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摘要

The present invention relates to a handling procedure instruction device that displays information on a handling procedure of electronic equipment only when a user is not familiar with the handling procedure of the electronic equipment. The device determines whether or not the equipment is connected with the instruction device, and then reads, from the equipment, information on whether or not the handling procedure of the equipment is known to the user of the equipment to determine whether or not an instruction for the handling is require. If it wads information indicating that the handling procedure of the equipment is known to the user of the equipment, the device aborts a display process of previously-stored handling procedure instruction information. If the display process of the previously-stored handling procedure instruction information is aborted, the device displays information to be displayed after the handling procedure instruction information on a display portion. According to the present invention, it is possible to reduce needless operations by a user who is familiar with the handling procedure.