US 12,218,771 B2
Conversation control device, conversation system, and conversation control method
Satoshi Oono, Tokyo (JP); Kousuke Bannai, Tokyo (JP); Yoshiki Mizushima, Tokyo (JP); and Touma Takeda, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to NTT Communications Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by NTT Communications Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jan. 26, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/159,788.
Application 18/159,788 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2021/027991, filed on Jul. 29, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-130848 (JP), filed on Jul. 31, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0171118 A1, Jun. 1, 2023
Int. Cl. H04L 12/18 (2006.01); G06F 3/04817 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 12/1813 (2013.01) [G06F 3/04817 (2013.01)] 4 Claims
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1. A conversation control device comprising:
a memory; and
processing circuitry connected to the memory, the processing circuitry being configured to:
generate display data necessary for displaying a plurality of conference room area images which are images indicating a plurality of virtual conference rooms in which a conversation is held via a network and which are currently installed in a virtual space and an icon image indicating a user on a user terminal;
control participation of a user in any of the plurality of virtual conference rooms in response to the user's operation; and
control a conversation between users participating in the same virtual conference room,
wherein the processing circuitry is configured to output speech details of a user participating in the any of the plurality of virtual conference rooms to a user who is connected to the any of the plurality of virtual conference rooms in a mode other than participation,
wherein the processing circuitry is configured not to output speech details of the user who is connected to the any of the plurality of virtual conference rooms in the mode to the user participating in the any of the plurality of virtual conference rooms, and
wherein the processing circuitry is configured to display such that an icon image of the user who is connected to the any of the plurality of virtual conference rooms in the mode is in a mode other than that of an icon image of the user participating in the any of the plurality of virtual conference rooms.