CONFERENCE SYSTEM, SERVER, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM STORING CONFERENCE INFORMATION GENERATION PROGRAM

• US 20140143345A1
• Filed: 09/30/2013
• Published: 05/22/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/16/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: JIANG, Shan, MURASE, Yuichi
• Granted Patent: US 9,960,924 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/205
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/34 Recording or statistical evaluation of computer activity, e.g. of down time, of input/output operation ; Recording or statistical evaluation of user activity, e.g. usability assessment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3438 monitoring of user actions tracking the activity of the user H04L67/535
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1813 for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms instant messaging H04L51/04; protocols for multimedia communication H04L65/1101; arrangements for multi-party communication H04L65/403; telephonic conference arrangements H04M3/56; television conference systems H04N7/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1831 Tracking arrangements for later retrieval, e.g. recording contents, participants activities or behavior, network status

Abstract

A conference system includes at least one server and at least one mobile terminal connectable to the server. The mobile terminal includes an orientation estimation unit configured to detect orientation information of the mobile terminal, an operation unit configured to detect operation information of an operation performed; and an event transmission unit configured to transmit the orientation information and the operation information. The server includes an image information generation unit configured to generate image information of a conference material and image information of a pointer drawn over the image information of the conference material based on the drawing event, and an action information generation unit configured to generate action information corresponding to the conference material based on drawing history information of the drawn pointer.

Claims

1. A conference system comprising:

at least one server; and

at least one mobile terminal connectable to the server,

wherein the mobile terminal includes;

an orientation estimation unit configured to detect orientation information of the mobile terminal;

an operation unit configured to detect operation information of an operation performed on the mobile terminal by a user; and

an event transmission unit configured to transmit, to the server, the orientation information and the operation information respectively detected by the orientation estimation unit and the operation unit as a drawing event, and

wherein the server includes;

an image information generation unit configured to generate image information of a conference material including at least one page and image information of a pointer drawn over the image information of the conference material based on the drawing event; and

an action information generation unit configured to generate action information corresponding to the conference material based on drawing history information of the drawn pointer.

2. The conference system according to claim 1,

wherein the mobile terminal further includes a sound acquisition unit configured to acquire speech information of the user and generate a sound file,

wherein the event transmission unit of the mobile terminal further transmits the sound file as a sound event to the server, and

wherein the action information generation unit of the server generates, as the action information, at least one of drawing position information of the pointer corresponding to a chronological displayed page of the conference material and sound position information indicating at least a part of the sound file at a time when the pointer is drawn, based on a history of drawing position information included in the drawing history information of the drawn pointer.

3. The conference system according to claim 2,

wherein the action information generation unit of the server generates, as the action information, a drawing activeness level indicating a drawing amount of the pointer corresponding to the chronological displayed page of the conference material or a position in the chronological displayed page of the conference material, based on the history of drawing position information.

4. The conference system according to claim 1,

wherein the action information generation unit of the server generates, as the action information, a drawing activeness level indicating a drawing amount of the pointer corresponding to the page of the conference material or a position in the page of the conference material, based on the history of drawing position information.

5. The conference system according to claim 4,

wherein the action information generation unit of the server generates the drawing activeness level corresponding to a chronological displayed page of the conference material or a position in the chronological displayed page of the conference material.

6. The conference system according to claim 3,

wherein the drawing activeness level corresponding to the chronological displayed page of the conference material is generated based on the drawing amount of the pointer indicating at least one of a drawing time of the pointer in the page and the number of the mobile terminals in which the drawing is performed in the page, the history of drawing position information being identifiable the mobile terminals, in such a manner that the drawing activeness level rises as the drawing amount of the pointer increases.

7. The conference system according to claim 3,

wherein the drawing activeness level corresponding to the position in the chronological displayed page of the conference material is generated based on drawing position information of the pointer in the page, in such a manner that the drawing activeness level is high at a position in the page corresponding to the drawing position of the pointer.

8. The conference system according to claim 3,

wherein a plurality of mobile terminals are connected to the server, and

wherein the drawing activeness level is independently generated for each of the mobile terminals.

9. The conference system according to claim 5,

wherein the drawing activeness level corresponding to the chronological displayed page of the conference material is generated based on the drawing amount of the pointer indicating at least one of a drawing time of the pointer in the page and the number of the mobile terminals in which the drawing is performed in the page, the history of drawing position information being identifiable the mobile terminals, in such a manner that the drawing activeness level rises as the drawing amount of the pointer increases.

10. The conference system according to claim 5,

wherein the drawing activeness level corresponding to the position in the chronological displayed page of the conference material is generated based on drawing position information of the pointer in the page, in such a manner that the drawing activeness level is high at a position in the page corresponding to the drawing position of the pointer.

11. The conference system according to claim 5,

wherein a plurality of mobile terminals are connected to the server, and

wherein the drawing activeness level is independently generated for each of the mobile terminals.

12. The conference system according to claim 1,

wherein the server includes:

a first server that includes the image information generation unit; and

a second server that is different from the first server and includes the action information generation unit.

13. The conference system according to claim 1,

wherein the drawing event includes a pointer movement event by which movement of the drawing position of the pointer is instructed.

14. The conference system according to claim 1,

wherein the drawing event includes an area drawing control event by which drawing of a size variable area using the drawing position of the pointer as a base point is instructed.

15. A server connectable to a mobile terminal, the server comprising:

a receiving unit configured to receive orientation information detected by the mobile terminal and operation information detected by the mobile terminal, as a drawing event;

an image information generation unit configured to generate image information of a conference material including at least one page and image information of a pointer drawn over the image information of the conference material based on the drawing event; and

an action information generation unit configured to generate action information corresponding to the conference material based on drawing history information of the drawn pointer.

16. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a conference information generation program configured to cause a computer to execute a conference information generation processing, the conference information generation processing comprising:

receiving orientation information detected by a mobile terminal connectable to the computer and operation information detected by the mobile terminal, as a drawing event;

generating image information of a conference material including at least one page and image information of a pointer drawn over the image information of the conference material based on the drawing event; and

generating action information corresponding to the conference material based on drawing history information of the drawn pointer.