USER VIDEO IMAGE OFFERING SERVER SYSTEM, USER TERMINAL DEVICE, AND USER VIDEO IMAGE OFFERING METHOD BY USING SERVER SYSTEM AND TERMINAL DEVICE

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To promote smoothly an agreement forming process in meeting without imposing a large load on a network, by using a camera and a display unit at each spot in multi-point video conference system.;SOLUTION: In a multi-point video conference system, a plurality of terminals are connected with a network, and an image and a voice of the terminal user are transmitted and received with each other to realize communication among these users dispersed at multiple spots. The user video image offering server system includes a step of displaying all the terminal user's image including the self-terminal user's image at each terminal, a step of determining whether there is a user's input out of all the terminals, and a step of displaying sequentially each terminal user's highlighted image while all the terminals are synchronized on the basis of the result which has been determined by the determining step whether there is a user's input or not.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI