Conferencing system, terminal apparatus communication method and storage medium for storing the method
US5996003A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jul 30, 1996 |
| Grant date | Nov 30, 1999 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 30, 2016 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04N7/15
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
There is provided a system for imitating distribution and explanation of conference documents in an actual conference so that a conference held in a desktop coferencing system can be made to approximate an actual conference. The system constituted of a transmitting side apparatus and at least one receiving side apparatus includes information management control units for managing the conference documents and information concerning the participants in the conference and controlling the whole system based on the management information, an input unit for inputting the conference documents as data, a transmitting unit and a receiving unit for exchanging data of the conference documents and the management information, a storing unit for storing the data of the conference documents received by the receiving unit, and document display units for displaying the conference documents. In such a system configuration, a conference document displayed in the transmitting side apparatus is transmitted to the receiving side apparatus so that the conference document can be not only stored in the storing unit, but also displayed to the document display unit. Thus, the transmitting side apparatus can d…
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