A television conference system enables a plurality of participants to communicate with each other using terminal devices connected to a controller via information transfer system. Each of the terminal devices are provided with a display for displaying a participant making a remark. The television conference system includes a speech quantity information obtaining system that obtains speech quantity information related to quantity of speech of each of the plurality of participants during a conference, a terminal identifying system that identifies a terminal corresponding to a participant currently making a remark, and an image switching system that switches images displayed on the displays of the plurality of terminal devices from a previous participant to the participant currently making a remark by one of a plurality of different switching methods which is determined in accordance with the speech quantity information of the participant currently making a remark.

 
Web www.patentalert.com

< Internet-enabled conferencing system and method accommodating PSTN and IP traffic

< Conferencing system and method for the automatic determination of preset positions corresponding to participants in video-mediated communications

> System and method for supporting conferencing capabilities over packet-switched networks

> Methods of controlling video signals in a video conference

~ 00242