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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 1998
Filed:
Jul. 14, 1997
Makoto Masunaga, Tokyo, JP;
Atsushi Inagaki, Yokohama, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Disclosed is a video conference system including a video camera for imaging participants in a conference, a registration unit capable of registering a plurality of pieces of position information indicating directions of the positions of the participants in the conference, a changing unit for changing the imaging direction of the video camera on the basis of the position information, a memory unit capable of storing a plurality of image data corresponding to the individual imaging directions set by the changing unit, and a synthesization unit for synthesizing the image data stored in the memory unit into image data currently being obtained by the video camera in correspondence with the position information registered in the registration unit.