Patent ID: 7986299
Filing Date: 2011-07-26
Classification: G08C,H04N

Abstract:
1. A remote control apparatus, comprising: an acquisition section that continually acquires, by an imaging element, an image in which a subject thereof comprises a remote control target device, information specific to the device that is optically transmitted from the device, and state information of the device; a display section that superimposes the image with the information specific to the device continually acquired by the acquisition section and displays the superimposed image; an instruction acceptance section that accepts, from a user, instructions regarding a selection of information specific to a desired remote control target device among devices for which the information specific to the device has been acquired and a selection of desired control contents regarding the device for which the information specific to the device has been selected; a remote control section that transmits a remote control signal corresponding to the desired control contents selected at the instruction acceptance section to a device for which the information specific to the device has been selected at the instruction acceptance section; and a display control section that controls the display section to suspend superposition/display of the information specific to the device onto the image according to the state information of the device continually acquired by the acquisition section, said state information of the device comprising sleep information of the device.