JP2007179083A - Conference system, control method therefor and program - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a conference system enabling a document presented in a conference to be easily confirmed. <P>SOLUTION: The conference system includes a display device 30 and a controller 10 for controlling a display content for the display device 30. The controller 10 selects participants under consideration from among conference participants in the conference, records documents presented by the participants under consideration as presentation documents in the order of presentation, and performs such control that at least a part of the presentation documents is displayed in a predetermined archive display region being at least a part of the display device 30 based on the order of presentation. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a conference system including a display device, a control method thereof, and a program used in a conference or a lecture.

In general, in meetings and lectures, presentation contents are displayed on a display device that can be viewed by participants, and materials are distributed to participants. The conference participants understand the content of the conference by not only listening to the speech of the speaker but also referring to documents such as display contents and distribution materials on such a display device.
JP 2004-199592 A JP 2004-165946 A

  However, many materials may be used in such a meeting. Further, the materials are not always used in the order in which they are prepared. For example, materials bound as one file may be used in any order. In such a case, the conference participants cannot easily find the document even if they want to check the contents of the document used so far in the middle of the conference in order to review the progress of the conference so far. Inconvenient.

  In addition, when a speaker proceeds with a conference while displaying the content of a document on the display device, once the content of the document displayed on the display device is replaced with another document, the conference participant can use the display device until then. The contents of the displayed document cannot be confirmed, and the progress of the meeting so far cannot be reviewed.

  Note that there is a technique for storing prepared materials together with related document information in a meeting (see Patent Document 1). However, even with this technology, the actual progress of the conference cannot be reviewed during the conference. In addition, there is a technique for storing speech information and display material information in a web conference as minutes (see Patent Document 2). However, this technique does not take into consideration displaying the document presented in the conference in a manner that the conference participants can easily check.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and one of its purposes is to provide a conference system that can easily check a document presented in a conference, a control method thereof, and a program.

  In order to solve the above problems, a conference system according to the present invention is a conference system including a display device and a control device that controls display content on the display device, and the control device is a conference participant in a conference. Attention participant selection means for selecting an attention participant from among the above, a presentation document recording means for recording a document presented by the attention participant as a presentation document in the order of presentation, and at least a part of the presented document, the display device Presentation document display means for controlling display in a predetermined archive display area that is at least a part of the display based on the order of presentation.

  Thereby, the contents of the document presented at the meeting are displayed in the order of presentation in the predetermined archive display area, so that the meeting participants can easily grasp the document presented at the meeting.

  In the conference system, the presentation document recording unit may record the document as the presentation document when a presentation time when the participant of interest presented the document is a predetermined threshold or more.

  Furthermore, the conference system further includes a conference display device different from the display device, and the presentation document recording means records the document displayed on the conference display device as a presentation document based on a user instruction. It is good to do.

  Furthermore, in the conference system, the presented document display unit may control to display at least a part of the presented document by rearranging in the order sorted for each participant of interest in accordance with a user instruction. .

  The conference system control method according to the present invention is a conference system control method including a display device, the step of selecting a participant of interest from conference participants in a conference, and the participant of interest presented Recording a document as a presentation document in the order of presentation; and controlling to display at least a part of the presentation document in a predetermined archive display area that is at least a part of the display device based on the presentation order; It is characterized by including.

  The program according to the present invention is a program for controlling a conference system including a display device, and is provided by a noted participant selecting means for selecting a noted participant among conference participants in a conference, the noted participant presenting Presenting document recording means for recording a document as a presented document in the order of presentation, and control to display at least a part of the presented document in a predetermined archive display area that is at least a part of the display device based on the order of presentation. A computer is made to function as a presentation document display means.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram illustrating an example of a conference system 1 according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, the conference system 1 includes a control device 10, a conference display device 20, and an archive display device 30.

  The control device 10 is, for example, a general server computer or the like, and includes a control unit 11, a storage unit 12, a display control unit 13, and a communication unit 14 as shown in FIG.

  Here, the control unit 11 is a CPU or the like, and operates according to a program stored in the storage unit 12. Particularly in the present embodiment, the control unit 11 performs processing for acquiring data of the presented document in the meeting and displaying the content of the obtained presented document on the archive display device 30. Details of the processing executed by the control unit 11 in the present embodiment will be described in detail later.

  The storage unit 12 is a computer-readable storage medium that holds a program executed by the control unit 11, and includes at least one of a memory element such as a RAM or a ROM, a disk device, or the like. The storage unit 12 also operates as a work memory for the control unit 11.

  The display control unit 13 controls the conference display device 20 and the archive display device 30 in accordance with an instruction input from the control unit 11, and displays and outputs the data instructed from the control unit 11.

  The communication unit 14 is a network interface, and transmits / receives data to / from another computer such as an information terminal or a file server used by a conference participant via the communication network.

