Patent ID: 8836642

Claim:
An information processing device comprising: a display control section which causes a three-dimensional space in which an object is arranged to be displayed on a display screen; an acquisition section which acquires a pointing operation in the three-dimensional space; and a position setting section which sets a pointing position in the three-dimensional space on the basis of the pointing operation, wherein the display control section causes the pointing position to be displayed in the three-dimensional space at x-coordinate and y-coordinate positions corresponding to a point upon a surface of the displayed object, a difference between the pointing position and a position of the object in a depth direction of the display screen having been corrected by setting a z-coordinate depth position of the displayed object to correspond to a z-coordinate depth of the displayed object, wherein the position setting section sets a provisional pointing position in the three-dimensional space on the basis of the pointing operation, and sets the pointing position on a reference line passing through the provisional pointing position and a reference point set in the three-dimensional space, wherein the position setting section sets the pointing position at an intersection point between the object and the reference line, and wherein the position setting section selects the object from among a plurality of objects each having an intersection point with the reference line, and sets the pointing position at the intersection point between the selected object and the reference line.