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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 31, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 09, 2011
Sako Asayama, Nara, JP;
Hiroshi Kase, Osaka, JP;
Mitsuteru Kataoka, Osaka, JP;
Akihiro Mitani, Osaka, JP;
Toshiki Murakami, Osaka, JP;
Masahiko Mizoguchi, Osaka, JP;
Masazumi Yamada, Osaka, JP;
Sako Asayama, Nara, JP;
Hiroshi Kase, Osaka, JP;
Mitsuteru Kataoka, Osaka, JP;
Akihiro Mitani, Osaka, JP;
Toshiki Murakami, Osaka, JP;
Masahiko Mizoguchi, Osaka, JP;
Masazumi Yamada, Osaka, JP;
Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A television set includes: an internal speaker which outputs sound; a memory which holds information; a remote controller receiver which receives an instruction from the outside of the television set; a microcomputer which causes, based on a mode specifying instruction for specifying a sound output mode received by the remote controller receiver, the memory to hold any one of (a) information that indicates a first sound output mode in which sound is outputted from the internal speaker and (b) information that indicates a second sound output mode in which sound is outputted from an external speaker that is a speaker outside the television set; and an HDMI/CEC communication unit which outputs the information that indicates the sound output mode and that is held by the memory, to an amplifier which controls to operate or not operate the speaker outside the television set.