Patent ID: 7509442

Claim:
An informational-signal-processing apparatus, comprising: a plurality of functional blocks, each of the functional blocks being configured to perform a series of items of processing on an informational signal; and a control block configured to control operations of the functional blocks, wherein at least one of a set of distributions blocks is configured to distribute a global command, the set of distribution blocks consisting of the control block and one of the functional blocks, the global command being distributed to each of the plurality of functional blocks when the control block distributes the global command, the command being distributed to each of a remainder of the plurality of functional blocks when the one of the functional blocks distributes the global command; wherein each of the functional blocks that receives the global command operates adaptively based on the received global command; and wherein a first one of the functional blocks is configured to output a block-to-block synchronizing signal to a second one of the functional blocks that is configured to receive the global command at an output timing of a processed informational signal, the processing of the processed informational signal having been performed on the basis of the global command.