Patent ID: 7568166

Claim:
A displaying apparatus for displaying part of a target object on a display device, said displaying apparatus comprising: inputting means for enabling inputs to be provided from a user; and controlling means for controlling the display device so as to switch the display of the target object in accordance with an input supplied from the inputting means; the controlling means causes the display device to start scrolling the display of the target object in a scrolling direction designated by the user by use of the inputting means so as to zoom out on the target object in response to a scroll input from the inputting means, and to either zoom in on the target object until an initial scale of the target object is restored before ending the scroll or terminate the scroll so as to zoom in on the target object until the initial scale thereof is restored, and during the zoom out a center of the target object being displayed on the display device is moved in a direction opposite to the scrolling direction, and during operation, the controlling means establishes different degrees of interest at different locations of interest on the target object so as to alert the user, in which the different degrees of interest are established by the controlling means in accordance with past preferences of the user, the controlling means further causing the display device temporarily to zoom in and then to zoom out on the target object during the scrolling so that the scale of the target object will correspond to the degree of interest at each of the locations of interest.