Patent ID: 8599131

Claim:
An information display apparatus comprising: a contact detecting panel unit that detects at least contact and contours of a plurality of pressure distribution areas with the approximately transparent panel surface thereof made by an external object; a display panel unit installed on the panel back surface of the contact detecting panel unit; an analyzing unit that analyzes (a) a contact position on the panel surface with which the external object makes contact and (b) a direction indicated by the contours of the pressure distribution areas of a specific portion of the external object on the basis of output values from the contact detecting panel unit; and a pointer control unit that controls a display position and a pointing direction of a predefined pointer image displayed on the display panel unit, without the external object hiding any part of the predefined pointer image, on the basis of the contact position and the direction indicated by the contours of the pressure distribution areas of the specific portion, wherein both the contact position and the direction are obtained from the analyzing unit.