Fujitsu Corporation

Toshihiro Homma

Kiichi Matsuda

Hitoshi Sato

Masakazu Yamaguchi

Yuji Yoshida

Hiroaki Natori

Toshitaka Tsuda

Takeshi Okazaki

Youichi Ashida

Ryusaku Imai

Yuuji Takenaka

Hitoshi Ishiguro

Hiroshi Fukuda

Shin-ichi Maki

A television conference system having at least one of the functions of automatically directing a camera toward a speaker, of transmitting video signals of picture images from a plurality of television cameras, and of displaying a document image. The television conference system includes a microphone input judgement unit for judging the existence of any input into microphones provided for the speakers of a television conference; a judgement result holding unit for holding the results of the judgement of existence of the microphone inputs over a first predetermined period, the first predetermined period being longer than the shortest period of continuous speaking; a time totaling unit for obtaining the total time of the microphone inputs during the first predetermined period from the results of judgement held in the judgement result holding unit; a speaker specifying unit for specifying as the current speaker the speaker using a microphone having a total time obtained by the time totaling unit which is over a second predetermined period, the second predetermined period being the standard continuing period of noise; and a camera drive unit for driving a camera within a shooting range of the speaker specified as the current speaker by the speaker specifying unit.

Television conference system

A differential coding apparatus having a plurality of predictive function computing circuits and an optimum predicted value determining circuit. The optimum predicted value determining circuit determines the optimum predicted value from the plurality of predicted values by using a quantized prediction error used as an output signal of the apparatus, instead of a local decoded signal, and carries out the determining operation of the optimum predicted value in parallel with the quantized prediction error producing operation.

Differential coding apparatus having an optimum predicted value

An apparatus for band compression processing of a picture signal which generates forecasting error signal and movement vector and updates only the movement vector during a comb-out operation. During comb-out processing, a picture signal is recirculated while the movement vector is produced and accumulated. At the end of the comb-out processing, the change in the movement vector from the accumulated vector is within a desired range. Therefore, the scale of a circuit for detecting the movement vector after the comb-out operation does not increase.

Apparatus for band compression processing of a picture signal

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Yokohama, Japan

Toshihiro Homma