Patent ID: 7679689
Filing Date: 2010-03-16
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An electronic appliance comprising: a display device; a video camera that picks up an image of an operator positioned in front of the display device; a mirror image converter configured to execute a mirror image conversion of the image picked up by the video camera; an operation image generator configured to generate an image for operation, including an image of at least one operation button; a mixer configured to mix an image signal of the image that underwent the mirror image conversion with an image signal of the image for operation; a detector configured to detect a predetermined selecting operation for selecting one of the at least one operation button made by an operator displayed on a screen of the display device using an on-hand control unit having light emitting portion, with a mixed image obtained by the mixer displayed on the screen of the display device; and a controller configured to execute a control operation corresponding to the selected operation button for which the predetermined selecting operation is detected by the detector.