Patent ID: 8820646

Claim:
A remote control device comprising: an optical reading unit for reading an optically readable dot pattern that is formed on a predetermined medium surface, made into a pattern with a dot code of a code value and/or a coordinate value based on a predetermined algorithm; a main body equipped with the optical reading unit; a converter, equipped inside the main body, for analyzing the dot code from the dot pattern read out by the optical reading unit and, based on a transmission code conversion table which is stored in advance, converting into one or two or more transmission codes corresponding to the dot code; an operation unit equipped on a predetermined position of the main body and comprising a plurality of operation buttons for controlling a control-subject apparatus; and a transmission unit, equipped on a predetermined position of the main body, for transmitting to the control-subject apparatus the transmission code converted by the converter and a control signal for controlling the control-subject apparatus generated via operation of the operation unit, wherein, at the predetermined medium surface, a plurality of operation icons for controlling the control-subject apparatus are superimposed on and printed with the dot pattern, and each dot pattern printed with each operation icon is made to contain beforehand, as the dot code, a manufacturer code and an instruction code, and for each of said plurality of operation icons, the manufacturer code and the instruction code are read via the optical reading unit, and in cooperation, a plurality of instructions as control signals are consecutively transmitted, in one single operation, from the transmission unit to the control-subject apparatus via operation of the operation unit.