To provide an input device for validly utilizing a display region corresponding to a member for operating a coordinate position detecting means such as a touch panel even in a status that the member is arranged on a display picture so that it can be covered and a touch reading character/symbol input method.

A holding member 205 constituted of transparent resin is arranged so that a peripheral frame part 204 of a rectangular opening 203 can be surrounded on a display picture 202. Press buttons 221 to 229 constituted of transparent materials are arranged in the holding member 205, and when they are depressed, they are detected by a touch panel which is not shown in Figure, and the display of a region corresponding to the display picture is inverted. The confirmation of the operation of the press buttons 221 to 229 is simplified by changing the display configurations.