Patent ID: 8339499

Claim:
An electronic apparatus comprising: a touch sensor provided with a first touching zone that includes at least a second touching zone and a third touching zone, the second and third touching zones being allocated with different functions; at least one functional component to perform a specific function assigned to a specific touching zone that is the second or the third touching zone; a controller to receive a touch input through the first touching zone and control the functional component so that the functional component performs the specific function when there is a first touch input at first through the specific touching zone and the functional component continuously performs the specific function even if there is a second touch input that follows the first touch input, through either the second or the third touching zone that is not the specific touching zone, as long as there is a continuous touch input through the first touching zone from the first to the second touch input with no intermission, and a monitor screen that is controlled by the controller to display a first guide image and a second guide image, the first and second guide images indicating the functions allocated to the second and third touching zones, respectively, wherein when there is the first touch input through the specific touching zone, the controller erases the first or the second guide image from the monitor screen that indicates the function assigned to either the second or the third touching zone that is not the specific touching zone.