US 12,451,023 B2
Education support apparatus, communication system, non-transitory computer readable medium, and education support method
Jorge Pelaez, Kawaguchi (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Jun. 17, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/336,982.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-099114 (JP), filed on Jun. 20, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0410675 A1, Dec. 21, 2023
Int. Cl. G09B 5/14 (2006.01); G09B 5/06 (2006.01); H04L 67/12 (2022.01)
CPC G09B 5/14 (2013.01) [G09B 5/065 (2013.01); H04L 67/12 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An education support apparatus configured to support online education conducted by connecting, via a network, respective terminal apparatuses used by an instructor and a plurality of students who are present in spaces separate from each other, the education support apparatus comprising:
a communication interface configured to communicate via the network; and
a controller configured to:
receive, via the communication interface, a plurality of individual images including an image of the instructor and an image of a second student different from a first student among the plurality of students;
control a terminal apparatus used by the first student to display the image of the instructor facing in a first direction on a screen display as though the instructor is looking at the second student;
determine the availability of free space on the screen display;
in response to determining there is free space on the screen display, generate, using the received plurality of individual images, a composite image representing the second student as being present in a same space as the instructor and facing in a second direction on the screen display as though the second student is looking at the instructor; and
control the terminal apparatus used by the first student to display the generated composite image.