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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2020

Filed:

Jan. 18, 2019
Applicant:

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;

Inventors:

Takeshi Takita, Fukuoka, JP;

Naoki Koga, Fukuoka, JP;

Masayuki Kumazawa, Fukuoka, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/15 (2006.01); H04W 4/02 (2018.01); G06F 3/16 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/152 (2013.01); G06F 3/165 (2013.01); H04L 65/403 (2013.01); H04W 4/025 (2013.01);
Abstract

An objective is to prevent occurrence of video loop even in a case where a plurality of video conference apparatuses are connected in cascade. In a cascade mode, that is, in a case where a location of a video conference apparatus is an intermediate location, video and speech selector/combinerselects video data of a location (location where a speech is made) of a maximum sound-volume among connection locations other than the location of the video conference apparatus and a cascade destination. Communication controllertransmits video data of the location of the maximum sound-volume to video conference apparatusof the cascade destination and transmits the video data transmitted from video conference apparatusof the cascade destination to video conference apparatusesin a connection location other than the cascade destination.


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