Patent ID: 9445054
Filing Date: 2016-09-13
CPC Classification: H04N

Claim Text:
1. A mobile information providing apparatus capable of communicating with an external transmission terminal which performs video communication with one or more counterpart transmission terminals, the information providing apparatus, comprising: a display configured to display an image data; a communication interface that wirelessly transmits the image data to the external transmission terminal; and circuitry configured to execute a process including obtaining the image data when it is displayed on the display and wirelessly transmitting the displayed image data to the external transmission terminal while the external transmission terminal is performing video communication with the one or more counterpart transmission terminals, as data to be distributed to the one or more counterpart transmission terminals during the video communication, such that the external transmission terminal is performing the video communication with the one or more counterpart transmission terminals prior to the communication interface wirelessly transmitting the image data to the external transmission terminal, and when the communication interface wirelessly transmits the image data to the external transmission terminal the external transmission terminal is caused to display the image data as part of the ongoing video communication with the one or more counterpart transmission terminals.