Patent ID: 8797364

Claim:
A display device, comprising: a display section that displays images; an image storage section that stores a plurality of instruction acceptance images that are displayed on the display section to accept an instruction from an operator; a display controller that displays, on the display section, each of the instruction acceptance images stored in the image storage section; a coordinate position designating section that accepts, from the operator, designation of a coordinate position within a display area of the display section; an instruction accepting section that accepts input of an instruction associated with any of the instruction acceptance images that is displayed in the coordinate position designated by the coordinate position designating section; and a speed detector that detects a speed of change at which the coordinate position designated by the coordinate position designating section changes, wherein, when a display position for a first instruction acceptance images is designated by designation of the coordinate position accepted by the coordinate position designating section while the first instruction acceptance image and a second instruction acceptance image are displayed adjacent to one another on the display section as the instruction acceptance images, an instruction accepting area enlarges for a predetermined period of time, so that the instruction accepting area for accepting the input of an instruction associated with the first instruction acceptance image larger in a direction of change of the coordinate position that is detected by the speed detector in accordance with the speed of change that is detected by the speed detector at the time of the designation, and the instruction accepting section does not accept, for the predetermined period of time, the input of an instruction associated with the second instruction acceptance image displayed in the enlarged area.