COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM

• US 20130249773A1
• Filed: 03/14/2013
• Published: 09/26/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/22/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Yoshinaga Kato
• Inventors: KATO, Yoshinaga
• Application Number:
  US13/828,391
• Publication Number:
  US 20130249773A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/2.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1431 using a single graphics controller
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1438 using more than one graphics controller
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1454 involving copying of the display data of a local workstation or window to a remote workstation or window so that an actual copy of the data is displayed simultaneously on two or more displays, e.g. teledisplay
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/147 using display panels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/06 Consumer Electronics Control, i.e. control of another device by a display or vice versa
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/003 Details of a display terminal, the details relating to the control arrangement of the display terminal and to the interfaces thereto specific for a CRT G09G1/165; for a flat panel G09G3/2092
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/14 Display of multiple viewports
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2187 Live feed
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/222 Studio circuitry; Studio devices; Studio equipment cameras or camera modules comprising electronic image sensors, or control thereof H04N23/00

Abstract

According to an embodiment, provided is a communication device that performs communications of an image and audio. The communication device includes: a storage unit that stores therein arrangement information for specifying a display scheme for the image; an arrangement-information setting unit that sets arrangement information in the storage unit; and a display control unit that refers to the arrangement information and causes a plurality of display devices to display the image. The display control unit causes a first display device to display captured images of a local point and a remote point and causes a second display device to display an image supplied from an image supply device of the local point or the remote point.

Claims

1. A communication device that performs communications of an image and audio, the communication device comprising:

a storage unit that stores therein arrangement information for specifying a display scheme for the image;

an arrangement-information setting unit that sets arrangement information in the storage unit; and

a display control unit that refers to the arrangement information and causes a plurality of display devices to display the image, wherein

the display control unit

causes a first display device to display captured images of a local point and a remote point and

causes a second display device to display an image supplied from an image supply device of the local point or the remote point.

2. The communication device according to claim 1, further comprising a display-device detecting unit that detects such a display device that is in an electrified state.

3. The communication device according to claim 2, wherein the display-device detecting unit detects an electrified state of the display device at start-up of or after start-up of the communication device.

4. A communication system comprising:

a communication device that performs communications of an image and audio; and

an image supply device that supplies an image to the communication device, wherein

the communication device comprises;

a storage unit that stores therein arrangement information for specifying a display scheme for an image;

an arrangement-information setting unit that sets arrangement information in the storage unit; and

a display control unit that refers to the arrangement information and causes a plurality of display devices to display the image, and

the display control unit

causes a first display device to display captured images of a local point and a remote point and

causes a second display device to display an image supplied from the image supply device of the local point or the remote point.

5. The communication system according to claim 4, wherein the communication device further comprises a display-device detecting unit that detects such a display device that is in an electrified state.

6. The communication system according to claim 5, wherein the display-device detecting unit detects an electrified state of the display device at start-up of or after start-up of the communication device.

7. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer usable medium having computer readable program codes embodied in the medium that, when executed, causes a communication device to perform a communication method of an image and audio comprising:

setting arrangement information for specifying a display scheme for an image into a storage unit; and

referring to the arrangement information,

causing a first display device to display captured images of a local point and a remote point, and

causing a second display device to display an image supplied from an image supply device of the local point or the remote point.

8. The computer program product according to claim 7,

wherein the communication method further causing the communication device to perform detecting a display device that is in an electrified state.

9. The computer program according to claim 8,

wherein the detecting of a display device that is in an electrified state is performed at start-up of or after start-up of the communication device.