INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, TERMINAL APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM

• US 20160094671A1
• Filed: 09/25/2015
• Published: 03/31/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Inventors: HIRAKATA, Satoru
• Granted Patent: US 10,305,999 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/216 Handling conversation history, e.g. grouping of messages in sessions or threads
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/234 for tracking messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/025 for remote control or remote monitoring of applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4122 additional display device, e.g. video projector digital output for controlling a plurality of local displays G06F3/1423
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4223 Cameras H04N23/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44218 Detecting physical presence or behaviour of the user, e.g. using sensors to detect if the user is leaving the room or changes his face expression during a TV program methods or arrangements for recognising human body or animal bodies or body parts G06V40/10; methods or arrangements for acquiring or recognising human faces, facial parts, facial sketches, facial expressions G06V40/16; methods or arrangements for recognising movements or behaviour G06V40/20; arrangements for identifying users in broadcast systems H04H60/45
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4751 for defining user accounts, e.g. accounts for children
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104

Abstract

An information processing system formed by connecting an information processing apparatus with terminal apparatuses includes a delivery unit delivering information received from the terminal apparatus to the other terminal apparatus; a display unit displaying the information exchanged between the terminal apparatuses; a user detection unit detecting whether the user exists before the other terminal apparatus in a case where the information delivered from the terminal apparatus is displayed in the other terminal apparatus; a report unit sending a report indicating that the information delivered from the terminal apparatus is browsed from the other terminal apparatus, which detect that the user exists, to the terminal apparatus and not sending the report from the other terminal apparatuses, which does not detect that the user exists; and a display control unit of the terminal apparatus displaying a browsed state of the information in the other terminal apparatuses based on the report.

Claims

1. An information processing system formed by connecting at least one information processing apparatus with a plurality of terminal apparatuses, the information processing system comprising:

a delivery unit configured to deliver information, which is used by a user and received from one terminal apparatus among the plurality of terminal apparatuses, to one or more other terminal apparatuses, which are associated with the one terminal apparatus among the plurality of terminal apparatuses;

a display unit of each of the plurality of terminal apparatuses configured to display the information exchanged by the delivery unit between the plurality of terminal apparatuses;

a user detection unit of the one or more other terminal apparatuses configured to detect whether the user exists before the one or more other terminal apparatuses in a case where the information, which is delivered from the one terminal apparatus through the delivery unit, is displayed in the display unit of the one or more other terminal apparatuses;

a report unit configured to send a report indicating that the information, which is delivered from the one terminal apparatus through the delivery unit, is browsed from the one or more other terminal apparatuses, which detect that the user exists, to the one terminal apparatus and configured not to send the report from the one or more other terminal apparatuses, which does not detect that the user exists, to the one terminal apparatus; and

a display control unit of the one terminal apparatus configured to display a browsed state of the information in the one or more other terminal apparatuses based on the report received from the one or more other terminal apparatuses.

2. The information processing system according to claim 1,

wherein, in a case where the one or more other terminal apparatuses have an image capture unit, the user detection unit causes the image capture unit to capture image data before the one or more other terminal apparatuses by controlling the image capture unit, and detect whether the user exists before the one or more other terminal apparatuses using an image analysis of the image data.

3. The information processing system according to claim 1,

wherein, in a case where the user operates the one or more other terminal apparatuses within a predetermined time, the user detection unit detects that the user exists before the one or more other terminal apparatuses, and

wherein, in a case where the user does not operate the one or more other terminal apparatuses within the predetermined time, the user detection unit detects that the user does not exist before the one or more other terminal apparatuses.

4. The information processing system according to claim 1,

wherein, in a case where the one or more other terminal apparatuses have an image capture unit, the user detection unit causes the image capture unit to capture image data before the one or more other terminal apparatuses by controlling the image capture unit, and detect whether the user exists before the one or more other terminal apparatuses using an image analysis of the image data, and

wherein, in a case where the one or more other terminal apparatuses do not have the image capture unit, the user detection unit detects whether the user exists before the one or more other terminal apparatuses depending on whether the user operates the one or more other terminal apparatuses within a predetermined time.

5. The information processing system according to claim 1,

wherein the delivery unit delivers the information received from the one terminal apparatus used by another user to the one or more other terminal apparatuses operated by the user using a chat function, the user is associated with the another user as belonging to a group.

6. A terminal apparatus used in an information processing system formed by connecting at least one information processing apparatus with a plurality of terminal apparatuses, the terminal apparatus being each of the plurality of terminal apparatuses, the terminal apparatus comprising:

a display unit configured to display information exchanged between the plurality of terminal apparatuses by a delivery unit configured to deliver the information, which is used by a user and received from one terminal apparatus among the plurality of terminal apparatuses, to one or more other terminal apparatuses, which are associated with the one terminal apparatus among the plurality of terminal apparatuses;

a user detection unit of the one or more other terminal apparatuses configured to detect whether the user exists before the one or more other terminal apparatuses in a case where the information, which is delivered from the one terminal apparatus through the delivery unit, is displayed in the display unit of the one or more other terminal apparatuses;

a report unit configured to send a report indicating that the information, which is delivered from the one terminal apparatus through the delivery unit, is browsed from the one or more other terminal apparatuses, which detect that the user exists, to the one terminal apparatus and configured not to send the report from the one or more other terminal apparatuses, which do not detect that the user exists, to the one terminal apparatus; and

a display control unit of the one terminal apparatus configured to display a browsed state of the information in the one or more other terminal apparatuses based on the report received from the one or more other terminal apparatuses.

7. A computer-readable, non-transitory recording medium storing a program that causes a processor to perform as a terminal apparatus used in an information processing system formed by connecting at least one information processing apparatus with a plurality of terminal apparatuses, the terminal apparatus being each of the plurality of terminal apparatuses, the terminal apparatus comprising:

a display unit configured to display information exchanged between the plurality of terminal apparatuses by a delivery unit configured to deliver the information, which is used by a user and received from one terminal apparatus among the plurality of terminal apparatuses, to one or more other terminal apparatuses, which are associated with the one terminal apparatus among the plurality of terminal apparatuses;

a user detection unit of the one or more other terminal apparatuses configured to detect whether the user exists before the one or more other terminal apparatuses in a case where the information, which is delivered from the one terminal apparatus through the delivery unit, is displayed in the display unit of the one or more other terminal apparatuses;

a report unit configured to send a report indicating that the information, which is delivered from the one terminal apparatus through the delivery unit, is browsed from the one or more other terminal apparatuses, which detect that the user exists, to the one terminal apparatus and configured not to send the report from the one or more other terminal apparatuses, which do not detect that the user exists, to the one terminal apparatus; and

a display control unit of the one terminal apparatus configured to display a browsed state of the information in the one or more other terminal apparatuses based on the report received from the one or more other terminal apparatuses.