JP2023110793A - Program, information processing method, terminal, and server - Google Patents

Abstract

To improve the convenience related to outputting audio information and video information transmitted and received in a group.SOLUTION: A program executed by a terminal that outputs audio information and video information transmitted and received in a first group causes the terminal to perform: outputting the audio information and video information transmitted and received in the first group including a user of the terminal by an output unit of the terminal; based on a first input to the terminal by the user of the terminal, performing control, by a control unit of the terminal, to stop outputting the audio information and video information transmitted and received in the first group; and displaying information indicating the first group and information indicating a second group different from the first group on a display unit of the terminal.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1-1

Description

The present disclosure relates to programs, information processing methods, terminals, servers, and the like.

As a technique for users to communicate with each other, for example, there is a technique related to an electronic conference (for example, Patent Literature 1).

JP 2013-232123 A

According to the first aspect of the present invention, a program executed by a terminal that outputs audio information and video information transmitted and received in a first group outputs audio information and video information transmitted and received in a first group including users of the terminals. and control to stop outputting the audio information and the video information transmitted and received in the first group based on the first input to the terminal by the user of the terminal. and displaying information indicating the first group and information indicating the second group different from the first group on the display unit of the terminal.
According to a second aspect of the present invention, an information processing method for a terminal that outputs audio information and video information transmitted and received by a first group includes audio information and video information transmitted and received by a first group including users of terminals. is output by the output unit of the terminal, and based on the first input to the terminal by the user of the terminal, the control unit of the terminal stops outputting the audio information and the video information transmitted and received in the first group and displaying information indicating the first group and information indicating the second group different from the first group on a display of the terminal.
According to the third aspect of the present invention, a terminal that outputs audio information and video information transmitted and received in a first group outputs audio information and video information transmitted and received in a first group that includes a user of the terminal. an output unit, a control unit that performs control to stop outputting the audio information and the video information transmitted and received in the first group based on a first input to the terminal by the user of the terminal, information indicating the first group; and a display for displaying information indicating a second group different from the first group.
According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, a terminal that outputs audio information and video information transmitted and received in a first group includes a processor that reads a program stored in a memory and executes processing based on the program, the processor is to output the audio information and video information transmitted and received in the first group including the user of the terminal by the output unit of the terminal, and transmit and receive in the first group based on the first input to the terminal by the user of the terminal performing control to stop outputting the received audio information and video information; and displaying information indicating the first group and information indicating the second group different from the first group on the display unit of the terminal. Execute.
According to the fifth aspect of the present invention, the server that relays the audio information and the video information transmitted and received in the first group responds to a first input to the first terminal by the user of the first terminal included in the first group. a control unit for stopping transmission of audio information and video information transmitted from terminals included in the first group to the first terminal, information indicating the first group, and the first group a communication unit configured to transmit information indicating a different second group to the first terminal.

The figure which shows an example of the system configuration|structure of the communication system which concerns on embodiment. FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of functions realized by a control unit of the server according to the first embodiment; FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of information stored in a storage unit of the server according to the first embodiment; The figure which shows an example of the account registration data based on 1st Example. The figure which shows an example of the meeting management database based on 1st Example. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of functions realized by a control unit of the terminal according to the first embodiment; FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of information stored in a storage unit of the terminal according to the first embodiment; FIG. The figure which shows an example of the screen displayed on the display part of the terminal which concerns on 1st Example. The figure which shows an example of the screen displayed on the display part of the terminal which concerns on 1st Example. 4 is a flow chart showing an example of the flow of processing executed in the communication system according to the first embodiment; 4 is a flowchart showing an example of the flow of in-room moving image delivery processing according to the first embodiment; 4 is a flowchart showing an example of the flow of room topic update processing according to the first embodiment; The figure which shows an example of the screen displayed on the display part of the terminal which concerns on a 1st modification. The figure which shows an example of the screen displayed on the display part of the terminal which concerns on 2nd Example. The figure which shows an example of the screen displayed on the display part of the terminal which concerns on 2nd Example. The figure which shows an example of the screen displayed on the display part of the terminal which concerns on 2nd Example. The figure which shows an example of the screen displayed on the display part of the terminal which concerns on 2nd Example. FIG. 11 is a flow chart showing an example of the flow of processing executed in the communication system according to the second embodiment; FIG. FIG. 11 is a flowchart showing an example of the flow of room moving processing according to the second embodiment; FIG. The figure which shows an example of the screen displayed on the display part of the terminal which concerns on 3rd Example. FIG. 11 is a flowchart showing an example of the flow of room topic update processing according to the third embodiment; FIG. The figure which shows an example of the screen displayed on the display part of the terminal which concerns on a 3rd modification. The figure which shows an example of the screen displayed on the display part of the terminal which concerns on a 3rd modification. FIG. 11 is a flowchart showing an example of the flow of processing executed in a communication system according to a third modified example; FIG. FIG. 11 is a flowchart showing an example of the flow of room merging processing according to the third modified example; FIG. The figure which shows an example of the meeting management database based on 4th Example. The figure which shows an example of the screen displayed on the display part of the terminal which concerns on 4th Example. The figure which shows an example of the screen displayed on the display part of the terminal which concerns on 4th Example. FIG. 11 is a flow chart showing an example of the flow of processing executed in the communication system according to the fourth embodiment; FIG. The figure which shows an example of the meeting management database based on 5th Example. The figure which shows an example of the screen displayed on the display part of the terminal which concerns on 5th Example. The figure which shows an example of the screen displayed on the display part of the terminal which concerns on 5th Example. FIG. 11 is a flow chart showing an example of the flow of processing executed in the communication system according to the fifth embodiment; FIG. FIG. 15 is a flowchart showing an example of the flow of inviting other room members according to the fifth embodiment; FIG. The figure which shows an example of the screen displayed on the display part of the terminal which concerns on a 5th modification. FIG. 14 is a flowchart showing an example of the process of inviting other room members according to the fifth modification; FIG. FIG. 14 is a flowchart showing an example of the process of inviting other room members according to the fifth modification; FIG. The figure which shows an example of the screen displayed on the display part of the terminal which concerns on 6th Example. FIG. 14 is a flowchart showing an example of the flow of inviting other room members according to the sixth embodiment; FIG. The figure which shows an example of the screen displayed on the display part of the terminal which concerns on a 6th modification. FIG. 14 is a flowchart showing an example of the flow of inviting other room members according to the sixth embodiment; FIG. The figure which shows an example of the screen displayed on the display part of the terminal which concerns on 7th Example. The figure which shows an example of the screen displayed on the display part of the terminal which concerns on 7th Example. 16 is a flow chart showing an example of the process of inviting other room members according to the seventh embodiment; The figure which shows an example of the screen displayed on the display part of the terminal which concerns on 8th Example. FIG. 12 is a flowchart showing an example of the flow of processing executed in the communication system according to the eighth embodiment; FIG. FIG. 21 is a flow chart showing an example of the flow of other room interest presentation processing according to the eighth embodiment; FIG. The figure which shows an example of the screen displayed on the display part of the terminal which concerns on 9th Example. FIG. 12 is a flow chart showing an example of the flow of processing executed in the communication system according to the ninth embodiment; FIG. FIG. 21 is a flowchart showing an example of the flow of in-room moving image delivery processing according to the ninth embodiment; FIG. The figure which shows an example of the meeting management database based on 10th Example. The figure which shows an example of the screen displayed on the display part of the terminal which concerns on 10th Example. The figure which shows an example of the screen displayed on the display part of the terminal which concerns on 10th Example. The figure which shows an example of the screen displayed on the display part of the terminal which concerns on 10th Example. FIG. 21 is a flow chart showing an example of the flow of processing executed in the communication system according to the tenth embodiment; FIG. The figure which shows an example of the screen displayed on the display part of the terminal which concerns on 10th Example. The figure which shows an example of the screen displayed on the display part of the terminal which concerns on 10th Example. The figure which shows an example of the screen displayed on the display part of the terminal which concerns on 11th Example. The figure which shows an example of the screen displayed on the display part of the terminal which concerns on 11th Example. FIG. 21 is a flow chart showing an example of the flow of processing executed in the communication system according to the eleventh embodiment; FIG. FIG. 21 is a flowchart showing an example of the flow of in-room moving image distribution processing according to the eleventh embodiment; FIG. FIG. 22 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on the display unit of the terminal according to the twelfth embodiment; FIG. 22 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on the display unit of the terminal according to the thirteenth embodiment; FIG. 22 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on the display unit of the terminal according to the thirteenth embodiment; FIG. 22 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on the display unit of the terminal according to the thirteenth embodiment; FIG. 22 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on the display unit of the terminal according to the thirteenth embodiment;

<Compliance with legal matters>
Note that the disclosure provided herein is subject to compliance with the legal requirements of the implementing country required for the practice of this disclosure, such as confidentiality of communications.

<Embodiment>
In this specification, there are places described as "as an example, not as a limitation" for the sake of clarity, but not only the relevant places, but also the whole of the embodiments described below are not limited to the contents of that description. Please note.

An embodiment for implementing a program or the like according to the present disclosure will be described with reference to the drawings.

A system, by way of example and not limitation, may be configured with a plurality of devices.
The plurality of devices may be a combination of devices of the same type, a combination of devices of different types, or a combination of devices of the same type and devices of different types.
It should be noted that, by way of example and not limitation, a system can also be considered as a plurality of devices working together to perform some processing.

Also, a system involving a client (client device) and a server can be considered, by way of example and not limitation, to be at least one of the following.
(1) Terminal & Server (2) Server (3) Terminal

(1) is a system including, by way of example and not limitation, at least one terminal and at least one server. An example of this is a client-server system.

The server is made up of, by way of example and not limitation, the following devices, which may be a single device or a combination of multiple devices.

Specifically, the server includes, by way of example and not limitation, at least one processor (examples and not limitation include: CPU: Central Processing Unit, GPU: Graphics Processing Unit, APU: Accelerated Processing Unit, DSP: Digital Signal Processor (not limited to Instead, as an example, ASIC: Application Specific Integrated Circuit, FPGA: Field Programmable Gate Array), etc.), computer device (processor + memory), control device, arithmetic device, processing device, etc. Or a configuration with a plurality of the same type of one device (as a non-limiting example, CPU + CPU, homogeneous multi-core processor, etc.), or a configuration with a plurality of different types of any one device (as a non-limiting example, CPU + DSP, heterogeneous multi-core processor etc.), or a combination of a plurality of devices (as non-limiting examples, a processor + computer device, a processor + arithmetic device, a heterogeneous combination of a plurality of devices, etc.).
Note that the processor may be a virtual processor.

Also, in the case where some processing is executed by the server, if it is composed of a single device, the processing described in the embodiments is executed by the single device. Further, in the case of a configuration having a plurality of devices, it may be configured such that one device executes a part of the processing and the other device executes the other processing. By way of example and not limitation, when configured with a processor and an arithmetic device, the processor may be configured to perform the first process and the arithmetic device may be configured to perform the second process.
In addition, when a plurality of devices are used, each device may be arranged at a position physically separated from each other.

Also, the functions of the server may be provided in the form of PaaS, IaaS, or SaaS in cloud computing, for example and not limitation.

Also, the control unit of the system can be at least one of the control unit of the terminal and the control unit of the server. That is, as an example and not a limitation, any one of (1A) only the control unit of the terminal, (1B) only the control unit of the server, or (1C) both the control unit of the terminal and the control unit of the server may be used in the system. can be a control unit.

In addition, the control and processing performed by the control unit of the system (hereinafter collectively referred to as “control, etc.”) may be performed only by (1A) the control unit of the terminal, or (1B) the control of the server (1C) It may be performed by both the control unit of the terminal and the control unit of the server.
In addition, in (1C), as an example and not a limitation, part of the control performed by the control unit of the system is performed by the control unit of the terminal, and the rest of the control is performed by the control unit of the server. You may do so. In this case, the allocation (allocation) of control and the like may be equally divided, or may be allocated at different ratios instead of equally divided.

Further, in the case of the communication unit of the server, when the server is composed of a single device, the communication unit itself provided in the single device may be used. Further, when the server is configured to have a plurality of devices, the communication section of the server may be configured to include each communication section provided in each device.
By way of example and not limitation, if a server comprises a first device and a second device, the first device having a first communication portion and the second device having a second communication portion, the communication portion of the server may include: It is good also as a concept containing a 1st communication part and a 2nd communication part.

(2) can be, for example and not limitation, a system composed of a plurality of servers (hereinafter referred to as "server system"). In this case, the configuration described above can be similarly applied as the configuration of each server.

The control or the like performed by the server system may be performed by (2A) only one server, (2B) only another server, or (2C) one of the plurality of servers. server and another server.
In addition, in (2C), as an example, not limitation, one server performs a part of the control performed by the server system, and the rest of the control is performed by another server. good. In this case, the allocation (allocation) of control and the like may be equally divided, or may be allocated at different ratios instead of equally divided.

(3) can be, by way of example and not limitation, a system composed of a plurality of terminals.
The system may be, by way of example and not limitation, a system such as the following.
・A system in which terminals have server functions (distributed system). This can be accomplished using blockchain technology, by way of example and not limitation.
・A system in which terminals communicate wirelessly with each other. As an example and not a limitation, this can be realized by performing communication in a P2P (peer-to-peer) system or the like using short-range wireless communication technology such as Bluetooth (registered trademark).

Note that the above is not limited to the control section, and the same applies to each functional section such as an input/output section, a communication section, a storage section, a clock section, etc., which can be components of the system.

In the following embodiments, by way of example and not by way of limitation, a system including a terminal and a server (by way of example and not by way of limitation, a client-server system) is illustrated.
It is also possible to apply the server system of (2) above as the server.

Also, instead of a system including a terminal and a server, it is possible to apply a system that does not include a server, such as the system of (3) above as an example and not as a limitation.
An embodiment in this case can be configured based on the above-described blockchain technology or the like. Specifically, as an example and not a limitation, data stored and managed in a server described in the following embodiments is saved (stored) on a blockchain. The terminal can then generate a transaction to the blockchain, and when the transaction is approved on the blockchain, the data stored on the blockchain can be updated.

It should be noted that even when the term "terminal" is used, this is not limited to the meaning of a terminal as a client device in a client server.
That is, a terminal may include the concept of a device that is not in a client server.

Also, in this specification, the expression "by communication I/F" is used as appropriate. This indicates that, as an example and not a limitation, the device transmits and receives various types of information and data via a communication I/F (via a communication unit) under the control of a control unit (processor or the like). It shall be acceptable.

In addition, regarding the terms “related” and “related” in this specification, when “B related to A” or “B related to A” is used as an example, not as a limitation, some relationship with “A” shall mean "B" having A specific example of this will be described later.

Further, in this specification, "A" and Including those in which "B" is performed at the same time (hereinafter referred to as "simultaneous") and those in which "A" and "B" are performed at different times (hereinafter referred to as "non-simultaneously"). shall be acceptable.
As an example and not as a limitation, in the case of transmitting the first information and the second information, it is possible to transmit the first information and the second information at the same timing, and to transmit the first information and the second information at the different timings. may include both the concept of what is sent with
In consideration of lag (time lag), "at the same time" may include "almost at the same time."

It should be noted that even though "A" and "B" are performed at different timings, it is only necessary to process "A" and "B" as targets, and the purpose is not necessarily the same. be omitted.
By way of example and not limitation, when it is said that the first information and the second information are transmitted as described above, it is only necessary to transmit the first information and the second information, and the first information and the second information are used for the same purpose. In addition to the case of transmitting the first information and the second information for different purposes, it may also include the case of transmitting the first information and the second information.

In the following examples, an online meeting service will be exemplified as an example of a service for users to hold online meetings. Also, an application for realizing an online meeting service is called an "online meeting application."

Also, in this specification, content may be information transmitted from a transmission source to a transmission destination. Also, the content may be one or more pieces of content.

Content includes, by way of example and not limitation, text content in the form of text, image content in the form of images (including at least one of still images and moving images), sound content in the form of sound (including voice), etc. shall be included.
In addition to this, operation contents such as buttons and icons for user operation, and link contents such as link information (including URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) etc. as an example without limitation) may be included. shall be

Text may include, by way of example and not limitation, at least one of national characters represented by character codes, extended characters, machine-dependent characters, numerals, symbols, graphics and symbols.
Note that the text does not have to include at least one of the characters, extended characters, machine-dependent characters, numerals, symbols, graphics, and symbols, and may include other text.

Images may include, by way of example and not limitation, at least one of various types of image information such as icons, buttons, stamps, pictograms, and banner images.

<Example>
Examples are described below.
Recently, as an example and not as a limitation, there are increasing opportunities for users to communicate with each other, such as conversations, meetings, dinner parties, and drinking parties, using audio and video (or at least audio).

First, let's talk about groups.
As one concept, when users communicate using an application or the like, a gathering (collection, division) of at least one user can be regarded as a group. Also, since the group is managed as data in the device, it can be regarded as a kind of data (data structure).

Also, hereinafter, an "online meeting application" will be exemplified as an application for the user of the terminal 20 to hold an online meeting using audio and video as an example and not as a limitation.
Although it is referred to as a meeting, it is not limited to being used for meetings, and may be used for communication such as conversations, dinner parties, and drinking parties. Alternatively, an application that uses only voice may be used.

In addition, hereinafter, a “room” will be exemplified as an example of a method of realizing (expressing) a group with an online meeting application. A room, like a group, can be regarded as a collection of at least one user, and can also be regarded as a type of data (data configuration) because it is managed as data in the device.
As another example of a method of realizing (expressing) a group with an online meeting application, a "team", a "channel", or the like may be used.

The room may include, for example and not limitation, a meeting room for holding a meeting, a waiting bench room, etc., which will be described later. Note that "room A, room B, room C, . . . " means the meeting room, and the bench room is distinguished from these.

Also, based on the above, in the first to twelfth embodiments, the group and the room are substantially synonymous. In other words, users included in the group (hereinafter referred to as "group members") are assumed to be users included in the room (hereinafter referred to as "room members").

From the viewpoint of the terminal side (user side), the room can be regarded as a kind of UI (GUI). For this reason, a group represented by a UI (GUI) may be regarded as a "room". The same is true for teams, channels, and the like.

Further, in this specification, "moving image information" may be information including video information and sound information. Video information with sound information may be referred to as moving image information, or it may not be so.
Note that, unlike this, the moving image information may be information of only moving images (=video information) that does not include sound information.

<First embodiment>
The first embodiment is an embodiment that enables room members in one meeting room to know information such as topics in other meeting rooms.

The content described in the first embodiment can be applied to each of the other embodiments and each of the other modifications.
Moreover, the same code|symbol is attached|subjected about the component same as an already-appearing component, and description for the second time is abbreviate|omitted.

<System configuration>
FIG. 1-1 is a diagram showing an example of a system configuration of a communication system 1 according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.
In the communication system 1, a server 10 and a plurality of terminals 20 (terminals 20A, 20B, 20C, . . . ) are connected via a network 30 as an example and not a limitation.

The server 10 has a function of providing a predetermined service (as an example, not a limitation, such as an online meeting service) to the terminal 20 owned by the user via the network 30 . Server 10 may also be referred to as an online meeting server or the like, by way of example and not limitation. In this embodiment, the online meeting service provider (operator) is assumed to be the user of the server 10 .

Note that the number of servers 10 and the number of terminals 20 connected to the network 30 are not limited.

The terminal 20 (terminal 20A, terminal 20B, terminal 20C, . . . ) may be any information processing terminal capable of realizing the functions described in each embodiment. Terminals 20 may include, by way of example and not limitation, smart phones, mobile phones (feature phones), tablet devices, computers (including but not limited to desktops, laptops, tablets, etc.), media computer platforms (including but not limited to cable , satellite set-top boxes, digital video recorders), handheld computing devices (including but not limited to personal digital assistants, e-mail clients, etc.), wearable terminals (glasses-type devices, watch-type devices, etc.), VR ( virtual reality) terminals, smart speakers (devices for speech recognition), or other types of computers or communication platforms. Also, the terminal 20 may be expressed as an information processing terminal.

The configuration of terminal 20A, terminal 20B and terminal 20C may be identical, by way of example and not by way of limitation. Further, if necessary, the terminal used by the user X may be expressed as the terminal 20X, and the user information in a predetermined service associated with the user X or the terminal 20X may be expressed as the user information X. It doesn't have to be.
The user information is user information associated with an account used by the user in a predetermined service. User information includes, by way of example and not limitation, user's name, user's icon image, user's age, user's gender, user's address, user's hobbies, entered by the user or provided by a given service It may include information associated with the user, such as preferences, user identifiers, etc., and may or may not be any one or combination of these.

The network 30 serves to connect one or more terminals 20 and one or more servers 10 . That is, the network 30 means a communication network that provides a connection path so that the various devices can transmit and receive data after being connected.

One or more portions of network 30 may or may not be wired or wireless networks. Network 30 may include, by way of example and not limitation, an ad hoc network, an intranet, an extranet, a virtual private network (VPN), a local area network (LAN), a wireless LAN (WLAN), wide area network (WAN), wireless WAN (WWAN), metropolitan area network (MAN), part of the Internet, public switched telephone network (Public Part of Switched Telephone Network (PSTN), mobile phone network, ISDN (integrated service digital networks), wireless LAN, LTE (long term evolution), CDMA (code division multiple access), Bluetooth (registered trademark), satellite communication, etc., or a combination of two or more thereof. Network 30 may include one or more networks 30 .

The server 10 (not limited to, but an example of a server, an information processing device, an information management device) has a function of providing a predetermined service to the terminal 20 . The server 10 may be any information processing device capable of realizing the functions described in each embodiment. Server 10 includes, by way of example and not limitation, server devices, computers (including but not limited to desktops, laptops, tablets, etc.), media computer platforms (including but not limited to cable, satellite set-top boxes, digital video recorders, etc.). ), handheld computing devices (by way of example and not limitation, PDAs, email clients, etc.), or other types of computers or communication platforms. Also, the server 10 may be expressed as an information processing device. If there is no need to distinguish between the server 10 and the terminal 20, the server 10 and the terminal 20 may or may not be represented as information processing devices.

[Hardware (HW) configuration of each device]
The HW configuration of each device included in the communication system 1 will be described.

(1) HW Configuration of Terminal FIG. 1-1 shows an example of the HW configuration of the terminal 20. As shown in FIG.
The terminal 20 includes a control unit 21 (CPU: central processing unit (central processing unit)), a storage unit 28, a communication I/F 22 (interface), an input/output unit 23, a clock unit 29A, and a position calculation information detection unit 29B. . Each component of the HW of terminal 20 is interconnected via bus B, by way of example and not limitation. Note that the HW configuration of the terminal 20 does not necessarily include all the components. By way of example and not limitation, terminal 20 may or may not be configured for individual or multiple components to be removed.

Communication I/F 22 transmits and receives various data via network 30 . Communication may be performed by wire or wirelessly, and any communication protocol may be used as long as mutual communication can be performed. The communication I/F 22 has a function of executing communication with various devices such as the server 10 via the network 30 . Communication I/F 22 transmits various data to various devices such as server 10 according to instructions from control unit 21 . The communication I/F 22 also receives various data transmitted from various devices such as the server 10 and transmits the data to the control unit 21 . Also, the communication I/F 22 may be simply referred to as a communication section. Moreover, when the communication I/F 22 is configured by a physically structured circuit, it may be expressed as a communication circuit.

The input/output unit 23 includes a device for inputting various operations to the terminal 20, a device for outputting processing results processed by the terminal 20, and the like. In the input/output unit 23, the input unit and the output unit may be integrated, the input unit and the output unit may be separated, or not.

The input unit is implemented by any one or a combination of all types of devices that can receive input from the user and transmit information related to the input to the control unit 21 . The input unit includes, but is not limited to, hardware keys such as a touch panel, a touch display, and a keyboard, a pointing device such as a mouse, a camera (operation input via moving images), and a microphone (operation input by voice).

The output unit is implemented by any one or a combination of all types of devices capable of outputting processing results processed by the control unit 21 . The output unit includes, as non-limiting examples, a touch panel, a touch display, a speaker (audio output), a lens (as non-limiting examples, 3D (three dimensions) output, hologram output), a printer, and the like.

Although it is only an example, the input/output unit 23 includes a display unit 24 , a sound input unit 25 , a sound output unit 26 and an imaging unit 27 as an example and not a limitation.

