Patent ID: 7042445
Filing Date: 2006-05-09
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An input device comprising: a display; a computer body in which software for displaying a screen on the display and software for scrolling the screen have been hosed; and an operating wheel provided in an input means to scroll the screen to give an operation input signal for scrolling the screen to the computer body, wherein there is provided load variable means for making a rotational load of the operating wheel variable, wherein in the computer body, there is housed a supervisory program for supervising a state of image data to be displayed on the display and wherein an operation command is given to the load variable means from the computer body in response to the state of the image data supervised through the use of the supervisory program to make the load on the operating wheel variable, wherein the load variable means comprises a variable means that receives the operation command to fluctuate a load of the operating wheel in a rotational click feel manner, and the load variable means comprises a pressing pad which contacts an outer periphery of the operating wheel to give the operating wheel the rotational click feel.