Patent ID: 7027881

Claim:
A remote control system comprising: a control device; and a device to be controlled, which can communicate with the control device via a communication path, wherein said control device comprises: input operation means comprising one or more input operation elements for performing input operations; ability information transmission means for transmitting input ability information comprising available input operation elements and at least information regarding the type of each element to said device to be controlled; user interface forming means for forming a user interface used to operate said device to be controlled by using conversion-into-remote-controller information transmitted by said device to be controlled in response to the reception of said input ability information; and operation information transmission means for transmitting operation information corresponding to an operation performed on one or more of said input operation elements to said device to be controlled, and wherein said device to be controlled comprises: conversion-into-remote-controller information creation means for creating, on the basis of said received input ability information, said conversion-into-remote-controller information defining mappings between elements of said user interface and operational aspects of the device to be controlled; conversion-into-remote-controller information transmission means for transmitting said conversion-into-remote-controller information to said control device; and operation control means for performing an operation in accordance with said received operation information.