Abstract: A display device includes a liquid crystal display panel 5, a touch panel 3 that is disposed on a display surface side of the liquid crystal display panel 5 and that has a touch operation area wider than a display area of the above-mentioned liquid crystal display panel 5, and a guard 4 or 4a that is disposed between an area 3a included in the touch operation area and corresponding to the display area, and an area 3b included in the touch operation area and corresponding to an outside of the display area, and that physically restricts an operation object which performs an operation on the above-mentioned touch operation area from moving between the areas.

Abstract: An information apparatus includes a liquid crystal display unit 6; a touch panel 3 that is mounted on the display surface of the liquid crystal display unit 6, that has a touch operation area wider than the display area of the liquid crystal display unit 6, and that has a specific operation handling section 3b which is formed on an area corresponding to an extra-display area of the touch operation area and which accepts an operation for a specific operation item of an information apparatus 1; a controller 7 that carries out control in a manner that causes the specific operation handling section 3b to accept an operation corresponding to a specific operation item of external equipment 2.

Abstract: A display device includes a touch panel 3 that has a touch operation area wider than an image display area, an operation member formed in an area 3b, other than the image display area, in the touch operation area, and an operation feeling generator 7 that provides an operation feeling for a pointing object which has operated the operation member.