Patent ID: 7707227

Claim:
A minutes-creating support apparatus for creating minutes of a conference, the apparatus comprising: a conference image retaining portion having a computer-readable memory, which stores a conference image in the computer readable-memory, and which associates the stored conference image with date and time information, the date and time information being a date and a time at which the conference image is captured by a capturing apparatus; a memo editing portion which receives text information describing the conference input by a user from an inputting apparatus and input by employing a technique of voice automatic recognition based on the user's voice at a date and a time, associates the text information having the date and the time with corresponding date and time information of the conference image, and stores the associated information; and a minute creating portion which links the text information input from the inputting apparatus and input by employing the technique of voice automatic recognition with the conference image based on the associated date and time information stored by the memo editing portion to create the minutes, and which, if the user modifies the text information in the minutes, retains the date and time information associated with the text information based on the associated information stored by the memo editing portion, wherein the conference image is a conference moving image.