Display device, display method, and program

[0015]Thereby, it becomes possible to automatically display an image content different from the displayed image contents when the user merely selects an unnecessary image content. That is, the user does not have to keep selecting an unnecessary image content and selecting an image content to be displayed to have it displayed until the desired image content is found. Accordingly, the user can sequentially replace the displayed image content with another image content by merely selecting an unnecessary image content.

[0016]Further, an image content number deciding section deciding the number of image contents to be included in the display screen may be provided. The image content number deciding section may decide the number of image contents in accordance with the display capability of the display device. With such configuration, the number of the image contents to be displayed may be decided based on the state of the resources, such as limitation due to the memory capacity, the CPU load or the display area of the display device 100, or on the request from the application, such as to divide the display screen into a predetermined number of parts, and thus, it becomes possible to efficiently display the image contents while reducing the load on the display device.

[0017]Further, the image content obtaining section may obtain an image content from the image content list in accordance with the number of image contents decided by the image content number deciding section. With such configuration, the only image contents to be obtained by the image content obtaining section are the image contents to be displayed, and thus, it becomes possible to display the image contents without unnecessarily wasting memory capacity.

[0021]Further, the display screen creating section may create a display screen including an image content and an image content folder holding the image content, and the display device may include an image content moving section moving, in accordance with the selection request from the user detected by the user selection request detecting section, the image content selected by the user to the image content folder. With such configuration, for example, the user creates a save folder and a garbage folder, and after checking the details of a content, the user moves the image content to the save folder if the user judges the image content to be necessary or to the garbage folder if the user judges the image content to be unnecessary. Further, the user may create folders different for each degree of preference, such as 3-star, 2-star and 1-star, and after checking the details of a content, the user may move the image content to the 3-star folder if the user particularly likes the image content or, if the user does not like the image content, the user may remove the image content without moving it to any of the folders. Thereby, it becomes possible to efficiently use the image content selected and removed from the display screen.

However, if the displayed content is not a content that is worth displaying, there is a problem that the user has to keep selecting an image content until the desired image content is displayed.

Further, if the number of thumbnails that can be displayed is smaller than the number of listed image contents, the thumbnails of all the image contents cannot be displayed at one time.

However, if the image content that the user wants to display is not on the display screen, the user has to keep turning the page until the image content is found.

However, when the user wants to find an image content that suits his / her tastes from the contents already provided, as in the case of TV zapping, selecting and displaying an image content become bothersome and tiring.