Multi-media terminal apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMitsuru Yamamoto
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Abstract
A multi-media terminal apparatus controls switches to perform communications, so that processing units of its own terminal which controls various multi-media processing functions are connected to other multi-media terminal apparatuses via a transmission line having a plurality of channels in accordance with connection request instructions, or this connection state and connections among the processing units are simultaneously attained.
Claims11
A terminal apparatus connected to a network, data input peripheral equipment and data output peripheral equipment, comprising:
- first switching means for outputting a signal which is selected from among a signal from the network and a signal from the data input peripheral equipment;
- second switching means connected to said first switching means for outputting the signal selected by said first switching means to the data output peripheral equipment or to the network;
- and
- control means for controlling said first switching means and an operating condition of said data input peripheral equipment in accordance with a control signal input through the network.
A terminal apparatus adapted for connecting to a network and to a plurality of peripheral equipment, each peripheral equipment inputting an image signal to said apparatus and having image imputting characteristics based on an operation control signal, said apparatus comprising:
- each of
- selection means for selecting a peripheral equipment from among the plurality of peripheral equipment in accordance with a selection control signal received by said selection means which was inputted through the network from another terminal;
- output means connected to the selected peripheral equipment and the network for outputting information signal from the selected peripheral equipment to the other terminal through the network;
- and
- input means connected to the network for inputting, from the other terminal, the selection control signal and the operation control signal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.