US 12,437,480 B2
Terminal apparatus, medium, and method of operating terminal apparatus
Wataru Kaku, Musashino (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Dec. 16, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/067,304.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-207464 (JP), filed on Dec. 21, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0196680 A1, Jun. 22, 2023
Int. Cl. G10L 15/26 (2006.01); G06T 19/00 (2011.01); H04N 7/15 (2006.01)
CPC G06T 19/00 (2013.01) [G10L 15/26 (2013.01); H04N 7/157 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A terminal apparatus comprising:
a communication interface;
an output interface; and
a controller configured to communicate with terminal apparatuses of a plurality of called parties via the communication interface and output, via the output interface, an image of a virtual space, the image including images of the plurality of called parties, and speech of the plurality of called parties, wherein
the controller outputs images or speech of called parties in a plurality of groups to which a caller belongs in a different form than other called parties outside of the plurality of groups to which the caller belongs and outputs information, to terminal apparatuses of the called parties in the plurality of groups, for outputting an image or speech of the caller in a different form than terminal apparatuses of the other called parties,
the plurality of groups includes a primary group and a secondary group,
the controller transmits speech of the caller to the terminal apparatuses of the called parties in the primary group and receives speech of the called parties in the primary group from the terminal apparatuses of the called parties in the primary group, and
the controller does not transmit speech of the caller to the terminal apparatuses of the called parties in the secondary group, and does receive speech of the called parties in the secondary group from the terminal apparatuses of the called parties in the secondary group.