Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Video/sound output device and external speaker control device
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Application No.: US11910584Application Date: 2006-09-25
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Publication No.: US08094830B2Publication Date: 2012-01-10
- Inventor: Sako Asayama , Hiroshi Kase , Mitsuteru Kataoka , Akihiro Mitani , Toshiki Murakami , Masahiko Mizoguchi , Masazumi Yamada
- Applicant: Sako Asayama , Hiroshi Kase , Mitsuteru Kataoka , Akihiro Mitani , Toshiki Murakami , Masahiko Mizoguchi , Masazumi Yamada
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
- Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: Wenderoth Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2005-284620 20050929; JP2005-289095 20050930; JP2005-301014 20051014
- International Application: PCT/JP2006/318985 WO 20060925
- International Announcement: WO2007/037208 WO 20070405
- Main IPC: H04B3/00
- IPC: H04B3/00

Abstract:
A television set includes: an internal speaker which outputs sound; a memory which holds information; a remote controller receiver which receives an instruction from the outside of the television set; a microcomputer which causes, based on a mode specifying instruction for specifying a sound output mode received by the remote controller receiver, the memory to hold any one of (a) information that indicates a first sound output mode in which sound is outputted from the internal speaker and (b) information that indicates a second sound output mode in which sound is outputted from an external speaker that is a speaker outside the television set; and an HDMI/CEC communication unit which outputs the information that indicates the sound output mode and that is held by the memory, to an amplifier which controls to operate or not operate the speaker outside the television set.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090262256A1 VIDEO/SOUND OUTPUT DEVICE AND EXTERNAL SPEAKER CONTROL DEVICE Public/Granted day:2009-10-22
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