Patent ID: 8494669
Filing Date: 2013-07-23
Classification: H04H

Abstract:
1. A music system comprising a plurality of equipments connected together via a network and a control apparatus that remote-controls a logical connection of each of the plurality of equipments via the network, each of said equipments comprising: an execution section that executes a module formed by software to perform a predetermined function; and a connection section that, using the network, logically connects an input or an output of the module with an input or an output of a module of another one of said equipments, said control apparatus comprising: a display that displays a screen on which a plurality of areas corresponding to the plurality of equipments are defined; an operation section usable by a user to perform various operations on the screen; an allotment operation section that, in response to allotting operations of a first module to a first equipment of the plurality of equipments displayed on the screen and a second module to a second equipment of the plurality of equipments displayed on the screen by the user via said operation section, remotely causes the execution section of the first equipment to activate the first module, causes the execution section of the second equipment to activate the second module, and creates current memories to prepare for remote control of the first and second modules; a connection operation section that, in response to a connecting operation performed by the user via said operation section for connecting between the first module functioning as a transmitting module in a transmitting equipment and the second module functioning as a receiving module in a receiving equipment, sets the connection section of the transmitting equipment to transmit a signal output from the transmitting module via the network, and sets the connection section of the receiving equipment to receive the signal via the network and input the received signal to the receiving module, so as to make a logical connection via the network between the first module in the first equipment and the second module in the second equipment; a display control section that causes the display to graphically display an image of the first module in an area corresponding to the first equipment on the screen and an image of the second module in an area corresponding to the second equipment on the screen and to graphically display an image of a logical connection between the first module in the first equipment and the second module in the second equipment.