Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Jorge Pelaez

Tatsuro Hori

An education support apparatus, which is configured to support online education conducted by connecting, via a network, respective terminal apparatuses used by an instructor and a plurality of students who are present in spaces separate from each other, includes a communication interface configured to communicate via the network, and a controller configured to receive, via the communication interface, a plurality of individual images including an image of the instructor and an image of a second student different from a first student among the plurality of students, generate, using the received plurality of individual images, a composite image representing the second student as being present in the same space as the instructor, and control a terminal apparatus used by the first student to display the generated composite image.

Education support apparatus, communication system, non-transitory computer readable medium, and education support method

A terminal apparatus includes an input/output screen including a rectangular input/output area configured to accept touch input and display an image, a communication interface configured to communicate with another terminal apparatus including the input/output area having a different longitudinal direction, and a controller configured, upon input of an image to the input/output area of the terminal apparatus, to transmit to the another terminal apparatus an output image that contains the image and corresponds to a first square area having one short side of the input/output area as one side and to cause the another terminal apparatus to display the output image in a second square area having one short side of an input/output area of the another terminal apparatus as one side. The controller is configured to set an area other than the first square area in the input/output area of the terminal apparatus as a new input/output area.

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Kawaguchi, Japan

Jorge Pelaez