Patent ID: 8730407

Claim:
A remote control command setting apparatus configured to reset a correspondence between an operation in an operation region where a plurality of operation buttons are disposed and a control command for electrical equipment, the remote control command setting apparatus comprising: an operation history holding section that accumulates an operation history in the operation region; a control command setting section that resets, based on the operation history, the control command which is available, by being triggered by an acquired limitation mode; an operation region setting section that obtains a number of divisions of the operation region based on the operation history and the available control command and updates a correspondence between an operation of the operation button in a division of the operation region and a control command for the electrical equipment, the division having been reset; an operation analysis section that extracts a control command based on the correspondence, for an acquired new operation of the operation button; and an equipment control section that sequentially issues, each time newly receiving the control command, an instruction to reproduce a content corresponding to the control command from a content table which is created in advance in association with the division and in which a reproducible content is described.