The display unit 24 is realized by any one or a combination of all kinds of devices capable of displaying according to the display data written to the frame buffer. The display unit 24 includes, as non-limiting examples, a touch panel, a touch display, a monitor (non-limiting examples include a liquid crystal display and OELD (organic electroluminescence display)), a head mounted display (HDM: Head Mounted Display), projection mapping, and a hologram. , including devices capable of displaying images, text information, etc. in air (which may or may not be a vacuum). Note that these display units 24 may or may not be capable of displaying display data in 3D.

The sound input unit 25 is used to input sound data (including voice data; the same applies hereinafter). Sound input unit 25 includes a microphone and the like.
The sound output unit 26 is used for outputting sound data. Sound output unit 26 includes a speaker and the like.
The imaging unit 27 is used to acquire image data (including still image data and moving image data; the same applies hereinafter). The imaging unit 27 includes a camera and the like.

When the input/output unit 23 is a touch panel, the input/output unit 23 and the display unit 24 may be arranged facing each other with substantially the same size and shape.

The clock unit 29A is a built-in clock of the terminal 20 and outputs time information (clock information). The clock unit 29A is configured with a clock using a crystal oscillator or the like as an example and not a limitation. The clock unit 29A can also be expressed as a clock unit or a time information detection unit as an example and not as a limitation.

Note that the clock unit 29A may or may not have a clock to which the NITZ (Network Identity and Time Zone) standard or the like is applied.

The position calculation information detection unit 29B has a function of detecting (measuring) information necessary for the control unit 21 to calculate (measure) the position of its own terminal 20 (hereinafter referred to as “position calculation information”). Department. The position calculation information detection section 29B can also be expressed as a position calculation sensor section as an example and not as a limitation.

The position calculation information detection unit 29B includes, as a non-limiting example, a satellite positioning sensor (satellite positioning sensor) which is a sensor or unit for calculating the position of the terminal 20 using a satellite positioning system such as GPS (Global Positioning System). unit), an inertial measurement sensor (inertial measurement unit (IMU (Inertial Measurement Unit))), which is a sensor or unit for calculating the position of the terminal 20 using an inertial navigation system, UWB (ultra wideband radio: Ultra Wide A UWB positioning sensor (UWB positioning unit), etc., which is a sensor or unit for calculating the position of the terminal 20 using a band).

The satellite positioning unit includes, as a non-limiting example, an RF receiving circuit that converts an RF (Radio Frequency) signal including a positioning satellite signal transmitted from a positioning satellite received by an antenna (not shown) into a digital signal, Positioning satellite signals are acquired by performing correlation calculation processing, etc. on the digital signals output from the RF receiving circuit, and information such as satellite orbit data and time data extracted from the positioning satellite signals is used as position calculation information. It has a baseband processing circuit for output.

The inertial measurement unit has an inertial sensor that detects information necessary to calculate the position of terminal 20 by inertial navigation calculation. Examples of inertial sensors include, but are not limited to, triaxial acceleration sensors and triaxial gyro sensors. The acceleration detected by the acceleration sensor and the angular velocity detected by the gyro sensor are used as position calculation information. Output.

As a non-limiting example, the UWB positioning unit converts an ultra-wideband RF (Radio Frequency) signal including an ultra-wideband pulse signal for positioning transmitted from a positioning beacon received by an antenna (not shown) into a digital signal. It has a wideband RF receiving circuit, a relative position calculation processing circuit that calculates the relative position between the terminal 20 and the positioning beacon based on the digital signal output from the ultra-wideband RF receiving circuit, and the like.
As an example and not a limitation, the UWB positioning unit may cause the terminal 20 to function as a positioning beacon by transmitting an ultra-wideband RF signal including a positioning ultra-wideband pulse signal from an antenna (not shown), You don't have to.

As a non-limiting example, the control unit 21 calculates the position of its own terminal 20 at regular timings or specific timings based on the position calculation information detected by the position calculation information detection unit 29B. The position of the terminal is called "terminal position", and the calculated terminal position is called "calculated terminal position". The control unit 21 may or may not associate the calculated terminal position with the date and time when the calculated terminal position was calculated and store it in the storage unit 28 as calculated terminal position history data.

The control unit 21 comprises physically structured circuitry for performing the functions implemented by the code or instructions contained within the program, and is, by way of example and not by way of limitation, a data processing device built into hardware. It is realized by Therefore, the control unit 21 may or may not be expressed as a control circuit.

Control unit 21 includes, by way of example and not limitation, a central processing unit (CPU), microprocessor, processor core, multiprocessor, ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit), FPGA (field programmable gate array).

The storage unit 28 has a function of storing various programs and various data required for the terminal 20 to operate. The storage unit 28 includes various storage media such as HDD (hard disk drive), SSD (solid state drive), flash memory, RAM (random access memory), and ROM (read only memory) as examples and not limitation. Also, the storage unit 28 may or may not be expressed as a memory.

The terminal 20 stores the program P in the storage unit 28 and executes the program P so that the control unit 21 executes processing as each unit included in the control unit 21 . That is, the program P stored in the storage unit 28 causes the terminal 20 to implement each function executed by the control unit 21 . Also, this program P may or may not be expressed as a program module.

(2) Server HW Configuration FIG. 1-1 shows an example of the HW configuration of the server 10. As shown in FIG.
The server 10 includes a control section 11 (CPU), a storage section 15 , a communication I/F 14 (interface), an input/output section 12 and a clock section 19 . Each component of the HW of server 10 is interconnected via bus B, by way of example and not limitation. It should be noted that the HW of the server 10 does not have to include all components as the HW configuration of the server 10 . By way of example and not limitation, the HW of server 10 may or may not be configured to remove individual components or multiple components.

The control unit 11 comprises, by way of example and not limitation, a hardware built-in data processing device comprising physically structured circuitry for carrying out the functions implemented by the code or instructions contained within the program. It is realized by

The control unit 11 is typically a central processing unit (CPU), and may or may not be a microprocessor, processor core, multiprocessor, ASIC, or FPGA. In the present disclosure, the controller 11 is not limited to these.

The storage unit 15 has a function of storing various programs and various data necessary for the operation of the server 10 . The storage unit 15 is realized by various storage media such as HDD, SSD, and flash memory. However, in the present disclosure, the storage unit 15 is not limited to these. Also, the storage unit 15 may or may not be expressed as a memory.

Communication I/F 14 transmits and receives various data via network 30 . Communication may be performed by wire or wirelessly, and any communication protocol may be used as long as mutual communication can be performed. The communication I/F 14 has a function of executing communication with various devices such as the terminal 20 via the network 30 . Communication I/F 14 transmits various data to various devices such as terminal 20 according to instructions from control unit 11 . The communication I/F 14 also receives various data transmitted from various devices such as the terminal 20 and transmits the data to the control unit 11 . Also, the communication I/F 14 may be simply referred to as a communication unit. Moreover, when the communication I/F 14 is configured by a physically structured circuit, it may be expressed as a communication circuit.

The input/output unit 12 includes a device for inputting various operations to the server 10, a device for outputting processing results processed by the server 10, and the like. In the input/output unit 12, the input unit and the output unit may be integrated, the input unit and the output unit may be separated, or not.

The input unit is implemented by any one or a combination of all types of devices that can receive input from the user and transmit information related to the input to the control unit 11 . The input unit is realized by hardware keys typically represented by a keyboard and a pointing device such as a mouse. Note that the input unit may or may not include a touch panel, a camera (operation input via a moving image), and a microphone (operation input by voice) as examples, not limitation.

The output unit is implemented by any one or a combination of all types of devices capable of outputting processing results processed by the control unit 11 . The output unit includes, as non-limiting examples, touch panels, touch displays, speakers (sound output), lenses (three-dimension (3D) output and hologram output as non-limiting examples), printers, and the like.

Although it is only an example, the input/output unit 12 includes the display unit 13 as an example and not as a limitation.

The display unit 13 is realized by a display or the like. The display is typically implemented by a monitor (for example, but not by way of limitation, a liquid crystal display or an OELD (organic electroluminescence display)). Note that the display may or may not be a head mounted display (HDM) or the like. These displays may or may not be capable of displaying display data in 3D. In the present disclosure, displays are not limited to these.

The clock unit 19 is an internal clock of the server 10 and outputs time information (timekeeping information). The clock unit 19 includes, for example and not limitation, an RTC (Real Time Clock) as a hardware clock, a system clock, and the like. The clock unit 19 can also be expressed as a clock unit or a time information detection unit as an example and not as a limitation.
(3) Others The server 10 stores the program P in the storage unit 15 and executes the program P so that the control unit 11 executes processing as each unit included in the control unit 11 . That is, the program P stored in the storage unit 15 causes the server 10 to implement each function executed by the control unit 11 . This program P may or may not be expressed as a program module.
The same is true for other devices.

Each embodiment of the present disclosure will be described as being implemented by the CPU of the terminal 20 and/or the server 10 executing the program P. FIG.

It should be noted that the control unit 21 of the terminal 20 and/or the control unit 11 of the server 10 is not only a CPU having a control circuit, but also an integrated circuit (IC (Integrated Circuit) chip, LSI (Large Scale Integration)) or the like. Each process may or may not be implemented by a logic circuit (hardware) or a dedicated circuit. Also, these circuits may be realized by one or more integrated circuits, and the plurality of processes shown in each embodiment may or may not be realized by one integrated circuit. LSIs are also called VLSIs, super LSIs, ultra LSIs, etc., depending on the degree of integration. Therefore, the control unit 21 may or may not be expressed as a control circuit.

In addition, the program P of each embodiment of the present disclosure (as a non-limiting example, a software program, a computer program, or a program module) may be provided in a state stored in a computer-readable storage medium, It does not have to be. The storage medium can store the program P in a "non-transitory tangible medium". Also, the program P may or may not be for realizing part of the functions of each embodiment of the present disclosure. Furthermore, the function of each embodiment of the present disclosure may or may not be a so-called difference file (difference program) that can be realized in combination with a program P already recorded on a storage medium.

Also, when referring to a program of the system (a program executed by the system), the system is as described above. The program of the system mentioned above is a program that can be executed by the entire system. This program, as an example and not a limitation, may be composed of a program for each device that constitutes the system. Programs stored in individual devices may be different. In other words, the programs do not have to be common to the individual devices that make up the system.
By way of example and not limitation, if the system consists of a terminal and a server, let the program of the system be P1. P2 and P3 are for executing system programs, and may be different programs. By way of example and not limitation, the program P2 stored in the terminal is a program that performs a first process and sends the results of the first process to the server, and the program P3 that is stored in the server is a program that receives The program may be a program that performs a second process on the result of the first process and transmits the result of the second process to the terminal.

The storage medium may be one or more semiconductor-based or other integrated circuits (ICs) (such as, by way of example and without limitation, field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) or application specific ICs (ASICs)), hard Disk drive (HDD), hybrid hard drive (HHD), optical disk, optical disk drive (ODD), magneto-optical disk, magneto-optical drive, floppy diskette, floppy disk drive (FDD), magnetic tape, solid state It may include a drive (SSD), RAM drive, secure digital card or drive, any other suitable storage medium, or any suitable combination of two or more thereof. Storage media may, where appropriate, be volatile, nonvolatile, or a combination of volatile and nonvolatile. Note that the storage medium is not limited to these examples, and any device or medium that can store the program P may be used. Also, the storage medium may or may not be expressed as memory.

The server 10 and/or the terminal 20 can realize the functions of the functional units shown in each embodiment by reading the program P stored in the storage medium and executing the read program P.

In addition, the program P of the present disclosure may or may not be provided to the server 10 and/or the terminal 20 via any transmission medium (communication network, broadcast wave, etc.) capable of transmitting the program. . As a non-limiting example, the server 10 and/or the terminal 20 implement the functions of the plurality of functional units shown in each embodiment by executing a program P downloaded via the Internet or the like.

Each embodiment of the present disclosure can also be implemented in the form of a data signal in which the program P is embodied by electronic transmission.
At least part of the processing in the server 10 and/or the terminal 20 may or may not be realized by cloud computing configured by one or more computers.
At least part or all of the processing in the terminal 20 may or may not be performed by the server 10 . In this case, the server 10 may or may not perform at least some or all of the processing of the functional units of the control unit 21 of the terminal 20 .
At least part or all of the processing in the server 10 may or may not be performed by the terminal 20 . In this case, the terminal 20 may or may not perform at least some or all of the processing of the functional units of the control unit 11 of the server 10 .

Unless explicitly mentioned, the configuration of determination in the embodiments of the present disclosure is not essential, and predetermined processing is performed when the determination condition is satisfied, or predetermined processing is performed when the determination condition is not satisfied. may or may not.

It should be noted that the programs of the present disclosure use script languages such as ActionScript and JavaScript (registered trademark), compiler languages such as Objective-C and Java (registered trademark), markup languages such as HTML Living Standard, and the like, for example and not limitation. implemented using

Also, the program executed by the terminal may be a program executed as a native application, a program executed as a WEB application, or a program executed as a hybrid application, for example without limitation. .

<Functional configuration>
(1) Functional Configuration of Server FIG. 1-2 is a diagram showing an example of functions realized by the control unit 11 of the server 10 in this embodiment.
The control unit 11 includes, as a functional unit, an application management processing unit 111 for executing application management processing according to an application management processing program 151 stored in the storage unit 15 as an example and not limitation.

FIG. 1-3 is a diagram showing an example of information stored in the storage unit 15 of the server 10 in this embodiment.
The storage unit 15 stores an application management processing program 151 to be executed as application management processing, account registration data 153, and a meeting management database 155 as an example and not limitation.

The account registration data 153 is registration data relating to the account of the application (online meeting application), and an example of the data configuration is shown in FIG. 1-4.
The account registration data 153 stores, for example and not limitation, a user name, an application ID, and other registration information in association with each other.

The user name is the name of the account of the terminal 20 that uses this application, and as an example and not as a limitation, the name registered when the user of the terminal 20 uses the application is stored.

The application ID is information used to identify the account of the application, or the account itself.
This application ID is preferably a unique value for each account, and as an example and not a limitation, the server 10 sets and stores a unique value (unique value) for each account.
The application ID is information associated with the terminal 20 or the user of the terminal 20, and is an example of information about the terminal or information about the user of the terminal.

The other registration information includes, for example and not limitation, identification information for identifying the terminal 20, the telephone number of the terminal 20 (terminal telephone number), the e-mail address (terminal e-mail address), and the Various information such as authentication information such as a password (login password, authentication password, etc.) can be included.

The identification information for identifying the terminal 20 may be, by way of example and not by way of limitation, a terminal ID (by way of example and not by way of limitation, IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity)).
In addition, the identification information for identifying the user of the terminal 20 can be an application ID for general users or an application ID for official users, for example and not limitation.

A "user ID" may or may not be used instead of the application ID.
Also, if the application allows only one account to be registered for one terminal 20, as an example without limitation, "identification information for identifying the terminal 20=identification information for identifying the user of the terminal 20= Application ID".

Also, by way of example and not limitation, it may or may not be possible to assign multiple terminal IDs to one application ID. In this case, one application ID may be used as an identification (login) target, and applications may be activated simultaneously on a plurality of terminals 20, or may not be so.

It is also possible to apply a method of managing an account using information such as a terminal telephone number instead of various IDs such as an application ID.
In this case, information such as a terminal telephone number can be stored in the account registration data 153 instead of storing ID information such as an application ID in the account registration data 153 . Instead of replacing the ID information such as the application ID with the information such as the terminal telephone number, the ID information such as the application ID may be associated with the information such as the terminal telephone number on a one-to-one basis. It doesn't have to be.

It should be noted that, in the following various embodiments, one account is registered for one terminal 20 for simplification of explanation.
In this case, as described above, "identification information for identifying the terminal 20 = identification information for identifying the user of the terminal 20 = application ID". The term may be substantially synonymous with "account terminal".

The meeting management database 155 is a database that stores data for managing an online meeting in the online meeting application, and an example data configuration of the meeting management database 155A is shown in FIG. 1-5.
Meeting management data is stored in the meeting management database 155A as management data for each meeting.

Each meeting management data stores, by way of example and not limitation, a meeting ID, a meeting master ID, and meeting room management data.

The meeting ID is an ID for uniquely identifying each general meeting (hereinafter referred to as "general meeting"), and for example and not limitation, the ID is generated by the server 10 each time a general meeting is held. set and stored. The general meeting identified by this meeting ID is one meeting as a whole, in which users are divided into multiple meeting rooms and hold individual meetings (hereinafter referred to as "individual meetings") hosted by the meeting master, etc. be able to.

A meeting master can be, by way of example and not limitation, any of the following users:
- The user who requested the server 10 to hold a general meeting (may be the user who created the general room)
- A user registered in advance in the server 10 as a user who has the authority to hold a meeting within the organization (such as the top or superior of the organization, a user determined by discussion or voting within the organization, etc.)
・A user registered in advance on the server 10 as a leader user when a meeting is held among friends ・Users determined after the meeting has started (during the meeting) Users who have been decided through discussions and voting in
It should be noted that these are only examples, and the present invention is not limited to these. A meeting master may also be referred to as a meeting host, coordinator, and so on.

The meeting master ID is the application ID of the user of the meeting master. Among the application IDs stored in the account registration data 153, the application ID of the user who has become the meeting master is specified by the server 10 and stored.

The meeting room management data is data for managing a meeting room for holding an individual meeting in the general meeting identified by this meeting ID, for example and not limitation, and for example and not limitation, room ID, room name and , room member IDs and room topics are stored in association with each other.

In the first to twelfth embodiments, as described above, it is assumed that in one general meeting, users are divided into a plurality of meeting rooms and hold individual meetings, and each meeting management data includes a plurality of of meeting rooms are stored.

A room ID is an ID for uniquely identifying a meeting room, and as an example and not a limitation, a unique ID is set and stored by the server 10 for each meeting room.

The room name is the name of the meeting room, which is stored by the server 10 based on information received from the terminal 20 whose account wishes to set the name of the meeting room, by way of example and not limitation. The meeting master may decide, or any room member of each meeting room may decide.

The room member ID is the application ID of a room member included in the meeting room. Among the application IDs stored in the account registration data 153, the application ID of the user who has become a room member of this meeting room is specified by the server 10. remembered.

The room topic is the subject/topic of the meeting being held in the meeting room. The room topic is specified and stored by the server 10 based on the sound information, video information, etc. transmitted and received in the meeting room, for example and not limitation.

In addition, the meeting room management data includes room information other than the above, such as, but not limited to, the amount of speech for each room member (the amount of speech for each room member ID), links shared within the meeting room, image storage destinations, etc. Information may be stored.

In account registration data 153 of FIGS. 1-4, by way of example and not limitation, user A.A. The application ID of user B.A is "U0001". B's application ID is stored as "U0002".
Also, in the meeting management data illustrated on the frontmost side of the meeting management database 155A in FIG. A (application ID "U0001") and user B.A. B (application ID "U0002") is stored as a room member included in the meeting room with room ID "R0001" and room name "Room A". That is, user A. A and user B. A group is formed by a plurality of room members (or their terminals 20) including B, and this group is configured to hold a meeting in room A.

Similarly, in account registration data 153 of FIGS. 1-4, by way of example and not limitation, user E.E. The application ID of user F.E is "U0005". The application ID of F is stored as "U0006".
Further, in the meeting management data illustrated on the frontmost side of the meeting management database 155A in FIG. 1-5, user E. E (application ID "U0005") and user F.E. F (application ID "U0006") is stored as a room member included in the meeting room with room ID "R0002" and room name "Room B". That is, user E. E and user F.E. A group is formed by a plurality of room members including F (or their terminals 20), and this group is configured to hold a meeting in room B. FIG.

In the following description, for convenience, the terminals 20 of room members included in the same room will be referred to as "room member terminals". (including the terminal 20 that does not exist) may be referred to as "another room member terminal".

It should be noted that the number of room member terminals does not necessarily have to be plural and may be "one". In other words, as described above, the number of room members may be "single".
Also, in addition to the above meeting room and bench room, there may be a room without users. In this case, the room may be "vacant" by way of example and not limitation.

Also, in the following description, for the sake of convenience, a room that does not include the user may be referred to as "another room". Other rooms may be any of the following rooms.
・Other meeting rooms when you are included in the meeting room ・Meeting rooms when you are included in the bench room ・Meeting rooms when you are not included in either the meeting room or the bench room Be sure to include the bench room in other rooms may or may not be included.

(2) Functional Configuration of Terminal FIG. 1-6 is a diagram showing an example of functions realized by the control unit 21 of the terminal 20 in this embodiment.
The control unit 21 includes, as a functional unit, an application processing unit 211 for executing application processing according to an application processing program 281 stored in the storage unit 28, for example and not limitation.

FIG. 1-7 is a diagram showing an example of data and the like stored in the storage unit 28 of the terminal 20 in this embodiment.
The storage unit 28 stores an application processing program 281 to be executed as application processing and an application ID 283 corresponding to the terminal 20 or the account of the user of the terminal 20, as an example and not a limitation.

Note that the meeting management data of the meeting management database 155 of the server 10 may be synchronized and stored in the storage unit 28 of the terminal 20 .

<Display screen>
In the following, as an example and not a limitation, a case where the terminal 20 is a tablet terminal having a horizontally long display unit 24 will be described.

In the tablet terminal, as an example and not a limitation, a touch panel that functions as an input unit is arranged to face the display, thereby forming a touch screen. When an element such as an icon, button, item, or input area is displayed on the display, if the user operates a partial area of the touch panel that faces the area where the element is displayed, A program associated with the element or a subroutine of that program is executed.

Note that the transition of the display screens described below is merely an example of the transition of the display screens for realizing the technique of the present disclosure. Regarding the transition of the display screens illustrated below, the display of a part of the display screens may be omitted, or another display screen may be added.

FIG. 1-8 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on the display unit 24 of the terminal 20 in this embodiment. An application program that provides a meeting room to the user (hereinafter sometimes simply referred to as "application") is running on the terminal 20, and "Online Meeting App" is displayed as the name of the application at the top of the screen. ing.
In this example, user A. An example is shown in which an application is being executed on terminal 20A of user A.A. A's icon image and user name are displayed.

Figures 1-8 show user A.A. User B.A is participating in a meeting taking place in Room A, in which user B.A. B, user C. C, user D.C. An example in which three persons D are participating is shown.
In this example, as an area for displaying information related to room A, there is a meeting room area RRA that displays images related to the meeting being held in room A, and a meeting being held in room A. A room participant area PRA is provided in which information about the user is displayed.

In the meeting room area RRA, the name of the meeting room (Room A) is displayed, and images (video information) of each user (User A.A, User B.B, User C.C, User D.D.), but not limited to As an example, an image or the like captured by the imaging unit 27 of each user's terminal 20 is displayed in association with each user's identification information (each user's icon image and user name).

In the room participant area PRA, the number of users participating in the meeting held in room A (4) and icons of other users (user BB, user C.C, user DD) are displayed. An image and username are displayed.

Also, as shown in FIG. 1-8, user A. is displayed at the top of the screen. A uses his/her own voice (as a non-limiting example, a voice input to the sound input unit 25 of the terminal 20A) to the users of the room A (as a non-limiting example, three other users, including himself/herself). A speaker button SBT operated to set whether or not to output from the terminal 20 of four people) and one's own image (as a non-limiting example, an image captured by the imaging unit 27 of the terminal 20A ) is to be displayed on the terminals 20 of the users in room A (for example, not limitation, at least three other users, and may be four users including yourself). A video button VBT, a chat button CHBT operated to send and receive contents (text, voice, image) between myself and other users (3 persons) in a chat format, and displayed on the display unit 24 of my terminal 20A. a share button SCBT operated to set whether or not to display part or all of the information displayed on the display unit 24 of the terminal 20 of the other users (three users) (whether or not to share the screen); , is provided.

In the room participant area PRA, chat buttons are individually provided for each of the other users (user B.B, user C.C, and user D.D.). User A. A is, by way of example and not limitation, user B.A. If you want to have an individual one-on-one chat with user B.B. By operating the chat button provided corresponding to the icon of user C.B and the user name, user C.B. C, user D.C. without B.D's knowledge. Contents (text, voice, image) can be sent and received with B in a chat format. In this respect, the function is different from that of the chat button CHBT described above.

Also, in the example of FIG. 1-8, user A. Information about other meetings that A does not participate in (meetings held in meeting rooms different from room A) are displayed in the room topic list area TR.
At the top of the room topic list area TR, "topics of other meeting rooms" are displayed. based on the information sent and received between the terminals of the users (users different from the users in room A).

