Patent ID: 8233635

Claim:
An audio signal receiving apparatus which receives audio signals transmitted from external connection apparatuses through a plurality of channels, comprising: a connection management information receiving unit which receives connection management information including channel mapping information representing a type of an audio signal transmitted by an external connection apparatus among the external connection apparatuses; an audio signal transmitting scheme determining unit which determines a transmitting scheme of the audio signal in the external connection apparatus based on the channel mapping information; an audio signal receiving unit which receives the audio signal from the external connection apparatus based on the channel mapping information; and a desirably acquired signal notifying unit which notifies the external connection apparatus of a change request of the audio signal, wherein when the transmitting scheme of the audio signal is a first transmitting scheme which allocates and transmits a surround signal included in a plurality of audio signals acquired from a single sound source to at least one of the plurality of channels in a change of the audio signal, the desirably acquired signal notifying unit which notifies the external connection apparatus of the change request of the audio signal transmitted by a channel which transmits the audio signal acquired from the single sound source, and when the transmitting scheme of the audio signal is a second transmitting scheme which allocates and transmits audio signals acquired from a plurality of sound sources to the plurality of channels of each of the sound sources in the change of the audio signal, the audio signal receiving unit changes the channels of the audio signals received from the external connection apparatus.