Patent ID: 8854323

Claim:
An operating apparatus which reflects an operation, inputted by a user to each of a plurality of input units of an input apparatus, on each of a plurality of operation regions that corresponds to each of the input units, the operation regions occupying predetermined areas on a display screen of a display apparatus, said operating apparatus comprising: an operation information obtaining unit configured to obtain, from the input apparatus, operation information indicating operations inputted by the user to each of the input units; an operation amount calculation unit configured to calculate an amount of the operations inputted by the user to each of the input units, using the operation information obtained by said operation information obtaining unit and based on operational characteristics obtained between a time and a preceding time that precedes the time by a predetermined duration, the operational characteristics including a moving distance, a moving velocity, a moving acceleration velocity, and an average strength, of the operations inputted with a hand or a finger of the user to each of the input units; and an operation region change unit configured to change a size of each of the operation regions so that an area of an operation region, of the operating regions, corresponding to an input unit, of the input units, increases as the amount of the operations to the input unit calculated by said operation amount calculation unit is greater.