JPH05347666A - Electronic conference system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To automatically read and display an utterance or a paper material relating to the content of utterance from a file. CONSTITUTION:The electronic conference system consists of one server machine 10 and plural client machines 20. The server machine 10 is provided with a key word database 12, an utterance content file 13 and a relating information file 14. When an utterance content is inputted from the client machine 20, the server machine 10 extracts a keyword from its content of utterance and the relating utterance content or relating information to the keyword are read from the file 13 or 14 and sent to all the client machines 20. Thus, the utterance or paper material relating to the utterance content is displayed on a display device 23 in all the client machines 20.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to an electronic conference system.

[0002]

[Prior art and its problems] Before a speaker inputs a comment,
An electronic conferencing system has been proposed that displays the contents of multiple utterances on a single screen in a time-series and structural relationship by inputting which utterance the utterance is related to (1991 IEICE. Autumn Meeting Proceedings, A-12
2).

However, in this electronic conferencing system, it is necessary for the speaker to input which previous message the speaker is speaking, and the input operation is troublesome. There was also the inconvenience that the participants of the conference had to find the materials themselves.

[0004]

DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to automatically display a related message without waiting for the operation of the speaker.

Another object of the present invention is to automatically extract and display a message suitable for the content of a comment when there is related information such as a related material.

The electronic conferencing system according to the present invention stores a statement content storage device for storing the statement content together with the identification code of the speaker, and when the statement content of the speaker is input, the statement content is related to other statement content. Means for determining whether or not there is a keyword indicating, and means for controlling, when it is determined that there is a keyword, to read the utterance content associated with the keyword from the utterance content storage device and display it on the display device. I have it.

When the utterance content of the speaker is input, it is determined whether or not the utterance content has a keyword indicating the relevance to other utterance content, and if there is a keyword, the utterance content associated by the keyword is uttered. It is read from the content storage device and displayed.

Therefore, the speaker does not need to perform an operation input indicating the relevance to the previous utterance content, and the previous utterance content related to the content uttered by the utterer is displayed.
It can help attendees understand the flow of the meeting and facilitate the progress of the entire meeting.

In a preferred embodiment of the present invention,
The pointer indicating the relevance to the utterance content associated with the keyword is set, and the input utterance content is stored in the storage device. Therefore, the utterance contents related to each other are associated with each other by this pointer, and a plurality of utterance contents are displayed on the screen of the display device in the related form.

The electronic conferencing system according to the present invention is a related information storage device in which related information used in a conference is stored in advance, and a keyword indicating a relationship between the comment content and the related information when the speaker's comment content is input. There is provided a means for determining whether or not there is a keyword, and a means for controlling, when it is determined that there is a keyword, that relevant information associated with the keyword is read from the relevant information storage device and displayed on the display device.

According to the present invention, when a speaker makes a statement, the related information such as reference material related to the content of the statement is read from the storage device and displayed, so that the participants need to search for the related information by themselves. There is no such thing, and the progress of the meeting becomes smooth.

[0012]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS FIG. 1 shows the entire electronic conferencing system. One server machine 10 and a plurality of client machines 20 are connected by a communication line. The client machine 20 is provided for each participant of the conference and has an input device 2 including a keyboard and a microphone.
2. It is composed of a display device 23 and a control unit 21. The speaker can input the content of the statement from the keyboard or can input it through the microphone. In the latter case, the input device 22 performs the recognition process of the voice input through the microphone, and the recognized character string is taken into the control unit 21.

The server machine 10 comprises a control unit 11, a keyword database 12, a statement content file 13 and a related information file 14. The keyword database 12 is pre-registered with keywords (specific examples will be described later) used for extracting the related comment contents from the comment contents file 13 and the related information from the related information file 14, respectively. There is.

An example of the statement content file 13 is shown in FIG. The file 13 is provided with a pointer for each speaker indicating the date and time, the speaker's name, the content of the message, and the relationship with other message contents. The speaker name is entered by the speaker himself or by speaking his / her name and then speaking. Or each client
The speaker name is registered in the machine. The utterance content is input from the keyboard as described above or read by voice recognition. The first pointer indicates the address of the place where the previous message content related to this message content is stored. The second pointer indicates the address of the place where the subsequent message content related to this message content is stored. These pointers are stored when it is determined that there is a keyword indicating the relevance of the utterance content.

