Patent ID: 8520863

Claim:
An image display apparatus comprising: an image information input section; an image display section for displaying an image corresponding to the image information; a first sound input section adapted to input a first sound signal; a first sound amplification section adapted to amplify the first sound signal to generate a first amplified sound signal; a second sound input section adapted to input a second sound signal; a second sound amplification section adapted to amplify the second sound signal to generate a second amplified sound signal; a first determination section adapted to determine whether or not one of the first sound signal and the first amplified sound signal exceeds a threshold value; a first amplification control section adapted to control, in response to one of the first sound signal and the first amplified sound signal exceeding the threshold value, the second sound amplification section to set an amplification degree of the second sound signal to be lower than an amplification degree of the first sound signal; a non-transitory storage medium adapted to store: amplification control data representing control content of a plurality of types of amplification mode by the first amplification control section, each of the plurality of types of amplification mode setting a different amplification degree of the second sound signal with respect to the first sound signal, and selection data representing which amplification mode of the plurality of types of amplification modes is selected by a user; a sound mixing section adapted to mix the first amplified sound signal and the second amplified sound signal with each other; a mixed sound amplification section adapted to amplify the mixed sound signal to generate an amplified mixed sound signal; an audio output section adapted to output an audio corresponding to the amplified mixed sound signal; an operation mode setting section adapted to set an operation mode, wherein the first amplification control section performs control of the second sound amplification section based on the amplification control data and the selection data, wherein the sound mixing section mixes the first amplified sound signal and the second amplified sound signal based on the operation mode set by the operation mode setting section.