Patent ID: 8542386

Claim:
An electronics device, which is connected to a host apparatus via a wireless communication, the electronics device comprising: a communication section configured to perform a wireless communication; and a communication control section configured to, if a start-up timing of the electronics device is earlier than any start-up timing of at least one electronics device other than the electronics device, which is connected to the host apparatus via a wireless communication, and further, is in an operating condition, perform control, as a master device, so as to cause the communication section to perform relaying of a wireless communication between the host apparatus and the at least one electronics device other than the electronics device, and if a start-up timing of the electronics device is later than any start-up timing of the at least one electronics device other than the electronics device, perform control, as a sub device, so as to cause the communication section to perform a wireless communication with the host apparatus via a master device that is one of the at least one electronics device other than the electronics device.