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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2005
Filed:
Apr. 15, 2003
Toshiaki Kakii, Yokohama, JP;
Yoichi Hata, Yokohama, JP;
Hisao Maki, Yokohama, JP;
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
The invention relates to a videoconference system and others of structure enabling smooth progress of interlocution even in distance interlocution among many people through a plurality of terminal devices. The videoconference system is a network system enabling transmission and reception of data by several types of media through a plurality of terminal devices connected by a transmission means, and is provided with a management table for managing users of the respective terminal devices in a state in which the users are sorted in an interlocutor mode for interlocutors mainly engaged in progress of a specific subject and in an observer mode for observers other than the interlocutors, and a communication control means for editing interlocution information by media selected from interlocution information among users sorted in the interlocutor mode and delivering the edited information to the terminal devices of the respective users sorted in the observer mode.