Patent ID: 8488179

Claim:
An input device comprising: an operation panel including: a display section that displays, in a plurality of display areas on a screen, images of a plurality of display members each of which corresponds to a separate piece of input information; and a touch panel that outputs a pressed area on the screen of the display section as a touched area; a detecting section that detects a failure in the display section; a first memory section that stores a normal time table that indicates a relationship between the plurality of display areas on the display section and input information in normal time, together with a failure time table that indicates a relationship between at least one display area in the display section and input information in failure time; and a first control section that outputs input information corresponding to a display area that includes the touched area output from the touch panel based on the normal time table when the detecting section does not detect a failure and outputs input information corresponding to a display area that includes the touched area output from the touch panel based on the failure time table when the detecting section detected a failure.