IP Library Granted Patent US 11,290,598
Granted Patent B2
US 11,290,598 · App. 16/531,127 · Granted Mar 29, 2022

Teleconference system and terminal apparatus

Inventors: Suresh Murali (Kanagawa, JP); Sharath Vignesh Godhantaraman (Kanagawa, JP); Akira Sekine (Kanagawa, JP); Shingo Uchihashi (Kanagawa, JP)
Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
H04M3/568G06F3/165H04M3/567H04N7/15
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Patent No.
US 11,290,598
App. No.
16/531,127
Granted
Mar 29, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

A teleconference system includes an audio data receiving section, a group information holding section, and an audio controller. The audio data receiving section receives audio data obtained by multiple terminal apparatuses of multiple users who participate in a conference. The group information holding section holds group information indicating multiple groups. The groups are obtained by grouping the users of the terminal apparatuses. Any of the terminal apparatuses is referred to as a certain terminal apparatus. Each of the groups includes one or more users. The audio controller controls volumes of sound output of the audio data independently for the respective groups based on the group information held by the group information holding section. The audio data is received by the audio data receiving section.

Claims (5)

1. A terminal apparatus comprising:

a receiving section that receives image data of a plurality of users who participate in a conference;

a group setting section that sets a plurality of groups for the plurality of users, each of the plurality of groups including one or more users;

a display section that displays images of the plurality of users in such a manner that, among the plurality of groups being set by the group setting section, a display form of an image of a user in a certain group is different from a display form of an image of a user in a different group, the certain group including at least a user of the terminal apparatus; and

an image setting section that enables the image display forms to be set individually for the plurality of groups, after the group setting section sets the plurality of groups; wherein, among the plurality of groups being set by the group setting section, a range of settable image display forms for the certain group is different from a range of settable image display forms for the different group, the certain group including at least the user of the terminal apparatus, the settable display forms indicating display forms settable by the image setting section.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded May 13, 2021
From: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
To: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.
Reel/Frame 056222/0958 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 6, 2019
From: MURALI, SURESH; GODHANTARAMAN, SHARATH VIGNESH; SEKINE, AKIRA; UCHIHASHI, SHINGO
To: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 049964/0946 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP JP2018-153276 · Aug 16, 2018 · national
Continuity (1)
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