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.
HIRAKAWA YUTAKA
YUHITO MITSUHIRO
SAITO TAKAFUMI