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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 1996
Filed:
May. 30, 1991
Takanori Miyamoto, Fuchu, JP;
Douglas Cardwell, Hempstead, NY (US);
Toshiro Suzuki, Tama, JP;
Mutsumi Abe, Kokubunji, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A multi-media server for treating multi-media information including video and voice information and a communication system including the multi-media server are provided. The multi-media server is suitable for the application and the system architecture for the multi-media information, a mail system utilizing animation and an application for editing a document. The multi-media server includes an interface circuit connected to a communication network and for controlling send/receive operations of a transmission frame, table memories for recording attribute information of each user terminal, a decoding circuit for decoding multi-media information included in the transmission frame received from the interface circuit by referring to the attribute information of the table memory, an information processing circuit for processing the decoded multi-media information according to the content of a header of the transmission frame, a coding circuit for coding the processed multi-media information according to the content of the header of the transmission frame, a memory unit for recording the coded multi-media information, and a controller for controlling the decoding circuit and the coding circuit to perform the processing for the kind of the multi-media information according to the content of the header of the transmission frame.