Patent ID: 7699705

Claim:
A cursor control apparatus which performs cursor control for moving a cursor displayed on a display screen of a display device to a coordinate position of one of a plurality of points visibly or invisibly set in the display screen in accordance with a designation indicating a moving direction of the cursor in the display screen, comprising: path calculation means for calculating a path which circulates through vicinities of positions of the points on the basis of coordinate positions of the points in the display screen, each of the points being associated with a respective object in an image displayed in the display screen; intersection point coordinate position calculation means for calculating a coordinate position of an intersection point of the path and a line segment extending from a predetermined coordinate position in a region surrounded by the calculated path, said line segment extending in a direction corresponding to an input direction; and display control means for moving a display position of the cursor to the calculated intersection point coordinate position; and confining movement of the cursor thereafter along the calculated path, wherein vicinities of positions of the points are near the respective coordinate positions of the points.