Patent ID: 8648817

Claim:
A portable game machine with a display which also serves as a touch panel type input portion, comprising: object selection means, for selecting and determining an object that is displayed on said display at an object coordinate position when a finger of a player contacts a screen of said display at said object coordinate position, and displaying a selection mark showing a selection state on said object that was selected and determined; finger contact detecting means, for detecting a second contact when the finger of said player contacts said screen of said display again after said object is selected and determined through said object selection means, and judging that a movement of said selected object is instructed; finger position computing means, for repeatedly computing a coordinate position of said finger on said screen, during said second contact, at constant intervals; relative position computing means, for computing a relative positional relation between said computed coordinate position of said finger and said object coordinate position of the selected object; object separation display means, for separating said object into a cursor and an object body when said finger contact detecting means detects said second contact between said finger and said screen, and locating and displaying said cursor at said object coordinate position, and locating and displaying said object body at a predetermined distance away from said cursor in order to easily recognize said object coordinate position of said object on said field selected by said object selection means; object display position computing means, for computing and determining the object coordinate position of said cursor displayed separated from said object body of said selected object to be displayed according to a change in said computed coordinate position of said finger, so as to always maintain said relative positional relation to the computed coordinate position of said finger; and object display means, for displaying said cursor separately from said object body of said selected object at said coordinate position on said display; whereby said selected object is moved in parallel to a movement locus on said screen of said finger during said second contact and the movement of said selected object can be instructed by said player while contacting the screen at a position different from said object coordinate position.