摘要 |
A device linkage apparatus, which reduces the operating load on a user and causes a television and an amplifier to be appropriately linked, includes: a correspondence table storage unit in which is stored a mode correspondence table indicating, for each TV-program genre, the audio output mode corresponding to the genre; an attribute obtainment unit which obtains the genre of a TV-program to be reproduced; a mode identification unit which identifies, from among the audio output modes indicated in the mode correspondence table, the audio output mode that corresponds to the genre obtained by the attribute obtainment unit; and a linkage execution unit which causes the operations of a television and an amplifier to be linked accordance to the audio output mode identified by the mode identification unit.
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