In the related information file 14, reference materials used or expected to be used in the conference are stored in advance.

FIG. 2 shows the processing of the control unit 11 of the server machine 10. 4, 6, 7 and 9 show display examples of the display device 23 of the client machine 20.

Generally, as shown in FIG. 4 or 7,
The order of the speakers, the name of the speaker, and the content of the message are displayed on the display device 23. The above-mentioned pointers associate the utterance contents with each other, and the association is represented as a diagonal line on the display screen.

In this state, when the speech content of the speaker is input from any of the client machines 20 (step 31), it is checked whether the speech content contains a keyword (step 32). For example,
In the case of the utterance content as shown in FIG. 5, "Sakiho",
It is determined that "Yamada" is a keyword associated with other utterance content. In addition, in the case of the content of comment as shown in FIG.
“Previous”, “growth rate”, and “material” are determined as keywords to be associated with related information. If there is no keyword, the comment contents are stored as is in the comment content file 13 (even if there are keywords, the comment contents are stored in the file.
13) (step 33).

When the above-mentioned keyword is extracted, the content of the message is further analyzed and the content of the message is displayed (redisplay request).
It is determined whether or not the related information is displayed (steps 34 and 35).
For example, since it is judged that the previous content of the statement is referred to by the keyword "Sasaki", it is a redisplay request, and there is another keyword "Yamada" (step 36). The latest utterance content of "Yamada" is read from the file 13 (step 3
8) is displayed on the display device 23 of the client machine 20 (step 40). As a result, as shown in FIG.
The display changes to focus on the content of "69 Yamada". If there is no keyword, all the utterances for about 10 minutes before the input utterance are displayed (for example, the display of FIG. 4).

In the case of the utterance as shown in FIG. 8, it is determined that the related information is read from the extracted keyword, and the related information based on the extracted keyword is read from the related information file 14 as shown in FIG. In the case of the statement, the material of the previous growth rate is read, and as shown in FIG.
It is displayed on the machine 20 (steps 39 and 40).

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an entire electronic conference system.

FIG. 2 is a flow chart showing the operation of a server machine.

FIG. 3 shows an example of a statement content file.

FIG. 4 shows a display example.

FIG. 5 shows an example of utterance contents.

FIG. 6 shows a display example.

FIG. 7 shows a display example.

FIG. 8 shows an example of utterance contents.

FIG. 9 shows a display example.

[Explanation of symbols]

 10 Server machine 12 Keyword database 13 Statement file 14 Related information file 20 Client machine 22 Input device 23 Display device

─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of the front page (51) Int.Cl. ⁵ Identification code Internal reference number FI Technical indication location H04N 1/00 Z 7046-5C 7/15 8943-5C (72) Inventor Hisako Kinoshita Ukyo-ku, Kyoto No. 10 Hanazono Dodocho OMRON Corporation

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. An utterance content storage device for storing the utterance content together with the speaker identification code, and whether the utterance content has a keyword indicating the relevance to other utterance content when the utterance content is input. An electronic conferencing system provided with a means for determining whether or not there is a keyword, and a means for controlling the content of a message associated with the keyword to be read from a content storage device and displayed on a display device. .. 2. When it is determined that the input utterance content includes a keyword, a pointer indicating the relevance to the utterance content associated with the keyword is set, and the input utterance content is stored in the utterance content storage device. The electronic conferencing system according to claim 1, further comprising storage control means for storing the information in the electronic conference system. 3. A related information storage device in which related information used in a meeting is stored in advance, and when the utterance content of a speaker is input, it is determined whether or not the utterance content has a keyword indicating a relationship with the related information. An electronic conferencing system comprising: a means for performing, and a means for controlling, when it is determined that there is a keyword, to read the related information associated with the keyword from the related information storage device and display it on the display device.