Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Takako Hashimoto

Atsushi Iizawa

Tadashi Araki

Takayuki Kunieda

Yuuji Kasuya

Keiji Ohmura

A teleconference support system, establishing a teleconference among conference rooms, includes teleconference apparatuses, and a connection server including a conference venue information storage, a conference start judgment unit, and a teleconference apparatus connection unit. Each teleconference apparatus, disposed in each conference room, is provided with an image taking unit, a sound taking unit, a display unit, and an audio output unit. The connection server connects the teleconference apparatuses to transmit and receive information among the conference rooms. Each teleconference apparatus includes a person identification information acquisition unit to obtain person identification information identifying individual. The conference venue information storage stores conference information including person identification information of expected teleconference participant. The conference start judgment unit determines whether each teleconference satisfies a conference start condition using the person identification information. The teleconference apparatus connection unit connects teleconference apparatuses when the teleconference is determined to satisfy the conference start condition.

Teleconference support system

A contents management apparatus that manages contents including a plurality of contents elements representing information to be provided to a user includes a contents request acquiring unit that acquires contents request information from the user, a contents element extracting unit that extracts the contents elements based on the contents request information when the contents request acquiring unit acquires the contents request information from the user, and a contents restructuring unit that restructures new contents from the contents elements extracted.

Contents management apparatus, contents management system, contents management method, computer product, and contents data

A program video and program-related information are input, and program-related contents are generated based on a tree structure defined in advance. Based on a preset viewing data quantity as a viewing request from each user who has a portable terminal, leaf nodes in the tree structure of the program-related contents are selected as presentation candidates for each user. A presentation route that follows the leaf nodes of the presentation candidates starting from the root of the tree structure is generated as a presentation scenario for each user. The generated presentation scenario is transmitted to the portable terminal of the corresponding user.

Method of and apparatus for generation/presentation of program-related contents

A digest or summary is generated from an athletic footage containing a predetermined set of metadata. The metadata includes information on time, score and event types. Scenes are selected from the athletic footage based upon the metadata, and the scenes are significant in a flow of the game or the athletic competition. Some scenes are also selected based upon the assumption that a certain failed scoring attempt is succeeded. The above described selection scheme allows the extraction of scenes that are meaningful and significant in summarizing an athletic footage.

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Takako Hashimoto