Information display device

1. An information display device, comprising:

a virtual space setting unit for disposing window objects and a virtual camera in a three-dimensional virtual space, and for rendering the window objects contained in a virtual image capturing area of the virtual camera;

catalog display means for receiving an instruction to display all of the window objects as a catalog, and for rearranging, in response to the instruction, all of the window objects without overlapping each other in a plane which is opposed to the virtual camera and all of the window objects are placed in, and

concurrently moving the virtual camera from a first position where the virtual camera is opposed to the plane to a second position, which is farther from the first position and where the virtual camera is opposed to the plane, so that all of the plurality of window objects are shown including the window objects that were previously outside the field of view of the closer virtual camera position; and

an execution unit for receiving, while catalog display takes place, an instruction operation on any one of the window objects, and for executing a process based on the instruction operation,

wherein before said window objects are rearranged, said window objects are initially positioned in a non-overlapping manner and on a same virtual plane.

2. The information display device according to claim 1 , connected to a controller capable of determining an inclination angle related to at least one of a front-back direction and a right-left direction, for determining whether or not the instruction operation is made, based on the inclination angle related to at least one of the front-back direction and the right-left direction and determined by the controller, and for receiving the instruction operation.

3. The information display device according to claim 1 , wherein said window objects are rearranged in two horizontal rows.

4. The information display device according to claim 1 , wherein each of the window objects is the same size with respect to one another before and after said rearrangement.

5. The information device according to claim 1 , wherein said window objects are not resized, before, during or after the rearrangement.

6. The information device according to claim 1 , wherein each of said window objects is the same, size before, during and after the rearrangement.

7. An information display device, comprising:

virtual space setting means for disposing window objects and a virtual camera in a three-dimensional virtual space, and for rendering the window objects contained in a virtual image capturing area of the virtual camera;

catalog display means for displaying a catalog by arranging a first window object, a second window object and a third window object, so that the first, second or third window objects are shown without overlapping each other; and

means for receiving, while catalog display takes place, an instruction operation on any one of the first, second or third window objects, and for executing a process based on the instruction operation,

wherein the catalog display means, when it is detected that the first window object has been closed while the catalog display takes place, moves the second and third window objects incrementally to a new defined target position determined relative to the changed number of window objects,

wherein if a number of window objects on a first row does not match a number of window objects on a second row, the window objects on the second row are displaced so as not to be vertically aligned with the window objects on the first row, such that a center of each window in a horizontal direction on said second row is positioned directly underneath a center of a gap in a horizontal direction between two windows in said first row, and

wherein a center of each window object in a vertical direction is aligned on a common row and a center of each window object in a horizontal direction is aligned in a column.

8. The information display device according to claim 7 , connected to a controller capable of determining an inclination angle related to at least one of a front-back direction and a right-left direction, for determining whether or not the instruction operation is made, based on the inclination angle related to at least one of the front-back direction and the right-left direction and determined by the controller, and for receiving the instruction operation.

9. The information display device according to claim 7 , wherein the catalog display means displays a fourth window object.