Patent ID: 8697976
Filing Date: 2014-04-15
Classification: G10H

Abstract:
1. A parameter setting apparatus comprising: a storage device storing a plurality of parameters for controlling multimedia data, wherein at least some of the parameters are related to each other; a plurality of first physical operators respectively correlated with the stored parameters; a plurality of second physical operators respectively correlated also with the stored parameters, each of the second physical operators being manipulable by a user differently from the first physical operators; a first parameter changing device that changes, in response to manipulation of one of the first physical operators, a value of a first parameter among the stored parameters correlated with the manipulated one first physical operator by a smallest unit; a second parameter changing device that changes, in response to manipulation of one of the second physical operators, the value of the same first parameter correlated with the manipulated one first physical operator in accordance with the manipulation of the one second physical operator; a display device that displays the stored parameters in a matrix form, wherein the respective first physical operators and the respective second physical operators are correlated with a plurality of columns of the parameters and a plurality of rows of the parameters displayed in the matrix form; and a selecting device that selects one of the columns of the parameters or one of the rows of the parameters displayed in the matrix form, wherein the selecting device includes a plurality of physical selecting switches each arranged in association with the display device for selecting one of the columns or one of the rows, and the first and second physical operators each arranged in association with the display device for selecting one of the other of the columns or rows, wherein the first parameter changing device changes, in response to manipulation of one of the first physical operators, a value of a second parameter, among the stored parameters, that is correlated with the manipulated one first physical operator, based on the selected one column or row, and wherein the second parameter changing device changes, in response to manipulation of one of the second physical operators, the value of the same second parameter that is correlated with the manipulated one first physical operator, based on the selected one column or row.