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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2002
Filed:
Oct. 23, 1998
Sony United Kingdom Limited, Weybridge, GB;
Abstract
Audio processing apparatus comprises an audio processor operable to apply audio processing operations to two or more input audio channels; user-operable adjustment controls for adjusting processing parameters associated with the audio processing operations; a display screen for displaying icons representing audio processing operations for each of the input audio channels, the display color of at least a part of an icon being defined by a logical color index; a data array mapping a set of logical color indices to colors for display on the display screen; and a detector for detecting user operation of the adjustment controls associated with an input audio channel and, in response to such a detection, for changing the display color of at least the part of the icon associated with that channel by changing the display color defined in the data array for the corresponding logical color index.