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Title:
VIDEO CONVERSATION SYSTEM
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2003333558
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To provide a video conversation system wherein a server transmits a real time video image photographed by a camera transmits a user terminal via a network such as the Internet and which enables the terminal user to make a conversation with a particular person in the photographed object.

The server connected to the user terminal via the network is provided with: a means for receiving a video image from a camera for photographing a real time video image; a means for receiving voice of a person being the object; a means for identifying the person of the object and detecting the position; and a means for segmenting an image around the position of the particular person being the object and returning the segmented image and the voice of the particular person to the user terminal so as to attain one to one communication between the user and the particular person of the object.


Inventors:
NAKAMURA TOMOHIKO
HIRAKAWA YUTAKA
YUHITO MITSUHIRO
SAITO TAKAFUMI
Application Number:
JP2002140817A
Publication Date:
November 21, 2003
Filing Date:
May 15, 2002
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Assignee:
NIPPON TELEGRAPH & TELEPHONE
International Classes:
G06F13/00; G06T7/00; G06T7/60; G10L15/00; G10L15/28; H04N5/262; H04N7/14; (IPC1-7): H04N7/14; G06F13/00; G06T7/00; G06T7/60; G10L15/00; G10L15/28; H04N5/262
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Makoto Suzuki