JPH0787245A - Board system for conference - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To omit trouble for handwriting a document and a graphic for an explanation on the board for a conference by participants of the conference, and also, to efficiently conduct the preparation of the minutes of proceedings, in the case of holding the conference by using the board for a conference. CONSTITUTION:To each participant of a conference, a keyboard terminal 1 provided with a keyboard main body 4, a tablet 5 for inputting a graphic, and a transmitter for outputting by radio a character code and graphic data inputted from the keyboard main body 4 and the tablet 5 is allocated. In such a state, by a display board device 2, the character code and the graphic data outputted by radio from each keyboard terminal 1 are received, the received character code is converted into a KANJI (Chinese character) mixed document, and the prepared document and graphic data are stored in each keyboard terminal, respectively. Subsequently, each stored sentence and graphic data are image- synthesized extending over all the keyboard terminals 1 and displayed.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a conference board system used for aggregating opinions of participants who participated in a conference or for presenters to make their own assertions at a conference.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a meeting in which a plurality of people participate, a blackboard or the like that can be viewed by all participants of the meeting is often used in order to facilitate the progress of the meeting. Since it is complicated for the secretary to record the opinions and agreement results of each participant presented at the meeting in the minutes each time, the electronic board device has been put into practical use.

As is well known, in this electronic board device, for example, characters and figures are drawn with a writing instrument on a white board surface formed of a polyester film curtain joined in a plow shape. When there is no blank space on the board surface, rotate the polyester film curtain and rotate the part on which letters and figures are drawn to the back side.The letters and figures drawn on the polyester film curtain are read by an image reading device and reduced to reduce the hardware. Take out as a copy drawing. The read characters and figures are automatically erased, and when the polyester film curtain is rotated next time, it appears on the front as a new board surface.

[0004]

However, the electronic board device as described above still has the following problems to be improved. It is necessary for the presenter or the moderator to handwrite characters and figures on the board surface with a writing instrument.
Therefore, when the meeting is over and the hardcopy drawings of the handwritten characters and figures are collected to create the minutes, the hardcopy drawings cannot be directly adopted for the minutes. It is necessary to make a clean copy of this hardcopy drawing and create a separate minutes. Therefore, it took a lot of time and effort to prepare the formal minutes.

When the participants of the conference explain their opinions by using, for example, a document or a graphic, they must go to the place where the electronic board device is installed and write the document or the graphic, which is very complicated. .

Documents and figures drawn on the board surface of the electronic board device are erased when the board surface rotates at most 2-3 times. I cannot confirm it on the surface.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and each participant of the conference is provided with a keyboard terminal so that documents and figures drawn on the board surface can be input from the keyboard terminal. It is possible to display beautiful printed characters that are not handwritten on the board surface, and to store and retain these display data in the storage unit, and it is possible to omit direct handwriting on the board surface during the meeting, improving the efficiency of proceedings. , The purpose of the present invention is to provide a meeting board system that can greatly simplify the work of creating minutes.

[0008]

In order to solve the above problems, the conference board system of the present invention comprises a plurality of keyboard terminals and one display board device for displaying various information inputted from each keyboard terminal. I am configuring.

Each keyboard terminal has a keyboard body in which various character keys are arranged, a tablet for inputting a figure, and a transmitter for wirelessly outputting the character code and figure data input from the keyboard body and the tablet. It consists of.

Further, the display board device includes a receiver for receiving the character code and the graphic data wirelessly output from each keyboard terminal, and a document creating section for converting the character code received by the receiver into a document containing kanji. The received data memory that stores the document created by the document creation unit and the graphic data received by the receiver for each keyboard terminal, and the text and graphic data stored in the received data memory across all keyboard terminals The image synthesizing unit for synthesizing images, the display board main body for displaying the image synthesized by the image synthesizing unit, and the storage unit for storing and storing the image synthesized by the image synthesizing unit.

