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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 20, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 10, 2015
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An information processing apparatus detects a coding method of an audio signal to be reproduced as a target coding method, selects one of a first control and a second control based on the target coding method and decoding compatibility information stored in a storage unit, and performs the selected one of the first control and the second control, the first control being for obtaining the audio signal from an external storage; decoding the obtained audio signal; and transmitting the decoded audio signal to a speaker apparatus, the second control being for causing: the external storage to directly transmit the audio signal to the speaker apparatus; and the speaker apparatus to decode the audio signal.