Patent ID: 8199111

Claim:
An electronic system, comprising: a remote input device including: input-operation areas associated with the acceptance of input operations, and detecting means for detecting an input operation performed on individual input-operation areas; a display that is separate from the remote input device; displaying means for displaying selection buttons for prompting input operations on the display; allocating means for allocating the selection buttons displayed on the display among the input-operation areas, wherein when the number of selection buttons displayed on the display is larger than the number of input-operation areas, the allocating means allocates at least one change selection button to at least one of the input-operation areas instead of at least one selection button, the at least one change selection button associated with an allocation change; and input determining means for determining, when the detecting means detects the input operation, if the input operation is performed on a selection button allocated to an individual input-operation area associated with the input operation, wherein the allocating means comprises allocation changing means for changing the allocation of the selection buttons relative to selected input-operation areas when the input determining means determines that the input operation is performed on the change selection button.