  The conference display device 20 is a display device that displays a document presented in a conference, and is installed in a state that can be viewed by conference participants. The conference display device 20 may be a display device using, for example, a liquid crystal or a CRT, or may be a projection display including a projector and a screen. A plurality of conference display devices 20 may be provided. In the example of FIG. 1, the case where the conference display device 20 includes a table-type display device and a display device installed on a wall surface is illustrated.

  Here, the conference display device 20 displays a common display area A1 for displaying information common to the conference participants, and a personal display area A2 for displaying information that each conference participant wants to view for each conference participant. It shall be included. The common display area A1 is arranged at a position that can be viewed by all the conference participants, such as the center of a table-type display device or a display device installed on a wall surface, and the personal display area A2 is the periphery of the table-type display device It is placed at a location where each conference participant can easily reach.

  The conference display device 20 displays information according to instructions from the control device 10. In the present embodiment, it is assumed that a touch sensor that overlays the display surface of the conference display device 20 and detects a conference participant's finger or pen is provided. Thereby, the conference participant displays, for example, a menu icon representing predetermined processing contents and data on the personal display area A2 for himself / herself of the conference display device 20, and points to the position where the icon is displayed. An instruction operation can be performed on the control device 10 by an operation such as touching with.

  The conference display device 20 may include an information reading device such as an IC tag reader. Accordingly, the conference display device 20 can identify the paper medium material by reading the document identification information included in the IC tag attached to the paper medium material, for example. Furthermore, the conference participant can be identified by reading the user identification information included in the IC tag attached to the IC card or the like possessed by the conference participant.

  The archive display device 30 is a display device including an archive display area A0 described later on the display screen. Similarly to the conference display device 20, the archive display device 30 is installed in a state where a conference participant can browse, and displays information according to an instruction from the control device 10. The archive display device 30 may also be a display device using liquid crystal or CRT, for example, or may be a projection display including a projector and a screen. In the example of FIG. 1, the archive display device 30 is installed at a relatively upper portion of the wall surface of the conference room, and has four horizontally long display surfaces along the four wall surfaces so as to surround the conference room. ing. The conference participant can easily view the information displayed on the archive display device 30 by looking over the wall surface of the conference room.

  Next, functions executed by the control device 10 in the present embodiment will be described. As shown in FIG. 3, the control device 10 is functionally configured to include an attention participant selection unit 51, a presentation document recording unit 52, and a presentation document display unit 53. These functions can be realized by the control unit 11 executing a program stored in the storage unit 12.

  The notable participant selecting unit 51 selects the notable participant who presents the document among the meeting participants participating in the conference. Specifically, for example, a conference participant who gives an instruction to display a document in the common display area A1 by an instruction operation on the personal display area A2 or the like is selected as an attention participant. In addition, a conference participant who has instructed an IC tag reader to read an IC tag attached to a paper medium material may be selected as a participant of interest.

  Note that the participant-of-interest selection unit 51 may identify the participant of interest by the position of the personal display area A2, or by identifying user identification information from an IC card or the like possessed by the conference participant using an IC tag reader. May be.

  The presented document recording unit 52 acquires data of a document presented at the meeting by an instruction operation or the like that the attention participant selected by the attention participant selection unit 51 displays in the common display area A1. Then, the acquired image data of the presented document is recorded in the storage unit 12 in association with the information on the presented participant of interest and the presented order. The information regarding the presented order may be simply a serial number assigned in the order presented in the meeting, or may be information on presented time (presentation time information). FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of a presentation document table recorded by the presentation document recording unit 52. In the example of FIG. 4A, information of image data I1, I2, and I3 is recorded as image data representing a presentation document in association with presentation order information, attention participant information, and the like.

  Specifically, the presentation document recording unit 52 acquires document data designated by the conference participant as follows, for example. That is, via a communication network, for example, a predetermined file server or an information terminal brought in by a conference participant and connected to the communication network is accessed. And the data of a presentation document are acquired via the communication part 15 by downloading the file memorize | stored in a file server, an information terminal, etc. Note that the file name and storage location information of the acquired data are recorded as the file name of the original data, as shown in the example of FIG.

  When the presented document is a paper medium material, the presented document recording unit 52 acquires the document identification information by causing the IC tag reader to read the IC tag attached to the paper medium material. And based on the acquired document identification information, a file server etc. are accessed via a communication network, and the data of the presentation document stored previously are acquired.

  Alternatively, the presentation document recording unit 52 causes the medium reading device (not shown) to read data stored in a computer-readable medium such as a USB memory or a CD-R, thereby converting the data of the presentation document. You may get it.

  In addition, the presentation document recording unit 52 may acquire information added to the document displayed on the conference display device 20 by a conference participant using a touch sensor. Alternatively, for example, a presentation document may be acquired by causing an image reading device (not shown) to read information written on a whiteboard or the like.

