Patent ID: 8255588

Claim:
A signal processing apparatus for processing an input signal, comprising: first signal processing means for processing one or more input signals, the first signal processing means including a television receiver that wirelessly transfers image data and audio data among functional units of the television receiver; one or more additional signal processing means for processing the one or more input signals, each having an associated processing function, the one or more additional signal processing means including a mobile phone; communication means for performing data transfers between the first signal processing means and the additional signal processing means via wireless communication, wherein the first and the additional signal processing means are adapted to form an appliance composition of a wireless network; and control means for determining the associated processing function of each of the one or more additional signal processing means when a change in the appliance composition of the wireless network has been detected, wherein when the control means determines that the associated processing function of the one or more additional processing means is suitable, the control means decides processing loads associated with the one or more additional signal processing means and changes the associated processing function of the first processing means, and wherein when the control means determines that the associated processing function of the one or more additional signal processing means is unsuitable for use with the first signal processing means, the one or more input signals are processed by the first signal processing means without utilizing the one or more additional signal processing means, and standard signal processing that is set in advance is used, and wherein the television receiver uses the mobile phone to store processing coefficients when a quality of an input image to the television receiver is improved, and wherein the decided processing loads are utilized by the control means for setting wireless transfer paths for the data transfers between the first signal processing means and the additional signal processing means and for performing wireless data transfers on the set wireless transfer paths.