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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2014
Applicant:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Satoshi Higuchi, Kanagawa, JP;
Masayoshi Ogura, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/60 (2006.01); H04N 21/4367 (2011.01); H04N 21/4363 (2011.01); H04N 21/436 (2011.01); H04N 21/81 (2011.01); G09G 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/602 (2013.01); H04N 21/4367 (2013.01); H04N 21/43615 (2013.01); H04N 21/43635 (2013.01); H04N 21/8106 (2013.01); G09G 5/006 (2013.01); G09G 2370/06 (2013.01); G09G 2370/12 (2013.01);
Abstract
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.