JPH04113459A - Electronic conference system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To omit the need for assembling many persons at one time in a single place by accumulating the interchange records of conferences. CONSTITUTION:At the terminals 1 and 8, the wills of a conference are inputted to a keyboard in the form of documents and coded. The assembly of these codes are inputted to and outputted from the file devices 2 and 9 in the form of a document file and then displayed on a screen. Then the information is transferred via the communication circuits 3 and 7. A CPU 4 transfers the information to the terminals 1 and 8 through the circuits 3 and 7 and then inputs and outputs the information to and from the devices 2 and 9. Thus it is not required to assemble many persons in a single place and at one time to hold a conference.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to an electronic conference system as one of office automation technologies.

[Prior Art] As shown in FIG. 2, a conventional electronic conference system includes a display device 11 that displays image information of conference participant A, and an image input device 12 that inputs image information of conference participant B. , an audio input device 13 for audio information of conference participant B, an audio output device 14 for output of conference participant A, a display device 115, an image input device 12, an audio input device 13 . It has a control device 15 that transmits and receives information to and from the audio output device 14 via a communication line.

During an electronic conference, by connecting two areas with the above configuration via a communication line between remote locations, images and audio from conference participant B are inputted to the image input device 12 and the audio input device 13, and the control device 15 The control device 21 receives the information from the conference participant A through the communication line 16, displays an image on the display device 17, and outputs audio to the audio output device 20. Information on the conference is transmitted by transmitting and receiving images and audio using the reverse procedure described above.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] In the conventional electronic conference system described above, it is necessary to gather people at the same time in order to hold a conference, which requires adjustment of schedules. Furthermore, the devices constituting the electronic conference system are large and require a large space. In addition, the information transmission speed of communication lines is high because large amounts of analog information such as image information and audio information are sent and received.

There is a problem that the transmission capacity also increases.

[Means for Solving the Problems] The present invention is to input and encode wills as a document at a meeting using a keyboard, input and output the set as a document file to a file device or display it on a screen, and transmit information through a communication line. The invention is characterized by comprising a plurality of terminals that transmit and receive information, a file device, and a central processing unit that transmits and receives information to and from the plurality of terminals through a communication line, and inputs and outputs information to and from the file device. .

[Example code] Next, the present invention will be explained with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention.

A conference participant A inputs characters using a keyboard on a terminal 1 and stores the text in a file device 2 as a coded file. Next, the terminal is instructed as to the file and which conferee to notify, and the destination and file are transmitted as a code to the central processing unit 4 via the communication line 3. The central processing unit 4 stores the received destinations and files in the destination information storage device 5 and file storage device 6. On the other hand, when conference participant B instructs the terminal 8 to retrieve the file addressed to him in order to retrieve the conference content at any time, the terminal 8 requests the central processing unit 4 to retrieve the file via the communication line 7, and The device 4 retrieves the corresponding file from the file storage device 6 from the destination information storage device 5, transmits it to the terminal 8 via the communication line 7, and stores the received file in the file device 9. Conference participant B displays the contents of the file as characters on the terminal 8 and confirms the contents.

If there is a response, the file is exchanged from terminal 8 to terminal 1 by following the above-mentioned procedure in reverse.

[Effects of the Invention] As explained above, the present invention does not require people to gather in one place at the same time in order to accumulate meeting exchanges, uses a line when necessary, and uses coded data. Line usage efficiency and transfer amount will decrease, and
Since there are few components, it can be constructed in a small space.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a conventional example. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1...Terminal, 2...File device, 3...Communication line, 4...Central processing unit, 5...Destination information storage device, 6...File storage device, 7...Communication Line, 8・
...Terminal, 9...File device.

Claims (1)

[Claims] At the meeting, intentions are entered as a document on the keyboard and encoded, and the set is input/outputted as a document file to a file device or displayed on the screen, and the information is sent and received through communication lines between multiple terminals, the file device, and the communication. Sending and receiving information to and from the plurality of terminals through a line,
An electronic conference system comprising: a central processing unit that inputs and outputs information to and from the file device.