Contents display apparatus and control method thereof

摘要

A contents display apparatus, which stores display schedule information indicating display schedules of a plurality of contents so as to sequentially display the plurality of contents, and displays contents on a display according to the display schedule information, receives a user operation associated with the display while a content is displayed, determines, with reference to metadata of respective contents, a content which is related to the content displayed when the user operation is received, and changes the display schedule information by changing the display schedule of the content determined as a related content.

主权项

1. A contents display apparatus comprising:
a storage unit that stores display schedule information indicating display order and display method of a plurality of contents in a slideshow so as to sequentially display the contents; a display unit that displays the plurality of contents in the slideshow on a display while sequentially switching display of the contents according to the display order and the display method indicated in the display schedule information; an operation unit that accepts a user operation, during the display of the contents by the display unit, instructing to change the display method of a first content that is being displayed in the slideshow by said display unit; a first determination unit that determines a type of the change made to the display method of the first content based on the user operation accepted by the operation unit; a second determination unit that determines, based on metadata of respective contents contained in the slideshow, a content which is related to the first content whose display method is changed by the user operation; and a change unit that changes the display method of the display schedule information for the first content based on the type of change made to the display method determined by the first determination unit, and that changes the display method of the display schedule information for the content determined as the related content by said second determination unit based on the display method of the first content changed by the user operation accepted by said operation unit, wherein said second determination unit determines a related content from the contents in the slideshow included in the display schedule information, and when the display method is changed by the user operation, said change unit changes the display schedule information by changing the display method indicated in the display schedule for the related content determined by said second determination unit in the same way as the changed display method of the first content.