Patent ID: 7982803

Claim:
An audio and video synchronizing apparatus comprising: a video signal processing unit processing a video signal that is provided to a display device of video processing equipment; an audio signal processing unit processing an audio signal that is provided to an audio device of the video processing equipment, the audio signal synchronized with the video signal; a switching unit selecting paths for the video signal that is input to the video signal processing unit and the audio signal that is input to the audio signal processing unit, and selecting at least an audio signal for output to an external device that is not part of the video processing equipment; an outputting unit outputting the selected at least an audio signal to the external device; and an output selecting unit controlling the switching unit according to a kind of the external device, wherein the switching unit is controlled to select a first audio signal that bypasses the audio signal that is input to the audio signal processing unit as the at least an audio signal for output to the external device or to select a second audio signal output from the audio signal processing unit as the at least an audio signal for output to the outputting unit.