Patent ID: 8375334

Claim:
A display control device for performing display control of a display section, said display control device comprising: mode setting means for setting either one of a first display mode and a second display mode; virtual space setting means for setting a virtual space in the display section; orbit setting means for setting an orbit in said virtual space; display entity arrangement means for arranging a plurality of information display entities at least in a column on the orbit in the first display mode; first display means for displaying the plurality of information display entities in said virtual space in the display section in accordance with the first display mode; second display means for displaying the plurality of information display entities in a plane manner in the display section in accordance with the second display mode; input means; and control means responsive to the input means for controlling movement of the plurality of information display entities along the orbit in the virtual space in the first display mode, wherein, for each information display entity of the plurality of information display entities being displayed at a predetermined position in the display section, the control means enables said information display entity displayed at said predetermined position to activate an application corresponding to said information display entity displayed at said predetermined position in response to an input command from the input means, wherein a location of the predetermined position is based on the display mode, either the first display mode or the second display mode, and wherein in one of the first display mode and the second display mode, the predetermined position is fixed at a first display location and is changed from the first display location to a second display location only when said second display location is associated with an endmost information display entity of the plurality of information display entities, said first and second display locations being different, in response to an input command from the input means.