Patent ID: 9146628
Filing Date: 2015-09-29
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An input apparatus comprising: a display device configured to display an operational screen including at least one operational button image having a detecting area capable of detecting an input of an input object, the at least one operational button image each being associated with a corresponding one of processings which is executed when the detecting area of the at least one operational button image is touched or approached by the input object; a processing executing section configured to, when the detecting area of the at least one operational button image is touched or approached by the input object, execute a processing assigned in advance to the touched or approached operational button image; a display updating section configured to perform an update such that the operational screen displayed on the display device is changed from a first operational screen on which a first operational button image as the at least one operational button image is displayed to a second operational screen on which a second operational button image, as the at least one operational button image, which is different from the first button image is displayed; a judging section configured to judge whether or not at least a part of the detecting area of the second operational button image, having been touched or approached by the input object, displayed on the second operational screen overlays at least a part of the detecting area of the first operational button image displayed on the first operational screen, wherein, when the second image button is touched or approached by the input object and when the judging section has judged that the at least the part of the detecting area of the touched or approached second operational button image overlays the at least the part of the detecting area of the first operational button image, the processing executing section is configured to: