Touch detecting apparatus and touch detection method

A touch detecting apparatus comprising:

• three or more detectors that are aligned in at least one direction and that individually detect a touch operation;
• a generating circuit that performs generation for generating a plurality of pieces of output data corresponding to a plurality of patterns and having resolution lower than resolution corresponding to the number of the detectors based on outputs from the detectors;
• a calculating circuit that performs calculation for calculating, for each of the detectors, a composite value to be used to derive a detection result of each of the detectors based on the pieces of output data corresponding to the patterns;
• and
• a determining circuit that performs determination for redetermining a new value for an initial value corresponding to a predetermined value set for each of the detectors, based on a difference between the initial value and the composite value calculated for each of the detectors,
• wherein the generating circuit generates the output data using an integrated output obtained by integrating outputs from a plurality of detectors serving as a single group that are part of the three or more detectors and consecutively aligned,
• wherein combinations of the detectors serving as the single group are different between the patterns,
• wherein arrangement of the detectors serving as the single group is shifted by a predetermined shift amount between two different patterns, and
• wherein the predetermined shift amount is smaller than the width of a group area in an alignment direction of the detectors, the group area being an area in which the detectors serving as the single group are arranged.