Patent ID: 8531419

Claim:
An information processing apparatus, comprising: an operation surface; a first sense unit for electrically detecting whether said operation surface is being directly touched by a finger or the like; a second sense unit for detecting whether a position pointing device approaches or contacts said operation surface based on an electromagnetic interaction generated between the position pointing device and said second sense unit; an approach detecting unit for detecting whether the position pointing device is within a detection range from said operation surface based on an output from said second sense unit; and a display control unit for disabling display processing based on a detection output from said first sense unit and for enabling display processing based on a detection output from said second sense unit if said approach detecting unit determines that the position pointing device is within of said detection range, wherein said display control unit continuously disables display processing based on the detection output from said first sense unit if said first sense unit detects that said operation surface is touched when the position pointing device is moved outside of said detection range from a state in which the position pointing device lies within said detection range, and wherein said display control unit enables display processing based on the detection output from said first sense unit if said first sense unit subsequently does not detect that said operation surface is touched.