Patent ID: 8614682

Claim:
A touchscreen panel unit, comprising: a scrolling determination part configured to determine whether boundary line set to pass through a position of a first contact with a screen has been crossed by a path of a position of a second contact with the screen, and to determine to scroll a region of information displayed on the screen in response to determining that the boundary line has been crossed by the path and not to scroll the region of the information displayed on the screen in response to determining that the boundary line has not been crossed by the path, wherein the second contact is made independent of the first contact and the path of the position of the second contact with the screen starts at an initial position of the second contact with the screen; a scrolling setting part configured to set a scrolling direction and a scrolling distance of the displayed region of the information in response to the scrolling determination part determining to scroll the displayed region of the information; and a scrolling information output part configured to output information indicating the scrolling direction and the scrolling distance set by the scrolling setting part.