[0011]

In the conference board system thus constructed, when a participant of the conference inputs a character or a figure by using the keyboard body and the tablet of the keyboard terminal provided to the conference, the character or the figure is displayed on the display board. It is transmitted to the device and stored in the area allocated to the corresponding keyboard terminal in the reception data memory of the display board device. In this case, the character data is converted into a document containing kanji and stored in the document creating unit. The text and graphic data stored in the received data memory are image-synthesized and displayed on the display board body. The combined image is stored and held in the storage unit.

[0012]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing a conference board system according to an embodiment. This conference board system is roughly divided into
It is composed of a plurality of keyboard terminals 1 and a display board device 2. Each keyboard device 1 is arranged at a position where each participant sits on the conference table. The display board device 2 is arranged, for example, behind the moderator at a position where each participant can directly see it.

All the keyboard terminals 1 have the same structure, and as shown in the drawing, a keyboard body 4, a tablet 5, and an antenna 6 of a transmitter are mounted on the upper surface of a box-shaped case 3. A selection switch 7 is attached adjacent to the keyboard body 4.

The keyboard body 4 is the keyboard terminal 1
Participants seated in front are to enter characters by key input,
The doublet 5 is also used by the same participant to input a figure using the pen 5a. The selection switch 7 is a switch for declaring that the display board device 2 is occupied when the keyboard terminal 1 of its own transmits a character code or graphic data to the display board device 2, and each participant makes this selection. After pressing the switch 7, characters or figures are input using the keyboard body 4 and the tablet 5.

FIG. 2 is a schematic configuration diagram of each keyboard terminal 1. For example, a transmitter 9 connected to the keyboard body 4, the tablet 5, the selection switch 7, and the antenna 6 is connected to a control unit 8 formed of a microprocessor or the like.

When the selection switch 7 is pressed, the control section 8 wirelessly outputs a selection request signal for its own keyboard terminal 1 to the display board device 2 via the transmitter 9. Further, the control unit 8 wirelessly outputs the corresponding character code via the transmitter 9 in response to the operation of pressing the character key of the keyboard body 4, and at the same time, sends the graphic data input from the tablet 5 via the transmitter 9. Output wirelessly.

In the display board device 2 of FIG. 1, the display screen 11 is supported by the support frame 10. Various documents 12 and figures 13 are displayed on the display screen 11 by an image projection device provided at the rear. Therefore, the display screen 11 and the image projection device constitute a display board.

A body device 14 is attached to the side surface of the support frame 10. An FD (floppy disk) insertion port is provided on the front surface of the main body device 14. The antenna 15 is attached to the upper surface.

A communication unit 16 is attached to the lower surface of the support frame 10, and a modem 17 is attached to the communication unit 16.
Are connected. A microphone 18 and a speaker 19 are attached to this modem 17. The modem 17 is a remote monitor 2 installed at a remote place via an external public line 20.
1 is connected to the modem 22. A microphone 23 and a speaker 24 are connected to the modem 22.

The modems 17 and 22, the microphones 18 and 23, and the speakers 19 and 24 carry out conversations between the participants of this conference and other participants who are heading to the remote monitor 21 installed in, for example, a branch office. It is a device for performing.

The documents 12 and the graphics 13 displayed on the display screen 11 are transmitted to the remote monitor 21 via the modems 17 and 22 and the public line 20, and displayed on the display screen of the remote monitor 21. .

On the other hand, if necessary, the remote monitor 21
A document or a graphic can be transmitted from the side to the communication unit 16 of the display board device 2 via each of the modems 22 and 17 and the public line 20.

On the display screen 11, as shown in FIG. 1, a common screen can be displayed in full screen and
As shown in FIG. 3, it is also possible to divide and display the screen screen on a plurality of dedicated screens 25 respectively corresponding to the keyboard terminals 1 and the remote monitors 21.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing a schematic structure of the main body device 14 incorporated in the display board device 2. The main body device 14 is composed of a kind of information processing device such as a computer.

