Patent ID: 8332771

Claim:
A transmission device for transmitting data to a reception device as a data destination, the transmission device having a first touch panel display section and the reception device having a second touch panel display section, the transmission device comprising: a display control means for controlling display of an icon corresponding to the data on the first touch panel display section; an operation detection means for detecting an operation of a first user on the first touch panel display section on which the icon is displayed; a destination operation sensing means for sensing an operation of a second user on the second touch panel display section, which displays part of the icon when the icon is held by the first user in a predetermined region of the first touch panel display section; and a transmission control means for controlling the start of transmission of the data to the reception device when the operation detection means detects a change to a state in which the icon is opened in the predetermined region of the first touch panel display section by the first user from a state in which the icon is held in the predetermined region of the first touch panel display section by the first user and the part of the icon is held in the second touch panel display section by the second user.