Patent ID: 7262788
Filing Date: 2007-08-28
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A conference support system for supporting progress of proceedings, comprising: speaker's gaze direction detection means for detecting a gaze direction of a speaker of a conference; detecting means for detecting a reaction in response to a statement of the speaker and outputting a signal representing the reaction wherein said detecting means comprises a statement receiving means for receiving the speaker's statement; storing means for storing the signal representing the reaction detected by said detecting means; image receiving means for receiving an image in which object gazed by the speaker in speaker's gaze direction is photographed; displaying means for displaying the image received by said image receiving means on a display provided for each attendant of the conference; and a response judgment means for judging a response of an attendant, who is gazed by the speaker in the speaker's gaze direction, by analyzing the image received by said image receiving means only when the statement is a certain type.