Patent ID: 6938210

Claim:
A computer-based lecture recording and reproducing method using a computer, in which the computer includes an information inputting unit for inputting handwriting information during a lecture, a voice inputting unit for inputting voice information during the lecture, a voice outputting unit for outputting the reproduced voice information, and a lecture recording and reproducing program for recording information inputted from the information inputting unit and the voice inputting unit and for reproducing the recorded information, the method comprising: executing the lecture recording and reproducing program to display a window on a screen; recording the lecture, including: storing information inputted from the information inputting unit and information relating to the information inputted from the information inputting unit in a memory of the computer together with time information and storing voice information inputted from the voice inputting unit in the memory of the computer; writing pre-stored information in a lecture file and the information inputted from the information inputting unit on an assigned area in the memory of the computer together with a shape of graphic tool by using the pre-stored information relating to the lecture file in the memory of the computer and the information relating to the information inputted from the information inputting unit so as to be equal to a configuration displayed on the screen; and displaying information written on the assigned area in the memory of the computer on the window of the screen; and reproducing the recorded lecture, including: storing information of the lecture file and the related information in the memory of the computer; writing sequentially the information of the lecture file on the assigned area in the memory of the computer together with the shape of graphic tool by using the related information; and displaying the information written on the assigned area in the memory of the computer on the window of the screen and outputting the voice information through the voice outputting unit, wherein the information of the lecture file includes lecture plan/schedule information, handwriting information and drawing information; and wherein a region of the lecture plan/schedule information stores a location for the lecture plan/schedule to be displayed, an actual size of the lecture plan/schedule, a type of the lecture plan/schedule, start location information of each image in the lecture file when at least one lecture plan/schedule is used, the lecture plan/schedule information, size information of the lecture plan/schedule file, a start time for the lecture plan/schedule to be displayed, a time when the lecture plan/schedule is deleted.