The selection request signal, the character code and the graphic data wirelessly output from each keyboard terminal 1 are sent to the antenna 15.
Is input to each receiving unit 26 assigned to each keyboard terminal 1 via. Each receiving unit 26 writes the received selection request signal, character code, and graphic data in the storage area 27a assigned to itself in the received data memory 27.

The switching control unit 28 monitors the writing of the selection request signal in each storage area 27a, and determines the character code of the storage area 27a in which the selection request signal is written to the document creation unit 29.
Transfer to. The document creation unit 29 has a word processor function, converts the character code transferred from the storage area 27a into a document containing Kanji characters, and reroutes the same storage basin 27.
Write to a. That is, the character code written in each storage area 27a is converted by the document creating unit 29 into an easy-to-read kanji mixed document. The document and graphic data stored in each storage area 27a are sent to the next image synthesizing unit 30.

Since the remote monitor 21 has a kana-kanji conversion function, the remote monitor 21 can be connected to the modem 22,
The document and graphic data input via 17 and the communication unit 16 are stored in the reception memory 32 via the interface 31 of the main body device 14. The document and graphic data stored in the reception memory 32 are input to the image composition unit 30.

A command from the controller 31 connected to the operation panel is input to the image composition section 30. From the operation panel via the controller 31, the display screen 11
The screen to be displayed in the common screen as shown in Figure 1, or
A command to enter the plurality of dedicated screens 25 shown in FIG. 3 is input. Further, a write command to the FDD 35 and a print output command to the printer 36 are input from the operation pal via the controller 31. Then, for example, the moderator of the conference operates this operation panel as necessary.

When the dedicated screen 25 is selected by this operation panel, the synthesizing function of the image synthesizing unit 30 is stopped,
The document and graphic data stored in each storage area 27a and the receiving memory 32 are individually converted into image data and sent to the display control unit 32. The display control unit 32 displays the received image data of each document and graphic data on each dedicated screen 25 on the display screen 11 in the format shown in FIG. 3 via the above-described image projector.

On the other hand, when the common screen is selected by the operation panel, the image synthesizing unit 30 converts the document and graphic data received from each storage area 27a and the receiving memory 32 into image data, and then synthesizes the image as one common screen. To do. Then, the composite image data is sent to the next display control unit 32. The display controller 32 displays the received combined image data as a common image on the display screen 11 through the image projector.

It should be noted that each participant can arbitrarily designate a cursor for each image of the common screen and the dedicated screen 25 displayed on the display screen 11 from each keyboard terminal 1 through the cursor control unit 33. is there.

The common document memory section 33 includes an image synthesizing section 30.
The combined image data combined in step S1 is temporarily stored and held. When a write command for the FD is input from the operation panel via the controller 31, the stored composite image data is sent to the FDD 35. When a print output command is input, the stored composite image data is printed by the printer 3
Send to 6.

Further, if necessary, the reception data memory 2
It is also possible to individually write the document and graphic data stored in each storage area 27a in FIG. 7 to the FD for each keyboard terminal 1 or print out the data.

Further, the display control unit 32 transfers the image data to be displayed on the display screen 11 to the interface 31,
It transmits to the remote modem 21 via the communication unit 16. In the conference board system configured as described above, each participant in the conference is provided with his / her own keyboard terminal 1. Then, when it becomes necessary for each participant to explain some information to other participants by using a document or a figure, after pressing the selection switch 7, the characters are input on the keyboard body 4. Then, the figure is input with the tablet 5. When a character is input using the keyboard body 4, the input character is displayed on the display screen 11.
In this case, the document creation unit 29 operates and the document 1 containing kanji is mixed.
It is converted to 2 and displayed. When a homophone that is not intended by the participant is displayed, the participant corrects it to the correct kanji by operating a normal word processor. Further, the figure 13 drawn by each participant using the tablet 5 is displayed on the display screen 11 as it is.

