Patent ID: 8711158

Claim:
The mobile terminal including a communications function and displaying at least an image relating to a specific stellar body when being turned toward a stellar body existence direction, the mobile terminal comprising: a detecting unit that detects a direction of the mobile terminal turned toward the stellar body existence direction; a display processing unit that acquires the image of the specific stellar body corresponding to the detected direction of the mobile terminal and image identification information thereon from a stellar body watching engine and, when any one of a plurality of kinds of information transfer is selected, that controls to display a rendered effect screen corresponding to the selected one of the plurality of kinds of information transfer and including the image of the specific stellar body; and a transmitting unit that transmits, when the selected one of the plurality of kinds of information transfer is carried out in a state in which the rendered effect screen is displayed, at least the image identification information or a URL associated with the image identification information along with a content of the selected one of the plurality of kinds of information transfer; and the display processing unit that acquires, when it is determined that the image identification information, the location information, and the transfer type have been received, the image of the specific stellar body corresponding to the image identification information from the stellar body watching engine and that controls to display the content of the information transfer along with the image of the specific stellar body as if the content of the information transfer were received at a time point at which the mobile terminal is voluntarily turned toward the stellar body existence direction; wherein the transmitting unit further transmits location information as the content of the information transfer, which is identified based on geographical positional information received from a GPS receiver, and a transfer type that designates a location information transfer or a distance information transfer, and wherein the display processing unit controls to display the received location information when the transfer type is the location information transfer and controls to display a distance calculated based on the received location information and own location information when the transfer type is the distance information transfer.