) to be displayed on the screen. This provides a content display device whose operationality has been improved by comprehensively optimizing a user's content browsing operation from the viewpoint of regarding, as a series of operations, access to the URL of a desired content item and an operation for controlling the display range of a displayed content item.

Abstract: A user interface generator of generating a user interface from user interface template data for execution comprises a UI template selecting section (20) for selecting the user interface template data from service description data describing service that the user utilizes and terminal data expressing the state of a terminal device that the user utilizes and a UI description generating section (50) for generating the user interface from the service description data and the user interface template data selected by the UI template selecting section (20). This provides a method for using a template to flexibly generate a user interface and a user interface generator using the same.

Abstract: A generation rule acquiring/accumulating section (202), a target form acquiring/accumulating section (203), and a list data acquiring/accumulating section (204) acquires input data, template data, and a generation rule, respectively, Then, a generation rule interpreting/UI description generating section (205) reads contents of the files thereof, interprets the read generation rule, and, according to the interpreted generation rule, generates a UI description from the read list data and target form. Because the target form can be flexibly edited by changing the list data, a UI description can be flexibly generated.