Electronic device, input control method, and program for controlling a pointer on a display

An electronic device comprising:

• a display unit that displays a pointer pointing out an input location;
• a touch panel that detects a first touch operation on the display unit with one of a user's finger and a pointing device to move the pointer;
• and
• a controller controlling a display location of the pointer on the display unit, the controller performing an input process in accordance with a second touch operation on the touch panel, wherein the second touch operation includes both a tap operation to perform a first function and a hold-down operation to perform a second function different than the first function;
• wherein the display unit displays a first predetermined region for use in designating, as the display location of the pointer, a location different from a location of the first touch operation, the first predetermined region having a fixed location on the display unit, and
• when the controller detects a continuous first touch operation from an inside to an outside of the first predetermined region, the controller moves the pointer at a location different from a touch location in the continuous first touch operation, in accordance with movement of the touch location, and
• when the controller detects that the one of the user's finger and the pointing device is separated from the touch panel after the continuous first touch operation has been performed from the inside to the outside of the first predetermined region, the controller fixes the display location of the pointer and performs the input process over a predetermined period after detecting that the one of the user's finger and the pointing device has been separated from the touch panel, the input process being related to the display location of the pointer, the input process responding to the second touch operation on a second predetermined region that is restricted to (i) a location at which the one of the user's finger and the pointing device has been separated from the touch panel and (ii) a region adjacent to the location, the region adjacent to the location being limited to a portion of the display unit that is less than a whole of the display unit.