Then, one participant displays the display screen 1
In order for other participants to disagree or supplement the document 12 or graphic 13 drawn for 1, it was necessary to add or correct the document 12 or graphic 13 already displayed. In this case, after pressing the selection stitch 7 of the own keyboard device 1, necessary characters and figures may be input using the keyboard body 4 and the tablet 5 of the own keyboard device 1.

Therefore, it is not necessary for each participant to go to the installation position of the display board device 2 and manually fill in a document or a figure, so that the efficiency of proceedings can be improved.
In addition, it is displayed on the display screen 11 as beautiful type characters other than handwritten characters, and the document 12 described by the type characters is printed out by the printer 36. Therefore, the output image data of the display screen 11 can be directly adopted as the regular minutes, and the minutes preparation work can be greatly simplified.

The document 12 and the graphic 13 displayed on the display screen 11 are stored and held in the FD by the FDD 35 before the writing of a new document 12 or graphic 13 on the display screen 11. Therefore, even the document 12 and the graphic 13 which have been erased once can be easily displayed on the display screen 11.
Can be redisplayed up. Therefore, the proceedings of the proceedings can be progressed more efficiently.

In addition to being able to use the display screen 11 as a common screen that each participant can freely access as shown in FIG. 1, as shown in FIG. 3, it is divided into a dedicated screen 25 for each participant, Since each participant can use his / her own dedicated screen 25, it is very easy for the participants to compare their opinions.

Even when it is used as a common screen, the displayed document 12 or graphic 1 is displayed by changing the display color for each participant (for each keyboard terminal).
It is also possible to easily distinguish which participant has written 3 in the table.

Further, in the system of the embodiment, the image data displayed on the display screen 11 is transmitted via the public line 20 to the remote monitor 21 provided at a remote place such as a branch office, and the remote control is performed. Monitor 21
Display screen 1 for documents and graphics received from
It is displayed in 1. As a result, people in remote areas can join this conference under almost the same conditions as other participants.

[0041]

As described above, in the conference board system of the present invention, each participant of the conference is provided with a keyboard terminal so that documents and figures drawn on the board surface can be input from the keyboard terminal. Therefore, it is possible to display beautiful printed characters that are not handwritten on the board surface, and to store and retain the display data in a storage unit such as an FDD, so that it is possible to omit direct handwriting entry work on the board surface during the meeting, and to manage the proceedings. While improving efficiency,
The work of creating minutes can be greatly simplified.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing a conference board system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of a keyboard terminal of the embodiment system.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a display screen in a display board device of the embodiment system.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of a device body in the display board device.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... Keyboard terminal, 2 ... Display board device, 4 ... Keyboard body, 5 ... Tablet, 6, 15 ... Antenna, 7 ...
Selection switch, 8 ... Control unit, 9 ... Transmitter, 11 ... Display screen, 12 ... Document, 13 ... Graphic, 14 ... Device body,
16 ... Communication unit, 17, 22 ... Modem, 20 ... Public line, 26 ... Reception unit, 27 ... Reception data memory,
29 ... Document creating unit, 30 ... Image combining unit, 31 ... Controller, 32 ... Display control unit, 35 ... FDD, 36 ... Printer.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A conference board system comprising a plurality of keyboard terminals and one display board device for displaying various information input from each keyboard terminal, wherein each keyboard terminal has various character keys. An arrayed keyboard body, a tablet for entering figures,
A transmitter that wirelessly outputs the character code and graphic data input from the keyboard body and the tablet; and the display board device that receives the character code and graphic data wirelessly output from each of the keyboard terminals. , A document creation unit for converting a character code received by this receiver into a document containing Kanji characters, and a document created by this document creation unit and the graphic data received by the receiver are stored for each keyboard terminal A data memory, an image synthesizing unit for synthesizing images of the respective text and graphic data stored in the received data memory over all keyboard terminals, and a display board main body for displaying the image synthesized by the image synthesizing unit. And a storage unit that stores and holds the image combined by the image combining unit.