Patent ID: 9203993
Filing Date: 2015-12-01
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A display system, including an electronic device and a terminal device transmitting/receiving information to/from said electronic device through wireless communication, wherein a plurality of operations are available for said electronic device, said electronic device includes an electronically readable operation manual, said operation manual includes pieces of operation information each describing procedures of corresponding operation instructions of said electronic device, and said pieces of operation information are specified by a position in said operation manual; and said electronic device includes: a communicator configured or programmed to conduct wireless communication with said terminal device; a receiver configured or programmed to receive an operation by a user, said receiver including a receiver display configured to display a plurality of operation screen images and transition between the plurality of operation screen images; an association storage configured or programmed to store associations between said plurality of operations and pieces of position information specifying positions of corresponding pieces of operation information in said operation manual; a communications controller configured or programmed to detect said terminal device and to establish wireless communication with said detected terminal device through said communicator; and a transmitter configured or programmed to, responsive to establishment of wireless communication by said communications controller, read the position information of an operation corresponding to each of the plurality of operation screen images as each of the plurality of operation screen images is displayed on said receiver display, from said association storage, said transmitter being further configured or programmed to transmit the position information read from said association storage and a display request through said communicator to said terminal device, said display request requesting said terminal device to display the operation information from the operation manual at the position specified by said position information; and said terminal device includes: a display configured to display said operation manual; a wireless communicator configured or programmed to conduct wireless communication with said electronic device; and a display controller configured or programmed to, responsive to reception of said display request transmitted from said electronic device through said wireless communicator, control said display of said terminal device based on said position information such that the requested operation information of said operation manual is displayed on said display of said terminal device as each of the plurality of operation screen images is displayed on said receiver display.