Patent ID: 8860676

Claim:
A display control device which receives a signal from an operating device having a touchpad and generates screen data to be displayed on a screen, said display control device comprising: a touch information detecting unit configured to detect touch information including position information about a position of a finger of a user on the touchpad that is touched with the finger of the user during an operation of the touchpad; a direction determining unit configured to determine an orientation of the touchpad as intended by the user, using a characteristic which is indicated by the touch information detected by said touch information detecting unit and which results from a structure of the finger; and a screen data generating unit configured to generate the screen data depending on the orientation of the touchpad determined by said direction determining unit, wherein the characteristic is a shape of a trajectory formed by a movement of the position of the finger of the user indicated by the position information, and wherein said direction determining unit is configured to determine the orientation of the touchpad, such that (i) when the trajectory is convex, a convex side of the trajectory is an upper side of the touchpad, or (ii) when the trajectory is concave, a concave side of the trajectory is a lower side of the touchpad.