Patent ID: 6922185

Claim:
An inputting device, comprising: a first operating means, which is disposed on a surface having almost the same level of the surface of a cabinet and is displaced about in the horizontal direction along a plane being almost parallel to said surface of said cabinet and also is displaced about in the vertical direction for said surface of said cabinet; in case that orthogonal coordinates having X axis and Y axis are set on said plane being almost parallel to said surface of said cabinet, a displacement detecting means, which detects displacement of said first operating means in the X or Y direction and in the direction slanting for said X or Y direction as the origin of said orthogonal coordinates is made to be the reference; a signal outputting means, which outputs designated signals based on said displacement of said first operating section detected by said displacement detecting means; and a second operating means, which is disposed on said surface having almost the same level of said surface of said cabinet and has plural parts displacing about in the vertical direction independently of one another for said surface of said cabinet, wherein, said displacement detecting means decides whether the contact by said first operating means with said displacement detecting means is detected or not, based on displacement of said second operating means about in the vertical direction.