Patent ID: 7511763

Claim:
A video/audio processor system, comprising: a video processor apparatus; and an amplifier device connected to the video processor apparatus through at least a video signal line and a control signal line; the video processor apparatus including: a video signal processor operable to process a video signal supplied through the video signal line to form a display video signal for supply to a display device, in which the video signal has a scan mode associated therewith; and a providing unit operable to store predetermined processing-time information representative of a number of processing times and a number of corresponding scan modes in which each processing time has a corresponding scan mode associated therewith and to provide information representative of a respective processing time corresponding to the scan mode of the respective video signal through the control signal line, the processing-time information representing a processing time taken from a start time of processing the video signal supplied through the video signal line in the video signal processor to a start time of displaying a video corresponding to the video signal on a display screen of the display device; and the amplifier device including: an audio signal processor operable to process a supplied audio signal so that the audio signal is supplied to a speaker; an acquiring unit operable to acquire the information representative of the respective processing time corresponding to the scan mode of the respective video signal from the providing unit through the control signal line; and a delay processing unit operable to delay the audio signal to be supplied to the speaker for a time corresponding to the information representative of the respective processing time corresponding to the scan mode of the respective video signal.