Patent ID: 7949230

Claim:
An electronic equipment comprising: a storage section that stores data for creating a menu screen; a metadata acquisition section that acquires metadata for displaying a menu item for operating external equipment, from the external equipment, wherein the metadata has data for defining at least a type of the menu item and transition data, and a menu ID which is a value unique to each menu item used to identify the menu item; a remote commander operation detection section that detects operation performed on a remote commander; a menu screen generation processing section that adds the menu item based on the metadata to the menu screen, for assembly; and a notification processing section that notifies the external equipment of the menu item selected on the menu screen, on the basis of a detection result of the remote commander operation detection section, wherein the transition data defines a transition destination of a menu focus according to the operation performed on the remote commander, and the transition destination of the menu focus is defined by the menu ID of each menu item, and wherein the menu screen generation processing section makes the menu focus transit on the basis of the metadata and the detection result of the remote commander operation detection section.