Patent ID: 8417850

Claim:
An information processing device for processing an input information signal which contains an audio signal, comprising: Plural High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) connectors for transmission and reception of the information signal with an external information processing device; an audio separation unit for separating the audio signal from the information signal supplied from the HDMI connectors; an output connector selection unit which selects at least one of the plural HDMI connectors so as to supply the audio signal separated by the audio separation unit to the selected HDMI connector, or does not supply the audio signal to any one of the HDMI connectors; and a control unit for controlling an entire operation of the information processing device, wherein the control unit controls the output connector selection unit to output the separated audio signal to the external information processing device from one of the plural HDMI connectors based on a predetermined condition; wherein: the predetermined condition is an issue order of a command of the information processing device to the external information processing device to output the audio signal to a specified external information processing device of external information processing devices, or a command of the specified external information processing device to the information processing device to output the audio signal to the specified external information processing device; and the control unit controls the output connector control unit to output the separated audio signal to the specified external information processing device from the HDMI connector, to which the specified external information processing device has been connected based on the command in the command issue order.