Patent ID: 8056111
Filing Date: 2011-11-08
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An audiovisual (AV) device comprising: a receiving section configured to receive a digital video image signal and a digital audio signal; a video image processing section configured to perform a preset signal process on the digital video image signal received by the receiving section to display a video image; a video image displaying section configured to display a video image based on the digital video image signal processed by the video image processing section; an audio signal processing section configured to perform a preset signal process operation on the digital audio signal received by the receiving section to perform sound reproduction; a speaker configured to perform sound reproduction based on the audio signal processed by the audio signal processing section; a storage section configured to store information that includes time information corresponding to an audio signal process and indicates reception specification of the audiovisual device; a rewrite section configured to rewrite the time information, stored in the storage section and corresponding to the audio signal process, into a time value that cannot be taken under normal circumstances, when a mute state is set, and also configured to return the rewritten time information to the time information corresponding to the audio signal process, when the mute state is canceled; a control section configured to output the time value that cannot be taken under normal circumstances and is stored in the storage section, when there is an external request to inform the time information corresponding to the audio signal process and the mute state is set, and also configured to output the time information corresponding to the audio signal process and stored in the storage section, when there is the external request to inform the time information corresponding to the audio signal process and the mute state is not set; and an output terminal configured to output the time information output from the control section.