Patent ID: 8041767

Claim:
An electronic conference system comprising: a first conference terminal apparatus used by a speaker of an electronic conference for transmitting image information displayed on a number of first screens and causing a second conference terminal apparatus used by an audience to display the image information on a number of second screens, the number of first screens being different from the number of second screens; said first conference terminal apparatus including, a screen control part displaying a plurality of image information items simultaneously on the number of first screens, a priority allocation part assigning to each of the displayed image information items priority for being displayed on the number of second screens, and an information transmission processing part transmitting to said second conference terminal apparatus the displayed image information items, screen identification information for each displayed image information item, and the priority allocated to each displayed image information items; said second conference terminal apparatus including, an information reception processing part receiving, from said first conference terminal apparatus, a plurality of image information items, screen identification information for each image information item to be displayed, and priority information for each image information item to be displayed, a number of received image information items being greater than the number of second screens used for displaying the image information items, and a display processing part extracting, from the received plurality of image information items, a number of image information items equal to the number of second screens used for displaying the image information items, the extracted image information items having a highest priority of the received plurality of image information items; said display processing part causing the extracted image information items to be displayed simultaneously on the second screens.