Patent ID: 7710456

Claim:
A remote control device comprising: an acquisition part that acquires continuously an image of an apparatus to be remotely controlled as a subject and an information inherent to the apparatus optically emitted from the apparatus using an image pickup element; a display part that superimposes and displays the image acquired continuously by the acquisition part and the information inherent to the apparatus; an instruction accepting part that accepts an instruction of selecting a desired apparatus subject to remote control among the apparatuses from which the inherent information is acquired and selecting a desired control content for the selected apparatus from a user; a control signal transmission part that transmits a remote control signal to the apparatus; a remote control part that controls the control signal transmission part to transmit a remote control signal corresponding to the control content of the apparatus selected by the instruction accepting part to the apparatus selected by the instruction accepting part; and an operation situation judgment part that judges a presence or absence of the operation of the apparatus in accordance with the remote control signal depending on a changing brightness of the image acquired continuously by the acquisition part, wherein the display part displays information of a content in accordance with a judgment of the operation situation judgment part.