Display device, system, display method, and storage medium storing its program

• US 20050275715A1
• Filed: 11/16/2004
• Published: 12/15/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 06/11/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Miyazaki, Jun, Shingu, Jun, Yamada, Toshiya, Hirata, Kazutaka
• Granted Patent: US 7,705,875 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/14.70
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/147 Communication arrangements, e.g. identifying the communication as a video-communication, intermediate storage of the signals selecting H04Q
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/15 Conference systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/157 defining a virtual conference space and using avatars or agents computer conference optimisation or adaptation H04L12/1827

Abstract

A display device comprising includes an acquiring unit and a display unit. The acquiring unit acquires information about a conference from a storage device that stores conference information. The display unit creates an icon being representative of a feature of the conference and also a table, and displays the icon on the table corresponding to the conference. The display unit creates the icon and the table based on the information acquired by the acquiring unit.

Claims

1. A display device comprising:

an acquiring unit that acquires information about a conference from a storage device that stores conference information; and

a display unit that creates an icon being representative of a feature of the conference and a table represented on predetermined axes, and displays the icon on the table corresponding to the conference, based on the information acquired by the acquiring unit.

2. The display device according to claim 1, the information acquired by the acquiring unit is a conference video.

3. The display device according to claim 1, the conference information stored in the storage device is information of conferences held at a plurality of points.

4. The display device according to claim 1, the predetermined axes are place and time axes and the predetermined axes are at least one of a person related to the conference, a conference video, a place where the conference video is accessed, a place where the conference is held, time when the conference is held, information of the conference as one axis.

5. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the display unit displays the information corresponding to the icon selected by a predetermined operation.

6. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the display unit displays an operation screen for transmitting the information about the conference to an information processor.

7. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the display unit displays a map corresponding to a point which the conference is held.

8. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the display unit displays a table represented on the place and time axes, taking time differences of a plurality of points which the conferences are held into account.

9. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the display unit displays the same dates among the points in the table in the same colors.

10. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the display unit displays the same dates among the points in the table by connections of lines.

11. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the display unit displays the table centering on a point being displayed.

12. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the display unit displays a point in the table by moving the point in a direction of the one axis.

13. The display device according to claim 12, wherein the display unit displays the points in the table without moving the points being displayed in the table but with moving other points in the direction of the one axis.

14. The display device according to claim 4, wherein the display unit represents the time axis of the table represented on the place and time axes in one of day unit, week unit, and month unit.

15. The display device according to claim 4, wherein the display unit displays a direction of the time axis of the table represented on the place and time axes in non-linearly.

16. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the display unit displays the table on a three-dimensional space.

17. The display device according to claim 16, wherein the display unit displays the table by rotating the table along a proper loci.

18. The display device according to claim 1, wherein, when the information about the conference is a video about the conference which was held at multiple points at the same time, the display unit displays the icon on a plurality of points in the table represented on the place and time axes, the conference having been held at the plurality of points.

19. The display device according to claim 1, wherein, when the information about the conference is a video about the conference which was held at multiple points at the same time and the points are distant from each other in the table, the display unit divides the icon and displays the resultant icons on the table.

20. The display device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a calculating unit that calculates feature quantities of each conference based on the information about each of the conference acquired by the acquiring unit,

wherein the display unit represents the icon based on the feature quantities of each of the conferences.

21. The display device according to claim 20, wherein the feature quantities of each of the conferences include at least one of information about a conference participant, the number of references to a conference video, a place where the conference video was accessed, information about a person who accessed the conference video, information about an annotation, a length of the conference video, contents quantities, a conference style, a magnitude of behavior of the conference participant, and loudness of voice of the conference participant.

22. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the display unit represents the icon according to the number of references to one of the conference information stored in the storage device.

23. The display device according to claim 22, wherein the display unit represents the icon by changing a color of the icon or a background color of the icon according to the number of references to the conference information.

24. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the display unit represents the icon according to the number of participants in the conference.

25. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the display unit represents the icon by changing a color of a symbol being representative of the conference participant based on an attribute of the conference participant.

26. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the display unit represents the icon according to existence of an annotation attached to the information.

27. A system comprising:

a storage device that stores conference information an information processor that receives information;

a selection unit that selects icons displayed on a table; and

a display device further comprising;

an acquiring unit that acquires information about a conference from a storage device that stores conference information; and

a display unit that creates an icon being representative of a feature of the conference and a table, and displays the icon on the table corresponding to the conference, based on the information acquired by the acquiring unit.

28. A display method comprising:

acquiring information about a conference from a storage device that stores conference information;

creating an icon being representative of a feature of the conference;

creating a table; and

displaying the icon on the table corresponding to the conference,

wherein a process of creating the icon and the table is performed based on the information acquired.

29. A storage medium readable by a computer, the storage medium storing a program of instructions executable by the computer to perform a function for displaying comprising:

acquiring information about a conference from a storage device that stores conference information;

based on the information acquired,

creating an icon being representative of a feature of the conference;

creating a table; and

displaying the icon on the table corresponding to the conference.

30. A display device comprising:

an acquiring unit that acquires information about an event from a database;

a create unit that creates an icon being representative of the information and a table represented on the event and time axes based on the information acquired by the acquiring unit;

a display unit that displays the icon on the table corresponding to the event.