  Further, the presented document recording unit 52 may acquire information (presentation time information) related to the time when the content of the document is presented, and may record the information in association with the data of the presented document. In addition, when the presentation time when the content of the document is presented exceeds a predetermined threshold, the data of the presented document may be acquired, and when the presentation time is equal to or less than the predetermined threshold, the presentation document may not be used. Thereby, for example, a document that is displayed on the conference display device 20 but is actually hardly discussed in the conference can be excluded from the display target by the presented document display unit 53 described later. The presentation time information may be determined based on the display time when the content of the document is displayed in the common display area A1, or may be determined based on the time interval until the next document is presented. .

  Further, when one document is presented a plurality of times in the meeting, the presented document recording unit 52 adds the image data of the document to the presented document table when presented for the first time, and presented the next time or later. It is good also as not adding to. Alternatively, the information of the same image data may be added to the presentation document table every time it is presented multiple times. According to this method, the contents of the document can be displayed in accordance with the situation actually presented at the meeting, unlike the case where the documents used in the meeting are simply stored and displayed. Thereby, the conference participant can not only simply confirm the content of the presented document later, but can also look back on the progress of the conference with the content of the presented document as a trigger. FIG. 4B shows, as an example, a conference participant who first presented image data I1 again after a document corresponding to image data I3 was presented and the presentation document table shown in FIG. 4A was recorded. FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating an example of a presentation document table that is updated by the presentation document recording unit 52 when another conference participant displays in the common display area A1. Note that it is not necessary to obtain image data representing the contents of the document presented again in this way, and the document image data already recorded by the presented document recording unit 52 can be referred to.

  When one presentation document is a material including a plurality of pages, the presentation document recording unit 52 may record image data representing the contents of a representative page such as the first page of the material in the presentation document table. Alternatively, image data representing the contents of all pages may be recorded. Moreover, only information of pages whose presentation times are equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold, such as pages that are actually displayed in the common display area A1 for a certain time or more, may be added to the presentation document table. Thus, unlike the case where all document data is simply displayed, it is possible to display a page that is considered to be actually discussed in the conference, and it is possible for the conference participants to easily grasp the progress of the conference.

  The presented document display unit 53 performs control to display a list of images representing the contents of the presented document recorded by the presented document recording unit 52 in the predetermined archive display area A0 via the display control unit 13. Specifically, the archive display area A0 is a display area that occupies a part or all of the display screen of the archive display device 30. By always displaying the presented document in a predetermined area, the conference participant can easily check the document presented at the conference.

  When the presentation document display unit 53 displays an image representing the contents of the presentation document in the archive display area A0, the conference is usually performed with reference to the presentation document table, with the presentation documents presented by all the attending participants as targets. Are displayed side by side in the order of presentation. For example, in the example of FIG. 1, the image I0, the image I1, and the image I2 are images representing the contents of the presented document presented at the meeting in this order. Thereby, the conference participant can look back on the progress of the conference by confirming the content of the document presented along the time series.

  The presentation document display unit 53 may determine the position of the image of each document to be displayed or the interval between the images based on the presentation time information or the presentation time information recorded by the presentation document recording unit 52. . Specifically, for example, the presented document display unit 53 sets the interval from the position where the image of a certain document of interest is displayed to the position where the image of the next document is displayed is proportional to the presentation time of the document of interest. The display position of the image of each document is determined. As a result, for example, an image of a document that has been presented for a long time is displayed separately from the image of the next presented document, so that conference participants can intuitively grasp a document that has been discussed for a long time in the conference. be able to.

  Next, an operation example in the case of rearranging the images of the presented document displayed in the archive display area A0 by the instruction operation of the conference participant will be described based on the explanatory diagram of FIG.

  First, for example, the conference participant touches a predetermined position on the screen with his / her finger or touches the screen with his / her finger so as to draw a predetermined character or figure on the personal display area A2 where the touch sensor is overlaid. By tracing, the controller 10 is instructed to display a menu. FIG. 5A shows an example of a scene in which the conference participant instructs menu display to the personal display area A2, and the broken line in the figure indicates the movement of the conference participant's finger when the menu display is instructed. Represents.

  Upon receiving the menu display instruction operation from the touch sensor, the control unit 11 displays, via the display control unit 13, a menu bar, menu icons, and the like in which menu items are arranged in the personal display area A2. The conference participant can instruct rearrangement of the images displayed in the archive display area A0 by an instruction operation such as touching the displayed menu item with a finger. FIG. 5B illustrates an example of a scene in which a conference participant designates user order rearrangement from the displayed menu bar. By such designation, the control unit 11 rearranges the images of the presented document in the order sorted for each participant of interest, and displays them in the order sorted in the archive display area A0.

