Patent ID: 7245665

Claim:
A remote operation system comprising: (a) a server for handling application software, said server including: (a-1) a data conversion block for converting audio-accompanying moving-picture data, having a format unique to the application software and supplied from the application software, into formatted video-audio data in a common format within the system; (a-2) a video-audio distributing block for receiving the formatted video-audio data and outputting 1) moving-picture area data and 2) audio-accompanying video data, said moving-picture area data including a given data corresponding to a moving-picture portion of the audio-accompanying video data; (a-3) a transmission processing block for 1) adding synchronizing data to the audio-accompanying video data received from the video-audio distributing block to synchronize audio with video and 2) compressing the audio-accompanying video data including said synchronizing data into a data stream, said transmission processing block outputting the data stream; (a-4) a video-audio converting block for adding the moving-picture area data to operation-related audio-display data supplied from the application software to form operation data for remote operation; (a-5) a first remote control block for receiving the operation data and the data stream, and separately outputting the operation data and the data stream; and (b) a client for receiving the operation and the data stream from said server, the client reproducing the video and the audio from the received data stream, and independently controlling the application software in response to an operation related to the video and the audio using the received operation data.