A remote control system for electronic device and remote control method thereof, the remote control system comprises a controlled apparatus and a remote controller. The controlled apparatus comprises a processing control system (121) and an instruction execution unit (125) in which at least a video capturing device (122,126) connected to the controlled apparatus is also included. At least a characteristic composition is included on the remote controller, at least a video capturing device (122,126) is used for collecting the characteristic composition on the remote controller the processing control system (121) is used for processing the collected characteristic composition images, parsing into the respective instructions, and giving the instruction execution unit (125) the instructions to execute.