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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 12, 2016
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Hirochika Sato, Kashiwa, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A communication support system includes a network interface configured to receive, via a network, a captured image obtained in another location, a display configured to display the captured image received by the network interface, a cropping unit configured, in a case when the display superposes and displays a reference image as an upper layer over the captured image, to crop an image of an area having the reference image arranged therein out of the captured image, a specifying unit configured to specify a person area corresponding to a person within a cropped image obtained by the cropping unit, and a processing unit configured to make an area that is different from the person area specified by the specifying unit transparent in the cropped image. The display displays an output image obtained by superposing the reference image as an upper layer over the captured image and further superposing the cropped image processed by the processing unit as an upper layer over the reference image.