US 12,216,961 B2
Teleconference system, communication terminal, and teleconference method
Mayuko Terata, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to NEC Platforms, Ltd., Kanagawa (JP)
Appl. No. 18/266,022
Filed by NEC Platforms, Ltd., Kawasaki (JP)
PCT Filed Nov. 18, 2021, PCT No. PCT/JP2021/042429
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 8, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/124040, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 16, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-205681 (JP), filed on Dec. 11, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2024/0053952 A1, Feb. 15, 2024
Int. Cl. G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/16 (2006.01); H04L 65/403 (2022.01)
CPC G06F 3/165 (2013.01) [H04L 65/403 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A teleconference system comprising:
hardware, including at least one processor and at least one memory;
speech determination unit implemented at least by the hardware and configured to determine whether a voice of each of a plurality of participants in a teleconference indicates speech or back-channel;
voice output control unit implemented at least by the hardware and configured to perform control so that the voice of each of a plurality of the participants is output by a communication terminal of each of a plurality of the participants, and perform control, when, while one of a plurality of the participants makes speech, another participant makes speech, so as to suppress an output of the speech of the another participant;
count unit implemented at least by the hardware and configured to count a number of first speeches in which their outputs are suppressed, for each participant, the number of the first speeches being a number of times that the first speeches have occurred for each of the participants; and
number display control unit implemented at least by the hardware and configured to perform control so that a display related to the number of the first speeches is made at the communication terminals of a plurality of the participants.