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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2003
Filed:
Dec. 05, 1997
Jorge E. Caviedes, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Nermeen M. Ismail, Mountainview, CA (US);
Hugo J. Strubbe, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Max Wu, Ossining, NY (US);
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
The invention relates to a communication method and a terminal ( ) for use with such a method. The method uses at least two interconnected terminals ( ), at which input data from associated participants is captured. The input data comprises at least video and/or audio data. A monitoring unit ( ) derives activity information about the participants from the input data. The monitoring unit ( ) is either located in one terminal ( ) for centrally deriving the activity information, or present in all terminals ( ) for, at least partly, deriving the activity information locally. The activity information is subsequently visualized in the form of tables and/or diagrams or by manipulating the windows in which the participants are displayed. Also this visualization step can be performed only at a central terminal ( ) or at the terminal of each participant ( ). The activity information comprises for instance talking time and a number of key strokes of the participant.