Patent ID: 8922495

Claim:
An input device comprising: a display including an image display region; a transparent touch panel including a touch panel reaction region larger in area than the image display region; a cover member having an opening larger in area than the image display region and fixing the display and the transparent touch panel so that: the transparent touch panel is disposed on the display; the image display region is exposed via the touch panel reaction region from the opening; and a surrounding region is defined between an inner periphery of the opening and an outer periphery of the image display region in a direction parallel to a surface of the image display region, wherein the transparent touch panel extends over the image display region and the surrounding region in area; and a controller configured to: set a button display region for displaying a button in the image display region and not set the button display region in the surrounding region; set a button reaction region in the image display region to correspond to and overlap with the button display region; set a surrounding reaction region in the surrounding region to correspond to the button display region; acquire a coordinate of a pressed position where the touch panel reaction region is pressed; and select a process allocated to the button reaction region when the coordinate of the pressed position is located in the surrounding reaction region.