Patent ID: 7817168

Claim:
An image display control device comprising: a display control unit for displaying, in a single menu map, a plurality of upper images in a plurality of upper areas in a display screen of an image display device, together with a plurality of lower images in a plurality of lower areas in the display screen; a pointed portion specifying unit for specifying a pointed portion in the display screen in accordance with an operation of an operating device by a user; and a function achieving unit for achieving a function corresponding to a lower image determined in the plurality of lower images in accordance with the pointed portion specified by the pointed portion specifying unit, wherein the plurality of lower areas are respectively contained in a plurality of lower angle areas contained in any one of a plurality of upper angle ranges around an origin in the display screen, the plurality of upper areas are respectively contained in the plurality of upper angle ranges, each of the plurality of upper areas is nearer to the origin than a plurality of subordinate lower areas of the plurality of lower areas, the subordinate lower areas being contained in the upper angle range corresponding to the each of the plurality of upper areas, and each of the plurality of upper images is an image that represents functions of the subordinate lower areas of the each of the plurality of the upper areas corresponding to the each of the plurality of upper images, and at an enlargement scale based on a position of the pointed portion specified by the pointed portion specifying unit, part of the plurality of upper images and the plurality of lower images, the part of both of the upper images and the lower images being near the position of the pointed portion, is enlarged to preclude a non-near part from viewing in the display screen.