Sony Corporation

Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.

Naoki Kitahara

Toru Ogiso

Akihito Nagata

A screen generating partgenerates an output setting screen on which a user selects settings of multiple items regarding specifications for video data to be output to a display device. A setting registering partregisters the settings selected by the user on the output setting screen. A screen generating partgenerates the output setting screen on which the user selects the settings for a first item and a second item, the first item having a first value and a second value as selectable settings, the second item having a third value and a fourth value as selectable settings. When the user selects the first value for the first item, the setting registering partregisters the first value for the first item and also registers the third value for the second item. When the user selects the fourth value for the second item, the setting registering partregisters the fourth value for the second item and also registers the second value for the first item.

Information processing apparatus and video specification setting method

To be able to change settings for selective changing control of a program as a target for sound input/output flexibly. A background music (BGM) sound selection managing section obtains priority values set to a plurality of programs, respectively. The BGM sound selection managing section performs control such that a program selected from among the plurality of programs on a basis of the obtained priority values becomes a target for selective sound input/output from/to an outside.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Naoki Kitahara