Video processing apparatus and control method thereof

• US 8,988,484 B2
• Filed: 12/31/2012
• Issued: 03/24/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2012
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Aoyagi, Mitsutoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Ramakrishnaiah, Melur
• Application Number:
  US13/731,926
• Publication Number:
  US 20140002583A1
• Time in Patent Office: 813 Days
• Field of Search: 348 1401- 1416, 709/204
• US Class Current: 348/14.08
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1818 Conference organisation arrangements, e.g. handling schedules, setting up parameters needed by nodes to attend a conference, booking network resources, notifying involved parties
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/612 for unicast
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/147 Communication arrangements, e.g. identifying the communication as a video-communication, intermediate storage of the signals selecting H04Q
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/15 Conference systems

Abstract

According to one embodiment, a video processing apparatus includes an input module configured to be able to perform input operation in order to register, to a server, information including a video of a face of a first person and information including a video of a face of a second person with whom the videoconferencing is conducted, in such a manner that the information including the video of the face of the first person and the information including the video of the face of the second person with whom the videoconferencing is conducted are registered in tandem.

Claims

1. A video processing apparatus for conducting videoconferencing via a network with a device of a second person, using a videoconferencing service provided by a server, the video processing apparatus comprising:

an image-capturing module configured to capture a video of a face of a first person;

a display controller configured to perform control so as to provide the server with the video of the face of the first person captured by the image-capturing module, and obtain, from the server, a video of a face of a second person with whom the videoconferencing is conducted, which is registered in tandem with the video of the face of the first person, and display the video of the face of the second person, the video of the face of the second person being generated at the server based on an image of the face of the second person captured by the image-capturing module and sent to the server; and

an output module configured to input a confirmation result indicating whether the video of the face of the second person displayed based on the control of the display controller is a correct person with whom the videoconferencing is to be conducted.

2. The video processing apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a selection module configured to select a video of a face of a person with whom the videoconferencing is to be conducted, when there is a plurality of videos of faces displayed based on the control of the display controller.

3. A videoconferencing system for conducting videoconferencing via a network between a first device and a second device, using a videoconferencing service provided by a server,

the first device comprising:

an input module configured to be able to perform input operation in order to register, to the server, information including a video of a face of a first user of the first device and information including a video of a face of a second user of the second device, in such a manner that the information including the video of the face of the first user of the first device and the information including the video of the face of the second user of the second device are registered in tandem, the video of the face of the second person being generated at the server based on an image of the face of the second person captured by the image-capturing module and sent to the server,

the second device comprising;

a second image-capturing module configured to capture a video of a face of the second user, and

a display controller configured to perform control so as to provide the server with the video of the face of the second user captured by the second image-capturing module, and obtain, from the server, a video of a face of the first user of the first device, which is registered in tandem with the video of the face of the second user, and display the video of the face of the second user of the second device, and

an output module configured to input a confirmation result indicating whether the video of the face of the second user displayed based on the control of the display controller is a correct person with whom the videoconferencing is to be conducted.

4. The videoconferencing system of claim 3, wherein the first device includes:

a display controller configured to perform control so as to display the video of the face of the second user of the second device when a confirmation result indicating that the video of the face of the second user displayed based on the control of the display controller is a correct person with whom the videoconferencing is to be conducted is input into the input module of the second device; and

a selection module configured to select whether the videoconferencing is to be conducted with the user of the video of the face displayed based on the control of the display controller.

5. A control method for a video processing apparatus for conducting videoconferencing via a network with a device of a second person, using a videoconferencing service provided by a server, the control method comprising:

capturing videos of a face of a first person and an image of a face of a second person;

providing the server with the videos of the face captured;

obtaining, from the server, a video of the face of the second person with whom the videoconferencing is conducted, which is registered in tandem with the video of the face of the first person, and displaying the video of the face of the second person, the video of the face of the second person being generated at the server based on the image of the face of the second person captured and sent to the server; and

performing control so as to input a confirmation result indicating whether the video of the face displayed is a correct person with whom the videoconferencing is to be conducted.