Presentation system

• US 20040075644A1
• Filed: 07/07/2003
• Published: 04/22/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 10/18/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Takano, Hideki, Morimoto, Yoshiaki, Satoyama, Motoaki, Morinaga, Takenori
• Application Number:
  US10/613,041
• Publication Number:
  US 20040075644A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/157
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1698 the I/O peripheral being a sending/receiving arrangement to establish a cordless communication link, e.g. radio or infrared link, integrated cellular phone details of antennas disposed inside a computer H01Q1/2266
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/033 Pointing devices displaced or positioned by the user , e.g. mice, trackballs, pens or joysticks; Accessories therefor digitisers characterised by the transducing means G06F3/041

Abstract

A presentation system includes a computer unit connected to at least radio transmitter-receiver unit and a display device, a plurality of mobile terminal devices communicating with the computer unit via the radio transmitter-receiver unit, and control unit incorporated in the computer unit to provide input information from the mobile terminal devices on the display device, reflecting information from mobile terminal devices on a screen of the display device.

Claims

1. A presentation system for performing presentation by using a display device, comprising:

a computer unit connected to at least radio transmitter-receiver means and said display device;

a plurality of mobile terminal devices communicating with said computer unit via said radio transmitter-receiver means; and

control means incorporated in said computer unit to provide input information from said mobile terminal devices on said display device.

2. The presentation system according to claim 1, wherein said mobile terminal device includes a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) having said radio transmitter-receiver means owned by at least a lecturer who performs presentation and persons taking the lecture.

3. The presentation system according to claim 1, wherein said control unit includes cursor control means together with a computer program for controlling cursor position information in order to indicate a display on a screen of said display device.

4. The presentation system according to claim 1, further comprising storage means connected to said computer unit to store data in relation with the presentation.

5. The presentation system according to claim 1, wherein said control unit includes a file acquisition unit together with a computer program for acquiring data stored in said storage means in accordance with an indication and selection by the mobile terminal devices.

6. The presentation system according to claim 1, wherein said control unit includes information format transforming means for transforming data stored in said storage means to an information format for the mobile terminal devices.

7. A presentation system for performing presentation by using a display device, comprising:

a computer unit connected with at least radio transmitter-receiver means and said display device;

a plurality of mobile terminal devices communicating with said computer unit via said radio transmitter-receiver means; and

control means provided a loud speech amplified a speech transmitted from said mobile terminal devices via said radio transmitter-receiver means and incorporated in said computer unit to provide input information from said mobile terminal devices on said display device.

8. The presentation system according to claim 7, further comprising a loudspeaker unit including a speaker connected to said computer unit, said loudspeaker unit amplifying the speech from the mobile terminal devices.

9. The presentation system according to claim 8, wherein said control unit includes information synthesis and separation means for combining the input information and speech information supplied from the mobile terminal devices and separating the input information to be supplied to said display device and the speech information to be supplied to said loudspeaker unit.

10. The presentation system according to claim 7, wherein the mobile terminal device includes a cellular telephone.