Patent ID: 7348481

Claim:
A cursor movement controlling apparatus for an electronic musical apparatus, comprising: a display that displays a plurality of choices for controlling parameters of the electronic music apparatus, each choice categorized into one of a plurality of groups and corresponding to a value, and only one cursor for selecting a choice from the plurality of displayed choices, said plurality of groups displayed simultaneously on one screen, said plurality of choices displayed for each of the plurality of groups, said cursor capable of moving in an up/down direction and in a right/left direction wherein one direction is for moving among the plurality of groups and the other direction is for moving among the plurality of choices in the same group; an instructor that instructs a movement of the displayed cursor from a current choice at which the cursor is currently displayed to another choice; a movement storage device that stores choice information corresponding to a value shared by all of the plurality of groups, the choice information indicating at which choice in a group the cursor should be displayed when the cursor is moved to the group from one of the choices in another group; and a cursor moving device that moves, when the movement of the cursor from a current choice in a first group to another choice in the same group is instructed, the cursor to the another choice and stores the movement of the cursor as the choice information in the movement storage device, and that moves, when the movement of the cursor from a current choice in said first group to a choice in a second group is instructed, the cursor to a choice in said second group indicated by the choice information wherein, if the choice corresponding to the choice information does not exist in the second group, the cursor moving device moves the cursor to a choice in said second group corresponding to a value numerically closest to the value of the choice information.