Patent ID: 7949232

Claim:
An input apparatus that inputs a reproduction speed of a video signal, comprising: a position detection section that linearly detects a position that a user's finger has touched; and a control section that detects a moving speed of the user's finger performing tracing, by the user's finger touching the position detection section corresponding to a first position and a second position detected by the position detection section, and outputs reproduction speed information corresponding to the moving speed, wherein, after the position detection section has detected that the user's finger has been released from the position detection section and after a predetermined time period has elapsed, the control section is configured to output, based on the moving speed and according to a still control mode, the reproduction speed information of the video signal that denotes the reproduction speed of the video signal is immediately changed to a still reproduction operation, and the control section is configured to output, based on the moving speed and according to a reproduction control mode, the reproduction speed information of the video signal that causes the reproduction speed of the video signal to be gradually decreased, from the reproduction speed at which the user's finger has touched the position detection section, to the still reproduction operation.