Terminal device, group communication system, and group communication method

A group communication system comprising multiple terminal devices installed in movable objects that are different from each other and a server which is provided independently of the multiple terminal devices and which receives and transmits information from and to the multiple terminal devices,

• wherein each of the multiple terminal devices comprises:
• a communication unit configured to transmit and receive information;
• an output unit configured to output information;
• an input unit configured to receive input of voice of occupants of a movable object as state information;
• and
• a controller configured to:
• determine whether a predetermined state change has occurred in the movable object based on the input state information;
• in response to determining that the predetermined state change has occurred, acquire, as attention information, state-changed position information indicating a state-changed position that is a position of the movable object when the predetermined state change has occurred and attention voice information including an attention content for the state-changed position as voice of occupants in association with each other;
• cause the communication unit to transmit the acquired attention information to a server;
• and
• cause the output unit to output the attention information from other terminal devices installed in other of the movable objects that is transmitted from the server and received by the communication unit;
• wherein
• the server is further configured to, in response to receipt of the attention information from one of the terminal devices installed in one movable object among the movable objects, identify the one of the terminal devices that is a transmission source of the attention information, add identification information of the one of the terminal devices that is the transmission source to the attention information, and transmit the attention information to the multiple terminal devices.

A group communication method in a group communication system comprising multiple terminal devices installed in movable objects that are different from each other and a server which is provided independently of the multiple terminal devices and which receives and transmits information from and to the multiple terminal devices, comprising:

• in one terminal device installed in one movable object among terminal devices installed in movable objects that are different from each other,
• determining, when voice of occupants in one movable object is input as state information, whether a predetermined state change has occurred in the one movable object based on the state information;
• in response to determining that the predetermined state change has occurred, acquiring, as attention information, state-changed position information indicating a state-changed position that is a position of the one movable object when the predetermined state change has occurred and attention voice information including an attention content for the state-changes position as voice of the occupants in association with each other;
• transmitting the attention information to a server;
• and
• outputting the attention information from other terminal devices installed in other of the moveable objects that is received from the server;
• and in the server,
• identifying, in response to receipt of the attention information from the one terminal device installed in the one movable object, the one terminal device that is a transmission source of the attention information;
• and
• adding identification information of the one terminal device that is the transmission source to the attention information and transmitting the attention information to the terminal devices.