Patent ID: 8755817

Claim:
A wireless communication device comprising: a determination unit that determines a location region of the wireless communication device; a communication unit that wirelessly communicates with another wireless communication device; and a setting unit that sets a frequency in accordance with the location region of the wireless communication device determined by the determination unit to the communication unit, wherein the determination unit determines the location region of the wireless communication device based on a plurality of pieces of location region information of the wireless communication device acquired by a plurality of different methods, wherein the plurality of different methods include a first method using GPS to acquire the location region information, a second method that makes access to a network and acquires the location region information from a global address allocated to a router, and a third method that acquires the location region information from broadcast station information contained in a received broadcast wave, and wherein the determination unit processes the location information acquired by each method of the plurality of different methods in accordance with a predetermined processing method such that (i) when a result thereof indicates only one location region the determination unit determines that the one location region is the location region of the wireless communication device, and (ii) when the result indicates a plurality of location regions the determination unit causes the plurality of location regions to be provided to a user to enable the user to select the location region of the wireless communication device therefrom.