Patent ID: 8823647

Claim:
A movement control device, which moves a movement subject within one of a display screen and a virtual space, comprising: position information acquiring means for acquiring position information relating to one of: a position within a real space of one of a user's hand and a grasped object grasped by the user; and a position within one of the display screen and the virtual space corresponding to the position within the real space of the one of the user's hand and the grasped object grasped by the user; and movement control means for performing movement control on the movement subject based on the position information, wherein the movement control means comprises: movement restriction means for restricting a movement of the movement subject in a case where a numerical value indicating a magnitude of a displacement between a position indicated by the position information and one of a reference position and a reference direction is smaller than a first reference value; first movement control means for moving the movement subject at a first speed in one of a direction defined based on the position information and a predetermined direction in a case where the numerical value is equal to or larger than the first reference value and smaller than a second reference value that is larger than the first reference value; and second movement control means for moving the movement subject at a second speed that is faster than the first speed in the one of the direction defined based on the position information and the predetermined direction in a case where the numerical value is equal to or larger than the second reference value.