Online conference apparatus and online conference method

1 . An online conference apparatus comprising:

a memory that stores management information for managing availability of sharing for an image; and

a processor configured to:

in a case where a designation image comprising a plurality of fields is designated for sharing by a participant of an online conference, determine whether availability of sharing for each of the plurality of fields in the designation image is either permitted or prohibited according to the management information;

in response to the availability of sharing for a first field among the plurality of fields in the designated image being prohibited according to the management information, apply a sharing restriction to the designation image by applying the mask to the first field in the designated image; and

in response to the sharing restriction being temporarily released according to a user operation, sharing the designated image without applying the sharing restriction thereto such that no mask is applied to the designated image.

2 . The online conference apparatus according to claim 1 ,

wherein the designation image is any of an image generated by application software or a desktop image.

3 . The online conference apparatus according to claim 1 ,

wherein the sharing restriction includes a sharing restriction for an entirety of the designation image.

4 . The online conference apparatus according to claim 1 ,

wherein the management information is information in a management table in which availability of sharing is registered for each image attribute, and

the processor is configured to:

determine whether or not to apply the sharing restriction to the designation image, based on the management table.

5 . The online conference apparatus according to claim 4 ,

wherein the image attribute includes application software that generates an image, and

the processor is configured to:

determine whether or not to apply the sharing restriction to the designation image, according to the application software that generates the designation image.

6 . The online conference apparatus according to claim 5 ,

wherein in the management table, availability of sharing is registered for each image element, and

the processor is further configured to:

determine whether or not to apply the sharing restriction to each image element in the designation image.

7 . The online conference apparatus according to claim 1 ,

wherein the management information includes information for managing availability of sharing for each image element in a desktop image, and

the processor is configured to:

in a case where the designation image is a desktop image, determine whether or not to apply the sharing restriction to each image element in the desktop image.

8 . The online conference apparatus according to claim 7 ,

wherein the image element is a window, and

the processor is configured to:

determine whether or not to apply the sharing restriction to each window in the desktop image.

9 . The online conference apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to:

for each window in a desktop image, provide information indicating availability of sharing of the window.

10 . The online conference apparatus according to claim 1 ,

wherein the online conference apparatus is a terminal apparatus used by the participant.

11 . The online conference apparatus according to claim 1 ,

wherein the online conference apparatus is an online conference server connected to a terminal apparatus used by the participant.

12 . The online conference apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to:

in response to the availability of sharing for the designated image being prohibited and the sharing restriction not being released, share the designated image in which mask is applied; and

in response to the availability of sharing for the designated image being prohibited and the sharing restriction being temporarily released, share the designated image in which no mask is applied.

13 . The online conference apparatus according to claim 1 ,

wherein the management information is a management table comprising a plurality of field names respectively corresponding to the plurality of fields in the designated image and a plurality of labels indicating availability for sharing respectively corresponding to the plurality of field names,

wherein the plurality of field names comprise a first field name corresponding to the first field,

wherein the processor determines that the first field in the designated image is prohibited according to a label, among the plurality of labels, corresponding to the first field name in the management table.

14 . A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program that is executed in an information processing apparatus, and causes the information processing apparatus to operate as an online conference apparatus, the program comprising:

a function of storing management information for managing availability of sharing for an image;

a function of, in a case where a designation image comprising a plurality of fields is designated for sharing by a participant of an online conference, determining whether availability of sharing for each of the plurality of fields in the designation image is either permitted or prohibited according to the management information;

a function of, in response to the availability of sharing for a first field among the plurality of fields in the designated image being prohibited according to the management information, applying a sharing restriction to the designation image by applying the mask to the first field in the designated image; and

a function of, in response to the sharing restriction being temporarily released according to a user operation, sharing the designated image without applying the sharing restriction thereto such that no mask is applied to the designated image.

15 . An online conference method comprising:

storing management information for managing availability of sharing for an image;

in a case where a designation image comprising a plurality of fields is designated for sharing by a participant of an online conference, determining whether availability of sharing for each of the plurality of fields in the designation image is either permitted or prohibited according to the management information;

in response to the availability of sharing for a first field among the plurality of fields in the designated image being prohibited according to the management information, applying a sharing restriction to the designation image by applying the mask to the first field in the designated image; and

in response to the sharing restriction being temporarily released according to a user operation, sharing the designated image without applying the sharing restriction thereto such that no mask is applied to the designated image.