Patent ID: 7536657

Claim:
An information equipment remote operating system comprising: an operated-side information equipment for displaying windows on an operated-side display unit and executing an application; and an operating-side information equipment, connectable to the operated-side information equipment via a network, having an operating-side display unit smaller than the operated-side display unit, wherein the operated-side information equipment includes: a view region storing unit configured to store a view information having display priority as parameters at the time of displaying images on one or more display regions assigned in the operating-side display unit, assigned windows correlated to multiple view regions, wherein the number of view regions is greater than the number of display regions, each view region correlated to each window displayed on the operated-side display unit, the view region which is the range of an image in the case of displaying at least a part of the range of a screen displayed on the operated-side display unit, on the operating-side display unit as an initial state, and a relative region range from an arbitrary reference position of the assigned window as parameters; a screen information processing unit configured to generate an image to be displayed on the operating-side display unit as an initial state in accordance with the view information; a communication unit configured to the view information to the operating-side information equipment along with an image generated by this screen information processing unit, and configured to receive the application operating information from the operating-side information equipment; and a control information processing unit configured to operate the application by giving the application operating information received by this communication unit to an operating system, and the operating-side information equipment includes: a communication unit configured to receive the image transmitted from the operated-side information equipment and the view information; a view region storing unit configured to store the view information received by this communication unit; a screen information processing unit configured to select the one or more display regions from the multiple view regions generated from an image received by the communication unit according to the display priority in accordance with the view information stored in the view region storing unit and display the selected images on the one or more display regions assigned in the operating-side display unit; and a control information processing unit configured to give the application operating information input to the communication unit, and configured to control the operated-side information equipment to transmit the information.