Patent ID: 9641707
Date: 2017-05-02
CPC Classifications: H04N

Claim:
1. A communication device comprising: a communication section capable of transmitting and receiving data to and from an external information processing apparatus; a communication control section controlling communication operation performed by the communication section, wherein the communication control section allowing the communication section to receive, from the information processing apparatus, an operation image stored in association with a direction from which the communication device approaches a display section of the information processing apparatus, the direction being any one of directions from above, from below, on a right of, and on a left of the display section, among a plurality of operation images stored in the information processing apparatus; a display section; a display control section allowing the display section to display the operation image received by the communication section; and an instruction reception section receiving an instruction corresponding to operation on the operation image displayed at the display section, wherein the communication control section allows the communication section to transmit, to the information processing apparatus, the instruction received by the instruction reception section the communication device further comprises: an image-taking section taking an image; a determination section determining whether or not the image taken by the image-taking section includes an image indicating the display section of the information processing apparatus; and an image synthesis section generating a synthetic image by use of the image taken by the image-taking section, wherein, in a case where the determination section determines the image includes the image indicating the display section of the information processing apparatus, the communication control section allows the communication section to: transmit to the information processing apparatus a transmission request for transmitting the plurality of operation images and information of the directions from above, from below, on the right of, and on the left of the display section associated respectively with each of the plurality of operation images; and receive, from the information processing apparatus, the operation image and information of any one of the directions from above, from below, on the right of, and on the left of the display section associated with the operation image, the image synthesis section generates a synthetic image obtained by respectively synthesizing, for the image taken by the image-taking section, the plurality of operation images received by the communication section at positions of any of the directions from above, from below, on the right of, and on the left of the display section associated with the operation image, and the display control section allows the display section to display the synthetic image obtained through the synthesis by the image synthesis section.