The present invention discloses a remote control system, and display device and electronic device using the remote control system. One embodiment of a remote control system according to the inventionincludes: a remote control transmitter including a light-emitting element control unit that emits light-emitting element that emit position detection light signals; a remote control receiver includinga light-reception signal processing unit that detects position detection reception signals from the position detection light signals, an output detection unit that performs waveform conversion on theposition detection reception signals to obtain output signals as position detection output signals, and an arithmetic processing unit that calculates a displacement of the remote control transmitterin a first axis direction and a second axis direction based on an amplitude correlation of output signals; and a cursor control unit that controls the position of the cursor based on the displacementof the remote control transmitter in the first axis direction and the displacement of the remote control transmitter in the second axis direction.