Patent ID: 7870511

Claim:
An apparatus that carries out an animation representation for a cursor or a Graphical User Interface (GUI) component on which the cursor is set, the apparatus comprising: a display; a focus navigator that executes a cursor move destination determination process in accordance with a cursor move destination selection algorithm for selecting a cursor move destination on the display based on cursor move instruction input information, the cursor move destination determination process comprising: executing a search process of a destination component by a search engine based on the cursor move instruction input information, and determining a GUI component of the cursor move destination and a direction of a cursor movement, wherein the search process is based on coordinate information of GUI components and distances of the GUI components from the cursor; a focus manager that executes a move process for the cursor in accordance with cursor move destination instruction information determined by the focus navigator; a focus object that executes an animation display process according to a state of the cursor or of the GUI component on which the cursor is set that accompanies a cursor movement carried out by the focus manager; and a graphics generator that executes the animation representation of the GUI component, wherein the animation representation comprises a plurality of icons displayed at the same time, each icon having a shape similar to a shape of the GUI component, sequentially generated by the graphics generator towards a moving direction, and wherein the most rear-side icon disappears along with the cursor movement.