Patent ID: 6950119
Filing Date: 2005-09-27
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A videoconference system configured to implement transmission and reception of data by several types of media through a plurality of terminal devices connected by predetermined transmission means, said videoconference system comprising: a management table for managing users of the respective terminal devices in a state in which the users are sorted in an interlocutor mode for interlocutors mainly engaged in progress of a specific subject and in an observer mode for observers except for the interlocutors; and communication control means for delivering information necessary for two-way interlocution in real time to the terminal devices of the respective users sorted in the interlocutor mode and for separately editing as delivered information, information by media selected from information associated with the interlocution between the interlocutors sorted in the interlocutor mode, and delivering the edited information to the terminal devices of the respective users sorted in the observer mode.