Patent ID: 7626570

Claim:
An input device comprising: operation means for outputting a coordinate-translation signal in at least one direction through operation; and control means for controlling a display state of display information on a display screen on the basis of the coordinate-translation signal output from the operation means, wherein, on the basis of the display state, the control means determines whether a mode allowing any one of a plurality of selection items of a pop-up menu to be selected is set, wherein when the mode is set, a notification of prohibiting a scrolling operation from scrolling character strings is supplied to the control means, and a flag adapted for prohibiting the scrolling operation is set in the control means, wherein, on the basis of the coordinate-translation signal, the control means controls scrolling of the display information and highlighting of the plurality of selection items of the pop-up menu, respectively, when the pop-up menu is not displayed on the display screen and when scrollable display information and the pop-up menu are displayed on the display screen, and wherein when scrollable display information and the pop-up menu are displayed on the display screen, the plurality of selection items are highlighted sequentially as a loop with the uppermost selection item following the lowermost selection item in a downward scroll operation and the lowermost selection item following the uppermost selection item in an upward scroll operation.