Patent ID: 7197126

Claim:
A human communication system for realizing conversations between a plurality of users using a virtual space, wherein: said human communication system comprises: a server apparatus which manages respective locations of said plurality of users in said virtual space; and a plurality of client terminals used respectively by said plurality of users; each of said plurality of client terminals comprises: a client sending means which sends information on a location of a user himself of the client terminal in question to said server apparatus; a client receiving means which receives information on respective locations of other users than the user of the client terminal in question from said server apparatus; a space modeling means which calculates respective locations of said plurality of users based on said information on the user of the client terminal in question and said information on the locations of the other users; and a sound control means which controls sound effects applied to respective voices of said other users based on the locations calculated by said space modeling means; and said server apparatus comprises: a server receiving means which receives, from each of said plurality of client terminals, the information on the location of the user of the client terminal in question; a storage means which stores the respective locations of said plurality of users in the virtual space, based on the received information; and a server sending means which sends, to each of said plurality of client terminals, the information on the locations of the other users than the user of the client terminal in question.