Teleconferencing server and teleconferencing system
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1. A teleconferencing server which realizes teleconferencing utilizing a plurality of telephone terminals, comprising:
- an input format and a reception format registering means for registering the input format and the reception format of each of the telephone terminals, the input format representing a method of communication used by a user to input information into a telephone terminal and the reception format representing a method of communication used by a user to receive information from a telephone terminal;
a receiving means for receiving input data from the telephone terminals in the input format of the respective telephone terminal;
a conversion means for converting the received input data to data conforming to the reception format of each of the plurality of telephone terminals; and
a transmitting means for transmitting the converted input data converted by the conversion means to the respective telephone terminals,wherein the input formats and the reception formats include at least three of voice, text, Braille, and image.
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Abstract
Disclosed herein is a teleconferencing system that enables disabled persons to conveniently participate in teleconferences. The format converting means of the server converts text or voice data inputted from a transmitting party to the receiving method corresponding to the telephone terminal of each destination terminal registered in the registration portion to obtain transmission data matched to the receiving method of each of the telephone terminals. A transmitting portion sends the transmission data to the respective telephone terminals.
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1. A teleconferencing server which realizes teleconferencing utilizing a plurality of telephone terminals, comprising:
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an input format and a reception format registering means for registering the input format and the reception format of each of the telephone terminals, the input format representing a method of communication used by a user to input information into a telephone terminal and the reception format representing a method of communication used by a user to receive information from a telephone terminal; a receiving means for receiving input data from the telephone terminals in the input format of the respective telephone terminal; a conversion means for converting the received input data to data conforming to the reception format of each of the plurality of telephone terminals; and a transmitting means for transmitting the converted input data converted by the conversion means to the respective telephone terminals, wherein the input formats and the reception formats include at least three of voice, text, Braille, and image. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. A teleconferencing server which realizes teleconferencing utilizing a plurality of telephone terminals, comprising:
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an input format and reception format registering means for registering the input format and the reception format of each of the telephone terminals; a receiving means for receiving the input data inputted from the telephone terminals in the input format of the respective telephone terminal; a conversion means for converting the received input data to data conforming to the reception format of each of the plurality of telephone terminals; a transmitting means for transmitting the converted input data converted by the conversion means to the telephone terminal having the target reception format; a language type recording means for recording the language utilized by the user of each of the telephone terminals; and a language type conversion means for converting the input data to the language type utilized by each user, wherein the input formats and reception formats include at least three of voice, text, Braille, and image, and wherein the transmitting means is a means for transmitting the converted input data converted by the language type conversion means to the target telephone terminal. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8)
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9. A teleconferencing system comprising a plurality of telephone terminals and a teleconferencing server, each telephone terminal operable to transmit, as distribution data, input data to the other telephone terminals, further comprising:
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a communication means for transmitting the input data from a telephone terminal to the teleconferencing server, and for receiving the distribution data from the teleconferencing server; an input means for inputting the input data transmitted from the communication means to the teleconferencing server; a reproduction format setting means for setting a reproduction format of the distribution data from the teleconferencing server; a distribution data format converting means for converting the reproduction format of said distribution data to a format set by the reproduction format setting means; and a reproduction means for reproducing the converted distribution data, wherein the reproduction format represents a method of communication used by a user to receive information from a telephone terminal, the method of communication comprising voice, text and image. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 22)
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17. A teleconferencing server used in teleconferencing at least two terminals, comprising:
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a registering portion operable to register for each terminal an input format and a reception format, the input format representing a method used by a user to input data to the terminal and the reception format representing a method used by a user to receive data; a receiving portion operable to receive from each terminal the input data in the respective registered input formats; a conversion portion operable to convert the received data from each terminal to data conforming to the reception format of the other terminal or terminals; and a transmitting portion operable to transmit the respective converted data to each terminal, wherein the input format comprises voice, text and image, and the reception format comprises voice, text and image. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 23)
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