Patent ID: 7904188

Claim:
An information output device, comprising: a media state sensing unit that senses a state and a type of a media stream and sends out a first sensing signal; a connection state sensing unit that senses a connection state of a plurality of providing devices, each one of said providing devices being adapted to provide the media stream and send out a second sensing signal; a media stream output state deciding unit that decides an output state of the media stream and issues an instruction, based on the first sensing signal output from the media state sensing unit, the second sensing signal output from the connection state sensing unit, and priority output information which specifies an output priority of the media stream with respect to each of the plurality of providing devices; an outputting unit that outputs the media stream to one of the providing devices based on the instruction from the media stream output state deciding unit; and a priority output information table for storing output priorities for each type of media streams with respect to respective providing devices, wherein the media stream output state deciding unit refers to the priority output information table to decide the output state of the media stream.