Patent ID: 8423293

Claim:
A display control apparatus comprising: a display device; and a controller configured to arrange flat type plural display objects each including a desired display face having desired information displayed thereon in a virtual three-dimensional space and to display on the display device an image in which the plural, display objects are viewed in an overhead-view direction from a variable view point position, based on three-dimensional coordinate position data corresponding to the variable view point position, overhead-view direction data corresponding to an overhead-view direction from the variable view point position and zoom data including display field angle and display magnification data corresponding to a display magnification, wherein: each of the plural display objects belongs to a category of plural predetermined categories and disposed in a predetermined area of each category; the display object objects comprise one main display object and sub display objects; and the controller is further configured to: rotate the display face of the main display object in accordance with variation of the variable view point position in the virtual three-dimensional space so that the display face of the main display object is disposed to be perpendicular to or intersects with the overhead-view direction and moved in the virtual three-dimensional space so as to be located in the overhead-view direction or in the neighborhood of the overhead-view direction and displayed on a display screen of the display device; and rotate the display faces of the sub display objects in accordance with the variation of the variable view point position in the virtual three-dimensional space so that the display faces of the sub display objects are disposed to be perpendicular to or intersect with the overhead-view direction and displayed on the display screen of the display device.