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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2011
Filed:
May. 04, 2004
Yasuhisa Yamamura, Kyoto, JP;
Shigeyuki Asuke, Kyoto, JP;
Toshinori Kawai, Kyoto, JP;
Nintendo Co., Ltd., kyoto, JP;
Abstract
A game apparatus CPU turns on a scroll operating flag when it detects that a player object exists at a predetermined position, that is, within a scroll operating range while performing a predetermined action on a contact object. If the scroll operating flag is turned on, first scrolling is performed, and a screen display position is gradually moved so as to be close to a scroll target value. If the operating flag is not turned on, normal adjustment of a screen display position is performed as necessary. After disappearance of the contact object, the first scrolling is not performed, therefore preventing unnatural scroll display (e.g., displaying an item that it is no longer possible to reach due to change of state).