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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 02, 2005
Kouji Hatano, Tokyo, JP;
Kouji Hatano, Tokyo, JP;
Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
The present invention provides an audio control device and an audio control method capable of promptly controlling a desired sound source, by simply selecting the sound where the sound state should be adjusted among multiple sounds, without displaying the sound state of multiple sounds on a display for identifying. An audio control device according to the invention includes a cross-key manipulation detection modulethat receives various input manipulations; a plurality of generating unitstothat generate a sound having a different sound source; and CPUthat controls the sound state generated by the plurality of generating unitsto, wherein the cross-key manipulation detection modulecontrols the sound state of the selected first generating unit among the plurality of generating unitsto, wherein CPUgenerates a sound having a sound state which is controlled by the input unit in the first generating unit, generates a sound having a sound state which is different from that of the first generating unit in the other generating units.