US 9,804,819 B2
RECEIVING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHODGeneral
US 9,804,819 B2
RECEIVING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD
Tech Center:
2600 Communications
Examiner:
Mohammad Islam
Art Unit:
2655 Videophones and Telephonic Communications; Audio Signals; Digital Audio Data Processing; Linguistics, Speech Processing and Audio Compression
Inventors:
Kazuomi Tachigi; Kanji Kuroiwa; Hiroshi Nakamura
Assignee:
Priority:
12/01/16
Filed:
12/01/16
Granted:
10/31/17
Expiration:
12/01/36
Abstract
A receiving apparatus comprises an audio output unit, a volume operating unit outputting an operating value indicating a volume level of the audio according to a user operation, a lock controller switching between a non-locked state in which the volume level of the audio can be varied and a locked state in which the volume level is fixed, and a volume controller causing the audio output unit to output the audio having a volume level corresponding to the operating value in the non-locked state and the audio having a volume level corresponding to the lock value in the locked state, and switching the locked state to the non-locked state for a period of time on turning on a predetermined operating part and updating the lock value with the operating value, and switching the non-locked state to the locked state on turning off the predetermined operating part.
Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC)
H04H04R2430/01H04RG06F3/165G06F