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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 12, 2013
Filed:
Nov. 04, 2011
Shigeru Miyamoto, Kyoto, JP;
Katsuya Eguchi, Kyoto, JP;
Shigeru Miyamoto, Kyoto, JP;
Katsuya Eguchi, Kyoto, JP;
Nintendo Co., Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
A hand-held game apparatus and a game program are provided which allow a user to play a game while going back and forth between a narrow-range image and a broad-range image of map. The user can manipulate a touch panel which mounted on a display section for displaying the broad-range image. If the user manipulates the touch panel to point to a coordinate position on the broad-range image, thus designating coordinates for the narrow-range image, a changed narrow-range is displayed. If the user indicates a moving direction on the broad-range image, thus designating a scroll direction, the displayed broad-range image is moved (scrolled).