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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2006
Filed:
Jun. 25, 2004
Makoto Suzuki, Nagoya, JP;
Makoto Suzuki, Nagoya, JP;
Brother Kogyo Kaushiki Kaisha, Nagoya, JP;
Abstract
A television conference system enables a plurality of participants to communicate with each other using terminal devices connected to a controller via information transfer system. Each of the terminal devices are provided with a display for displaying a participant making a remark. The television conference system includes a speech quantity information obtaining system that obtains speech quantity information related to quantity of speech of each of the plurality of participants during a conference, a terminal identifying system that identifies a terminal corresponding to a participant currently making a remark, and an image switching system that switches images displayed on the displays of the plurality of terminal devices from a previous participant to the participant currently making a remark by one of a plurality of different switching methods which is determined in accordance with the speech quantity information of the participant currently making a remark.