REMOTE PLACE CONVERSATION CONTROL METHOD, REMOTE PLACE CONVERSATION SYSTEM AND RECORDING MEDIUM WHEREIN REMOTE PLACE CONVERSATION CONTROL PROGRAM IS RECORDED

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve a problem of difficulty in grasping a situation such as who is talking to whom when a plurality of (not less than three) persons in remote places hold a conference by voice by using a telephone line. ;SOLUTION: A conference control server controlling information on conference participants belonging to a prescribed conference group is installed. The conference control server has a conference participant management part 42 grasping information on the conference participants such as the number of the conference participants belonging to the conference group, a virtual layout information generation part 43 receiving information from the conference participant management part 42 and generating virtual layout information of the conference participants in the conference group and a sound field generation part 45 obtaining how the sound of a caller can be heard by the other conference participants based on sound data that a caller emits and virtual layout information on the conference participants when the prescribed conference participant speaks and outputs it as stereoscopic sound data corresponding to the individual conference participants. Stereoscopic sound data is transmitted to the individual conference participants.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2001,JPO