As an example and not as a limitation, the words displayed in the room topic list region TR are, as an example and not as a limitation, among the words included in the texts sent and received between the users participating in the other meeting, the words appearing with high frequency. It may be a word, a word that appeared most recently, or the like.
Moreover, among the words included in the conversation (audio information) between the users participating in the other meeting, as an example without limitation, words with a high frequency of appearance, words that appeared most recently, and the like may be used.

As an example, since "Fishing" and "Weekend" are displayed in the room topic list region TR, user A.A. A can guess and understand that "going fishing on the weekend" is being discussed in a meeting held in a room different from room A.

In addition, in the display screen examples of this specification, words such as "fishing" and "weekend" are added with hashtags, which are a kind of set identification words (predetermined identification words) ("room tag notification may be referred to as "information".) is displayed. However, adding an identifier is not essential. Also, an identification word different from the hash tag may be added. A word is, by way of example and not limitation, an example of information for notifying a room topic or room tag, which will be described later.

The upper diagram of FIGS. 1-9 shows user A.A. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on A's terminal 20A. FIG. Unlike the example shown in FIGS. 1-8, an area labeled "Other Meeting Rooms" is provided, in which information about other rooms is displayed.

In this example, for each of the other rooms (room B, room C, and room D), icon images and user names (users E to H) of the users participating in the meeting in that room are displayed in association with the room name. H, users I.I to K.K, users L.L to O.O) are displayed in the corresponding other room information display areas (MRB, MRC, MRD), and words related to the topic of the room are displayed. (“Fishing” and “Weekend”, “Nursery” and “Likes and Dislikes”, “Patent” and “Unearned Income”) are displayed in sub-areas (SRB, SRC, SRD) included in the other room information display area. .

Note that user A. From the sound output unit 26 of the terminal 20A of user A.A. User B. who attends the same meeting as A (meeting in room A). The voice of B "Recently I'm addicted to foliage plants" is output.

1-9, the lower diagram shows user E.E. FIG. 10 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on E's terminal 20E. User E. Since E participates in the meeting in room B, the video of each user (user EE to user HH) participating in the meeting in room B is displayed in the meeting room area RRB.

On the other hand, user E. For E, room A is another room in which a meeting is being held that he does not participate in. Therefore, the icon images and user names of the users participating in the meeting in room A (user A.A to user D.D) is displayed in the corresponding other room information display area MRA, and words ("hobbies" and "foliage plants") related to the topic of room A are displayed in the sub-area SRA included in the other room information display area. is displayed.

It should be noted that user E. From the sound output unit 26 of the terminal 20E of user E.E. User F.E attends the same meeting as E (meeting in room B). The voice of F "Let's go fishing for sea bream on a boat!" is output.

The other room information display area MRB is provided with icons for chatting with each user included in the room B. By tapping this icon, content can be transmitted and received with the user in a chat manner. configured to allow
However, the present invention is not limited to such a form, and a chat icon may not be provided to prevent transmission and reception of contents by chat with room members of other rooms.

Also, when displaying words (room topic or room tag notification information) in a sub-region, unlike the display screen example described above, the video information of the room may be transparently displayed. In other words, the user may be able to check the words while seeing through the video information of the room.

<Processing>
In the processing described below, user A. of room A described above is used. A, user B. B's terminal 20 and room B's user E.B. E, user F.E. Only the processing executed by the terminals 20 of some room members in the same meeting room, such as the processing executed by the terminal 20 of F, is illustrated, and the processing executed by the terminals 20 of other room members in the same meeting room may be omitted. .

FIG. 1-10 is a flow chart showing an example of the flow of processing executed in the communication system 1 in this embodiment.

Note that the processing described below is merely an example of processing for realizing the technique of the present disclosure, and is not limited to these.
Another step may be added to the processing described below, or some steps may be omitted (deleted) from the processing described below.

First, the control unit 11 of the server 10 performs meeting initialization processing (W110). Specifically, as a non-limiting example, when a meeting start request is received from the terminal 20 of the user of the meeting master (hereinafter referred to as "master terminal") through the communication I/F 14, the meeting ID and the meeting master ID generate meeting management data associated with Also, based on the invitation request from the master terminal, the invitation information is transmitted to the terminal 20 of the member requested to be invited. It also receives a meeting room creation request from the master terminal and a meeting room participation request from the member terminals 20 (member terminals). Then, meeting room management data in which the room ID, room name, room member ID, and room topic are associated with each other is stored in the meeting management data. Note that the room topic can be "NULL" at this point.

Next, the control unit 11 of the server 10 performs in-room moving image delivery processing (W120).

FIG. 1-11 is a flow chart showing an example of the flow of in-room video distribution processing in this embodiment. In this process, user E.E. A process executed by the control unit 21 of the terminal 20E of user F.E. The processing executed by the terminal 20F of F and the processing executed by the control unit 11 of the server 10 are shown.
Note that here, as the processing executed by the terminal 20 of the user included in room B, user E. The processing executed by terminal 20E of user F.E and user F.E. Although the processing executed by the terminal 20F of F is shown, the processing executed by the terminals 20 of other users included in the room B can be the same.
Also, the processing executed by the terminal 20 of the room member of the meeting room different from the room B can be the same.

The control unit 21 of the terminal 20E receives moving image information including video information captured by the imaging unit 27 of the terminal 20 itself (front camera as an example, not limitation) and sound information input by the sound input unit 25. is transmitted to the server 10 via the communication I/F 22 (E110).
The same is true for terminal 20F (and other room member terminals) (F110).

When the moving image information is received by the communication I/F 14, the control unit 11 of the server 10 performs in-room moving image generation processing (S110). Specifically, as a non-limiting example, based on the moving image information received from the terminals 20E and 20F (and other room member terminals), the moving image information to be transmitted to the terminal 20 of the user included in the room B A process of generating (=sound information+video information) as in-room moving image information (=in-room sound information+in-room video information) is performed.

Next, the control unit 11 of the server 10 performs in-room voice analysis processing (S120). Specifically, as a non-limiting example, voice recognition processing or the like is performed on the sound information included in the moving image information received from the terminals 20E and 20F (and other room member terminals), and the room of the group is determined. The speech is transcribed, and the conversation content based on the transcribed speech is morphologically analyzed. Then, as an example and not a limitation, for each word, the application frequency of the word is identified and stored in association with the corresponding room ID of the meeting room management data.

After that, the control unit 11 of the server 10 transmits the in-room moving image information generated in step S110 to the terminals 20E and 20F (and other room member terminals) through the communication I/F 14 (S130). Then, the control unit 11 of the server 10 terminates the process.

When the in-room moving image information is received by the communication I/F 22, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20E outputs the received in-room moving image information from the output unit (E120). Specifically, the in-room video information is displayed on the display unit 24 and the in-room sound information is output by the sound output unit 26 . Then, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20E terminates the process.
The same applies to the terminal 20F (and other room member terminals) (F120→end processing).

Returning to FIG. 1-10, after performing the in-room moving image delivery process, the control unit 11 of the server 10 determines that a set time (not limited to but for example, 1 minute, 3 minutes, 5 minutes, 10 minutes, etc.) has elapsed. It is determined whether or not (W130).
Instead of the set time, it may be determined whether or not a set period divided by a certain period has passed. As a non-limiting example, it may be determined whether or not a set period determined by timing such as how many minutes per hour or how many seconds per minute has elapsed. The same applies hereinafter.

If it is determined that the set time has not elapsed (W130: NO), the control unit 11 of the server 10 shifts the process to W160. On the other hand, if it is determined that the set time has passed (W130: YES), the control unit 11 of the server 10 performs room topic acquisition processing (W140).
Specifically, based on the in-room speech analysis results in each meeting room at the set time, as an example and not as a limitation, the top N most frequent words are calculated. Then, the calculated mode word is stored in association with the room topic of the record of the corresponding room ID in the meeting room management data included in the meeting management data of the corresponding meeting ID.

It should be noted that this is not limited to the method of simply calculating the mode word, but as an example and not as a limitation, based on the results of in-room audio analysis in each meeting room at a set time, words identified from the analyzed audio (sentences may also be used) ) may be calculated. Alternatively, words may be clustered from the analyzed speech, and representative words may be calculated from the clustered words. Words calculated in this manner may be used as room topics.

Next, the control unit 11 of the server 10 performs room topic update processing (W150).

FIG. 1-12 is a flow chart showing an example of the flow of room topic update processing. In this process, from left to right, user A. A process executed by the control unit 21 of the terminal 20A of user B.A; The process performed by the control unit 21 of the terminal 20B of B and the process performed by the control unit 11 of the server 10 are shown.
It should be noted that here, as processing executed by the terminal 20 of the user included in the room A, the user A. A process executed by terminal 20A of B.A and user B.A. Although the processing performed by terminal 20B in room B is shown, the processing performed by other room member terminals in room A can be similar.
Further, the processing executed by the terminal 20 of a room member in a room different from the room A can be the same.

First, the control unit 11 of the server 10 transmits room topic information including room topics acquired for each room in the room topic acquisition process of W140 to the terminals 20A, 20B (and other room members) through the communication I/F 14. terminal) (S140). Then, the control unit 11 of the server 10 ends the room topic update process.

For each room, it is not necessary to transmit the room topic information of that room to the terminals 20 of the room members of that room. That is, based on the room ID of the meeting room management data, the server 10 sends the room topic information of the room topic associated with the room ID to the terminal 20 of the user identified by the room member ID associated with the room ID. You may choose not to send it.

Upon receiving the room topic information from the server 10 through the communication I/F 22, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20A performs room tag notification information generation processing (A110). Specifically, as an example and not a limitation, an identification word (hashtag (#) etc.) is generated as room tag notification information.

Next, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20A causes the display unit 24 to display the room tag notification information generated in A110 (A120). In this case, as shown in FIGS. 1-8 as a non-limiting example, room tag notification information may be displayed in an area where topics of other meeting rooms are listed. Also, as shown in FIG. 1-9 as an example and not as a limitation, in the area where topics of other meeting rooms are displayed for each room, the room tag notification information of the corresponding room may be displayed.
Then, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20A ends the room topic update process.

Similarly to the control unit 21 of the terminal 20A, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20B also performs room tag notification information generation processing (B110) and room tag notification information display (B120), and finishes the room topic update processing. do.

When the server 10 transmits the room topic information of the room A to the terminals 20A and 20B (and other room member terminals), the control units of the terminals 20A and 20B (and other room member terminals) 21 may not generate room tag notification information for room A in steps A110 and B110, and may not display room tag notification information for room A in steps A120 and B120.
The same may be applied to the case where the server 10 does not transmit the room topic information of the room A to the terminals 20A and 20B (and other room member terminals).

Returning to FIG. 1-10, after W150, the control unit 11 of the server 10 determines whether or not to end the meeting (W160). return.
On the other hand, if it is determined to end the meeting (W160: YES), the control section 11 of the server 10 ends the process.

According to the above processing, the server 10 acquires the room topic and updates the room topic each time the set time elapses. That is, the room topic is updated as time passes, and the latest updated room topic is displayed on the terminal 20 .

Note that, unlike the above process, the server 10 may generate room tag notification information based on the room topic and transmit it to the terminal 20 .

Further, in the above process, the terminal 20 causes the display unit 24 to display the room tag notification information, but the present invention is not limited to this. Alternatively, the room topic may be displayed on the display unit 24. FIG.
Also, the room topic does not necessarily have to be a word, but may be a sentence or a sentence, by way of example and not limitation.

Alternatively, the terminal 20 may notify the user of the terminal 20 of the room topic by, for example, outputting the room topic from the sound output unit 26 . In other words, notification is not limited to being realized by display, and may be realized by sound output.

Also, in the above process, the room topic information is the information based on the sound information transmitted and received in the meeting room, but the present invention is not limited to this. As described above, the room topic may be estimated from the text or the like sent and received in the meeting room.

In addition, as a non-limiting example, the room topic may be estimated based on video information transmitted and received in the meeting room. In this case, in the room topic acquisition process, the control unit 11 of the server 10 may, for example and not by way of limitation, analyze the movement of the person included in the video, and estimate the room topic based on the result of the movement analysis. . As an example and not by way of limitation, if the person is acting like dancing, the room topic may be inferred to be "dance". Since it may be difficult to estimate the room topic only from the motion of the person, the room topic may be estimated using the sound information as well.

Further, instead of or in addition to the room topic, the control unit 11 of the server 10 determines the excitement level of the conversation in the meeting room and the conversation based on various information transmitted and received in the meeting room as described above. Information such as the amount may be estimated as room conversation status information and transmitted to the terminal 20 . Then, the terminal 20 may make a notification based on the received room conversation status information. It should be noted that, similarly to the room topic, the notification may be realized by sound output. Although the case where notifications based on room topics are mainly applied is exemplified, the same can be applied when notifications based on room conversation status information or the like are applied.

The information transmitted/received in the meeting room may be expressed as information transmitted/received in a group, information transmitted/received by the room members of the meeting room, information transmitted/received by the terminals of the room members in the meeting room, and the like.

<Effect of the first embodiment>
In this embodiment, the moving image information (not limited, but an example of audio information and video information) transmitted and received in the first meeting room (not limited, but an example of the first group) is output by the sound output unit 26 and the display unit 24. terminal 20 receives information such as room topic information (not limited, but an example of first information) based on information transmitted and received in a second meeting room (not limited, but an example of a second group) via communication I/F 22 do. The terminal 20 shows a configuration in which the control unit 21 performs notification by display or sound output based on the received room topic information (not a limitation, but an example of a first notification based on the first information).
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, the terminal receives the first information based on the information transmitted and received in the second group different from the first group, and then receives the first information based on the first information. 1 notification enables the user of the terminal to guess the information transmitted and received in the second group.

It should be noted that the user of the terminal 20 that outputs the moving image information (not limited to, but an example of audio information and video information) transmitted and received in the meeting room (group) through the sound output unit 26 and the display unit 24 does not necessarily belong to the meeting room (group). , and may not be included in the meeting room (group).

Also, in this case, as a non-limiting example, the room topic information (not limiting, but an example of the first information) is information based on the sound information transmitted and received in the second meeting room (not limiting, but an example of the second group). Including, the above notification (not limited, but an example of a first notification) is a display of information such as room topic information and room tag notification information (not limited, but an example of a first display based on the first information). 20 may be displayed on the display unit 24 .
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, the terminal receives the first information including the information based on the sound information transmitted and received in the second group, and then displays the first display based on the first information. is displayed, the user of the terminal can guess the sound information transmitted and received in the second group.

Further, in the present embodiment, the server 10 relays transmission and reception of moving image information (not limited, but an example of video information and sound information) in the first meeting room (not limited, but an example of the first group), Relay moving image information (not limited, but an example of video information and audio information) in a second meeting room (not limited, but an example of a second group). Then, the server 10 acquires information such as room topic information based on information transmitted/received in the second meeting room (not limited, but an example of first information related to the second group), and the room topic information and a communication I/F 14 for transmitting information such as information to the first meeting room.
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, the transmission and reception of the video information and the audio information in the first group are relayed, and the video information and the audio information in the second group different from the first group are relayed. A server that relays transmission/reception can acquire the first information related to the second group and then transmit the acquired first information to the first group.

Here, "information sent and received in a group" will be explained.
"Information sent and received in a group" is, for example and not limitation, information transmitted from users included in the group (terminals 20 of users included in the group) to the server 10, and the server 10 To generate information such as the above-described in-room moving image information and transmit it to the group (user terminal 20 included in the group), or to transmit one user (one user terminal 20) included in the group The concept may include transmitting the information to be the transmission source to the terminals 20 of other users included in the group other than the one user. Further, it may include both the case of transmitting information via the server 10 and the case of transmitting information without the server 10 .

In addition, "transmitting and receiving sound information and video information in a group" may be a concept including the following aspects as an example, not as a limitation. Some patterns are exemplified, but are not limited to these.
・Video information and audio information sent by the target users included in the group (hereinafter referred to as “target users”), and users other than the target users included in the group (hereinafter referred to as “users other than target users”). ) are output on the terminal 20 of the target user. The video information received is not displayed on the target user's terminal 20 (the terminal (application) does not send video information to the server, the terminal sends video information to the server but does not send video information from the server to the terminal, and the terminal does not send video information to the server). Sends video information and does not display video information received from the server)
- Sound information sent from a user other than the target user is output as sound on the target user's terminal 20, but sound information sent by the target user is not output as sound at the target user's terminal 20 (from the terminal (application) to the server) Do not send sound information, send sound information from the terminal to the server but do not send sound information from the server to the terminal, send sound information from the terminal to the server and do not output the sound information received from the server)
The video information sent by the target user and the audio information/video information sent by the users other than the target user are output at the target user's terminal 20, but the audio information sent by the target user is output from the target user's terminal 20. is not output with (same as above for sound information)
- The sound information sent by the target user and the sound information/video information sent by users other than the target user are output at the target user's terminal 20, but the video information sent by the target user is output at the target user's terminal 20 is not displayed in (same as above for video information)
- Neither the sound information nor the video information sent by the target user is output at the target user's terminal 20 (same as above for the sound information and the video information)
- At least one of the audio information and video information sent from some of the users other than the target user is not output on the target user's terminal 20 - Regarding the output on the target user's terminal 20 Depending on the settings, the terminal 20 of the target user can control the output of video information and audio information (moving image information "ON/OFF", audio information "ON/OFF", video information "ON/OFF").

<First modification (1)>
The display screen configuration and UI of the meeting application, including the above embodiment and other embodiments, are merely examples, and are not limited to these. Another configuration example of the display screen is shown below.

Figures 1-13 illustrate user A. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on A's terminal 20A. FIG. Unlike the example shown in FIG. 1-9, the information of the participants (user AA to user D.D) regarding room A in which the user participates is also available in other rooms (room B, room B, It is displayed in the room member list area MLR on the right end of the screen in the same manner as the participant information regarding room C and room D).

In the room member list area MLR, information of participants (users A.A to user D.D) regarding room A in which the user participates and information on each room in which the user does not participate (room B, room C, room D, …) of the participants (user EE to user HH, user II to user KK, user LL to user OO, …) are displayed vertically. there is User A. By scrolling up and down, A can see the participants in room A in which he participates and the participants in each room in which he does not participate (room B, room C, room D, . . . ). can be confirmed.

Around the meeting room area RRA are room topic areas (TRB, TRC, TRD, . ) is provided. User A. By confirming the room topic area, A can confirm what topic the meeting is being held in each meeting room in which he does not participate.
By way of example and not limitation, the words "nursery school" and "likes and dislikes" are displayed in the room topic area TRC of room C, so that it is understood that conversations are being held on these topics in room C. be able to.

In addition to the room topic areas (TRB, TRC, TRD, . . . ) corresponding to each room (B, C, D, . (“Hobbies” and “Foliage Plants” for example, but not limitation) may be provided in a room topic area TRA.
Further, by tapping an area corresponding to one of the meeting rooms in the room member list area MLR, the aspect of the room topic area corresponding to that meeting room changes (as a non-limiting example, color changes, position changes). change, enlarged display, etc.). With such a configuration, the relationship between the participants in each room and the topic of the meeting being conducted by the participants becomes clear.

<First modification (2)>
In the above embodiment, as a non-limiting example, in step S140 of the processing of FIG. The obtained image may be included in the room topic information and transmitted to the terminal 20 . Then, the terminal 20A and the control unit 21 of the room member terminal including the terminal 20A may cause the display unit 24 to display an image included in the received room topic information.

Also, as a non-limiting example, in steps A110 and B110 of the processing of FIG. A search process for searching for images based on a topic may be performed, and images obtained as search results may be displayed on the display unit 24 .

Also, as a non-limiting example, in step S140 of the process of FIG. may be included in the room topic information and transmitted to the terminal 20 .

Specific examples of these are illustrated in the display screen of the second embodiment below.

<Second embodiment>
The second embodiment relates to the user leaving the general meeting and moving to another meeting room. Some users may want to leave the general meeting room or move to a different meeting room from the current meeting room.

The content described in the second embodiment can be applied to each of the other embodiments and each of the other modifications.
Moreover, the same code|symbol is attached|subjected about the component same as an already-appearing component, and description for the second time is abbreviate|omitted.

<Display screen>
The upper diagram in FIG. 2-1 shows user A.A. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on A's terminal 20A. FIG.
Here, in addition to the case where the room topic is displayed in words, the case where the information described in the first modified example (2) can be displayed is exemplified.

In this example, unlike the example shown in FIG. 1-9, an exit button LBT is provided in the meeting room area RRA at a position corresponding to the room name (A) being entered. In addition, the participation buttons PBT for entering other rooms (room B, room C, room D) that the user is not currently entering are located at positions corresponding to the other room names (room B, room C, room D). is provided in

In this embodiment, the operation of the exit button LBT is, for example and not by way of limitation, user A.B. An example of an operation for A to leave the general meeting can be taken. In this case, the exit button may be the "exit button (from the general meeting)".

It should be noted that the operation of the room exit button LBT is not limited to, but is an example of user A.A. This may be an example of an operation for A to leave the room A (exit from the room (exit), which will be described later in detail), or an example of an operation for exiting a meeting (individual meeting) being held in the room A.

Also, user A. The operation for A to enter room B (operation of the participation button PBT corresponding to room B) is performed by user A.A. An example of an operation in which A enters a room B or an operation in which A participates in a meeting being held in the room B may be used.

Here, (1) user A. (2) User A can operate the participation button PBT corresponding to room B without operating the exit button LBT. It may be configured so that A cannot operate the participation button PBT corresponding to the room B unless he operates the exit button LBT.

(1) In the former case, user A. By tapping the participation button PBT corresponding to room B, the participants in room A (users A.A to user D.D) can join user A.A. A is excluded, and the participants in room B (users EE to user HH) are added to user A.A. A will be added. That is, from the group in room A, user A. A will be automatically excluded. In other words, moving between rooms may not involve leaving the room.
As an example of the effect obtained by such a configuration, it is possible to simplify the operation and processing for excluding a user who wishes to participate in another group from the group in which he is currently participating.

(2) In the latter case, user A. By tapping the exit button LBT, the participants in room A (users A.A to user D.D) temporarily leave user A.A. A, user A.A. By tapping the participation button PBT corresponding to room B after user A has not participated in any room, user A.A. A will be added to Room B's participants (users EE through user HH). That is, user A. Even if A taps the join button PBT of room B without tapping the exit button LBT of room A, he cannot join room B. In other words, movement of the room may be accompanied by leaving the room.
As an example of the effect obtained by such a configuration, it is possible to prevent the user from being unintentionally excluded from the group in which the user is currently participating due to a user's misunderstanding, etc., and to prevent easy movement between groups.

The lower diagram of FIG. 2-1 differs from the upper diagram in that user A.A. Information other than words is displayed as information based on information transmitted and received between terminals of users participating in meetings in other rooms (room B, room C, and room D) in which A does not participate.

As an example and not as a limitation, in the case of Room B, as an example and not as a limitation, words included in texts sent and received between users participating in a meeting in Room B (User EE to User HH) An image (in this example, an image of a fish (sea bream)) associated with at least one of the words with high appearance frequency and the words that appeared most recently is displayed in the corresponding sub-region SRB.
The image displayed in this manner is an image based on the result of the above-described in-room audio analysis processing, or an image retrieved based on the room topic estimated as a result of the in-room audio analysis processing, as an example without limitation. etc.

In the case of Room D, the video of the screen shared (screen shared) among the users participating in the meeting in Room D (user L.L to user O.O) is displayed in the corresponding sub-region SRB. is displayed.

The upper diagram in FIG. 2-2 shows user A.A. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on A's terminal 20A. FIG. Unlike the example shown in FIG. 2-1, user A. In the sub-regions (SRB, SRC, and SRD) corresponding to the other rooms (room B, room C, and room D) in which A does not participate, images of meetings held in other rooms are displayed.

As an example and not a limitation, in the case of Room B, the video of the meeting (user EE to user HH) are displayed in a reduced form in the corresponding sub-regions SRB.
Thus, user A. A can grasp the video of the meeting being held in room B in which he does not participate.

