JP2006253775A5 - - Google Patents

Claims (18)

A communication means for establishing a session for a call with the calling party;
Transmitting and receiving means for transmitting and receiving sound and images;
Output means for outputting an image received by the transmission / reception means;
A videophone apparatus including control means for controlling the transmission / reception means so as not to be in a call ready state until a call start instruction is received from a user on the called side after the session is established. 2. The videophone apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising display means for displaying an image output from said output means. The videophone apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the output means outputs an image to an external display device. 3. The videophone apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising representative image creating means for creating a representative image to be displayed on a part of the display means from the received image. 4. The videophone apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising representative image creating means for creating a representative image to be displayed on a part of the display device from the received image. Further seen including a storage means for storing images and sound,
The said control means enables and performs the answering machine function which memorize | stores the image and audio | voice information which the said transmission / reception means received in the said memory | storage means when the preset time passes after session establishment. Video phone equipment. It further includes human image analysis means for analyzing whether or not the received image includes a person image, and when the human image analysis means analyzes that a person image is included, the output means displays the image. 2. The videophone device according to claim 1, wherein the videophone device is output. Further comprising a human face image analysis means for analyzing whether it contains a human face image the image thus received, when the person facial image analysis device is analyzed to contain a person's face image, the output The videophone apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said means outputs an image. When the person of the image or the face image to the image thus received is analyzed as not included, in the output means does not output the image, according to claim 7 notifies the transmission side that the image is not photographed about the person or The videophone device according to claim 8 . And further comprising storage means for storing images and sounds,
The storage means stores a reduced image including a face of a sender on the calling side created from an image first received by the representative image creation means after establishment of a session, and the output means outputs a reduced image. 4. The videophone device according to 4 or 5. 7. The videophone apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein when the voice stored in the answering machine function is reproduced, the output means outputs an image stored in the storage means. Speech recognition means for converting received speech into text; and summary message creation means for summarizing the text converted by the speech recognition means and creating a summary message, and when the answering machine function is valid, the speech recognition means converts the received voice into text, claim 6 wherein the summary message creation means creates a summary message from the text, said storage means stores the summary message, and the output means for outputting also the summary message The videophone device according to 1. 13. The videophone apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the summary message creating means creates a summary message by extracting a portion that matches a preset keyword. 13. The videophone apparatus according to claim 12 , wherein the summary message creating means changes the color of the text of a portion that matches a preset keyword. 7. The videophone apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein the control means determines a reproduction order of information stored by the answering machine function in accordance with a priority order attribute preset for the keyword. The videophone apparatus according to claim 12 , wherein the storage means stores the image and the summary message in association with identification information used when replying to the calling party. And further comprising storage means for storing images and sounds,
The control means analyzes the received image, compares the pre-registered image with the received image, determines the similarity between both images, and determines that the similarity is equal to or less than a predetermined threshold, the transmission / reception videophone apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the performing by means image and information of the speech received by the enable answering machine function of storing into said memory means. A videophone system comprising a videophone device and a display device,
The videophone device includes:
A transmission / reception means for receiving an image and sound of the calling side before a call with the calling side is started;
Representative image creating means for creating a representative image from the received image;
Storage means for storing videophone communication contents including images and sounds created by the representative image creation means;
Connection control means for displaying the representative image on the display device, and controlling so as not to be in a call state unless there is a user's call start instruction;
Videophone I / F means for transmitting a user call start instruction to the connection control means,
It becomes a call state according to the user's call start instruction,
Video phone system.