Apparatus, system, and method of conference assistance
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorsYorichika Ishiyama, Hiroyuki Kimbara, Masaaki Kagawa, Jun Murata, Takahiro Yamamoto
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Abstract
A conference assistance system and method for assisting a user in utilizing conference-related information, each of which: receives input of voice or writing of at least one meeting participant; determines whether text data representing the received voice or writing is to be used by the conference assistance system to generate assistance information, to generate a determination result; when the determination result indicates that the text data is to be used, generates, based on the text data, assistance information for assisting the meeting participant; and controls a display to display the generated assistance information.
Claims20
An apparatus comprising:
- a network interface configured to communicate with a server through a network;
- one or more input devices configured to receive an input based on a voice or a writing of at least one meeting participant during a meeting;
- and
- processing circuitry configured to,
- selectively transmit data related to the input, via the network interface, to the server, in response to an indication that the data is transmittable,
- receive, via the network interface, assistance information associated with the data from the server, the assistance information including information relevant to the meeting, and
- control a display device to display the assistance information together with the data related to the input such that the assistance information displayed on the display device assists the at least one meeting participant.
A non-transitory computer readable medium storing computer readable code that, when executed by an apparatus, configures the apparatus to,
- receive, via one or more input devices, an input based on a voice or a writing of at least one meeting participant during a meeting;
- selectively transmit, via a network interface, data related to the input to server in response to an indication that the data is transmittable;
- receive, via the network interface, assistance information associated with the data from the server, the assistance information including information relevant to the meeting;
- and
- control a display device to display the assistance information together with the data related to the input such that the assistance information displayed on the display device assists the at least one meeting participant.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.