The lower diagram of FIG. 2-2 shows the user A.2 in the upper diagram. A is an example of a screen displayed when an operation is performed on a sub-region SRB corresponding to room B. FIG.
In this example, user A. While A touches and holds the sub-region SRB, the video of the meeting being held in room B (video corresponding to each of users EE to user HH) becomes the topic of room B. The related words (“fishing” and “weekend”) are switched to display. Then, when the finger is removed from the screen, the display returns to the video of the meeting (video corresponding to each of users EE to HH).

Note that user A. When A taps (touches and releases his finger) the sub-region SRB, video of the meeting being held in room B (video corresponding to each of users EE to user HH) is displayed in room B. The display switches to topic-related words ("fishing" and "weekend"), after which user A.A. When A again taps (touches and lifts his finger) the sub-region SRB, the words related to the topic of Room B ("Fishing" and "Weekend") are displayed in the video of the meeting taking place in Room B (user EE to user HH) may be switched.

Thus, user A. A can grasp the topic of the meeting held in the room B in which he does not participate (the topics of the users EE to HH who participate in the room B).

In addition, the state in which an image related to the topic of the meeting is displayed in the sub-region SRB (see Fig. 2-1), and the state in which the screen shared in the meeting is displayed in the sub-region SRD (Fig. 2- 1) may be similar to the above.

The upper diagram in FIG. 2-3 shows user A.A. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on A's terminal 20A. FIG.
User A. in Room A. By tapping the participation button PBT corresponding to room B, the participants in room A (users A.A to user D.D) can join user A.A. A is excluded, and the participants in room B (users EE to user HH) are given user A.A. A is added.

As shown in the lower diagram of FIG. 2-3, user A.A. In response to A's room move, user A.A. The other room information display area MRA corresponding to the room A in which A will not participate is displayed as information of "another meeting room". User A. is displayed in the other room information display area MRA. User B. who is still participating in room A after A is no longer participating. B to user D. The icon images and user names of users A.D (three in total) are displayed. A's icon image and user name are not displayed.
Also, user A. The other room information display area MRB corresponding to the room B in which A will participate is not displayed as the information of "another meeting room".

Also, user A. A meeting room area RRB corresponding to room B in which A has participated is displayed instead of the previous meeting room area RRA. In the meeting room area RRB, user A. User B. who was a participant before A joined. B to user H.B. Each video of A.H and newly joined user A.H. The video of A is included (total of 5 people).

Figures 2-4 show user A. in room A. FIG. 10 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed when A taps a participation button PBT corresponding to room B;
As shown in the upper diagram, user A. In the meeting room area RRA corresponding to the room A in which user A was participating, user A.A. A to user D. The image of user A.D (four persons in total) is displayed. By tapping the participation button PBT corresponding to room B, user A.A. A's image UAI (video of user A.A or a still image (icon) generated based on the video) moves from the meeting room area RRA to the other room information display area MRB corresponding to room B while being reduced.

In this example, from the meeting room area RRA, user A.A. By moving the image UAI of user A.A. The area where the image of A was displayed is blank.
Note that user A. After the image of A moves to the other room information display area MRB, the screen may be changed to the screen shown in the lower part of FIG. 2-3.

<Processing>
FIG. 2-5 is a flow chart showing an example of the flow of processing executed in the communication system 1 in this embodiment. The view of the figure is the same as in FIGS. 1-10.

After step W120, the control unit 11 of the server 10 performs room transfer processing (W210).

FIG. 2-6 is a flow chart showing an example of the flow of room change processing in this embodiment. The processing executed by the control unit 21 of the terminal 20A is shown on the left side of the drawing, and the processing executed by the control unit 11 of the server 10 is shown on the right side of the drawing.
The control unit 11 of the server 10 performs the following processing for each meeting room. Since the processing executed by the control unit 21 of the terminal 20 can be the same for any terminal 20, only the terminal 20A is illustrated here.

The control unit 21 of the terminal 20A determines whether or not to move the meeting room by determining whether or not the user has input through the input/output unit 23 to move the meeting room (A201).

Here, as a non-limiting example, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20A, through the input/output unit 23, receives other room information (which may be called information indicating other meeting rooms or information indicating other groups). Displayed on the display unit 24 . Then, the terminal 20 can determine whether or not to move the meeting room (whether or not to join another meeting room) based on the input of the displayed other room information by the user of the terminal 20 itself. can.

Here, the other room information may include at least one of the following as an example and not as a limitation.
・Room topic of the meeting room, room tag notification information, room conversation status information ・Room name of the meeting room ・Operation information for joining the meeting room (participation button, etc.)
・Information about room members of the meeting room ・Video information of the meeting room In the examples of FIGS. In addition to this, whether or not to move the meeting room may be determined based on an operation on any of the above information. Also, it is determined whether or not to move the meeting room based on the input by the user of the own terminal 20 to the area where other room information is displayed (other room information display area or sub-area, not limited). good too.

If it is determined not to move the room (A201: NO), the control unit 21 of the terminal 20A ends the room moving process.
If it is determined to move the room, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20A, as a non-limiting example, at least the application ID of the user of the terminal 20 and identification information for identifying the destination room (as a non-limiting example, room ID) to the server 10 via the communication I/F 22 (A203). The room change request information may be expressed as information regarding a request to join another room.
Here, it is assumed that the user moves between meeting rooms.

The control unit 11 of the server 10 determines whether or not room change request information has been received via the communication I/F 14 (S201). If it is determined that it has not been received (S201: NO), the control unit 11 of the server 10 terminates the room change processing.

If it is determined that it has been received (S201: YES), the control unit 11 of the server 10 associates the user's application ID included in the received room change request information with the room ID of the current meeting room in the meeting room management data. room member ID, and added to the room member ID associated with the room ID of the destination meeting room (S203). Then, the control unit 11 of the server 10 ends the room transfer processing.

By way of example and not limitation, user A.A. As a non-limiting example, when the user inputs information indicating room B via the input/output unit 23 on the screen on which room A is displayed, the terminal 20 of A. Room change request information including the application ID of A and the room ID of room B can be transmitted to the server 10 via the communication I/F 22 (A203).

In this case, the control unit 11 of the server 10 selects user A. from the room member ID associated with the room ID of room A in the meeting room management data. A application ID is deleted and the room member ID associated with room B's room ID is assigned user A.A. The application ID of A can be added (S203).

Note that here, the user A. To move user A from room A to room B, the room member ID associated with room A's room ID is used to move user A.A. A's application ID is deleted. This is because user A. It may be thought of as disassociating A from room A.
However, it is not limited to this. To move user A from room A to room B, the room member ID associated with room A's room ID is assigned user A.A. It is also possible to leave A's application ID. This is because user A. It may be considered that A's association with room A is not released. That is, user A. It may be possible for A to participate in room B while participating in room A.
This may be the same in subsequent processes.

Returning to FIG. 2-5, after performing the room transfer process in step W210, the control section 11 of the server 10 shifts the process to step W130.

By executing steps W120 to W160 by the control unit 11 of the server 10, the terminal 20A outputs the in-room moving image information of the destination meeting room (as an example, not as a limitation, room B). As an example, control is performed to switch to the output corresponding to room B), and the room tag notification information (or room topic) of other meeting rooms including the meeting room of the move source (room A as an example, not limited) is displayed. be. In this case, the room tag notification information (or room topic) of room B may not be displayed on the terminal 20A.

As described in the first modified example (2), in the room topic update process of step W150, as a non-limiting example, in step S140 of the process of FIG. A search process may be performed to search for images based on the topic (images that match the room topic or images that are close to the room topic, not limited), and may be included in the room topic information and transmitted to the terminal 20. Then, the terminal 20A and the control unit 21 of the room member terminal including the terminal 20A may cause the display unit 24 to display an image included in the received room topic information.

Further, as an example and not a limitation, in steps A110 and B110 of the processing of FIG. image based on the room topic (not limited, but an image that matches the room topic or an image that is close to the room topic), and displays the image obtained as the search result on the display unit 24. can be

Also, as a non-limiting example, at step S140 in FIG. good.

<Effect of Second Embodiment>
In this embodiment, by way of example and not limitation, room topic information (one example of first information, not limitation) is image information based on sound information transmitted and received in a second meeting room (one example of second group, not limitation). shows a configuration including
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, the terminal receives the first information including the image information based on the sound information transmitted and received in the second group, and then receives the first information based on the first information. By displaying the display, the user of the terminal can more easily and appropriately guess the sound information transmitted and received in the second group from the image information.

In addition, the present embodiment is used as an example, not limitation, of room topic information (not limitation, one example of first information), such as information screen-shared in a second meeting room (not limitation, one example of second group). Fig. 3 shows a composition containing information shared in a second meeting room;
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, the terminal receives the first information including the information shared by the second group, and then displays the first display based on the first information. , the information shared by the second group can be made known to the user of the terminal.

In addition, in this embodiment, the terminal 20 transmits/receives video information transmitted/received in the first meeting room (not limited, but an example of the first group) and information indicating the second meeting room (not limited, information indicating the second group). ) is displayed on the display unit 24 . Then, based on the input of the information indicating the second meeting room by the user of the terminal 20 itself, the terminal 20 controls the transmission of room movement request information to the second meeting room to the server 10 and outputs corresponding to the second meeting room. 2 shows a configuration in which the control unit 21 performs control such as switching to the second group (not a limitation, but an example of control in which a user of a terminal participates in the second group).
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, in a state in which the video information transmitted and received in the first group and the information indicating the second group are displayed, the user of the terminal for the information indicating the second group By controlling the user of the terminal to participate in the second group based on the input by , the user of the terminal can participate in the second group, and the convenience can be improved.

<Third embodiment>
The third embodiment is an embodiment that makes it possible to change the display mode of information about other rooms based on the information of room members included in the meeting room, as an example and not as a limitation.
By way of example and not by way of limitation, other rooms may be discussing topics of interest or interest to the user. Also, in such a case, the user may want to move to the room and join the conversation.

The content described in the third embodiment can be applied to each of the other embodiments and modifications.
Moreover, the same code|symbol is attached|subjected about the component same as an already-appearing component, and description for the second time is abbreviate|omitted.

<Display screen>
The upper diagram in FIG. 3-1 shows user A.A. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on A's terminal 20A. FIG.
User A. Based on the user information of A, as a non-limiting example, and as an example, the hobby is "fishing", the display frame of the word "fishing" displayed in the sub-region SRB corresponding to room B is thickened and a heart mark is displayed. Include icon HIC is added. Thus, a user A.A who is participating in room A. Based on the fact that the user information of A is related to the topic of Room B, the sub-region SRB in which the words related to the topic of Room B are displayed is highlighted.

Also, as shown in the lower diagram of FIG. When A touches the sub-region SRB, during the touching period, the voice of the meeting in room B (as a non-limiting example, user FF's voice "Let's go fishing for sea bream on a boat!") is output from the sound output unit 26 . This voice is heard by user E.E. E to H. It is also the voice output from H's terminal 20 .
Thus, user A. When an interesting topic comes up in room B in which A does not participate, A can grasp that fact and listen to the voice of room B.

Note that the example shown here is merely an example.
Based on the user information of the user of the room member (user attribute information as an example, not limitation), it is possible to highlight other room information corresponding to the topical room related to the user.

The user information can include at least one of the user's gender, age, generation, place of residence, occupation, hobbies/preferences/interests, etc., as examples and not limitation, and these Relevance may be determined based on at least one of the information. The relevance may be determined based on one piece of information, or may be determined based on a plurality of pieces of information.

As an example and not by way of limitation, user D. in room A. Based on the fact that D is female and has a child (infant) as a family structure, user D.D. D's terminal 20D may highlight the information of room C whose room topics are "nursery school" and "likes and dislikes".
By way of example and not limitation, user C.I. If user C.C's occupation is related to intellectual property, user C.C. At C's terminal 20C, the information of room D whose room topics are "patent" and "unearned income" may be highlighted.

<Processing>
FIG. 3B is a flowchart showing an example of the flow of room topic update processing in this embodiment.
It should be noted that here, as processing executed by the terminal 20 of the user included in the room A, the user A. Although the processing performed by the terminal 20A of room A is shown, the processing performed by other room member terminals in room A can be similar.
Further, the processing executed by the terminal 20 of a room member in a room different from the room A can be the same.

After the step of S140, the control unit 11 of the server 10 allows the user A. The room topic information of other rooms different from the room of the group containing user A. It is determined whether or not there is a relationship with the user information of A (S310). Specifically, as an example and not as a limitation, user A.A. The relationship (similarity) between the user information of A and the room topic information of another room is determined based on a method such as a relationship determination algorithm or a similarity determination algorithm, as an example and not limitation. And if it determines with there being relevance, let a determination result be affirmative determination. On the other hand, if it is determined that there is no relevance, the determination result will be a negative determination.

In this case, the control unit 11 of the server 10 calculates an index value such as a degree of relevance or a degree of similarity based on a relevance determination algorithm, a similarity determination algorithm, or the like, for example and not limitation, and calculates a threshold value for the index value. A determination may be made to determine whether there is relevance.

Further, determination of room topic information of other rooms is performed by user A.3. All meeting rooms other than the meeting room where user A is included may be targeted. A part of the meeting room different from the meeting room where A is included may be targeted.

If it is determined that there is relevance (S310: YES), the control unit 11 of the server 10 provides room topic emphasis information (as an example, not a limitation) for emphasizing the room topic information of the meeting room determined to have relevance. , information including the room ID of the meeting room) is transmitted to the terminal 20A via the communication I/F 14 (S320).
Then, the control unit 11 of the server 10 ends the room topic update process.

After A120, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20A determines whether or not the room topic emphasis information has been received from the server 10 via the communication I/F 22 (A310). Other room emphasis information is displayed (A320). Specifically, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20A determines that the room identified by the room ID included in the received room topic emphasizing information is related to the other room other room information (example, not limitation). , control is performed to change the display mode of (an example of information indicating a group).

Here, other room information (an example of information indicating groups, not limitation) is as described in the second embodiment. Then, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20A performs control to change the display mode of at least one of the following information as an example, not as a limitation, for the other meeting room determined to be relevant: good too.
・Room topic of the meeting room, room tag notification information, room conversation status information ・Room name of the meeting room ・Operation information for joining the meeting room (“Join” button, etc.)
・Information about room members of the meeting room ・Video information of the meeting room Note that the display mode of the area where other room information is displayed (other room information display area or sub-area, not limited) may be changed.

Further, in this case, the display mode of the information whose display mode is to be changed can be changed by at least one of the following methods as an example and not as a limitation.
・Change the size (increase the size as an example, not as a limitation)
・Change the color (as a non-limiting example, display in a conspicuous color such as red)
- Making a lighting display or blinking display - Adding an icon, a mark, etc. Note that the present invention is not limited to these, and other methods may be applied.

After S320, the control unit 11 of the server 10 controls the voice information in the other room (hereinafter referred to as "voice information in the other room") determined to be related. is transmitted to the terminal 20A through the communication I/F 14 (S330).
After A320, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20A performs control to cause the sound output unit 26 to output the sound information in the other room received by the communication I/F 22 (A330).
The in-other-room voice information that the server 10 transmits to the terminal 20A can be at least part of the in-other-room voice information determined to be relevant. As a non-limiting example, it may be voice information during a period in which the user is performing an operation such as touch as shown in FIG. Audio information obtained by cutting at least a part of the audio information may be used.
Then, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20A ends the room topic update process.

If the room topic emphasis information is not received at A310 (A310: NO), the control unit 21 of the terminal 20A ends the room topic update process without performing steps A320 and A330. That is, the room topic information of the other room and the user A. If it is determined that there is no relevance to the user information of A, the other room emphasized information display is not performed, and the voice in the other room is not reproduced.

In step S330, the control unit 11 of the server 10 may transmit the in-other room audio information based on a request from the terminal 20A, or may transmit it unconditionally.

Further, in step A330, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20A may reproduce the voice information in the other room based on the user input via the input/output unit 23, or unconditionally You may make it reproduce|regenerate. Further, the other room audio information may be reproduced by mixing with the in-room audio information of the room A, or only the other room audio information may be reproduced without being mixed.

Also, as an example and not a limitation, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20A is the user A.A. Based on A's user information, the volume of at least part of the other room's audio information may be controlled. By way of example and not limitation, if it is determined to be relevant but not relevant, user A. If the number of information determined to be relevant among the information A is small, control is performed to reproduce the other room audio information at the first volume. On the other hand, when it is determined that the relevance is high or when user A.A. If there is a large number of pieces of information determined to be relevant among the pieces of information A, control may be performed to reproduce the in-other room audio information at a second volume higher than the first volume.

Also, in the above processing, the room topic information of the other room and the user A. Although the server 10 determines the relevance to the user information of A, this may be performed by the control unit 21 of the terminal 20A. In this case, as an example and not a limitation, the storage unit 28 of the terminal 20A stores user A. A user information is stored, or the server 10 sends user A.A. After obtaining the user information of A, as an example and not limitation, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20A can determine the relevance after step A120 in the above process. Then, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20A can proceed to step A310.

<Effect of the third embodiment>
In this embodiment, the terminal 20 performs control such as control to display other room emphasized information based on the information of the user of the own terminal 20 (not limited to, the display mode of the first display is changed and displayed on the display unit). An example of display control) is performed by the control unit 21. FIG.
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, it is possible to vary the display mode of the first display based on the first information based on the information of the user of the terminal. As an example and not as a limitation, it is possible to emphatically display the first display based on the first information that the user of the terminal is interested in, thereby improving convenience.

Moreover, this embodiment shows a configuration in which the terminal 20 receives at least part of the sound information transmitted and received in the second meeting room by the communication I/F 22 .
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, at least part of the sound information transmitted and received in the second group can be received. By way of example and not limitation, the user of the terminal can be notified of at least a portion of the sound information transmitted and received in the second group by causing the sound output unit to output the received sound information.

In this case, the terminal 20 may control the volume of at least a part of the sound information received and transmitted in the second meeting room based on the information of the user of the terminal 20 itself. .
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, it is possible to control the volume of at least part of the sound information transmitted and received in the second group based on the user information of the terminal. As a non-limiting example, it is possible to output sound information that the user of the terminal is interested in at a higher volume, thereby improving convenience.

<Third modification (1)>
In step S310 of the process of FIG. 3-2, the control unit 11 of the server 10, as a non-limiting example, determines the relationship between information related to room A (room A's group) and room topic information of other rooms. may be determined.

Specifically, as a non-limiting example, the information related to room A is the result of the in-room audio analysis processing of room A, and the control unit 11 of the server 10 outputs the result of the in-room audio analysis processing of room A, The relevance to room topic information of other rooms may be determined. Then, based on the determination result, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20A may perform steps A310 to A330.

Also, as a non-limiting example, the information related to room A is information such as the room name (group name) of room A and the meeting title registered when room A conducts an online meeting, and the control unit of server 10 11 may determine the relevance between this information and room topic information of other rooms. Then, based on the determination result, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20A may perform steps A310 to A330.

The upper diagram in FIG. 3-3 shows user A.A. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on A's terminal 20A. FIG. The sound output unit 26 outputs the sound of the meeting in the room A (as an example, not limitation, the sound of the user B.B. “Recently, I am addicted to foliage plants.”).

Here, based on the fact that the word "foliage plant" included in the audio of the meeting in room A is related to the word "foliage plant" displayed in the sub-region SRB of room B, the , the sub-region SRB of the room B is enlarged and displayed more than the sub-regions (SRC, SRD) of the other rooms (C, D).
Thus, user A. Words related to the topic of room A in which user A (users B.B to D.D) is participating, and user A.A. By highlighting the sub-region SRB of room B based on the association with words related to the topic of room B in which A (users B.B to D.D) does not participate, room A users (A.A to D.D.) participating in the event can understand that a topic related to room A was raised in room B.

In this modification, the terminal 20 displays the video information transmitted and received in the first meeting room and the information indicating the second meeting room on the display unit 24 . The terminal 20 has a configuration in which the control unit 21 controls the display mode of the information indicating the second meeting room displayed on the display unit 24 based on the information related to the first meeting room.
As an example of the effect of the modification obtained by such a configuration, it is possible to control the display mode of the information indicating the displayed second group based on the information related to the first group.

Also, in this case, the information related to the first meeting room may include in-room audio information of the first meeting room (not limited to, information based on sound information transmitted and received in the first group).
As an example of the effect of the modification obtained by such a configuration, in combination with the above, the display mode of the information indicating the second group to be displayed is controlled based on the information based on the sound information transmitted and received in the first group. be able to. By way of example and not limitation, when content related to content discussed in the first group is discussed in the second group, information indicating the second group may be highlighted and displayed. .

<Third modification (2)>
In the third embodiment and the third modified example (1), it may be possible to allow room members to move to other rooms or to merge (integrate) meeting rooms.
Here, the case of merging meeting rooms with related topics is exemplified, but regardless of whether the topics are related or not, the meeting rooms (groups) can be merged by mutual agreement. may

3-4, the upper diagram shows user A.A who is participating in room A. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on A's terminal 20A. FIG.
Based on the fact that the topic of room A and the topic of room B are related, an area PPR1 that prompts the user to operate is superimposed on the meeting room area RRA. In the area PPR1, a message "This is a common topic with room B. Would you like to join room B?" and "No" and "Yes" buttons are displayed.

User A. When A taps the "Yes" button, each participant in room B (E.E to HH) is included as a participant in room A, as shown in the lower diagram of Fig. 3-4. be able to As a result, in room A's meeting room area RRA, user A. A to H. H (8 persons in total) are displayed. Icon images and user names (and chat buttons corresponding to each user) of each user (B.B to H.H) other than A are displayed.
Further, the other room information display area MRB corresponding to the room B is not displayed as the information of "another meeting room".

Note that in the example of FIG. When Room A performs an operation to merge Room A and Room B, Room B (a group of users EE to HH) is merged with Room A (a group of users AA to DD). Although an example of merging into a user A. group has been shown, the operation is not limited to this. Instead of the meeting room area RRA of room A, the meeting room area RRB of room B may be displayed on A's terminal 20A.

In addition, in the example of FIG. 3-4, room A and room B are merged by the operation of one of the participants in room A (user A.A in this example). Without being limited to such a form, a plurality of participants (from two to all) among the participants in room A may perform an operation to permit merging, thereby merging with other rooms. Also, among the participants in room A, a user who has been set in advance as a room administrator may operate to merge with another room.

Also, by way of example and not limitation, if all of the room members in both Room A and Room B agree, a majority of the room members in both Room A and Room B may be merged with another room when permitted by the room manager of room A and the room manager of room B, or when permitted by the meeting master.

Also, as an example and not by way of limitation, user A . A is set, user A.A. The area PPR1 for the merging operation is displayed only on the terminal 20A of A, and the area PPR1 is not displayed on the terminals 20 of other users (B.B to D.D) (or cannot be operated even if displayed). You may do so.

FIG. 3-5 is a flow chart showing an example of the flow of processing executed in the communication system 1 in this modified example.
After step W210, the communication system 1 performs room merging processing (W310).

FIG. 3-6 is a flowchart showing an example of the flow of room merging processing in this modified example.
In this figure, the processing executed by the control unit 21 of the terminal 20A is shown on the left side, and the processing executed by the control unit 11 of the server 10 is shown on the right side.

It should be noted that here, as processing executed by the terminal 20 of the user included in the room A, the user A. Although the processing performed by the terminal 20A of room A is shown, the processing performed by other room member terminals in room A can be similar.
Further, the processing executed by the terminal 20 of a room member in a room different from the room A can be the same.

The control unit 11 of the server 10 controls the user A. If the room topic information of other rooms other than room A where user A is included is user A.A. It is determined whether or not there is a relationship with the result of the in-room audio analysis processing of room A in which A is included (S350).

In the process of FIG. 3-5, since no room topic exists until the first room topic acquisition process is performed, in this case, step S350 is skipped.

If it is determined that there is a relationship (S350: YES), the control unit 11 of the server 10 sends room merging confirmation information for confirming to the user whether or not to merge the meeting rooms to the terminal 20A via the communication I/F 14. Send (S360).

The control unit 21 of the terminal 20A determines whether or not the room merging confirmation information has been received from the server 10 via the communication I/F 22 (A350). If it is determined that it has been received (A350: YES), the control section 21 of the terminal 20A determines whether or not to agree to room merging (A360). Specifically, as a non-limiting example, the received room merging confirmation information is displayed on the display unit 24, and as a non-limiting example, the user A.A. It is determined whether or not an input by A has been made.

If it is determined to agree to the room merging (A360: YES), the control unit 21 of the terminal 20A transmits room merging request information to the server 10 via the communication I/F 22 (A370).

