Patent ID: 8120574

Claim:
A non-transitory storage medium storing a program executable on a computer of an input processing apparatus having a display device for displaying an image obtained by viewing a three-dimensional space from a virtual camera, an object appearing in the three-dimensional space, and an input device for pointing to a position on a screen of the display device, the program causing the computer to execute: a first camera setting operation of setting a value of a parameter of the virtual camera a first display operation of causing the display device to display the image in accordance with the parameter set by the first camera setting operation; a position detecting operation of detecting a position on the screen pointed by an operation performed with respect to the input device when the image is displayed by the first display operation; a straight line calculating operation of calculating a straight line passing through a position in the three-dimensional space corresponding to the position on the screen detected by the position detecting operation and a position in the three-dimensional space of the virtual camera; an object identifying operation of identifying, as a target to be zoomed in on, an object intersecting the straight line; a second camera setting operation of automatically changing the value of the parameter of the virtual camera so as to zoom in and display the identified object; a second display operation of causing the display device to display the image in accordance with the parameter changed by the second camera setting operation, and a first condition determining operation of determining whether or not a pointing duration exceeds a first value, the pointing duration being a time for which the pointing operation is continued, when an object is identified by the object identifying operation, wherein the second camera setting operation changes the value of the parameter when it is determined in the first condition determining operation that the pointing duration exceeds the first value.