Patent ID: 8094133

Claim:
A touch panel device, comprising: an input pen including a conductive electrode at a tip portion thereof; a plurality of capacitance detecting interconnections formed on a substrate in row and column directions; an oscillating section which outputs an oscillation signal for performing charging/discharging to each of said plurality of capacitance detecting interconnections, said oscillation signal having a cycle which changes in accordance with an amount of electric charges in said charging/discharging; and a computing section which computes, based on a change of said cycle being in accordance with a capacitance formed between said electrode and said capacitance detecting interconnections, positional coordinates of said input pen brought in proximity to said capacitance detecting interconnections in a non-contact manner, wherein said input pen outputs to said electrode an input pen signal which is in synchronization with said oscillation signal, has a phase different from a phase of said oscillation signal, and has a larger voltage amplitude compared with said oscillation signal.