Patent ID: 8862189
Filing Date: 2014-10-14
Classification: H04R

Abstract:
1. A portable electronic device including a communication unit that communicates with external devices, the portable electronic device comprising: a sound collecting unit that collects sound; an output unit that outputs sound; a correcting unit that corrects quality of sound, wherein the output unit outputs the sound collected by the sound collecting unit and corrected by the correcting unit; a connector to which an earpiece can be connected; an output control unit that outputs the sound corrected by the correcting unit from the earpiece, when the earpiece is connected to the connector; and a changing unit that changes a correction parameter for correcting the quality of sound, when an output destination of the sound thus corrected is switched between the output unit and the earpiece, wherein, in a case in which the output control unit switches the output destination of the sound thus corrected from the earpiece to the output unit, when a correction level corresponding to the correction parameter exceeds a predetermined value, the changing unit changes the correction level to a predetermined level.