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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 16, 2010
Filed:
Feb. 17, 2006
Yasusi Kanada, Tokyo, JP;
Yasusi Kanada, Tokyo, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In a video conferencing system, required bandwidth is suppressed to a lower level and a key person or the like of a conference can be confirmed easily. A presence servermanages location information in a virtual space for a user of each conference terminalEach conference terminalsends image data of its own user to another conference terminalin response to a request of that conference terminalFurther, each conference terminalreceives location information of its own user in the virtual space, sends the received location information to the presence serverand receives location information of the other users from the presence serverThen, based on the location information of its own user and the location information of the other users, the conference terminaldetects forward users located forward from its own user, and receives image data from the conference terminalof each of the forward users.