After S360, the control unit 11 of the server 10 determines whether or not the room merging request information has been received from the terminal 20A via the communication I/F 14 (S370). Determine whether or not to merge rooms. In this processing, as an example and not a limitation, it is possible to determine to perform room merging based on the establishment of any of the following conditions.
- Room merging request information has been received from the terminals 20 of the majority of users included in the target room - Room merging request information has been received from the terminals 20 of all users included in the target room - Representative included in the target room that the room merging request information has been received from the terminal 20 of

If it is determined that room merging is to be performed, the control unit 11 of the server 10 performs target room merging processing (S380). Here, the meeting room that is the source of merging will be referred to as the "source room", and the meeting room that will be the destination of merging will be referred to as the "destination room". In this case, the control unit 11 of the server 10 performs one of the following processes as an example and not as a limitation.
- Delete the data record (data line) of the merging source room in the meeting room management data: Delete the merging source room - Room member ID in the data record (data line) of the merging source room in the meeting room management data Empty: Merge former room as empty room

In this case, one example is user A. The rooms can be merged with the room A containing A as the merging source room and the other rooms as the merging destination rooms.

However, it is not limited to the above, and the control unit 11 of the server 10 may determine the merge destination room by any of the following.
・Determine the meeting room with the longer room topic as the merge destination room ・Determine the meeting room with the younger room ID as the merge destination room ・Determine the meeting room with the longest room member stay time as the merge destination room

After that, the control unit 11 of the server 10 ends the room merging process.
After A370, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20A ends the room merging process.

<Fourth embodiment>
The fourth embodiment is an embodiment that makes it possible to hide (confidentially) the room topic of the meeting room, restrict movement to the meeting room, and the like.
Some users may talk about room members in other rooms or other rooms themselves, which they do not want to be heard.

The content described in the fourth embodiment can be applied to each of the other embodiments and each of the other modifications.
Moreover, the same code|symbol is attached|subjected about the component same as an already-appearing component, and description for the second time is abbreviate|omitted.

<Data structure>
FIG. 4-1 is a diagram showing a data configuration example of a meeting management database 155B, which is an example of the meeting management database 155 in this embodiment.
In this meeting management database 155B, the data configuration of the meeting room management data in each meeting management data differs from that of the meeting management database 155A described above.

Specifically, in the meeting room management data, in addition to room IDs, room names, room member IDs, and room topics, as a non-limiting example, topic lock flags and room lock flags are associated and stored. be done.

The topic lock flag is used to stop the updating of the room topic by the above-described room topic update processing for the room with the associated room ID, and to prevent (hide) the room topic with the associated room ID from being displayed in other rooms. In this example, "o" is stored in the data column where the flag is "ON", and "-" is stored in the data column where the flag is "OFF".

The room lock flag is a flag used to prohibit entry into and exit from the room of the associated room ID. "-" is stored in the data column where is "OFF".

Note that it may be possible to additionally set restrictions (conditions) for at least one of topic lock and room lock. As an example and not as a limitation, any of the following may be set as targets.
・Target all rooms (however, your own room may or may not be included)
・Target the specified room ・Target the specified user

Further, when the topic lock flag is set to "ON", the room lock flag may be automatically set to "ON".
Conversely, when the room lock flag is set to "ON", the topic lock flag may be automatically set to "ON".

In addition, the meeting room management data includes room information other than the above, such as, but not limited to, the amount of speech for each room member (the amount of speech for each room member ID), links shared in the room, image storage destinations, etc. Information may be stored.

<Display screen>
The upper diagram in FIG. 4-2 shows user E.E. FIG. 10 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on E's terminal 20E.
User E. From the sound output unit 26 of the terminal 20E of user E.E. E's voice "Aside from talking about fishing, I want to talk about this, so please wait a moment" is output.
In the upper right part of the meeting room area RRB of room B (participants EE to HH), a lock icon RIC for restricting participation in room B by users outside the room is displayed.

User E. When E taps the lock icon RIC, the mode of the lock icon RIC changes from an invalid mode (unchecked mode) to a valid mode (checked mode) as shown in the lower diagram of FIG. 4-2. do. Users outside the room are prohibited from participating in room B while the lock icon RIC is in the valid mode.
In this example, user J.J. User E.J is in a state where he is prohibited from joining room B. E is in room B with user J.E. You can say things you don't want J to hear ("J.J. has been mean to me lately...").

In the example of FIG. 4-2, the participation of external users in room B is prohibited by the operation of one of the participants in room B (user EE in this example). Without being limited to such a form, participation by external users may be prohibited by having a plurality of participants (from two to all) among the participants in room B operate the lock icon RIC. Further, the participation of external users may be prohibited by the operation of a user who has been set in advance as a room manager among the participants in room B. FIG.
By way of example and not limitation, user E.E. If E.E is set, user E.E. The lock icon RIC is displayed only on the terminal 20E of E, and the lock icon RIC is not displayed on the terminals 20 of other users (F.F to HH) (or even if displayed, they cannot be operated). good too.

In addition, the targets for which participation is prohibited are not limited to all other groups, and permission/prohibition of participation may be set for each group. As an example and not a limitation, in the example of FIG. Users (I.I to K.K) participating in C cannot participate in room B, but users (A.A to D.D) participating in room A cannot participate in room B. You may enable it to participate.

Also, it may be possible to set whether or not to allow participation for each user. As a non-limiting example, in the example of FIG. 4B, a lock icon RIC corresponding to each user not participating in room B is provided, and users participating in room C (I.I to K.K. ), user J. If only the lock icon RIC corresponding to J.J is set as the effective mode, user J.J. User I.J cannot join room B, but user I.J cannot join room B. I and K. K may be allowed to join Room B.

The upper diagram in FIG. 4-3 shows user A.A. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on A's terminal 20A. FIG.
User A. When A wishes to participate in room B and taps the participation button PBT of the other room information display area MRB corresponding to room B, participation of the external user in room B is confirmed as shown in FIG. 4-2. user A. is prohibited. A cannot join room B. In this case, as shown in the lower diagram of FIG. 4-3, a message "Could not join room B" is displayed.

<Processing>
FIG. 4-4 is a flow chart showing an example of the flow of processing executed in the communication system 1 in this embodiment.
After step W120, the control unit 11 of the server 10 performs room topic hiding setting processing (W410). Specifically, as an example and not a limitation, based on the fact that the communication I/F 14 has received the room topic concealment request information for requesting concealment of the room topic transmitted from the terminal 20, among the meeting room management data, The topic lock flag associated with the room ID of the group (meeting room) in which the user of the terminal 20 is included is stored with "O" and updated.

Thereafter, the control unit 11 of the server 10 performs room movement restriction setting processing (W430). Specifically, as an example and not a limitation, based on the reception of the room entry/exit restriction request information for requesting the entry/exit to the meeting room transmitted from the terminal 20, out of the meeting room management data, The room lock flag associated with the room ID of the group (meeting room) in which the user of the terminal 20 is included is stored with "O" and updated.

Next, the control unit 11 of the server 10 performs room transfer processing (W440). In this room move processing, the control unit 11 of the server 10 sends room move request information requesting to move to each meeting room to the terminal 20 for each meeting room based on the processing in FIG. (S201). If it is determined that it has been received (S201: YES), it refers to the room lock flag stored in the meeting room management data corresponding to that meeting room. Then, when "O" is not stored in the room lock flag, the terminal 20 requested to move to the room member ID of the meeting room management data corresponding to the meeting room based on the received room move request information. (or the user of the terminal 20) is added and updated (S203).
Then, the control unit 11 of the server 10 advances the processing to W310.

After step W140, the control unit 11 of the server 10 performs room topic update processing (W420). In this room topic update process, the control unit 11 of the server 10, as a non-limiting example, for each meeting room in step S140 in FIG. See flags. If "o" is not stored in the topic lock flag, the room topic information of that meeting room is sent to the terminal 20 (the terminals 20A and 20B in the example shown in FIG. 1-12) via the communication I/F 14. do.

In the room topic update process (W420), the control unit 11 of the server 10, as a non-limiting example, before step S140 (or step S140) in FIG. Information indicating that the room topic is locked (as a non-limiting example, the room topic flag “ON”) may be transmitted to the terminal 20 . As an example and not a limitation, in FIG. If it is determined that the room tag notification information has been received from the You can choose not to generate it. As a result, the room tag notification information may not be displayed on the terminal 20 (steps A120 and B120 in FIG. 1-12 are not performed).

In addition, in the room merging process (W310), the control unit 11 of the server 10 may exclude meeting rooms whose room lock flag is set to "ON" from being merged (exclude them from the rooms to be merged). good.

<Effects of the fourth embodiment>
By way of example and not limitation, the room topic information (an example of the first information, but not a limitation) is set by the room members of the second meeting room, such as setting the topic lock flag for the second meeting room to "ON". It shows a configuration that is not transmitted to the terminal 20 when a setting (not a limitation, but an example of setting for the second group) has been performed.
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, it is possible to prevent the first information from being transmitted to the terminal when a user included in the second group has made settings for the second group. . As an example and not a limitation, when the second group has a story to be kept confidential from the users included in the first group or from the entire first group, the content of the story may be hidden from the users included in the first group or the first group. You can hide it from the group.

In addition, in the present embodiment, the terminal 20 controls to set the room lock flag etc. based on the input such as the input to set the room lock flag as an example, not limitation, by the user of the terminal 20 itself (not limited to , an example of setting of users participating in the first group) is performed by the control unit 21. FIG.
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, the terminal can easily and appropriately set the users participating in the first group based on the input to the own terminal by the user of the own terminal. can.

<Fifth embodiment>
The fifth embodiment is an embodiment in which room members of other meeting rooms can be invited (invited) to one's own meeting room, and the meeting room can be moved accordingly.
Some users may wish to invite some or all room members of other rooms to their own meeting room to talk together.

The content described in the fifth embodiment can be applied to each of the other embodiments and other modifications.
Moreover, the same code|symbol is attached|subjected about the component same as an already-appearing component, and description for the second time is abbreviate|omitted.

FIG. 5-1 is a diagram showing a data configuration example of a meeting management database 155C, which is an example of the meeting management database 155 in this embodiment.
In this meeting management database 155C, the data structure of the meeting room management data in each meeting management data differs from that of the meeting management databases 155A and 155B described above.

Specifically, the meeting room management data stores a room ID, a room name, and a room member ID in association with each other.

In addition, the meeting room management data includes room information other than the above, such as, but not limited to, the amount of speech for each room member (the amount of speech for each room member ID), links shared in the room, image storage destinations, etc. Information may be stored. Also, the above-mentioned room topic or the like may be stored.

<Display screen>
The upper diagram in FIG. 5-2 shows user E.E. FIG. 10 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on E's terminal 20E.
Information about room A is displayed as the information of "other meeting rooms", and in the other room information display area MRA corresponding to room A, each user (A.A to D.D. ) and the user name, an invitation icon IIC for inviting the user to the room in which the user is participating is displayed.

User E. User A.E. When the invitation icon IIC corresponding to A is tapped, as shown in the lower diagram of FIG. User A. A message is displayed informing that A has been invited from room B.
In this example, user D.I. In terminal 20D of D, a message "A.A has received an invitation from room B" is displayed in area PPR3 superimposed on meeting room area RRA.

In this way, when one of the users participating in room B invites one of the users participating in room A, one of the users participating in room A receives the invitation. The user name of the user who received the invitation (user A.A) and the user who made the invitation (user EE) participate in the terminals 20 of both the user and the user who did not receive the invitation. The room name of the room (room B) is displayed.

In this example, since the user name of the user who has made the invitation is not displayed in the area PPR3, the users (A.A to D.D) participating in room A cannot know who user A.A. It is not possible to know whether A was invited.

The upper diagram in FIG. 5-3 shows user E.E. FIG. 10 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on E's terminal 20E. User E. User A.E. When the invitation icon IIC corresponding to A is tapped, as shown in the lower diagram of FIG. User A. User E.A in room B. A message notifying that you have been invited by E is displayed.
In this example, user D.I. In the terminal 20D of D, a message "A.A has received an invitation from EE in room B" is displayed in an area PPR4 superimposed on the meeting room area RRA.

In this example, since the user name (E.E) of the user who made the invitation is displayed in area PPR4, the users (A.A to D.D) participating in room A are A. You can even know if you invited A.

<Processing>
FIG. 5-4 is a flow chart showing an example of the flow of processing executed in the communication system 1 in this embodiment.
After step W120, the communication system 1 performs other room member invitation processing (W510).

FIG. 5-5 is a flow chart showing an example of the process of inviting other room members. In this processing, from the left side, processing executed by the control unit 21 of the terminal 20E, processing executed by the control unit 21 of the terminal 20A, and processing executed by the control unit 11 of the server 10 are shown.

Hereinafter, for the sake of convenience, the soliciting user (user requesting solicitation) will be referred to as "invitation requesting user", and the user to be solicited (user to be solicited) will be referred to as "invitation target user". And here, by way of example and not limitation, user E. E (an example of a first user, not a limitation) is assumed to be an invitation requesting user, and users A.E included in room A are assumed to be users A.E. Let A be a solicitation target user. and user E. A process in which the terminal 20E of E transmits member solicitation information (an example of information about invitation, not limitation) to the group of room A (all room member terminals of room A) is illustrated.

It should be noted that here, as processing executed by the terminal 20 of the user included in the room A, the user A. Only the processing executed by the terminal 20A of room A is shown, but the processing executed by other room member terminals in room A can be similar.
Similarly, here, as the processing executed by the terminal 20 of the user included in room B, user E. Although only the processing performed by terminal 20E in room E is shown, the processing performed by other room member terminals in room B can be similar.

First, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20E receives the input from the user E.E. By way of example and not limitation, user E.E. Member solicitation request information including the application ID of E and the application ID of the user to be solicited (user AA in this example) is transmitted to the server 10 via the communication I/F 22 (E510). Then, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20E ends the other room member solicitation process.

When the member invitation request information is received from the terminal 20E by the communication I/F 14, the control unit 11 of the server 10 receives an invitation to the room B for the user to be invited (user AA in this example) as an example and not as a limitation. Member solicitation information indicating that the room has been completed is transmitted to the terminal 20A and the other room member terminals via the communication I/F 14 (S510). Then, the control unit 11 of the server 10 terminates the process of inviting other room members.

When the member solicitation information is received from the server 10 through the communication I/F 22, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20A displays the received member solicitation information on the display unit 24 (A510). Then, control unit 21 of terminal 20A terminates the other room member solicitation process.
Other room member terminals of room A similarly display the received member solicitation information on the display unit 24 .

In step A510, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20A may emphasize and display the information of the invited room (as an example, not as a limitation, the room name).

In addition, the member solicitation information may include information of the solicitation requesting user (as an example, not limitation, information such as a user name). In this process, user E.E. Information such as E's user name may be included in the member solicitation information, and the server 10 may transmit the member solicitation information to the terminals 20 of each user included in the room A. FIG.

Also, here, user E.E. User A . Although the processing for soliciting A (user to be solicited) has been exemplified, the present invention is not limited to this.

As an example and not by way of limitation, Room B (Room B's group) has users A . A (user to be invited) may be solicited. In this case, as a non-limiting example, the terminal 20 of each user included in room B transmits member invitation request information (member invitation information), or the terminal 20 of the representative user of room B is a member. Invitation request information (member invitation information) may be transmitted. In other words, a subject requesting solicitation (invitation) may be a user or a room (group).

Also, the control unit 11 of the server 10 may transmit member solicitation information as solicitation information from the server 10 (system). In this case, the control unit 11 of the server 10 transmits member solicitation information for inviting to a room with a small number of room members or a room with a small amount of conversation (a room where conversation is not lively) as an example and not a limitation. good too.

Also, the contents of the member solicitation information to be transmitted may be changed between the terminal 20 of the user to be invited included in room A and the other room member terminals of room A. FIG.
As a non-limiting example, the information of the solicitation-requesting user is transmitted to the terminal 20 of the solicitation target user, but is transmitted to the other room member terminals without including the information of the solicitation-requesting user. good.

Returning to FIG. 5-4, after step W510, the control unit 11 of the server 10 advances the process to W210.

In the above processing, the terminal 20 that has received the member solicitation information displays the member solicitation information on the display unit 24 to notify the user of the solicitation (invitation), but the present invention is not limited to this. . The terminal 20 that has received the member solicitation information may notify the user of the member solicitation information by outputting the member solicitation information from the sound output unit 26, for example. In other words, notification is not limited to being realized by display, and may be realized by sound output.

Also, as a non-limiting example, the storage unit 28 of the terminal 20 stores information on each room (group) (as a non-limiting example, information on the group composition of each group (including room member information, etc.)). may be stored. Then, the member solicitation information may be directly transmitted and received between the terminals 20 without going through the server 10 . This may be the same for other embodiments and modifications.

<Effect of the fifth embodiment>
In this embodiment, the terminal 20A, which outputs moving image information (one example of audio information and video information, without limitation) transmitted and received in the first meeting room, is the user A.1, which is transmitted to the first meeting room. The communication I/F 22 receives information such as member solicitation information for A (not a limitation, but an example of information regarding the invitation of the second group to the user of the terminal). The terminal 20A shows a configuration in which the control unit 21 performs control for notifying the member solicitation information (or control for performing notification based on the member solicitation information).
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, the terminal notifies the user of the terminal of the fact that the user of the terminal has been invited to join the second group, and informs the user of the invitation sent to the first group. By doing so, the user of the terminal can be notified. In addition, since the information about the invitation is transmitted to the first group, it is possible to notify (inform) other users included in the first group that the user of the terminal has been invited to the second group. can.

Also, in this case, the member solicitation information is sent from the room members of the second meeting room (an example of the first user, not limited) to the first meeting room, or sent from the second meeting room to the first meeting room. may be made.
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, the information regarding the invitation is transmitted from the first user included in the second group to the first group or from the second group to the first group. can be made

Also, in this case, the member solicitation information may be notified by being displayed on the display unit 24 of the terminal 20A as an example and not a limitation.
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, the terminal user is notified that the terminal user has been invited to the second group by displaying the information about the invitation on the display unit of the terminal. be able to.

In addition, the present embodiment relays moving image information (not limited to, an example of video information and audio information) transmitted and received in the first meeting room, and relays moving image information transmitted and received in a second meeting room different from the first meeting room. A server 10 that relays information (not limited, but an example of video information and audio information) is a terminal 20 (not limited, a second terminal Receive information (not limited, but an example of information about invitations) such as member invitation information to a second meeting room for room members of the first meeting room (an example of the first user, not limited) sent by and a control unit 11 for controlling transmission of received information such as member solicitation information to the terminal 20 of the first meeting room via the communication I/F 14.
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, the server transmits the second terminal of the second user included in the second group to the second group for the first user included in the first group. The first user can be invited to the second group by controlling the transmission of the received information about the invitation to the terminals included in the first group after receiving the information about the invitation. In addition, by transmitting the information about the invitation to the terminals included in the first group, the invitation of the first user to the second group is also notified to other users included in the first group (known can do.

<Fifth Modification (1)>
In the above embodiment, the solicited user is made to confirm whether or not he/she accepts (accepts) the solicitation, and when the acceptance is confirmed, the solicited user is moved to the invited (invited) room. may be allowed.

The upper diagrams of FIGS. 5-6 show user A.A. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on A's terminal 20A. FIG. User A. A is user E.A in room B. Based on being invited by E (see FIG. 5-3), the cancel button CBT displayed "Do not move" with the message "Invited by EE in room B" and " A move button MBT labeled "Move" is displayed in the area PPR5 superimposed on the meeting room area RRA.
The cancel button CBT is a button operated to refuse participation in the invited room, and the move button MBT is a button operated to accept participation in the invited room.

In addition, since the display frame of the sub-region SRB in which the images of the participants (E.E to H.H) of the room B are displayed is emphasized, the invited user A.B. A can grasp what kind of user has been invited from the room in which he/she is participating.

In addition, as shown in FIG. 5B, the user name (E.E) of the invited user is displayed on the terminal 20 of the user (B.B to D.D) who has not received the invitation among the users of the room A. Even if it is configured not to be displayed, as shown in FIG. up to is displayed.

In addition, as shown in FIG. 5B, the user name (E.E) of the invited user is displayed on the terminal 20 of the user (B.B to D.D) who has not received the invitation among the users of room A. If configured not to be displayed, the user name (E.E) of the invited user may not be displayed on the terminal 20A of the user (A.A) who has received the invitation.

User A. If user A taps the move button MBT, user A.A. A moves from room A to room B.
User A. On the terminal 20A of A, instead of the meeting room area RRA of room A, the meeting room area RRB of room B with five participants (AA, EE to HH) is displayed, and "other As the information of "meeting room", user A. Information about room A in which three participants (B.B to D.D) are present and A is not participating is displayed.

Note that in the upper diagram of FIG. 5-6, user A. If user A taps the cancel button CBT instead of the move button MBT in area PPR5, then user A.A. A does not move to room B. Also, in this case, by tapping the cancel button CBT, the display of the popup area PPR5 disappears.

An input field for a message to be sent to the invited room (room B) is provided in the area PPR5, and the invited user (A.A) is a participant of the invited room (room B). (E.E to H.H) may be allowed to send a message notifying participation or non-participation.
In addition, an input field for a message to be sent to the room (room A) that the user is currently participating in is provided in the area PPR5, and the user (AA) who has received the invitation is a participant in the current room (room A). (B.B to D.D) may be sent a message notifying that they will participate in another room or a message notifying that they will not participate in another room.

Also, in the example of FIGS. 5-6, user A.A. When A moves to room B, the terminals 20 of the users remaining in room A (users B.B to user D.D.) have users A.A. A message may be displayed indicating that A has moved to room B. This message is intended for user A. It may be displayed after a set time (10 minutes as an example, not a limitation) has elapsed since A moved to room B.

FIG. 5-7 is a flow chart showing an example of the flow of inviting other room members in this modified example. The view of the figure is the same as that of FIG. 1-11.

After the step of A510, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20A determines whether or not the user has input through the input/output unit 23 to accept the invitation based on the member solicitation information displayed on the display unit 24 in A510. For example, it is determined whether or not to accept the solicitation (A520). If it is determined not to accept (A520: NO), the control unit 21 of the terminal 20A ends the other room member solicitation process. In this case, in step S510, the control unit 11 of the server 10, as an example and not a limitation, sends a message and a move button (move button) used to participate in the inviting meeting room as shown in FIG. 5-6. (Information for displaying a button) etc. can be transmitted. Then, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20A controls the user A.A. Based on the received message or the operation of the movement button or the like by A, it can be determined that the solicitation is accepted.

If it is determined that the invitation is accepted (A520: YES), the control unit 21 of the terminal 20A transmits room change request information to the server 10 via the communication I/F 22 (A530). Then, control unit 21 of terminal 20A terminates the other room member solicitation process.

After S510, the control unit 11 of the server 10 determines whether or not the room transfer request information has been received by the communication I/F 14 (S520). End the member solicitation process.

If it is determined that room change request information has been received (S520: YES), the control unit 11 of the server 10 performs room change processing (S530). This room transfer processing is as described above. Then, the control unit 11 of the server 10 terminates the process of inviting other room members.

In step A510, when the control unit 21 of the terminal 20A displays the member solicitation information, information indicating the second group in which the solicitation requesting user is included (not limited to, information such as the room name of the second group) ) may be displayed in a manner different from information indicating other groups (information such as names of other rooms, not limited).

Also, in the above process, as an example and not a limitation, when the set time has passed after the control unit 21 of the terminal 20A receives the member solicitation information or displays the member solicitation information in step A510 , A520 may be skipped and step A530 may be performed.
Further, in the above process, as an example and not a limitation, when the control unit 21 of the terminal 20A receives the member solicitation information or after displaying the member solicitation information in step A510, when the set time has come , A520 may be skipped and step A530 may be performed.

Further, in the above process, as an example and not a limitation, after the control unit 11 of the server 10 receives the member invitation request information from the terminal 20E or after the member invitation information is transmitted in step S510, the set time has passed, step S530 may be performed without performing step S520.
In the above process, as an example and not a limitation, after the control unit 11 of the server 10 receives the member invitation request information from the terminal 20E or after the member invitation information is transmitted in step S510, the set time If so, the step of S530 may be performed without performing the step of S520.

