Audio apparatus and audio system
AssigneeTEAC Corporation
InventorKaname Hayasaka
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Abstract
An apparatus and a system are provided in which a user can easily check that an appropriate audio file is assigned to an immediate output switch. The system includes a PC connected to a communication line, and an audio interface apparatus connected to the PC and having an immediate output switch for outputting, to the PC and in response to a user operation, a reproduction start instruction signal of an audio file which is assigned in advance. The PC judges whether or not assignment is normal when the audio file is assigned by a user operation, and supplies a judgment result to the audio interface apparatus. The audio interface apparatus receives the judgment result, and notifies, to the user and prior to a user operation, the judgment result in association with the immediate output switch.
Claims7
An audio apparatus that is connected to a computer, the audio apparatus comprising:
- an operation switch that outputs to the computer, a reproduction start instruction signal of an audio file which is assigned to the operation switch in advance;
- a receiver that receives, from the computer, a result of a judgment, performed by the computer, of whether or not an error is caused during a prior reproduction of the audio file that is performed in response to the audio file being assigned to the operation switch in advance;
- and
- a processor that notifies the result of the judgment using the operation switch based on the result of the judgment received by the receiver,
- wherein, when the result of the judgment performed by the computer is that no error is caused during the prior reproduction of the audio file, the processor causes the operation switch to be displayed in a first display state, and
- wherein, when the result of the judgment performed by the computer is that the error is caused during the prior reproduction of the audio file, the processor causes the operation switch to be displayed in a second display state, the second display state being different from the first display state.
An audio system, comprising:
- a computer that is connected to a communication line;
- and
- an audio apparatus that is connected to the computer and that comprises an operation switch that outputs, to the computer, a reproduction start instruction signal of an audio file which is assigned to the operation switch in advance, wherein:
- the computer comprises:
- a display;
- and
- a first processor that displays, on the display, a virtual switch corresponding to the operation switch, that performs a judgment whether or not an error is caused during reproduction of the audio file in response to the audio file being assigned to the virtual switch, that displays a result of the judgment using the virtual switch, and that supplies the result of the judgment to the audio apparatus, and
- the audio apparatus comprises:
- a receiver that receives the result of the judgment supplied from the first processor;
- and
- a second processor that notifies the result of the judgment using the operation switch based on the result of the judgment received by the receiver,
- wherein, when the result of the judgment performed by the computer is that no error is caused during a prior reproduction of the audio file, the second processor causes the operation switch to be displayed in a first display state, and
- wherein, when the result of the judgment performed by the computer is that the error is caused during the prior reproduction of the audio file, the second processor causes the operation switch to be displayed in a second display state, the second display state being different from the first display state.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.