Patent ID: 8516373

Claim:
An audio/visual amplifier for processing video signals and audio signals, comprising: display control means for controlling display of a menu such that an input name, which is an item of the menu and represents a unit of an input to be selected by a user, a name of a first terminal that is assigned to the input name and that receives a video signal, and a name of a second terminal that is assigned to the input name and that receives an audio signal are displayed so as to be assigned to each other; selecting means for, when the user selects only the input name as the item of the menu, automatically selecting the video signal received from the first terminal and the audio signal received from the second terminal according to a database storing assignments between input names and terminals that receive video and audio signals; and assigning means for assigning the first terminal that receives the video signal and the second terminal that receives the audio signal to the input name, wherein the assigning means generates another menu that identifies a plurality of terminals for receiving the video signal that are assignable to the input name and that identifies a plurality of terminals for receiving the audio signal that are assignable to the input name independently of the plurality of the first terminals for receiving the video signal, and assigns the first terminal that receives the video signal and the second terminal that receives the audio signal to the input name in response to selections made on the another menu.