JPS6096059A - Electronic conference system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To attain ease of confirmation of a talker by detecting the start of talking when a talker starts talking toward a voice input section of a terminal device and displaying who is the talker of a voice given to each terminal onto a display section of each terminal device. CONSTITUTION:The user's name inputted from the operator is stored tentatively to a terminal control section 7, the terminal number is added and transferred to a controller 11. For example, when a chairman of a terminal device 31 turns on a switch of a detection section 4 and gives explanation of subjects of a conference and titles of required materials from a voice input section 3, the controller 11 indexes the user's name of the terminal device from a terminal device number transmitting the switch ON-state of the detection section 4 by using a conversion table and transfers the user's name to each terminal device at first. Then the inputted voice information is transferred to each terminal device. The voice talked at the terminal device 31 is heard by each terminal device, the name of a person talking at the terminal device 31 is marked and who is talking is understood easily. Then the user of each terminal inputs the titles of the materials from the input section 2, the corresponding document is displayed from the document file 12 of the controller 11 is display section 1 of the terminal device and discussion is continued while observing the display.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Technical Field of the Invention] The present invention relates to a conference system (2) that electronically conducts conferences between a plurality of workstations connected via a computer network; This invention relates to a magnetic conference system that is characterized by clearly indicating who is speaking.

[Technical background of the invention and points of interest]

The conventional magnetic conference system mainly uses telephones and faxes.
It is a combination of a four-child blackboard, a television, etc.

Materials such as manuscripts are transferred by fax, and while you are viewing them, you can talk on the phone and see the speaker through the television.Also, the Ashi blackboard is placed in a coordinate position detection device, and when you draw on the blackboard with a special pen, The coordinate position drawn on the blackboard is detected, and the position information is transmitted through a line, converted into a video signal at the other end, and displayed on a screen via a video grogiector.

In this manner, the conventional conference system has been a method in which conference rooms are provided in remote locations, and all people gather in each conference room.

In this way, traditional conference systems ・It is necessary to gather in a specific conference room.

- Materials must be sent by fax before the meeting begins.

・When you declare your oath to your partner, you need to do it on the electronic blackboard.

・It is not possible to directly point out the location that Shimeng wants to instruct.

The problem with this is δ.

[Purpose of dark tone]

In a magnetic conference system that uses multiple terminal devices connected via a network, it is clearly indicated on the display of the terminal device whether the current speaker is Usure [d+Kogi system (i-provided) There is a particular thing.

[Outline of former IJ4] The non-invention is a conference terminal device equipped with a display unit and an audio input/output unit, these terminals are connected via a network, and a conference is held between multiple terminals. ・B, terminal When a speaker starts speaking toward the voice input section of the device, it detects this start and displays on the display section of each terminal whether the speaker of the voice being played to each terminal has an accent. Regarding the child conference system.

〔Effect of the invention〕

The system of the present invention has the following effects that cannot be obtained with conventional magnetic conference systems.

1) You can have a distributed meeting without gathering in a specific meeting room.

2) Since the current speaker is displayed on the terminal, it is easy to confirm the speaker.

3) All participants in the meeting are displayed on the terminal, making it easy to confirm the attendees.

[Embodiments of the invention]

Examples of the present invention will be specifically described. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a conference terminal device. The terminal device includes a display section 1 for displaying documents composed of characters, graphics, images, etc., an input section 2 for inputting characters, etc., a voice input section 3 for inputting voice, and a display section 3 for detecting the start of voice input. An output section 4, an audio output section 5 that outputs the content spoken on another terminal, and a display section 1
The device is comprised of a pointing device 6 that points to a document displayed on the screen, and a terminal control section 7 that controls these devices. The terminal is also connected to a network 8 for communicating with other terminals. Each terminal is connected via the network 7 to a conference system control device 11 that manages distributed processing. As shown in Fig. 2, the conference system control device 11 is equipped with a correspondence table 13 that shows who corresponds to each terminal and the literary agent 12 used in the conference.

This correspondence table 13 consists of a list of pairs of %terminal number TN and user name NAME manually entered from each terminal at the time of system startup.71. A concrete example of the structure of the correspondence table 13 is shown in Section 31;2.

FIG. 4 shows that each of the above-mentioned terminals is connected to the conference system control device 11 via a local area network 21, and each local area network 21 is connected to a public l-
It is connected to another local area network 21 via a. Here, a case is shown in which there are local area networks in area A and area B, respectively. When holding a conference using each terminal distributed in this way, the person sitting on each terminal 1ji, I and participating in public prostitution cannot directly see the other party's 1;A, so It becomes unclear who is participating or who you are talking to at the moment. In order to prevent this, a conference participant guide 41 showing a conference scene as shown in FIG. 5 is displayed on a part of the screen 40 on the display screen of each terminal. The conference participant guide 41 displays a round table, around which the names of the people participating in the gathering are displayed, and furthermore (2) the name of the current person is displayed by blinking or surrounding it with a mark. Specify who the speaker is in Jt. In Figure 5, "Sato",
■2 is marked with a mark to indicate that he is a JA5 speaker. Furthermore, this screen shows the conference rent 4 that is being discussed here.
3 is also displayed.

