Patent ID: 8301007

Claim:
A video and audio processing system comprising: an output apparatus to output video data and audio data to be synchronized and reproduced; an audio processing apparatus to receive the video data and the audio data from the output apparatus, output at least the video data to a downstream apparatus, and process the audio data to generate an audio signal to be supplied to a speaker; and a video processing apparatus to receive the video data output from the audio processing apparatus and generate a video signal, wherein the video processing apparatus comprises video signal processing means for generating the video signal having a predetermined quality from the video data output from the audio processing apparatus; control means for controlling the processing in the video signal processing means on the basis of a format of the video data output from the audio processing apparatus and/or a signal processing mode that is set; and determining means for determining a processing time necessary to process the video data in the video signal processing means and display the video after the video data is received, if the content of the processing in the video signal processing means is changed by the control means, and wherein the video and audio processing system delays the audio signal to be supplied to the speaker so as to be synchronized with the displayed video on the basis of the determination result of the processing time by the determining means.