TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, AND METHOD OF INFORMATION PROCESSING

• US 20160266732A1
• Filed: 03/08/2016
• Published: 09/15/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/12/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Inventors: GYOBU, Yoshikazu
• Granted Patent: US 10,469,550 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1069 Session establishment or de-establishment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1089 by adding media; by removing media
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/4015 where at least one of the additional parallel sessions is real time or time sensitive, e.g. white board sharing, collaboration or spawning of a subconference
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/403 Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/75 Media network packet handling
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/22 Synchronisation circuits
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/554 Data synchronization
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/567 Multimedia conference systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/0027 Collaboration services where a computer is used for data transfer and the telephone is used for telephonic communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/15 Conference systems

Abstract

A transmission system includes a first information processing apparatus and a second information processing apparatus. The first information processing apparatus includes: a material transmitter that uploads material data to a third information processing apparatus; an operation acquiring unit that acquires an operation by a user and outputs operation information indicating the acquired operation; and a transmission side controller that causes a transmission side display unit to display the material data and changes how the material data is displayed in accordance with the operation by the user. The second information processing apparatus includes: a material receiver that downloads the material data from the third information processing apparatus; and a reception side controller that causes a reception side display unit to display the downloaded material data and changes how the material data is displayed in accordance with the operation information acquired by the first information processing apparatus.

Claims

1. A transmission system comprising a first information processing apparatus and a second information processing apparatus and transmitting information from the first information processing apparatus to the second information processing apparatus,

the first information processing apparatus comprising:

a material transmitter that uploads material data to a third information processing apparatus;

an operation acquiring unit that acquires an operation by a user and outputs operation information indicating the acquired operation; and

a transmission side controller that causes a transmission side display unit to display the material data and changes how the material data is displayed in accordance with the operation by the user, and

the second information processing apparatus comprising;

a material receiver that downloads the material data from the third information processing apparatus; and

a reception side controller that causes a reception side display unit to display the downloaded material data and changes how the material data is displayed in accordance with the operation information acquired by the first information processing apparatus.

2. The transmission system according to claim 1, wherein

the first information processing apparatus is operated by a transmission side user, and

the second information processing apparatus is operated by a reception side user.

3. The transmission system according to claim 1, wherein

the first information processing apparatus further comprises:

a control data generating unit that generates control data containing the operation information; and

a transmission side communication unit that transmits the control data to the second information processing apparatus via a network, and

the second information processing apparatus further comprises;

a reception side communication unit that receives the control data from the first information processing apparatus via the network; and

a control data processing unit that gives the operation information contained in the control data to the reception side controller.

4. The transmission system according to claim 3, wherein

the first information processing apparatus further comprises a voice acquiring unit that acquires a voice and outputs voice data indicating the acquired voice,

the transmission side communication unit further transmits the voice data to the second information processing apparatus via the network,

the reception side communication unit further receives the voice data from the first information processing apparatus via the network, and

the second information processing apparatus further comprises a voice output unit that reproduces the received voice data to output the voice.

5. The transmission system according to claim 3, wherein

the first information processing apparatus further comprises an image acquiring unit that acquires an image and outputs image data indicating the acquired image,

the transmission side communication unit further transmits the image data to the second information processing apparatus via the network,

the reception side communication unit further receives the image data from the first information processing apparatus via the network, and

the second information processing apparatus further comprises an image output unit that reproduces the received image data to output the image.

6. The transmission system according to claim 3, wherein

the second information processing apparatus further comprises a reception side attribute acquiring unit that acquires an attribute of the material data displayed on the reception side display unit and outputs attribute information indicating the acquired attribute,

the control data processing unit generates response data containing the attribute information,

the reception side communication unit transmits the response data to the first information processing apparatus via the network,

the transmission side communication unit gives the response data to the control data generating unit, and

the control data generating unit incorporates the operation information into the control data when an attribute of the material data displayed on the transmission side display unit and the attribute of the material data displayed on the reception side display unit match.

7. The transmission system according to claim 3, wherein

the first information processing apparatus further comprises a transmission side attribute acquiring unit that acquires an attribute of the material data displayed on the transmission side display unit and outputs attribute information indicating the acquired attribute,

the control data generating unit incorporates the attribute information into the control data, and

the reception side controller changes how the material data is displayed in accordance with the operation information contained in the control data when an attribute of the material data displayed on the reception side display unit and the attribute of the material data displayed on the transmission side display unit match.

8. The transmission system according to claim 3, wherein the reception side controller changes how the downloaded material data is displayed in accordance with an operation by the user.

9. The transmission system according to claim 8, wherein

the control data generating unit incorporates a reset instruction to reset how the material data is displayed so that the material data is displayed in a preset manner, into the control data,

the control data processing unit gives the reset instruction contained in the control data to the reception side controller, and

the reception side controller resets how the material data is displayed so that the material data is displayed in the preset manner when the reset instruction is given.

10. The transmission system according to claim 3, wherein

the control data generating unit incorporates an end instruction into the control data when communication with the second information processing apparatus is ended,

the control data processing unit gives the end instruction contained in the control data to the reception side controller, and

the reception side controller deletes the downloaded material data when the end instruction is given.

11. The transmission system according to claim 10, wherein

the control data generating unit incorporates reference permission information into the control data when the material data is made referable even after the communication is ended,

the control data processing unit gives the reference permission information contained in the control data to the reception side controller, and

the reception side controller does not execute deletion of the downloaded material data when the reference permission information is given.

12. The transmission system according to claim 3, wherein

the second information processing apparatus further comprises a reception side storage unit that stores therein the operation information contained in the control data transmitted from the first information processing apparatus, and

the reception side controller changes how the material data is displayed on the reception side display unit such that the material data is displayed on the reception side display unit in the same manner as how the material data is displayed on the transmission side display unit at the present time based on the operation information stored in the reception side storage unit when a synchronization instruction is received from the user.

13. The transmission system according to claim 3, wherein

the second information processing apparatus further comprises a reception side storage unit that stores therein the operation information contained in the control data transmitted from the first information processing apparatus,

the control data generating unit incorporates a synchronization instruction into the control data when a periodic or certain event occurs, and

the reception side controller changes how the material data is displayed on the reception side display unit such that the material data is displayed on the reception side display unit in the same manner as how the material data is displayed on the transmission side display unit at the present time based on the operation information stored in the reception side storage unit when the synchronization instruction is received from the first information processing apparatus.

14. The first information processing apparatus provided in the transmission system according to claim 1.

15. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable medium containing an information processing program, the program causing a computer to function as the first information processing apparatus according to claim 14.

16. The second information processing apparatus provided in the transmission system according to claim 1.

17. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable medium containing an information processing program, the program causing a computer to function as the second information processing apparatus according to claim 16.

18. A method of information processing in a transmission system that comprises a first information processing apparatus and a second information processing apparatus and transmits information provided from a user of the first information processing apparatus to a user of the second information processing apparatus via a network, the method comprising:

uploading, by the first information processing apparatus, material data to a third information processing apparatus;

causing, by the first information processing apparatus, a transmission side display unit to display the material data and changing, by the first information processing apparatus, how the material data is displayed in accordance with an operation by the user;

acquiring, by the first information processing apparatus, the operation by the user on the material data displayed on the transmission side display unit and outputting, by the first information processing apparatus, operation information indicating the acquired operation;

downloading, by the second information processing apparatus, the material data from the third information processing apparatus; and

opening, by the second information processing apparatus, the downloaded material data to cause a reception side display unit to display the material data and changing, by the second information processing apparatus, how the material data is displayed in accordance with the operation information output by the first information processing apparatus.