Patent ID: 7391432
Filing Date: 2008-06-24
Classification: H04M,H04N

Abstract:
1. A videoconference system, comprising: computers of users, the computers enabling communication with each other via a communication network; and electronic cameras of the users, the electronic cameras enabling a moving image to be taken, the electronic cameras being respectively connected to the computers duplex-communicably, wherein: the videoconference system makes a videoconference possible by making a moving image, taken by the electronic camera of each user, displayed on a display device of a computer of a communication partner; the computer has a program for videoconference which performs the videoconference; the computer further has a program for image display; and the program for videoconference and the program for image display are automatically booted when it is detected that the electronic camera is connected duplex-communicably; wherein the program for image display makes the computer execute a function of making a display device of the computer simultaneously display a list of images recorded in a recording medium in the electronic camera or recorded in a recording medium in the computer; and wherein the program for videoconference makes the computer execute, when an image is selected from the list of images during communication and image transmission is commanded, a function of making the selected image transmitted to a communication partner.