Patent ID: 8355838

Claim:
A vehicular input device comprising: an indication unit configured to cause a display surface to indicate a plurality of arranged selective areas for accepting input, the display surface being assigned with an x-axis direction and a y-axis direction being perpendicular to each other; an operation unit configured to be manipulated for moving an instructed position on the display surface; an instructed position move unit configured to move the instructed position on the display surface according to an operation quantity of the operation unit; a selected-state area determination unit configured to determine a selected-state area being selected from the selective areas according to the instructed position; a width determination unit configured to determine a width of the selected-state area in the x-axis direction and a width of the selected-state area in the y-axis direction; a moving speed set unit configured such that when the instructed position move unit moves the instructed position on the display surface and at least when the instructed position passes through the selected-state area, the moving speed set unit sets a moving speed of the instructed position variably, such that: i) a velocity component of the moving speed of the instructed position in the x-axis direction becomes larger as the width of the selected-state area in the x-axis direction determined by the width determination unit becomes larger; and ii) a velocity component of the moving speed of the instructed position in the y-axis direction becomes larger as the width of the selected-state area in the y-axis direction determined by the width determination unit becomes larger; a closest selective area determination unit configured to determine a closest selective area, which is closest to the instructed position, from the selective areas; a sameness determination unit configured to determine whether a latest closest selective area, which is newly determined by the closest selective area determination unit, is same as a previous closest selective area determined by the closest selective area determination unit immediately before; and a forcedly move unit configured to forcedly move the instructed position into the closest selective area, which is newly determined by the closest selective area determination unit, when the sameness determination unit determines that the latest closest selective area is not same as the previous closest selective area.