Two-way interactive system, terminal equipment and image pickup apparatus having mechanism for matching lines of sight between interlocutors through transmission means
First Claim
1. A two-way interactive system comprising a first terminal equipment located at a first point where a first interlocutor is present, a second terminal equipment located at a second point where a second interlocutor is present, and transmission means, arranged between said first terminal equipment and said second terminal equipment, for enabling two-way communication of at least image data of the first interlocutor and the second interlocutor, at least said first terminal equipment comprising:
- a display unit for displaying an image of the second interlocutor, which is received through said transmission means, on a monitor;
position regulation means for regulating a position of the first interlocutor with respect to a monitor screen of said display unit; and
an image pickup apparatus for enabling transmission of an image of the first interlocutor to said second terminal equipment through said transmission means, said image pickup apparatus having an image pickup unit for directly picking up the image of the first interlocutor and a support mechanism for setting said image pickup unit at a predetermined position between the first interlocutor and said monitor while an image pickup direction of said image pickup unit is set directly toward the first interlocutor,wherein said image pickup unit is set in a predetermined area defined by a distance from said monitor to the first interlocutor, which is specified by said position regulation means, and a predetermined parallactic angle for determining that a line of sight of the first interlocutor matches a line of sight of the monitor image of the second interlocutor.
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Abstract
This invention is to provide a system having a mechanism for matching lines of sight between interlocutors through transmission means to realize smooth counseling between the interlocutors in remote areas. In this system, a terminal equipment is located at the point of each interlocutor, having a monitor for displaying at least the image of a partner, a position regulation means for regulating the position of the interlocutor with respect to a monitor screen, and an image pickup apparatus having an image pickup unit for picking up the image of the interlocutor and a support mechanism for setting the image pickup unit at a predetermined position between the interlocutor and the monitor. Particularly, the image pickup unit is set in a line-of-sight matching area defined by the distance from the interlocutor to the monitor, which is specified by the position regulation means, and a parallactic angle for determining that the line of sight of the interlocutor matches the line of sight of the monitor image of the partner.
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38 Claims
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1. A two-way interactive system comprising a first terminal equipment located at a first point where a first interlocutor is present, a second terminal equipment located at a second point where a second interlocutor is present, and transmission means, arranged between said first terminal equipment and said second terminal equipment, for enabling two-way communication of at least image data of the first interlocutor and the second interlocutor, at least said first terminal equipment comprising:
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a display unit for displaying an image of the second interlocutor, which is received through said transmission means, on a monitor; position regulation means for regulating a position of the first interlocutor with respect to a monitor screen of said display unit; and an image pickup apparatus for enabling transmission of an image of the first interlocutor to said second terminal equipment through said transmission means, said image pickup apparatus having an image pickup unit for directly picking up the image of the first interlocutor and a support mechanism for setting said image pickup unit at a predetermined position between the first interlocutor and said monitor while an image pickup direction of said image pickup unit is set directly toward the first interlocutor, wherein said image pickup unit is set in a predetermined area defined by a distance from said monitor to the first interlocutor, which is specified by said position regulation means, and a predetermined parallactic angle for determining that a line of sight of the first interlocutor matches a line of sight of the monitor image of the second interlocutor. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38)
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