Mobile terminal, mouse application program, and method for utilizing mobile terminal as wireless mouse device

摘要

The present invention provides a mobile terminal having a camera unit (8) that images a subject. The mobile terminal includes a movement determination unit (12) determining the direction and distance in which the body of the mobile terminal moved on the basis of the shift between images sequentially captured through the camera unit (8) in a mouse mode, a short-range wireless communication unit (11), and a control unit (14) controlling the short-range wireless communication unit to transmit information representing the direction and distance, determined by the movement determination unit (12), by short-range wireless to an operated apparatus which includes a display unit and controls a pointer displayed on the display unit on the basis of the received information representing the direction and distance.