DATA TRANSMITTING APPARATUS, DATA RECEIVING APPARATUS, DATA TRANSMITTING METHOD, DATA RECEIVING METHOD, AND AUDIO-VISUAL ENVIRONMENT CONTROLLING METHOD

摘要

Provided are a data transmission device, a data reception device, a method for transmitting data, a method for receiving data, and a method for controlling audio-visual environment that carry out the control of peripheral devices in consistence with contents producer's intention, thereby realizing the listening/viewing of the contents with a realistic sensation. The data transmission device is comprised of a video coding unit (101), an audio coding unit (102), an audio-visual environment control data coding unit (103), an audio-visual environment control data input unit (104), a data multiplexing unit (105) and a transmission unit (106). A control designation value for the peripheral devices and producer's preference information indicative of an acceptable error range for the control designation value are inputted from the audio-visual environment control data input unit (104), as audio-visual environment control data for one or more peripheral devices in an audio-visual environmental space where video data and/or audio data are reproduced, and the control designation value and the preference information are transmitted together with the video data and/or the audio data.