In this modification, as an example and not as a limitation, the member solicitation information (not a limitation, but an example of information related to invitation) is information for accepting the invitation (not a limitation, but the first information for participating in the second group example). Then, the terminal 20 of the solicitation target user performs processing such as processing of transmitting room change request information (not limited to, participation in the second group) based on the input of information for accepting the solicitation by the solicitation target user. (an example of processing related to ) by the control unit 21. FIG.
As an example of the effect of the modification obtained by such a configuration, the user of the terminal can participate in the second group based on the input of the first information for participating in the second group by the user of the terminal. be able to.

In this case, the terminal 20 of the solicited user displays information indicating the second meeting room and information indicating the third meeting room on the display unit 24 . Then, the terminal 20 of the user to be invited may perform control to change the display mode of the information indicating the second meeting room by the control unit 21 based on the reception of the member solicitation information.
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, by performing control to change the display mode of the information indicating the second group based on the reception of the information related to the invitation, the invited group (the second group) can be distinguished from other groups (third group), and the user can easily recognize the invited group.

Also, in this case, as a non-limiting example, the member solicitation information (not a limitation, but an example of information related to invitation) is sent from one solicitation requesting user (not a limitation, but an example of the first user) included in the second meeting room. The terminal 20 of the user to be invited may display on the display unit 24 the information on the invitation requesting user that is transmitted to one meeting room and included in the member invitation information.
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, it is possible to inform the user of the terminal of the information of the first user included in the second group who has sent the information regarding the invitation to the first group.

In this case, the terminal 20 of the solicitation target user is controlled to transmit the room change request information when the set time has passed after the notification of the member solicitation information, or when the set time has come. The control unit 21 may perform such control (not a limitation, but an example of control regarding participation in the second group).
As an example of the effect of the modification obtained by such a configuration, when a certain amount of time has passed after the information on the invitation was notified, or when a specific time has come, so to speak, the user of the terminal automatically can join the second group.

<Fifth Modification (2)>
In the fifth modification (1), when the solicitation is not accepted, information indicating that fact is transmitted to the terminal 20 that requested the solicitation, and the user is notified that the solicitation has not been accepted. can be

FIG. 5-8 is a flow chart showing an example of the process of inviting other room members in this modified example. The view of the figure is the same as in FIGS. 5-7.
If it is determined in A520 that the solicitation is not accepted (A520: NO), the control unit 21 of the terminal 20A transmits room movement refusal information indicating refusal of room movement to the server 10 via the communication I/F 22 ( A540). Then, control unit 21 of terminal 20A terminates the other room member solicitation process.
It should be noted that the room transfer refusal information includes the user A. A message entered by A (for example, but not by way of limitation, such as a message indicating reasons for rejection) may be included.

If the room change request information is not received in S520 (S520: NO), the control unit 11 of the server 10 transmits member invitation failure information indicating that member invitation has failed to the terminal 20E via the communication I/F 14. (S540). Then, the control unit 11 of the server 10 terminates the process of inviting other room members.

After E510, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20E determines whether or not the member solicitation failure information has been received from the server 10 by the communication I/F 22 (E520), and if it is determined that it has not been received (E520: NO). , ends the process of inviting other room members.

If it is determined that member joining failure information has been received (E520: YES), the control section 21 of the terminal 20E displays the received member invitation failure information on the display section 24 (E530). Then, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20E ends the other room member solicitation process.

In this modified example, as an example and not as a limitation, the member solicitation information (not a limitation, but an example of information related to invitation) is displayed on the display unit 24 of the solicitation target user and notified. Then, based on the input of the member invitation information, the terminal 20 of the inviting target user sends the room transfer refusal information/member invitation failure information (not limited to information about refusal of invitation) to the inviter who sent the member invitation information. example) is shown in FIG.
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, it is possible to notify the inviter who sent the information about the invitation that the invitation is declined based on the input of the information about the invitation.

<Fifth Modification (3)>
The fifth modification (1) and the fifth modification (2) are examples in which a user who has received an invitation from another meeting room can select whether or not to participate in the other meeting room. Not limited.

5-6, without limitation, user A.A. A may be forced to join room B without being able to choose whether or not to join room B. Also in this case, without limitation, in FIGS. 5-6, the area PPR5 contains the invited user A.P. Only the fact that A participates in room B is displayed, and after a set period of time (5 seconds as an example, not a limitation) has elapsed, the screen may move to the diagram on the lower side of FIGS. 5-6.

Also, in this case, in the example of FIGS. When A moves to room B, the terminals 20 of the users remaining in room A (users B.B to user D.D.) have users A.A. A message may be displayed indicating that A has moved to room B. This message is intended for user A. It may be displayed after a set time (10 minutes as an example, not a limitation) has elapsed since A moved to room B.

<Fifth Modification (4)>
In the above example, by way of example and not limitation, member solicitation information (an example of information about invitations, not limitation) is sent to the first meeting room to invite users other than the invited users included in the first meeting room. Although it is made known that the target user has been invited to the second meeting room, it is not limited to this.

Specifically, the member solicitation information may be transmitted only to the terminals 20 of the solicited users included in the first meeting room.
More specifically, by way of example and not limitation, in the processing example described in the above embodiment, the member solicitation information is for user A.A. It may be transmitted only to A's terminal 20A.

That is, in the above embodiment, the terminal 20A that outputs the moving image information (not limited to, but an example of audio information and video information) transmitted and received in the first meeting room is the user A.A. A sent to user A.A. The communication I/F 22 receives information such as member solicitation information for A (not a limitation, but an example of information regarding the invitation of the second group to the user of the terminal). Then, the terminal 20A may use the control unit 21 to control the notification of the member solicitation information (or control the notification based on the member solicitation information).
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, by notifying the terminal user of the invitation to the second group by notifying the terminal user of the information related to the invitation sent to the terminal user , can be notified to the user of the terminal. In addition, as an example and not a limitation, by transmitting information about the invitation only to the user of the terminal and notifying it only by the terminal, it is possible to notify that the user of the terminal has been invited to the second group. It can be kept secret from other users included in one group.

In the above embodiment, the moving image information (not limited, but an example of video information and audio information) transmitted and received in the first meeting room is relayed, and the moving image information transmitted and received in the second meeting room (not limited) is relayed. , an example of video information and sound information), the terminal 20 (an example of a second terminal, not a limitation) of a user (not a limitation, an example of a second user) included in the second group Communication I for receiving information (not limited, but an example of information on invitation) such as member invitation information to a second group for users included in the first meeting room (not limited, but an example of a first user) sent /F 14, and the control unit 11 that controls transmission of received information such as member solicitation information to the terminal 20 of the first user via the communication I/F 14.
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, the server transmits the second terminal of the second user included in the second group to the second group for the first user included in the first group. The first user can be invited to the second group by controlling the transmission of the received information about the invitation to the terminal of the first user after receiving the information about the invitation. Also, as an example and not a limitation, by transmitting the information about the invitation only to the terminal of the first user, the invitation of the first user to the second group can be notified to other users included in the first group. can be kept confidential.

<Sixth embodiment>
In the sixth embodiment, the moving image information transmitted by the solicitation requesting user (the solicitation requesting user's terminal 20) in the fifth embodiment and the fifth modified example is output by the solicitation target user's terminal 20 as an example and not as a limitation. This is an embodiment that makes it possible.

The content described in the sixth embodiment can be applied to each of the other embodiments and each of the other modifications.
Moreover, the same code|symbol is attached|subjected about the component same as an already-appearing component, and description for the second time is abbreviate|omitted.

<Display screen>
The upper diagram in FIG. 6-1 shows user E.E. FIG. 10 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on E's terminal 20E. User E. User A.E is joining room A. When the invitation icon IIC corresponding to A is tapped, as shown in the lower diagram of FIG. User A. At terminal 20A of A, user A.A. User E.A who invited A. E's video, as well as an icon image and user name, are displayed in a portion of the meeting room area RRA.

Also, user E. In response to the video of user A.E, user A.E. A message (“You have been invited to room B”) notifying A of being invited to room B, a cancel button CBT and a move button MBT regarding participation in room B are displayed. In this example, user E.E. By adding the image of E, etc., the images of each user (user AA to user DD) participating in room A are reduced.
User E. to be displayed in the meeting room area RRA. As the video of user E.E displayed in the meeting room area RRB on the terminals 20 of the users (users E.E to user H.H) participating in room B. The image of E may be used.

Note that in this example, user E.E. Although the image of E is displayed large, it is not limited to this.
Conversely, user E.D. The image of E may be displayed in a small size.

Thus, in the meeting room area RRA of room A, users A.A. User E.A who invited A. By displaying the video of user A.E, A from room B as if user E.A. User A.E exits from user A.E. It is possible to provide a UI that makes it seem as if A has come to invite you.
In this case,
(A) User A. User E.A to invite user E.A. (B) User A.E temporarily moves the meeting room to room A. User E.A to invite user E.A. user E.E without moving room B. Any of the following methods may be applied so that only the video information of E is displayed in room A.

In the case of (A), as an example and not a limitation, the control unit 11 of the server 10 causes the user E.E. The application ID of user A.E is once deleted from room B and stored in room A. User E.A taps the move button MBT or the cancel button CBT. E's application ID can be deleted from room A and stored in room B.
In this case, user E. The application ID of E may be stored in room A but not deleted from room B. Then, performing such processing may be regarded as a temporary movement of the room.

In the case of (B), as an example and not a limitation, the control unit 11 of the server 10 causes the user E. E's application ID is not deleted from room B and user E.E. Without letting room A store the application ID of user E.E. The video information of E can be transmitted to room A.

Among the users of room A, the terminals 20 of the users (users B.B to user D.D.) who have not been invited also receive invitations from invited users A.D. As with user E.A, in meeting room area RRA. An image of E (excluding the cancel button CBT and the move button MBT) may be added.

In addition, user E.E. The period during which the image of E.E is added, in other words, the user E.E. User A.E in room A. During the period of inviting A, the terminals 20 of the users (users EE to user HH) participating in room B invite user E.A to the meeting room area RRB. The image of E may not be displayed, and the user's E. The icon image of E and the user name may not be displayed.
With such a configuration, it is possible to ensure the uniqueness of each user in the application.

User A. User E.A. By tapping the movement button MBT corresponding to the image of user A.E, user A.E moves forward. A joins room B and user A.A. The screen displayed on A's terminal 20A is the screen shown in the lower diagram of FIG. 5-6. On the other hand, on the terminals 20 of the users remaining in room A (users B.B to user D.D.), in the meeting room area RRA, users A.D. A's video and user E.A. The image of E and the like are not displayed.

<Processing>
FIG. 6-2 is a flow chart showing an example of the flow of inviting other room members in this embodiment.
After E510, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20E transmits the moving image information to the server 10 via the communication I/F 22 as an example and not a limitation (E610). This moving image information can be information of moving images of users E and E, by way of example and not limitation.

Similarly, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20A transmits the moving image information to the server 10 via the communication I/F 22 (A610). This moving image information may be, by way of example and not limitation, information of moving images of the meeting room in Room A.

When the control unit 11 of the server 10 receives the moving image information from each terminal 20, the step of S510 is performed. Then, the control unit 11 of the server 10 performs in-room moving image generation processing (S610). Specifically, in this processing example, the moving image information received from the terminal 20E is included in the moving image information received from the terminal 20A to generate the in-room moving image information.

Next, the control unit 11 of the server 10 transmits the generated in-room moving image information to the terminals 20E and 20A through the communication I/F 14 (S620). Then, the control unit 11 of the server 10 terminates the process of inviting other room members.

When the in-room moving image information is received from the server 10 via the communication I/F 22, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20E causes the display unit 24 to display the received in-room moving image information (E620). Then, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20E ends the other room member solicitation process.

Similarly, when the in-room moving image information is received from the server 10 via the communication I/F 22, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20A causes the display unit 24 to display the received in-room moving image information (A620). Then, control unit 21 of terminal 20A terminates the other room member solicitation process.

In the above process, the in-room sound information and the in-room video information are output as the in-room moving image information from the terminal 20 of the solicitation target user, but the present invention is not limited to this.
Alternatively, only the in-room sound information may be sound-outputted, or only the in-room video information may be displayed.

<Effects of the sixth embodiment>
This embodiment is by way of example and not limitation, member solicitation information (not limitation, one example of information related to invitation) is sent from the invitation requesting user (not limitation, one example of first user, included in the second meeting room) to the first meeting room. sent to. The terminal 20 of the solicitation target user is configured to display the solicitation requesting user's information (not a limitation, but an example of the first user's information) included in the member solicitation information on the display unit 24 .
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, the information of the first user included in the information regarding the invitation can be displayed to inform the terminal user of the information of the inviting first user.
In addition, since the information of the inviting first user is displayed, it may become easier for the inviting user to invite and for the invited user to accept the invitation.

Also, in this case, the information of the invitation-requesting user (not limited, but an example of the information of the first user) is transmitted from the terminal 20 of the invitation-requesting user (not limited, but an example of the first terminal of the first user) You may make it contain video information.
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, the video information transmitted from the first terminal of the first user included in the information regarding the invitation is displayed, and from the first terminal of the inviting first user While showing the transmitted video information to the terminal user, the terminal user can be informed of the information of the inviting first user.
In addition, since the video information of the first user who is the inviting party is displayed, it may become easier for the user who is the inviting party to invite, and it may become easier for the invited user to accept the invitation.

<Sixth modification (1)>
In the above embodiment, the case where the solicitation-requesting user solicits (invites) the solicitation target user and moves the room is shown. In this case, the solicitation target user may reverse solicit (reverse invite) the solicitation requesting user to his/her own meeting room.

The upper illustration in FIG. 6-3 shows user E.E. User A in room A invited by E. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on A's terminal 20A. FIG.
Unlike the example shown in FIG. 6-1, user E. Corresponding to the image of E.E, the user E.E. An invitation button IBT for inviting E to room A in which he is participating is displayed.

User A. When A taps the invite button IBT, user E.A. User A.E of room A is connected to terminal 20E of room A.E. A region PPR5 containing a message indicating that you have been invited from A and a cancel button CBT and a move button MBT for moving to room A is displayed (see FIGS. 5-6 for example and not limitation), and user E . By tapping the move button MBT for moving to room A, user E.E moves as shown in the lower diagram of FIG. 6-3. E moves to room A.

As a result, user A. In the meeting room area RRA of the room A on the terminal 20A of A, in addition to the images of the participants (A.A to D.D) up to that point, the newly participating user E.A. An image of E is displayed. Also, as information of "another meeting room", user E. Information about room B with three participants (F.F to H.H) in which E has not participated is displayed.

Thus, user A. in room A. User E. in room B who invited A. For user A.E. Conversely, user E.A. It is possible to invite E to room A in which he participates.

It should be noted that user A. Not only room A, but also other room members of room A (users B.B to user D.D.) are users E.A. E may be invited to room A. In other words, the user who can be reversely invited may be only the user who received the invitation, or may be any room member of the same room including the user who received the invitation. In other words, the users who can be reverse-invited may include not only the user who received the invitation, but also other room members included in the same room.

FIG. 6-4 is a flow chart showing an example of the flow of inviting other room members in this modified example. The view of the figure is the same as in FIG. 6-2.
After step A620, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20A receives the invitation requesting user E.E. By determining whether or not an input for reverse solicitation of user E.E has been made, user E.E. It is determined whether or not to reverse solicit E (A630). If it is determined not to reverse solicit (A630: NO), the control unit 21 of the terminal 20A ends the other room member solicitation process.

If it is determined to reverse solicit (A630: YES), the control unit 21 of the terminal 20A sends user E.E. Member counter-invitation request information for requesting counter-invitation of E to his meeting room is transmitted to the server 10 via the communication I/F 22 (A640). Then, control unit 21 of terminal 20A terminates the other room member solicitation process.

After the step of S620, the control unit 11 of the server 10 determines whether or not member reverse solicitation request information has been received from the terminal 20A via the communication I/F 22 (S630). If it is determined that it has not been received (S630: NO), the control unit 11 of the server 10 terminates the other room member solicitation process.

If it is determined that it has been received (S630: YES), the control unit 11 of the server 10 sends the user E. Member counter-invitation information indicating that E has been counter-invited is transmitted to terminal 20E via communication I/F 14 (S640).
In this case, the control unit 11 of the server 10 may transmit the member reverse solicitation information to the other room member terminals of the second group as well.

After step E620, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20E determines whether member reverse solicitation information has been received from the server 10 via the communication I/F 22 (E630). If it is determined that it has not been received (E630: NO), the control unit 21 of the terminal 20E ends the other room member solicitation process.

If it is determined that it has been received (E630: YES), the control unit 21 of the terminal 20E displays the received member reverse solicitation information on the display unit 24 (E640). Then, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20E ends the other room member solicitation process.

It should be noted that user E. The processing when E accepts or does not accept the reverse solicitation can be configured in the same manner as in FIGS.

In this modification, the terminal 20 of the solicitation target user, based on the input by the solicitation target user of the information of the solicitation requesting user displayed on the display unit 24 (not a limitation, but an example of the information of the first user), displays the second A configuration in which the control unit 21 performs processing such as transmitting member reverse solicitation request information (member reverse solicitation information) to the solicitation requesting users included in the meeting room (not a limitation, but an example of processing for inviting to the first group). is shown.
As an example of the effect of the modification obtained by such a configuration, the terminal performs a process of inviting the first user to the first group based on the input by the terminal user of the information of the first user displayed on the display unit, A first user included in the second group can be reverse-invited to the first group. As a result, a user who intends to invite a user of another group to his/her own group can be invited to the other group instead.

<Seventh embodiment>
The seventh embodiment is an embodiment that makes it possible to invite room members of a plurality of meeting rooms and room members of other meeting rooms from a plurality of meeting rooms to their respective meeting rooms.

The content described in the seventh embodiment can be applied to each of the other embodiments and each of the other modifications.
Moreover, the same code|symbol is attached|subjected about the component same as an already-appearing component, and description for the second time is abbreviate|omitted.

<Display screen>
The upper diagram in FIG. 7-1 shows user A.A. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on A's terminal 20A. FIG. User A. A is user E.A in room B. E and user L.E in room D. Based on the invitations from users E.L and E.L, respectively, a message "You have been invited from another room" is sent to user E.L. A participation button PBT corresponding to the icon image of L.E, the user name, and the room name (room B), and user L.E. A participation button PBT corresponding to the icon image of L, the user name, and the room name (room D), and a cancel button CBT related to moving to another room (operated when moving to neither room B nor room D). is displayed in an area PPR6 superimposed on the meeting room area RRA.

In addition, the display frame of the sub-region SRB displaying the words related to the topic of Room B ("Fishing" and "Weekend") is highlighted, and the words related to the topic of Room D (" Since the display frame of the sub-region SRD in which "Patents" and "Unearned Income") are displayed is emphasized, user A. A can grasp the words related to the topic of each of the invited rooms, and can decide which room to join or not to join.

User A. User E.A. When the participation button PBT corresponding to E (room B) is tapped, as shown in the lower diagram of FIG. A moves from room A to room B. On the other hand, user A. A is user L.A. When the user taps the participation button PBT corresponding to the room D (room D), the user A.L (room D) is tapped. A moves from room A to room D.

The upper diagram of FIG. 7-2 shows user A.A. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on A's terminal 20A. FIG.
User A. User E.A joins room B. In the other room information display area MRB corresponding to room B, user E.E is invited to room A. By tapping the invitation icon IIC corresponding to E.E (1), user E.E. An icon image of E and a user name, a message input area MIR, and an invitation button IBT are displayed in an area PPR7 superimposed on the meeting room area RRA.

User A. A sends an inviting user E.A to the message input area MIR. When inputting a message to E (as a non-limiting example, "Mr. EE, you are growing foliage plants, aren't you coming here?") and tapping the invitation button IBT (2), the lower part of Fig. 7-2. , user E. At the terminal 20E of user A.E, user A.E sends a message notifying that he has been invited from room A ("Invitation received from room A."). An icon image and user name of A, a message input in the message input area MIR, a cancel button CBT and a move button MBT regarding participation in room A are displayed in an area PPR8 superimposed on the meeting room area RRB.

User E. If user E.E taps the move button MBT in area PPR8, then user E.E. E moves from room B to room A.

<Processing>
FIG. 7-3 is a flow chart showing an example of the flow of inviting other room members in this embodiment. In this process, users E.E. The processing executed by the control unit 21 of the terminal 20E of the user L.E included in the room D. The process executed by the terminal 20L of the room A, the user A.L included in the room A. A processing executed by the control unit 21 of the terminal 20A of A and processing executed by the control unit 11 of the server 10 are shown.

The control unit 21 of the terminal 20E performs step E510 described above. Then, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20E ends the other room member solicitation process.
Similarly, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20L controls the user A. Member invitation request information requesting invitation of A is transmitted to the server 10 via the communication I/F 22 . Then, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20L ends the process of inviting other room members.

The control unit 11 of the server 10, in step S510, the user E. User A.E in room A receives member solicitation information with E as the solicitation requesting user. After transmitting to terminal 20A of user L.A and other room member terminals, user L.A. The second member solicitation information with L as the solicitation requesting user is sent to user A.L in room A. A's terminal 20A and other room member terminals (S710). Then, the control unit 11 of the server 10 terminates the process of inviting other room members.

In step A510, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20A receives user E.E. After displaying the member solicitation information for the solicitation requesting user E, the second member solicitation information received from the server 10 is displayed on the display unit 24 (A710). Specifically, as a non-limiting example, the display unit 24 displays information obtained by synthesizing the member solicitation information received from the server 10 and the second member solicitation information similarly received from the server 10 .

Instead of doing this, the member solicitation information and the second member solicitation information may be displayed separately. Also, these two pieces of member solicitation information may be displayed at the same timing, may be displayed at different timings, may be displayed together, or may not be displayed together. Also, these two pieces of member solicitation information may be displayed in different display modes.

Also, in step S710, the control unit 11 of the server 10 causes the user E. Information regarding user L.E as the solicitation requesting user and user L.E. A piece of member solicitation information including L as the solicitation requesting user may be transmitted to the terminal 20A.

After step A710, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20A ends the other room member solicitation process.
Other room member terminals in room A are also the same.

In this case, user A. of terminal 20A. It is also possible for A to solicit the invitation-requesting user in reverse. In this case, by way of example and not limitation, user A. User E.A is in room B. If E is solicited, as an example and not as a limitation, in the processing described with reference to FIGS. good.

Specifically, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20A requests the user E.E. Send member invitation request information for inviting E to room A (corresponding to step E510 in FIG. 5-7). Then, based on the member invitation request information received from the terminal 20A, the control unit 11 of the server 10, in step S510 in FIG. Member solicitation information with A as the solicitation requesting user is sent to room B user E.A. E's terminal 20E and other room member terminals.
User A. User L.A is in room D. The same is true when soliciting L.

In this case, as described above, the member solicitation request information (member solicitation information) may include message information for the room in which the user to be solicited is included.

<Effects of the seventh embodiment>
In this embodiment, by way of example and not limitation, the member solicitation information (one example of information about invitation, not limitation) is one piece of member solicitation information (one example of first invitation information, not limitation). Then, the terminal 20 of the solicitation target user receives the second member solicitation information (not limited, but an example of the second invitation information), which is other member solicitation information different from this one member solicitation information, through the communication I/F 22. After that, the information of the solicitation target user corresponding to one member solicitation information (not limited, but an example of the information of the inviter of the first invitation information) and the information of the solicitation target user corresponding to the second member solicitation information (limited (an example of the information of the inviter of the second invitation information) is displayed on the display unit 24 instead.
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, when the second invitation information different from the first invitation information is received by the communication unit, the information of the inviter of the first invitation information and the second invitation information information of the inviter can be displayed on the display unit of the terminal to notify the user of the terminal of the information of the inviter of the two invitations.

Also, in this case, the terminal 20 of the user who has been invited to the second meeting room sends one user included in the second meeting room (not a limitation, but an example of the second user) to the second meeting room. You may make it transmit the member solicitation information for inviting to one meeting room by communication I/F22.
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, the terminal 20 of the user who received the invitation to the second group conversely invites the second user included in the second group to the first group, It can be made known to the second group.
As described above, the number of room members may be "single", so the second user included in the second group may be the only user included in the second group. That is, it can be said that the first user is included in the second group.

In this case, the member solicitation information may include message information for the second meeting room.
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, by including the information of the message to the second group in the information about the invitation to the first group, the invitation of the second user to the second group is made easier to understand. can be made to be

<Eighth embodiment>
The eighth embodiment is an embodiment that enables a user to notify room members of other meeting rooms that he/she is interested in other meeting rooms.

