Sony Corporation

Masayoshi Ogura

Satoshi Higuchi

There is provided a device control apparatus including an information acquisition section configured to acquire designation information for designating an output destination of a sound input from an external device, and an output control section configured to, in a case where the designation information designates, out of one sound output apparatus and another sound output apparatus, the another sound output apparatus, cause each of the one sound output apparatus and the another sound output apparatus to output the sound.

Controlling sound output based on an output mode of a device

A disc key detecting unitdetects a disc key on the basis of data which is supplied from an RF processor. If the disc key can be detected, a system controllercontrols an optical pickup or the like and reproduces data of a few sectors included in an audio block portion together with data in a TOC portion. On the basis of the disc key, a data decrypting unitdecrypts the data in the TOC portion which is supplied from a data demodulating unitand the data of a few sectors and supplies them to a data processing unit. The data processing unit supplies the data in the TOC portion and data in a header portion included in the sector to the system controller. A validity discriminating unitconfirms continuity of time data included in the header portion supplied from the data processing unit. If there is no continuity in the time data, a reproducing process or the like is suppressed.

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Tokyo, Japan

Masayoshi Ogura