Patent ID: 8436814

Claim:
An in-vehicle manipulation apparatus located in an operable position for a user sitting on a seat, comprising: a two-dimensional operation section including a stick-shaped rocking shaft having an end having an operation knob, the operation knob being operated within a predetermined two-dimensional operation surface as an operation range such that a rocking axis of the rocking shaft tilts from a predetermined neutral angular position to a direction corresponding to an instructed position; a one-dimensional operation section having an operation surface exposed from a main surface of the operation knob, the main surface being an end surface of the rocking shaft, the one-dimensional operation section can be operated in a predetermined one-dimensional operation direction relative to the operation surface within the two-dimensional operation surface; a display device disposed in a screen-viewable manner for the user; two-dimensional operation control means for two-dimensionally moving a predetermined display object being displayed on a screen of the display device based on operation to the two-dimensional operation section; and one-dimensional operation control means for performing at least one of the following i) and ii) to the predetermined display object being displayed on the screen based on operation to the one-dimensional operation section: i) display movement control of moving the display object in a predetermined one-dimensional display direction corresponding to the one-dimensional operation direction along which operation is performed; and ii) control content change control of sequentially changing a plurality of control contents in predetermined changing order to one of forward and reverse directions of the changing order corresponding to the one-dimensional operation direction along which operation is performed, wherein the display object is a pointer image that can move to an optional position on the screen of the display device.