Patent ID: 8094201

Claim:
A picture delivery remote control apparatus comprising: an image acquisition section which continuously acquires an image of a picture delivery equipment to be remotely controlled as a subject with an image pickup element; an acquisition section which acquires equipment-specific information specific to the picture delivery equipment and information origination position where the equipment-specific information is originated, based on the image continuously acquired by the image acquisition section, the equipment-specific information and the information origination position being optically transmitted from the picture delivery equipment; a first display section which superposes the image continuously acquired by the image acquisition section and the equipment-specific information so that the equipment-specific information is displayed near the information origination position; an instruction acceptance section which accepts, from a user, selection of equipment-specific information specific to a desired picture delivery equipment to deliver a picture among a plurality of image delivery equipment the equipment-specific information of which has been acquired, and accepts, from the user, a picture delivery request to the desired picture delivery equipment the equipment-specific information of which has been selected; a remote control section which transmits the picture delivery request to the desired picture delivery equipment the equipment-specific information of which has been selected via the instruction acceptance section; a receiving section which receives a picture delivered from the desired picture delivery equipment in response to the picture delivery request; and a second display section which displays the picture received by the receiving section.