Patent ID: 8732622

Claim:
An input apparatus comprising: a display portion to display a plurality of function items on a screen; an input portion to input an input value to move a pointer that conducts a movement of a pointer on the screen, perform a selection to select one of a plurality of selection regions provided to the plurality of function items, respectively, using the pointer according to a predetermined selection manipulation, and determine the selection according to a predetermined determination manipulation; and a control portion to control the movement of the pointer based on the input value from the input portion, wherein: the function items are arranged to form a plurality of rows parallel in a predetermined row direction; and when the pointer is moved from a selection region of a first function item that is selected as a present selected function item, the control portion calculates coordinate distances between the pointer and each of neighboring function items contained in the first row and a second row that is next to the first row, calculates an amended distance that is obtained by subtracting by a predetermined amendment quantity from only the coordinate distances between the pointer and each of the neighboring function items contained in the first row, and selects as a next selected function item a function item that has a shortest distance among the coordinate distances and the amended distances.