Patent ID: 8105163
Filing Date: 2012-01-31
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
1. A control apparatus comprising; an input part, which receives an instruction from a user; and a control part, which controls movement of a character object operated by the user based on the user instruction input from said input part, and wherein said control part includes a first control unit that controls a first operation mode in which the character object is moved forward along the x-axis and y-axis in a three-dimensional space, and a second control unit that controls a second operation mode in which the character object is moved along a two-dimensional plane relating to the x-axis and z-axis of said three-dimensional space, the second operation mode operated with an operation system different from in the first operation mode; wherein, within the first operation mode, said first control unit instructs the character object to move in a forward direction and to be controlled along the x-axis and y-axis, maintains a tracking perspective of the character object showing the perspective of a background and an immediate foreground behind the character object, and sets the tracking perspective according to the movement of the character object until a designated event occurs in the first operation mode whereby the first operation mode is switched to the second operation mode by the control part; and wherein, within the second operation mode, said second control unit controls the character object so as to move the character object in the three-dimensional space along the two-dimensional plane as instructed by the user, sets the perspective of the character object to a fixed tracking perspective whereby the perspective is fixed to a position in the immediate foreground, behind the character object, and maintains the perspective in the same orientation regardless of the movement of the character object along the two-dimensional plane.