TACTILE SENSE PRESENTATION AND INPUT DEVICE

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve a problem in which: a conventional touch panel is vibrated by a user touching the touch panel; however, an operational feel such as depressing of an operation button is difficult to present; the size and shape of the operation button is difficult to be sensed by a blind-touch operation; and surface displacement at a desired position in a touch panel area that can be operated by blind touch requires a plurality of actuators and their drive means, which results in an increase in costs.SOLUTION: A display panel for displaying an image for a touch operation and a touch panel provided on the surface of the display panel are supported by a panel support member, and the touch panel is supported to a housing by an elastic support member movably in a vertical direction. By using positional information from a touch panel drive part, a contact position of a finger of a user to the touch panel is controlled such that an actuator drive unit has a different supporting power of the touch panel against a housing of an actuator between the display area of the image for a touch operation and an area other than the display area of the image for a touch operation.