The content described in the eighth embodiment can be applied to each of the other embodiments and each of the other modifications.
Moreover, the same code|symbol is attached|subjected about the component same as an already-appearing component, and description for the second time is abbreviate|omitted.

<Display screen>
The upper diagram in FIG. 8-1 shows user A.A. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on A's terminal 20A. FIG.
User A. When A taps the sub-region SRB where the words ("fishing" and "weekend") related to the topic of Room B are displayed (or where the images of the participants in Room B are displayed), Figure 8- User E.1 in room B, as shown in the lower diagram of FIG. User A.E in room A at terminal 20E in room A. A message announcing that User A is interested in Room B ("A.A in Room A is interested in Room B") and user A.A. An invite button IBT operated when A is invited to room B and a cancel button CBT operated when A is not invited are displayed in an area PPR9 superimposed on the meeting room area RRB.

Also, in the other room information display area MRA corresponding to room A, user A. By changing the aspect of the area corresponding to A, it is also possible to know which user in which group is interested in group B in which he (user EE) participates.

User E. By tapping the invite button IBT in area PPR9, user A.E. On A's terminal 20A, a move button MBT for moving from room A to room B is displayed in area PPR5 superimposed on meeting room area RRA (see FIG. 5-6).
On the other hand, user E. User A.E taps the cancel button CBT in area PPR9. A's terminal 20A does not display the move button MBT (region PPR5), and the user A.A. A cannot move from room A to room B.

Thus, user A. By tapping a sub-region SRB in which interesting information is displayed, A informs users (E.E to HH) of room B corresponding to the sub-region SRB that they are interested in room B. (Possibility of joining room B) can be notified. In addition, the users (E.E to H.H) of room B are users A.E.H. Knowing that A is interested in room B, user A.A. It is possible to invite A to room B, or not.

In addition, it may be possible to operate the invite button IBT and the cancel button CBT in the area PPR9 on each terminal 20 of the users (E.E to H.H) participating in the room B. Only the terminal 20 of a predetermined user (a user set as a room manager as an example, not a limitation) among the users of the room B can operate the invite button IBT and the cancel button CBT in the area PPR9. may be Also, user A. who is interested in room B. The users of room B may decide whether or not to invite A to room B by majority vote.

In addition, in each terminal 20 of the users (E.E to H.H) participating in room B, the user A.D. A may be notified that A is interested in room B, and among the users of room B, the terminal of a predetermined user (a user set as a room manager as an example, not as a limitation) 20 may be notified only.

<Processing>
FIG. 8-2 is a flow chart showing an example of the flow of processing executed in the communication system 1 in this embodiment.
After the step of W510, the communication system 1 performs other room interest presentation processing (W810).

FIG. 8-3 is a flowchart showing an example of the flow of other room interest presentation processing. In this process, users A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A, A.A.A.A.B, A.A.A.A.B, and A.A.B.A. A processing executed by the control unit 21 of the terminal 20A of the user E.A included in the room B. A process executed by the control unit 21 of the terminal 20E of E and a process executed by the control unit 11 of the server 10 are shown.

As an example and not a limitation, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20A assigns the user A. to the room based on the input of the room topic and room tag notification information displayed for the other room via the input/output unit 23. Other room interest presentation request information for requesting presentation of A's interest in the room is transmitted to the server 10 via the communication I/F 22 (A810).

Note that the control unit 21 of the terminal 20A may transmit other room interest presentation request information to the server 10 based on the input of the video information of the other room displayed for the other room.

The other room interest presentation request information includes, by way of example and not limitation, an interest in a room (group) of interest or interest in the room or room members of the room. Information may be included to request the server 10 to send other room interest presentation information.

In addition, the other room interest presentation request information may include information equivalent to "Like" used in SNS as an example, not limitation, and message information input by the user indicating interest or interest. good.

In addition, the other room interest presentation request information includes information (more positively information prompting the user to send an invitation.), and by way of example and not limitation, may include information requesting the transmission of member invitation request information.

When the other room interest presentation request information is received from the terminal 20A via the communication I/F 14, the control unit 11 of the server 10 transmits the corresponding other room interest presentation information to the terminals 20E (and other room member terminals) (S810).

In this example, the server 10 may transmit the other room interest presentation information only to the terminal 20E.
Also, in relation to the above, the controller 11 of the server 10 may, by way of example and not limitation, User A.E enters a second group of meeting rooms, including user A.E. Information regarding requesting transmission of member solicitation request information to invite A may be included in the other room interest presentation information and transmitted.

When the other room interest presentation information is received from the server 10 by the communication I/F 22, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20E displays the received other room interest presentation information on the display unit 24 (E810).

After that, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20E, as an example and not a limitation, sends the user A. to his meeting room (second group meeting room) via the input/output unit 23. Based on whether an entry was made to invite user A.A to his meeting room. It is determined whether or not to invite A (E820). If it is determined not to solicit (E820: NO), the control unit 21 of the terminal 20E ends the other room interest presentation process.

If it is determined to solicit (E820: YES), user A.A. Member invitation request information requesting invitation of A is sent to the server 10 via the communication I/F 22 (E520).

After S810, the control unit 11 of the server 10 determines whether or not the member solicitation request information has been received by the communication I/F 14 (S820). If it is determined that it has not been received (S820: NO) , ends the other room interest presentation process.

If it is determined that the member solicitation request information has been received (S820: YES), the control unit 11 of the server 10 transmits the member solicitation information to the terminal 20A of the room A (and other room members) via the communication I/F 22. terminal) (S510). Then, the control unit 11 of the server 10 terminates the other room interest presentation process.

Note that the member solicitation information may be transmitted only to the terminal 20A.
Further, the member solicitation information to be transmitted to the terminal 20A and the member solicitation information to be transmitted to the other room member terminals may be different information (information of different contents).

After A810, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20A determines whether or not member solicitation information has been received from the server 10 via the communication I/F 22 (A820). If it is determined that it has not been received (A820: NO), the control unit 21 of the terminal 20A ends the other room interest presentation process.

If it is determined that the member solicitation information has been received (A820: YES), the control section 21 of the terminal 20A displays the received member solicitation information on the display section 24 (A510). Then, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20A ends the other room interest presentation process.

Returning to FIG. 8B, after performing the other room interest presentation process (W810), the control unit 11 of the server 10 advances the process to W210.

<Effects of the eighth embodiment>
In this embodiment, the terminal 20, based on the input to the terminal 20 by the user of the terminal 20 itself, to the second group or the users included in the second group (not limited, but an example of the second user) On the other hand, a configuration is shown in which information such as other room interest presentation information (not a limitation, but an example of second information indicating that the second group is interested) is transmitted by the communication I/F 22 .
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, the terminal, based on the input to the own terminal by the user of the own terminal, for the second group or the second user included in the second group , can convey interest in a second group.

Also, in this case, as a non-limiting example, the other room interest presentation information may include information about requesting transmission of member solicitation information (not a limitation, but an example of information related to invitation).
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, the terminal user can , the interested second group can be asked to invite them.

Also, in this case, the terminal 20 receives information such as room topic information and room tag notification information based on video information transmitted/received in other rooms and information transmitted/received in other rooms (not limited to the second group). An example of the third information based on the transmitted/received information) is displayed on the display unit 24 . Then, the terminal 20 may transmit other room interest presentation information (not limited, but an example of the second information) through the communication I/F 22 based on the input for the information.
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, the third information based on the information transmitted and received in the second group is displayed on the display unit of the terminal, and based on the input for this third information, the second Second information indicating interest in the group may be sent to inform the second group, or a second user included in the second group, of interest in the second group.

<Ninth embodiment>
The ninth embodiment is an embodiment related to leaving the user's room.
In the second embodiment and the like, it is possible for the user to leave the general meeting, but some users may wish to leave the current room without leaving the general meeting. Also, in this case, the user who has left the current room may wish to move to another room instead of returning to the original room.

In the following examples, leaving the current room is referred to as "leaving". Leaving the room may be referred to as "Nakaza". Leaving a room or leaving a room means, as a non-limiting example, a state in which you can stop interacting in that room and move to another room, or a room (meeting room/bench room) that does not leave the general meeting but is not included in it. state. It is also possible to leave the seat.

The content described in the ninth embodiment can be applied to each of the other embodiments and each of the other modifications.
Moreover, the same code|symbol is attached|subjected about the component same as an already-appearing component, and description for the second time is abbreviate|omitted.

<Display screen>
The upper diagram in FIG. 9-1 shows user A.A. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on A's terminal 20A. FIG.
In this figure, on the right side of the meeting room area RRA, there is a room participants area PRA where information about users participating in the meeting taking place in room A is displayed.

The lower diagram in FIG. 9-1 shows an example of a screen displayed on the terminal 20A when the exit button LBT is tapped in the upper diagram in FIG. 9-1.
In this example, user A. User A taps the exit button LBT. A has left the room A, and a blank screen is displayed on the left side of the display unit 24 of the terminal 20A.

Further, on the right side of this blank screen, other room information display areas MRA, MRB, MRC, . The information display areas MRA, MRB, MRC, . . . are provided with sub-areas SRA, SRB, SRC, . Thus, in this example, user A. When user A leaves room A, user A.A receives video information and participant information of other rooms including room A from which user A.A left. A can be confirmed. Also, by operating the participation button displayed in the other room information display area, user A.A. A is configured to be able to participate in the room. It should be noted that by operating information other than the participation button among the various types of other room information described above, the user A.A. A may be allowed to join the room.

<Processing>
FIG. 9B is a flow chart showing an example of the flow of processing executed in the communication system 1 in this embodiment.
After step W110, the communication system 1 executes in-room moving image distribution processing (W910).

FIG. 9-3 is a flowchart showing an example of the flow of in-room moving image delivery processing in this embodiment. In this processing, from the left side, processing executed by the control unit 21 of the terminal 20A, processing executed by the control unit 21 of the terminal 20B, and processing executed by the control unit 11 of the server 10 are shown.

As a non-limiting example, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20A exits the room by determining whether or not a user input to exit the room via the input/output unit 23 (as a non-limiting example, an operation of the exit button) is performed. (A910). If it is determined not to leave the room (A910: NO), the control unit 21 of the terminal 20A performs the step of transmitting moving image information (A920) and the step of displaying in-room moving image information (A930). , terminates the in-room moving image delivery process.

If it is determined to leave the room (A910: YES), the control section 21 of the terminal 20A transmits room leaving request information for requesting leaving the current meeting room to the server 10 via the communication I/F 22 (A940).

After the step of S920, the control unit 11 of the server 10 determines whether or not the room exit request information has been received by the communication I/F 14 (S930). After performing the step (S940) of transmitting the in-room moving image information to the terminal 20A, the in-room moving image distribution processing is terminated.

If it is determined that the room exit request information has been received (S930: YES), the control unit 11 of the server 10 transmits other room information, which is information about another room, to the terminal 20A via the communication I/F 14 (S950). In this case, leaving the room will cause user A. Other room information may include, by way of example and not limitation, room information for each room, including room A, because A is excluded as a room member of room A. Information that can be included in other room information is as described above.

After the step of A940, the control section 21 of the terminal 20A turns off the display of the meeting room of the room A and causes the display section 24 to display the other room information received from the server 10 via the communication I/F 22 (A950). Then, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20A ends the in-room moving image distribution processing. That is, the terminal 20A performs control to stop outputting the moving image information transmitted and received in the room A, and performs control to display other room information including the room A from which the user has left.

Returning to FIG. 9-2, after the step of W910, the control unit 11 of the server 10 performs room transfer processing (W920). In this room transfer process, the control unit 11 of the server 10, as an example and not a limitation, determines whether room transfer request information has been received from the terminal 20 via the communication I/F 14 for each room based on the process of FIG. 2-6. It is determined whether or not (S201). Then, if it is determined that it has been received (S201: YES), the control unit 11 of the server 10 converts the application ID of the user of the terminal 20 that sent the room change request information from the meeting room management data to the current room. room member ID associated with the room ID of the destination room and added to the room member ID associated with the room ID of the destination room (S203).

Also, upon receiving the room exit request information from the terminal 20 in step W910, the control unit 11 of the server 10 converts the application ID of the user of the terminal 20 that sent the room exit request information from the meeting room management data to the current room. is temporarily deleted from the room member ID associated with the room ID, and the application ID is stored in the storage unit 15 and held. As a result, the user who has left the room is not included in any room.

After step W920, the control unit 11 of the server 10 advances the process to step W160.

In addition, after the user input to leave the room via the input/output unit 23, or after the control unit 21 of the terminal 20 transmits the leave request information to the server 10 and the server 10 receives it, the set time has passed or a set time has come, the control unit 11 of the server 10 may cause the user to leave the room.

Specifically, as a non-limiting example, after the user input to leave the room via the input/output unit 23, when a set time (one minute as an example, not a limitation) elapses, or when the set The control unit 21 of the terminal 20 may transmit the room exit request information to the server 10 when the time comes (for example, not as a limitation, but every five minutes on the hour).
Also, as an example, not a limitation, after the server 10 receives the room exit request information from the terminal 20, a set time (not a limitation, for example, one minute) has passed, or a set time (not a limitation) As an example, the control unit 11 of the server 10 may cause the user of the terminal 20 to leave the room at every five minutes on the hour.

This is done because the user may feel uncomfortable with leaving the room immediately. This is more pronounced when moving to other meeting rooms, and quickly dismissing users and moving them to other meeting rooms makes them feel more awkward with room members of the original meeting room. There is a possibility that

<Effect of the ninth embodiment>
In this embodiment, the terminal 20 that outputs moving image information (not limited to, but an example of audio information and video information) transmitted and received in the first meeting room is the terminal 20 that includes the user of its own terminal 20 and is transmitted and received in the first meeting room. The moving image information is output from the display unit 24 and the sound output unit 26 . Then, the terminal 20 receives the moving image information transmitted and received in the first meeting room based on an input (not a limitation, but an example of a first input) for leaving the terminal 20 by the user of the terminal 20 itself. The control unit 21 performs control to stop the output of . Then, the terminal 20 shows a configuration for displaying other room information (an example of information indicating a first group and information indicating a second group different from the first group) on the display unit 24. .
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, the terminal outputs the audio information and the video information transmitted and received by the first group including the user of the terminal, and the user of the terminal outputs the first input to the terminal. , the output of the audio information and the video information transmitted and received in the first group can be stopped. Further, in this case, the terminal displays information indicating the first group and information indicating the second group different from the first group, thereby outputting the audio information and the video information transmitted and received in the first group. is canceled, the user of the terminal can confirm the information indicating the first group and the information indicating the second group.

In the above processing example, when the user leaves the room, the association with the user's room is canceled and other room information including the information of the room from which the user leaves the room is displayed. However, the present invention is not limited to this.
When the user leaves the room, the association with the user's room may not be released, and the room information of the room from which the user left and the room information of other rooms (other room information) may be displayed.
Also, the room information of the room from which the user has left may not be displayed.

Further, in this case, the terminal 20 sends the room exit request information to the server 10 based on the input (not limited, but an example of the first input) for leaving the terminal 20 by the user of the terminal 20 itself. The control unit 21 may control transmission (not a limitation, but an example of control for stopping participation in the first group).
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, the terminal can be controlled so that the user of the terminal stops participating in the first group based on a first input to the terminal by the user of the terminal. . Also, by performing such control, it is possible to let the user of the terminal leave the first group.

Also, in this case, the terminal 20 may control participation in the other room by the control unit 21 based on the input of the other room information (not a limitation, but an example of information indicating the second group).
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, the terminal can allow the user to participate in the second group based on the input for the information indicating the second group.

Also, in this case, the terminal 20 is operated when the set time elapses after the user of the terminal 20 inputs to leave the room (not a limitation, but an example of the first input), or when the set time In this case, the control unit 21 may perform control to stop outputting the moving image information transmitted and received in the first meeting room.
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, when a set time elapses after the first input, or when the set time comes, the terminal transmits/receives data in the first group. Output of audio information and video information can be stopped. Also, by doing so, it is possible to prevent the user of the terminal from feeling embarrassed about leaving the group immediately.

In addition, in this embodiment, the server 10 relaying moving image information (not limited to, but an example of audio information and video information) transmitted and received in the first meeting room is connected to the terminal 20 (not limited to) included in the first meeting room. , an example of a first terminal) based on an input (not a limitation, but an example of a first input) for leaving the terminal 20 by the user, a video transmitted from the terminal 20 included in the first meeting room The control unit 11 that performs control to stop transmitting the image information to the first terminal, other room information (not limited, information indicating the first group, and information indicating the second group different from the first group) and a communication I/F 14 for transmitting information (an example) to the first terminal.
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, the server, based on a first input to the first terminal by the user of the first terminal included in the first group, from the terminal included in the first group: It is possible to stop transmitting the transmitted audio information and video information to the first terminal. Further, the server transmits the information indicating the first group and the information indicating the second group different from the first group to the first terminal, whereby the sound information transmitted from the terminals included in the first group is and video information to the first terminal, the user of the first terminal can confirm the information indicating the first group and the information indicating the second group. can.

<Tenth embodiment>
The tenth embodiment is slightly different from the ninth embodiment, and is an embodiment related to moving a user who has left the meeting room to the above-described bench room.

The content described in the tenth embodiment can be applied to each of the other embodiments and each of the other modifications.
Moreover, the same code|symbol is attached|subjected about the component same as an already-appearing component, and description for the second time is abbreviate|omitted.

<Data structure>
FIG. 10-1 is a diagram showing a data configuration example of a meeting management database 155D, which is an example of the meeting management database 155 in this embodiment.
In the meeting management database 155D, the room ID, the room name, and the room member ID are associated and stored in the meeting room management data included in each meeting management data, as a non-limiting example.

In this embodiment, the room ID stores the room ID of the "bench room"("R999" in this example) in addition to the room ID of the meeting room described above, as an example and not a limitation.
In the room ID of the bench room, as a non-limiting example, "bench room" is stored as the room name, and the application ID of the user included in the bench room is stored as the room member ID.

In addition, the meeting room management data includes room information other than the above, such as, but not limited to, the amount of speech for each room member (the amount of speech for each room member ID), links shared in the room, image storage destinations, etc. Information may be stored. In addition, the above-mentioned room topics (excluding the bench room) may be stored.

As will be described later, messages and the like may be transmitted and received in a bench room (a room member of the bench room, a terminal of the room member of the bench room, a group of the bench room). In this case, the control unit 11 of the server 10 may estimate and acquire the room topic of the bench room based on messages or the like transmitted and received in the bench room. In this case, the room topic may also be stored in the bench room column of the meeting room management data.

<Display screen>
The upper diagram in FIG. 10-2 shows user A.A. 9A is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on the terminal 20A of A, which is the same as the upper diagram in FIG. 9-1. FIG.

The lower diagram in FIG. 10-2 shows an example of a screen displayed on the terminal 20A when the exit button LBT is tapped in the upper diagram in FIG. 10-2.
User A. Based on the fact that the exit button LBT has been tapped by user A.A. User A leaves room A, and user A.A is displayed on the left side of the display unit 24 of terminal 20A, unlike the diagram on the lower side of FIG. 9-1. A bench room area BRR is displayed in which the screen of the bench room to which A has moved is displayed. Under the bench room area BRR, user A. who is participating in the bench room (waiting in the bench room). A bench room participant area PRBR is provided in which information about users other than A is displayed. User P.A, who is a user other than A. P and user Q.P. Information about Q and is displayed.
Also, to the right of these areas, images of corresponding other rooms are displayed as other room information display areas MRA, MRB, MRC, . An area is shown that includes sub-areas SRA, SRB, SRC, . . . in which information is displayed.
In this case, the room in which the user is included is the "bench room" and the other rooms are the "meeting rooms".

As described above, the room members of the bench room may or may not be able to transmit and receive messages.

The upper diagram in FIG. 10-3 shows user A.A. 9A is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on the terminal 20A of A, which is almost the same as the upper diagram in FIG. 9-1 and the upper diagram in FIG. , sub-areas SRA, SRB, SRC, . and an area containing room name, join button, information about room members, invite button, etc. are displayed.

The lower diagram in FIG. 10-3 shows an example of a screen displayed on the terminal 20A when the exit button LBT is tapped in the upper diagram in FIG. 10-3.
Based on the tapping of the exit button LBT, a blank screen is displayed on the left side of the display section 24 of the terminal 20A, as in the lower diagram of FIG. 9-1. In addition, on the right of it, as other room information display areas MRA, MRB, MRC, . A region including SRA, SRB, SRC, . . . is displayed.
Thus, in this example, user A. When user A leaves room A, user A does not move to the bench room, but talks about other rooms including room A where he left. A can be confirmed.

The upper diagram of FIG. 10-4 shows user A.A. 10A is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on the terminal 20A of A, and is the same as the upper diagram in FIG. 10-3. FIG.

The lower diagram in FIG. 10-4 shows an example of a screen displayed on the terminal 20A when the exit button LBT is tapped in the upper diagram in FIG. 10-4.
Based on the tapping of the exit button LBT, the bench room screen is displayed in the bench room area BRR on the left side of the display unit 24 of the terminal 20A, as in the lower diagram of FIG. 10-2. 10-3, other room information display areas MRA, MRB, MRC, . and room tag notification information) are displayed.
Thus, in this example, user A. When user A leaves room A, user A moves to a bench room and talks about other rooms including room A where user A left. A can be confirmed.

In the other room information display area, as an example and not limitation, an image related to the room topic or a shared image may be displayed in the same manner as in FIG. 2-1.
Also, as in FIG. 2B, room topics, room tag notification information, and the like may be displayed based on the input of video information and the like.
Further, as shown in FIGS. 3-1 and 3-3, related other room information may be highlighted based on the information of the user who has moved to the bench room.

<Processing>
FIG. 10-5 is a flow chart showing an example of the flow of processing executed in the communication system 1 in this embodiment.
After step W110, the communication system 1 performs in-room moving image distribution processing (W1010). In this in-room moving image delivery process, as an example, not limitation, when the room exit request information is received in the process of FIG. to the terminal 20A (S950). In this case, other room information may include the following information as an example, not as a limitation, in addition to the information described above.
- Room member information of the bench room (as a non-limiting example, bench room room member name, room member ID, image of the room member)

Further, in the in-room moving image delivery process, the control unit 11 of the server 10 can perform any of the following processes.
- In-room moving image generation processing is not performed even if moving image information is received from the terminal 20 of a room member in the bench room - In-room moving image generation is performed when moving image information is received from the terminal 20 of a room member in the bench room Processing is performed, but the generated in-room moving image information is not transmitted to the terminal 20. By doing so, in the above processing example, the in-room moving image information is not displayed on the display unit 24 of the terminal 20A. can do.

Alternatively, the control unit 11 of the server 10 may transmit the in-room moving image information to the terminals 20 of the room members in the bench room. In this case, in the in-room moving image distribution process, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20 of the room member in the bench room can prevent the received in-room moving image information from being displayed on the display unit 24 .
Also, unlike this, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20 of the room member of the bench room may not transmit the moving image information to the server 10 .
By doing so, in the above processing example, it is possible to prevent the in-room moving image information from being displayed on the display unit 24 of the terminal 20A.

Further, as described above, the terminals 20 of the room members of the bench room can transmit messages to other users of the bench room via the server 10 based on user input via the input/output unit 23. may be allowed. In this case, when content such as text content is input via the input/output unit 23 and the content transmission button is tapped, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20A transmits the input content to the server 10 . Then, the control unit 11 of the server 10 can generate message information based on the received content and transmit the generated message information to the terminals 20 of other users in the bench room.

After step W1010, the communication system 1 performs room change processing (W1040). In this room change process, the control unit 11 of the server 10 determines whether room change request information has been received from the terminal 20 via the communication I/F 14 for each room. Then, if it is determined that it has been received, the control unit 11 of the server 10 associates the application ID of the user of the terminal 20 that sent the room change request information among the meeting room management data with the room ID of the current room. room member ID associated with the destination room and added to the room member ID associated with the room ID of the destination room.

Also, in the terminal 20, when a user input to leave the room via the input/output unit 23 (for example, without limitation, operation of a leave button, etc.), the terminal 20 instructs the server 10 to move to the bench room. or room exit request information requesting exit from the current meeting room. Based on the received information, the control unit 11 of the server 10 converts the application ID of the user of the terminal 20 in the meeting room management data from the room member ID associated with the room ID of the current room to the bench room. Replace with the room member ID associated with the room ID.

