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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2000
Filed:
Feb. 17, 1998
Jiro Kawamata, Tokyo, JP;
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A multimedia conversion apparatus creating a media conversion result with a quality expected by a user is offered. Data received by a receiving section is subjected to a media conversion according to different algorithms provided in the signal processing sections, and a judgement section derives a suitable conversion result giving priority to a precision among a plurality of media conversion results obtained by the signal processing sections. A transmission section selects a conversion result with a proper quality among the plurality of media conversion results, and transmits it to a receiving terminal. When a plurality of request for data conversions are competed among users data from other users than one exclusively using the multimedia conversion apparatus are temporarily stored in a buffer or are transferred to other multimedia conversion apparatus.