Remote education system, course attendance check method, and course attendance check program
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Abstract
A remote education system includes a Web server, a bidirectional communication server, a content distribution server, an operations management system, a lecturer terminal, and a communication line connection device, and provides remote education to student terminals via the Internet. The operations management system includes a lecture information database for storing lecture schedules, attendance records, and personal information, facial images, and audio, of the students, and performs a lecture establishment processing, an attendance registration processing, a lecture opening processing, an attendance confirmation processing, and the like. The attendance confirmation processing includes a student image acquisition processing, a facial image matching processing, an action request processing, and an action detection processing, which match facial images of students, and detect image changes that occur in response to requested actions.
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42 Claims
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22. A remote education system that enables education over distances using multimedia bidirectional communication, including video and audio, the remote education system comprising:
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student video acquisition means for acquiring video of the student;
facial image matching means for matching the video acquired by the student video acquisition means with a pre-registered facial image of the student;
action request means for requesting the student to perform an action to change an appearance of the body of the student; and
action detection means for detecting image changes of the student corresponding to the action requested by the action request means based on the video of the student acquired by the student video acquisition means, thereby providing the system with a function for confirming that the legitimate student is in attendance. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31)
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32. An attendance confirmation method of confirming whether a legitimate student is in attendance in a remote education setting, the method comprising the steps of:
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acquiring video of the student;
matching the acquired video with a pre-registered facial image of the student;
requesting the student to perform an action to change the appearance of the body of the student; and
detecting image changes of the student corresponding to the requested action based on acquired video of the student. - View Dependent Claims (33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42)
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