  Next, an operation example in the case of arbitrarily rearranging the images of the presented document displayed in the archive display area A0 will be described based on the explanatory diagram of FIG.

  First, the conference participant displays the above-described menu item and designates arbitrary rearrangement, or instructs the arbitrary rearrangement mode by another predetermined finger movement. FIG. 6A shows an example of a scene in which the conference participant gives an instruction for the arbitrary sorting mode to the personal display area A2, and the broken line in the figure indicates the direction of the conference participant when the instruction is given. Represents the movement.

  When the arbitrary rearrangement mode is instructed, the control unit 11 performs control to display a reduced image of the image currently displayed in the archive display area A0 in the personal display area A2. At this time, the display position of the reduced image may be determined based on the display position of the image of the presented document in the archive display device 30 in the conference room. Specifically, the positional relationship between the respective reduced images on the personal display area A2 is such that the positional relationship and orientation match the positional relationship of the image of the presented document on the archive display area A0 as viewed from the conference participant. To display a reduced image. Thereby, the conference participant can easily find a reduced image corresponding to the image that he / she wants to operate among the images displayed in the archive display area A0 on the personal display area A2. FIG. 6B shows an example in which a reduced image is displayed in the personal display area A2. In this state, if the conference participant does not touch the area where the reduced image is displayed for a certain period of time, the control unit 11 ends the arbitrary rearrangement mode and deletes the reduced image from the screen.

  The conference participant can move the corresponding image on the archive display area A0 by performing an instruction operation such as tracing the screen with a finger on the reduced image displayed on the personal display area A2. Specifically, a position on the personal display area A2 corresponding to a position where a finger is placed on the reduced image displayed in the personal display area A2 and the finger is moved on the screen to display the image of the presented document. Release the finger to move the image of the presented document on the archive display area A0. In addition, for example, by selecting a reduced image and moving a finger to a predetermined area in the center by the same operation, for example, an image of the selected presentation document can be displayed in the common display area A1. FIG. 6C shows an example of an instruction operation when one of the reduced images is displayed in the common display area A1, and a broken line in the figure shows the movement of the conference participant's finger on the screen. .

  Note that the document displayed in the common display area A1 in this way may be included in an object to be recorded by the presented document recording unit 52 as a document presented again at the meeting. Thereby, the conference participant can easily present and discuss the document once presented at the conference, and can later look back on the process of such discussion by displaying the presented document.

  According to the present embodiment described above, the contents of the documents presented at the meeting are displayed in a predetermined archive display area in the order of presentation, so that the meeting participants can easily grasp the documents presented at the meeting. it can.

It is a schematic diagram showing the example of the conference system which concerns on embodiment of this invention. 3 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration example of a control device 10. FIG. 3 is a functional block diagram showing functions of a control device 10. FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of a presentation document table recorded in a control device 10. FIG. It is explanatory drawing showing an example of operation in the conference system which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is explanatory drawing showing another example of operation in the conference system which concerns on embodiment of this invention.

Explanation of symbols

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Conference system, 10 Control apparatus, 11 Control part, 12 Storage part, 13 Display control part, 14 Communication part, 20 Conference display apparatus, 30 Archive display apparatus, 51 Participant selection part, 52 Presentation document recording part, 53 Presented document display section.

Claims (6)

A conference system comprising: a display device; and a control device that controls display contents for the display device,
The controller is
Attention participant selection means for selecting an attention participant from meeting participants at the meeting,
Presenting document recording means for recording the document presented by the noted participant as a presented document in the order of presentation;
Presenting document display means for controlling to display at least a part of the presented document in a predetermined archive display area that is at least a part of the display device based on the order of presentation;
The conference system characterized by including. The conference system according to claim 1,
The said presentation document recording means records the said document as said presentation document, when the presentation time when the said attending participant presented the document is more than a predetermined threshold value. In the conference system according to claim 1 or 2,
It further includes a conference display device different from the display device,
The presentation document recording means records a document displayed on the conference display device as a presentation document based on a user instruction. The conference system according to any one of claims 1 to 3,
The conference system, wherein the presented document display means controls to display at least a part of the presented document by rearranging in the order sorted for each of the noted participants according to a user instruction. A control method for a conference system including a display device,
Selecting a participant of interest from the meeting participants in the meeting;
Recording the document presented by the noted participant as a presented document in the order of presentation;
Controlling to display at least a part of the presented document in a predetermined archive display area that is at least a part of the display device based on the presentation order;
A method for controlling a conference system, comprising: A program for controlling a conference system including a display device,
Attention participant selection means for selecting an attention participant among meeting participants in a meeting,
Presenting document recording means for recording the document presented by the noted participant as a presented document in the order of presentation, and at least a part of the presented document in a predetermined archive display area that is at least a part of the display device in the order of presentation Presentation document display means for controlling to display based on,
A program characterized by causing a computer to function.

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