Next, we will explain the specific operations of the conference system.

In FIG. 4, it is determined that terminal A 131 will become the chairperson and proceed with the meeting. The earthenware is as follows.

・Start the system from terminal A131. Accordingly, the conference system 1ilJ#device 1 controlling the area A
1, the conference system is started.

- When the conference system is started, a message to input the user name (the name of the person participating in the conference) is transferred from the control device 11 to each terminal 16Ij 14 section 7.

- Each terminal control unit displays this message on the display unit. The operator of this message 4 inputs the user's name. The input user name is temporarily stored in the terminal system # section 7, and then transferred to the control device 11 with the message that it is a reply to the message and the terminal number added.

- The control L1 control 11 uses the information transferred from each terminal to create a correspondence table consisting of pairs of terminal numbers and user names.

-Here, the IrIIJ control device 11 sends information to each terminal to the effect that a conference will be held and the names of conference participants to the terminal sub-11111.
Transfer to District 7.

- The terminal control section 7 displays on the display section 1 the fact that the conference is being developed, and then displays the Association FIIA Clinician's Guide on the display section 1 based on the information on the names of the conference participants.

・Next, the chairman of terminal A131 turns the switch of detection unit 4 to 6.
Then, using the voice input section 3, explain the purpose of the meeting, the subject of the necessary rent, etc. When the switch of the detection unit 4 is turned on, the terminal control unit 7 detects this state and the control device 11
Please forward that information to.

At that time, the voice input from the voice input s53 was also input to the terminal ff1.
It is transferred to the control device 11 via the lJ ij1 section 7.

・I (In the IIJ1j1 device 11, the switch O of the detection unit 4
Use correspondence table 13 to find the terminal number that sent the N status and the user name of that terminal, and first transfer this user name to each terminal. Next, the input audio information is transferred to each terminal.

- The control unit 7 of each terminal uses the user name transferred from the control device 11 to mark the user name of the conference participant guide that has already been transferred.

Next, the transferred audio information is outputted to the audio output section 5.

As a result, each terminal device can hear the voice spoken at the terminal A 131, and at the same time, the name of the person speaking at the terminal A 131 is marked, making it easy to see who is speaking.

・Next, the user of each terminal inputs the title of the document into the input section 2, displays the corresponding document from the document file 12 of the control device 11 on the display section 1 of the terminal, and has a discussion while looking at this. You can proceed.

・Further display r:l 1 t'' - Indicate the displayed document with the pointing device 6 and turn the switch of the detection unit 4 to 5.
When N is selected, the position of the cursor currently displayed in 4E is displayed at each end using a method similar to voice input, making it clear which position in the document the person trying to explain is explaining.

The above operation (remote conference using two distributed terminal devices) is realized.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Figure 1 is a configuration diagram of the conference terminal equipment, and Figure 2 shows the configuration of each terminal.
Figure 3 is a diagram showing the configuration of a correspondence table for the conference system - + TJIJ (4 devices). Figure 4 shows how each terminal connects to other networks via the local area network and public line. (Fig. 5 is a diagram showing an example of a display screen for clearly indicating the speaker. 1...Display section 2 of the terminal device... Input section 3...・Audio input section 4 of the terminal device...Detection section 5...Audio output section 6...Pointing device 7...Terminal control section 8...Network 11...Meeting f!iA7 stem control section Location 12... Document file 13... Correspondence table 21... Local area network a... Public line networks 31 to 34... Terminal device 40... Display screen 41... Conference participant name guide Display example 42...Display example of current speaker 43...Display example of meeting materials Agent Patent attorney Noriyuki Chika (and 1 other person) Figure 1! Figure 8 Figure 4 Figure 7゜ljf AT

Claims (1)

[Claims] A conference terminal device consisting of a display section for displaying documents consisting of characters, figures, etc., an input section for inputting characters, etc., an audio input/output section for inputting and outputting audio, a detection section for detecting the start of audio input, and a plurality of conference terminal devices. Consisting of 1 device that controls the terminal devices, 16 control devices maintain a correspondence table that associates conference participant names entered from each terminal device with the terminals, and when a participant starts writing at the valley terminal. Detected at 7 when voice input started at the mountain part 1η1
The control device 141 outputs the input voice to the valley terminal and outputs it from the voice output section of each terminal, and at the same time, the control device 141 extracts who is the speaker of the voice from the correspondence table and displays it on each terminal. A magnetoconferencing system characterized in that it shows who the current speakers are.