A reception device includes a wireless communicator, a memory, and one or more processors. The processors identify a retransmission candidate of image data on the basis of a sequence number recorded on the memory. The processors calculate an upper limit retransmission number on the basis of a physical rate and a communication rate recorded on the memory. The processors set an allowable retransmission number that is less than or equal to the upper limit retransmission number. The processors transmit a retransmission request for requesting retransmission of as many of the retransmission candidates as the allowable retransmission number to the transmission device in a blanking period by using the wireless communicator when the number of the retransmission candidates identified through the identification processing exceeds the allowable retransmission number.