Patent ID: 7970968

Claim:
An information-signal-processing apparatus comprising: plural functional blocks each for processing an information signal; and a control block for controlling operations of the plural functional blocks, wherein the control block or a predetermined block of the control block and the plural functional blocks issues a common command; and each of the plural functional blocks adaptively operates in accordance with the issued common command, and wherein the information-signal-processing apparatus further comprises a chassis that incorporates the plural functional blocks and the control block, wherein the common command is a broadcast type command, and each common command is transmitted to each one of the plural functional blocks, wherein the information signal includes image signals, and at least one functional block of the plural functional blocks performs an image quality improvement processing, and the common command includes information related to the image quality improvement processing, and wherein the common command includes information indicating a noise level and a resolution level of an image signal, and wherein each common command is converted into a block-specific command based on a conversion table that associates each common command with an initial value, a predetermined number of functional blocks, and the block-specific command corresponding to each of the predetermined number of functional blocks, wherein each of the plural functional blocks stores in an associated memory a correlation table that associates common commands corresponding to its own functions with block-specific commands, and at a power application, each of the plural functional blocks transmits common commands corresponding to its functions to the control block.