After step W1040, the control unit 11 of the server 10 shifts the process to step W130, and when determining that the set time has passed (W130: YES), performs room topic acquisition processing (W1020).
In this room topic acquisition process, the control unit 11 of the server 10 does not have to acquire the room topic for the bench room. The room topic of the bench room may be estimated and acquired based on the message (content) received.

Thereafter, the communication system 1 performs room topic update processing (W1030).

In the room topic update process, the control unit 11 of the server 10 can prevent the transmission of room topic information to the terminals 20 of the room members of the bench room, for example and not limitation.
By doing so, it is possible to prevent the room topic and room tag notification information from being displayed on the terminals 20 of the room members in the bench room.

Alternatively, the control unit 11 of the server 10 may transmit the room topic information to the terminals 20 of the room members of the bench room. In this case, in the room topic update process, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20 of the room member of the bench room may perform any of the following processes as an example and not as a limitation.
・Even if room topic information is received, room tag notification information generation processing is not performed and room tag notification information is not displayed. ・Room tag notification information generation processing is performed based on the received room topic information, but generated Do not display information for room tag notification ・Do not display room topic of received room topic information (do not display information for room tag notification)
By doing so, it is possible to prevent the room topic and room tag notification information from being displayed on the terminals 20 of the room members in the bench room.

After step W1030, the control unit 11 of the server 10 advances the process to step W160.

<Effects of the tenth embodiment>
In this embodiment, the terminal 20 is in a different room from the current meeting room based on an input (not a limitation, but an example of a first input) for leaving the terminal 20 by the user of the terminal 20 itself. , which is one of the bench rooms (not a limitation, but an example of the third group).
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, it is possible to move the user of the terminal to a third group different from the first group based on the first input.

Also, in this case, the bench room (group of bench rooms) may not be able to transmit and receive moving image information within the bench room (group of bench rooms).
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, after moving to the third group different from the first group based on the first input, the audio information and the video information are stored in the third group. Sending and receiving may be disabled and the user may be allowed to wait.

Also, in this case, the bench room (group of bench rooms) may be able to send and receive messages.
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, in combination with the above, although the transmission and reception of audio information and video information in the third group is impossible, the transmission and reception of messages are allowed in the third group. It is possible to make it possible to easily exchange messages within the group.

Also, in this case, if the user of the terminal 20 is included in the bench room (group of bench rooms), the terminal 20 will send information indicating the room (group) before moving to the bench room and other rooms (groups of other groups). ) may be controlled by the control unit 21 to display the information.
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, even when the user of the terminal is included in the third group, information indicating the first group and information indicating the second group are displayed. , the information indicating the first group and the information indicating the second group can be confirmed by the user of the terminal.

<Tenth Modification (1)>
In the above-described embodiment, based on the establishment of the set condition, a proposal to participate in the meeting room may be made to the users included in the bench room.

The upper diagram of FIG. 10-6 shows user A.A. 10A is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on the terminal 20A of A, which is the same as the diagram on the lower side of FIG. 10-4.
After the screen of the bench room in the upper diagram of FIG. 10-6 is displayed, in this example, users A and A are prompted to join room A, as shown in the lower diagram of FIG. 10-6. Member solicitation information (which may also be called room participation proposal information) including a text (in this example, the text "Would you like to join room A?"), a move button MBT, and a cancel button CBT. , is displayed in a pop-up area PPR10 displayed in a pop-up format.

This member solicitation information can be transmitted to the terminal 20A by way of example, not limitation, when the control unit 11 of the server 10 satisfies a set condition. The set conditions can be, by way of example and not limitation, at least one of the following.
・The set time has passed since the user moved to the bench room ・The set time has come after the user moved to the bench room

Also, in this case, the proposed destination room can be determined by the control unit 11 of the server 10 as one of the following rooms, not as a limitation, as an example.
- A room that includes the user of the terminal 20 that has transmitted the above-described member invitation request information to the server 10 (the terminal 20 that has received the member invitation request information).・Meeting room determined based on the user information of the room members of the bench room (the method is the same as the above-described embodiment)
・Randomly determined meeting room

Proposing a room containing the user of the terminal 20 who has sent the member invitation request information to the server 10 as the destination room means receiving an invitation from a room member of the bench room and moving to the room that received the invitation. means to suggest to the user that

Also, in this example, in the upper diagram of FIG. 10-6, other room information display areas MRA, MRB, MRC, . . . , sub-areas SRA, SRB, SRC, . However, based on the establishment of the above set conditions, the words (room topics) displayed in the sub-areas SRA, SRB, SRC, . and room tag notification information) are erased, and the corresponding video information of the other room is displayed instead.
In this case, based on the establishment of the set condition, no other room information may be displayed in the other room information display area in the lower screen of FIG. 10-6.

When the move button MBT is tapped, the terminal 20A transmits room move request information to the server 10, and the server 10 executes the room move process, whereby the proposed move destination room (in this example, the room A) to user A.A. A is moved.

In addition, instead of the control unit 11 of the server 10 transmitting the member solicitation information to the terminal 20A and the control unit 21 of the terminal 20A displaying it on the display unit 24, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20A It is also possible to determine whether or not a set condition (similar to the above) has been established, and to display the member solicitation information on the display section 24 when it is determined that the condition has been established.

The upper diagram in FIG. 10-7 shows user A.A. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on A's terminal 20A. FIG.
In this example, to the right of the bench room area BRR and the bench room participant area PRBR, other room information display areas MRA, MRB, MRC, . An area including sub-areas SRA, SRB, SRC, .

In this example, a conversation volume area CAR is displayed in the bench room area BRR, in which the conversation volume of each room is represented by a bar graph. Conversation volume for each room is totaled for each room by the control unit 11 of the server 10 based on the volume of speech for each room member stored in association with each room in the meeting room management data, for example and not limitation. can be made Then, information on the amount of conversation for each room obtained as a result of aggregation is transmitted from the server 10 to the terminal 20, and in this example, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20A, based on the received information on the amount of conversation, It is possible to display the amount of conversation per person in a graph format.
Note that the control unit 11 of the server 10 may also generate a graph and transmit it to the terminal 20 .

During the meeting in the meeting room, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20 transmits speech volume request information requesting information on the speech volume of the user of the terminal 20 to the server 10 via the communication I/F 22 . Then, the control unit 11 of the server 10 may transmit the user's speech volume information to the terminal 20 based on the reception of the speech volume request information from the terminal 20 via the communication I/F 14 . Then, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20 may cause the display unit 24 to display the received speech volume. It should be noted that it is also possible to request the server 10 for information on the amount of speech of an arbitrarily selected/specified user instead of the amount of speech of the user himself/herself, and to obtain the information. Also, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20 may acquire the speech volume of the user of the own terminal 20 based on the sound information input by the sound input unit 25 .

After the screen of the bench room in the upper diagram of FIG. 10-7 is displayed, users A and A are prompted to join room D in this example, as shown in the lower diagram of FIG. 10-7. Member solicitation information including a text (in this example, the text "Would you like to join Room D?"), a move button MBT, and a cancel button CBT is displayed in a pop-up area PPR11 displayed in a pop-up format. It is

This room participant information is, as an example and not a limitation, similar to FIG. It is possible to transmit to the terminal 20A based on the fact that a set time has passed after the user has moved to the bench room, etc.).

Also, in this example, the proposed destination room can be determined by the control unit 11 of the server 10 based on the amount of conversation for each room, as an example and not as a limitation. Specifically, for example and not limitation, the control unit 11 of the server 10 can determine the room with the least amount of conversation as the proposed destination room.

Further, in this example, in the upper diagram of FIG. 10-7, other room information display areas MRA, MRB, MRC, . . . , sub-areas SRA, SRB, SRC, .
However, based on the establishment of the above set conditions, in the lower diagram of FIG. 10-7, the sub-areas SRA, SRB, SRC, . . . The displayed words (room topic and room tag notification information) disappear, and instead, the corresponding video information of the other room is displayed.

When the move button MBT is tapped, the terminal 20A transmits room move request information to the server 10, and the server 10 executes the room move process, whereby the proposed move destination room (in this example, the room D) to user A.D). A is moved.

In addition, instead of the control unit 11 of the server 10 transmitting the member solicitation information to the terminal 20A and the control unit 21 of the terminal 20A displaying it on the display unit 24, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20A It is also possible to determine whether or not a set condition (similar to the above) has been established, and to display the member solicitation information on the display section 24 when it is determined that the condition has been established.

In addition, in the examples of FIGS. 10-6 and 10-7, the room members in the bench room are confirmed as to whether or not to move to the proposed move destination room, and when the user approves the move, , the user is moved to the proposed destination room, but the present invention is not limited to this.
Even if the control unit 11 of the server 10 performs the room transfer process without obtaining the user's approval based on the establishment of the set condition, and transfers the user to the proposed destination room. Good (you could call it a forced move from the bench room).

Further, the control unit 11 of the server 10 may force the user to leave the bench room (hereinafter referred to as "forced leave" (forced leave)) based on the establishment of the set condition. . In this case, the control unit 11 of the server 10 temporarily deletes the user's application ID from the room member IDs associated with the room ID of the bench room, and stores the application ID in the storage unit 15 as an example and not limitation. store and hold. This is to allow the user to be forcibly removed from the bench room. As a result, the user is not included in any room (including the bench room).

Further, as described above, when the control unit 11 of the server 10 forcibly leaves the user from the bench room, if the above-described set conditions are satisfied, as an example and not as a limitation, the user's terminal 20 The transmission of room information may be stopped, and other room information may not be displayed on the terminal 20 of the user. In other words, the user forced out of the bench room may be prevented from checking information on other rooms.

In this modification, the user of the terminal 20 is included in a bench room (a group of bench rooms), and the terminal 20 communicates member solicitation information and room participation proposal information (not limited, but an example of information related to invitation). When received by /F22, the control unit 21 may perform control to move to a room (group) based on member invitation information or room participation proposal information.
As an example of the effect of the modification obtained by such a configuration, when the terminal user is included in the third group and receives information about the invitation, the terminal moves the user of the terminal to a group based on the information about the invitation. be able to. Moreover, by performing such control, it is possible to forcibly move the user from the third group to the invited group, as an example and not as a limitation.

Also, in this case, if the user of the terminal 20 is included in the bench room (group of bench rooms) for the set time or longer, or until the set time, the terminal 20 will not be limited to other room information (information indicating the first group, not limited). and information indicating the second group) may be controlled by the control unit 21 so as not to be displayed on the display unit 24 .
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, when the user of the terminal is included in the third group for a set time or longer or until a set time, the information indicating the first group and the By not displaying the information indicating the second group on the display unit, it is possible to prevent the user of the terminal from confirming the information indicating the first group and the information indicating the second group. Also, by performing such control, it is possible to force the user to leave the third group as an example, not as a limitation.

Also, in this case, if the user of the terminal 20 is included in the bench room (group of bench rooms), the terminal 20 is placed in a room (group ) may be controlled by the control unit 21 .
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, when the user of the terminal is included in the third group for a set time or longer or until a set time, a fourth group different from the third group is included. You can move users to groups. Further, by performing such control, it is possible to forcibly move the user from the third group to the fourth group, as an example and not as a limitation.

Also, in this case, the terminal 20 acquires the amount of speech by the user of its own terminal 20 by means of the control unit 21, the communication I/F 22, the sound input unit 25, etc. good too.
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, the terminal can acquire the speech volume of the user of the terminal. Also, as an example and not a limitation, the terminal displays the acquired speech volume on the display unit, so that the user of the own terminal can grasp his/her own speech volume.

<Eleventh embodiment>
The eleventh embodiment is an embodiment that allows the user to leave the room based on the establishment of a set condition.

The content described in the eleventh embodiment can be applied to each of the other embodiments and each of the other modifications.
Moreover, the same code|symbol is attached|subjected about the component same as an already-appearing component, and description for the second time is abbreviate|omitted.

As described in the ninth and tenth embodiments, the user can leave the room by performing user input for leaving the room (as an example, not limitation, such as tapping the leave button). This user input may also be regarded as one of the set conditions.
In this embodiment, it is possible for the user to leave the room based on the satisfaction of conditions other than this user input. As an example, a technique is illustrated in which the terminal 20 acquires information about the user of the terminal 20 itself, and automatically leaves the user of the terminal 20 based on the acquisition of the information about the user.

<Display screen>
The upper diagram in FIG. 11-1 shows user A.A. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on A's terminal 20A. FIG.
In this example, when user A leaves the seat during the meeting, user A. captured by the imaging unit 27 is displayed in the area where the image of user A is displayed in the meeting room area RRA. An image indicating that A is away from the seat (an image including the chair on which user A is sitting) is displayed.

The diagram on the lower side of FIG. 11-1 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on the display unit 24 of the terminal 20A after that when the set condition is satisfied.
In this example, as a non-limiting example, the user A . It is determined that A has left his seat (as an example, not a limitation, he has left his seat for a certain period of time or longer). Then, in this example, based on the determination result, user A.A. A is shown moved to the bench room.

Specifically, a screen including the aforementioned bench room area BRR and bench room participant area PRBR is displayed. To the right of the bench room area BRR and the bench room participant area PRBR are sub-areas SRA, SRB, and SRC in which words (room topics and room tag notification information) related to topics in other rooms including room A are displayed. , and other room information display areas MRB, MRC, MRD, .

The upper diagram in FIG. 11-2 shows user A.A. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on A's terminal 20A. FIG.
In this example, user A taps the video button VBT of his/her terminal 20A during the meeting, thereby hiding his/her image (as an example, not limitation, the image captured by the imaging unit 27 of the terminal 20A). is shown. Also, in this example, user A.A in meeting room area RRA. In the area where the image of A.A is displayed, a slide button is displayed together with the words "automatic exit". The state turned "ON" by A is shown.

This slide button can be, by way of example and not limitation, a button used to automatically exit yourself (user A.A in this example) from room A.
Also, in this example, the user is moved to the bench room when the set condition is established after the video button VBT is tapped or the slide button is turned "ON".
When the slide button is set to "OFF", it is possible to prevent the user from automatically leaving the room even if the set conditions are satisfied.

The lower diagram in FIG. 11B shows an example of a screen displayed on the display unit 24 of the terminal 20A when the above set conditions are satisfied.
In this example, as a non-limiting example, a set time or more (or more than a set time) has elapsed since the video button VBT was tapped or the slide button was turned "ON". based on user A. A is shown moved to the bench room.

Note that here, the user A. Although the example of automatic exit based on A's operation of the video button VBT to turn the video "OFF" has been shown, the present invention is not limited to this.
By way of example and not limitation, user A.A. User A operates the speaker button SBT to turn the sound "OFF" (mute). A may be made to automatically leave the room.

<Processing>
FIG. 11-3 is a flow chart showing an example of the flow of processing executed in the communication system 1 in this embodiment.
After step W110, the communication system 1 performs in-room moving image distribution processing (W1110).

FIG. 11-4 is a flowchart showing an example of the flow of in-room moving image delivery processing in this embodiment. In this processing, from the left side, processing executed by the control unit 21 of the terminal 20A, processing executed by the control unit 21 of the terminal 20B, and processing executed by the control unit 11 of the server 10 are shown.

After the step of S920, the control unit 11 of the server 10 detects the user leaving the seat (S1110). Specifically, as an example and not a limitation, based on the moving image information transmitted from the terminal 20A and the moving image information transmitted from the terminal 20B (and the moving image information transmitted from other room member terminals), It is determined whether or not there is a seated user. Here, leaving the seat means that the user temporarily leaves his or her seat for some reason (such as a break).

More specifically, the control unit 11 of the server 10 performs person detection processing on video information included in each piece of moving image information as an example, not a limitation, and detects a person for a set time or more (or for a set time). super), if a person is not detected, it is determined that the user of the terminal 20 that transmitted the moving image information is away from the seat.
In this case, if the person is not detected until the set time, it may be determined that the user of the terminal 20 that transmitted the moving image information is away from the seat.

In addition, the control unit 11 of the server 10 performs the speaker detection process on the sound information included in each moving image information, for example, not limitation, for a set time or longer (or longer than the set time), If the speaker is not detected, it may be determined that the user of the terminal 20 that is the transmission source of the moving image information is away from the seat (judgment of absence from the seat based on the amount of speech of the user of the terminal 20). may think).
In this case, if the speaker is not detected by the set time, it may be determined that the user of the terminal 20 that transmitted the moving image information is away from the seat.

Further, as described above, when a set time or longer (or longer than the set time) elapses after the control unit 11 of the server 10 turns the video "OFF" by the user of the terminal 20, It may be determined that the user of the terminal 20 is away.
In this case, if the image is turned "OFF" by the user of the terminal 20 until the set time, it is determined that the user of the terminal 20 is away from the seat. good too.

Further, as described above, when the control unit 11 of the server 10 turns the sound "OFF" by the user of the terminal 20, and a set time or longer (or longer than the set time) elapses, It may be determined that the user of the terminal 20 is away.
In this case, it is determined that the user of the terminal 20 is away from the seat when the sound is kept "OFF" until the set time after the user of the terminal 20 turns the sound "OFF". good too.

If it is determined that leaving the seat has been detected (S1110: YES). The control unit 11 of the server 10 shifts the processing to S950.
On the other hand, if it is determined that leaving the seat has not been detected (S1110: NO), the control unit 11 of the server 10 shifts the process to S940.

After A920, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20A determines whether or not the in-room moving image information has been received from the server 10 via the communication I/F 22 (A1110).

If it is determined that it has been received (A1110: YES), the control section 21 of the terminal 20A shifts the process to A930.
If it is determined that it has not been received (A1110: NO), the control section 21 of the terminal 20A shifts the process to A950.

Returning to FIG. 11-3, after step W1110, the control unit 11 of the server 10 performs room transfer processing (W920 or W1040). User A. If user A is not to be moved to the bench room, the above-described room move processing of step W920 is applied, and user A.A is moved to the bench room. When moving A to the bench room, the processing of W1040 described above can be applied.
Then, the control unit 11 of the server 10 advances the process to step W160.

In the above process, the server 10 detects the absence of a seat, but the present invention is not limited to this. The terminal 20 may detect the absence of the seat. In this case, the terminal 20 detects that the user of the terminal 20 has left the seat by the same method as described above, and if it determines that the user has , can be transmitted to the server 10 via the communication I/F 22 .

The detection of leaving the seat by the control unit 21 of the terminal 20 may be realized by human detection processing based on the video information (image captured by the imaging unit 27) as described above, or as an example without limitation. It may be realized by a speaker detection process (determining the amount of speech of the user of the terminal 20) based on the sound information input by the sound input unit 25 as shown in FIG. Alternatively, it may be realized based on the fact that the video is turned "OFF" or the audio is turned "OFF" as described above.

Further, when it is detected that the user leaves the seat, the screen of the bench room is not displayed by moving the user to the bench room as shown in FIGS. As an example, a blank screen may be displayed without moving the user to the bench room as shown in FIGS. 9-1 and 10-3.

<Effects of the Eleventh Embodiment>
In this embodiment, the terminal 20 acquires information about the user of the terminal 20 itself by the acquisition unit, and based on the acquisition, the control unit 21 controls to stop outputting the moving image information transmitted and received in the first meeting room. conduct. Then, the terminal 20 shows a configuration for displaying other room information (an example of information indicating a first group and information indicating a second group different from the first group) on the display unit 24. .
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, the terminal obtains information about the user of its own terminal, and based on the obtained information, transmits and receives audio information and video information in the first group. You can stop the output of Further, in this case, the terminal displays information indicating the first group and information indicating the second group different from the first group, thereby outputting the audio information and the video information transmitted and received in the first group. is canceled, the user of the terminal can confirm the information indicating the first group and the information indicating the second group.

Also, in this case, the acquisition unit of the terminal 20 is the image capturing unit 27 of the terminal 20, and the terminal 20 captures whether or not the user of the terminal 20 is included in the captured image captured by the image capturing unit 27. You may make it acquire by an image.
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, the terminal easily and appropriately acquires (detects) whether or not the user of the terminal is included based on the image captured by the imaging unit of the terminal. Then, based on the acquisition, the output of the audio information and video information transmitted and received in the first group can be stopped.

Also, in this case, the terminal 20 may acquire the amount of speech by the user of the terminal 20 itself by the sound input unit 25 (not limited, but an example of an acquisition unit).
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, the terminal acquires the speech volume of the user of the terminal, and then, based on the acquisition, compares the audio information and the video information transmitted and received in the first group. output can be stopped.

Also, in this case, the terminal 20 will turn off the video information captured by the imaging unit 27 of its own terminal 20 for a set period of time or until a set time (not limited to the (Example of a case where video information captured by the imaging unit has not been transmitted to the first group for a set period of time or until a set time), control to stop outputting moving image information transmitted and received by the first group. It is performed by the control unit 21 . Then, the terminal 20 shows a configuration for displaying other room information (an example of information indicating a first group and information indicating a second group different from the first group) on the display unit 24. .
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, when the video information captured by the imaging unit of the terminal is not transmitted to the first group for a set period or until a set time , the output of the audio information and the video information transmitted and received in the first group can be stopped. Further, in this case, the terminal displays information indicating the first group and information indicating the second group different from the first group, thereby outputting the audio information and the video information transmitted and received in the first group. is canceled, the user of the terminal can confirm the information indicating the first group and the information indicating the second group.

<Twelfth embodiment>
The twelfth embodiment is an example of what the meeting master can do by way of example and not limitation.

The content described in the twelfth embodiment can be applied to each of the other embodiments and other modifications.
Moreover, the same code|symbol is attached|subjected about the component same as an already-appearing component, and description for the second time is abbreviate|omitted.

<Display screen>
FIG. 12-1 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on the display unit 24 of the terminal 20 of the meeting master. Here, the meeting master is user B. B and user B.B. An example of a screen displayed on the display unit 24 of B's terminal 20B is shown.
This screen is an example of the management screen for the meeting master, and as a non-limiting example, the characters "meeting room list" and room information of each room including one's own room are displayed.

In this example, room information display areas MRA2, MRB2, MRC2, . . . similar to the other room information display areas MRA, MRB, MRC, . Further, for each room, the room information display areas MRA2, MRB2, MRC2, . SRC, . . . are provided. In this example, words related to the topic of the room are displayed.

In addition, on the upper right of the room information display area MRA2 of room A at the top, there is an overall announcement icon AIC for the meeting master to make an overall announcement to all rooms, and a room member icon for all or part of the rooms. and a meeting end icon EIC for ending the meeting are displayed.

After the general announcement icon AIC is tapped, the sound input unit 25 of the terminal 20B selects the user B. When the sound for the general announcement of B is input, the information of the sound for the general announcement is transmitted to each terminal 20 via the server 10, and each terminal 20 outputs sound.
Note that the general announcement may be realized by sending a message.

Further, when the shuffle icon SIC is tapped, the room members are randomly shuffled by the control unit 11 of the server 10 as an example and not as a limitation.
User B., who is the meeting master, selects the room in which the room members are shuffled. It may be possible for B to specify.

When the meeting end icon EIC is tapped, meeting end information is transmitted to each terminal 20 via the server 10, and then the meeting in all rooms ends.

A room announcement icon RAIC is provided to the right of the room name in the room information display area of each room for the meeting master to make a room announcement to the room.

After the room announcement icon RAI is tapped, the sound input unit 25 of the terminal 20B selects the user B. When the voice for room announcement B is input, the information of this room announcement voice is transmitted to the terminal 20 of each user included in the target room via the server 10. , the sound is output from the terminal 20 of .
Note that the room announcement may be realized by sending a message.

On the right side of the sub-area within each room information display area, information about the room members of the room is displayed. A forced movement icon FIC for forcibly moving the member to another room and information on the staying time of the room member in the meeting room are displayed.

In addition, on the right side, a speech volume graph is displayed in which the speech volume of each room member in the meeting room is represented by a pie chart as an example, not as a limitation. With such a display, the meeting master can grasp how much each room member is speaking in each meeting room.
Note that the speech volume graph is not limited to a circle graph, and may be a bar graph or the like. Also, a specific numerical value (number of times, frequency, etc.) of the amount of speech may be displayed.

Also, in this example, a bench room information display area BRIR including information about the bench room is provided in the lower left part of the screen. In the bench room information display area BRIR, as a non-limiting example, information about the room members of the bench room is displayed, such as the icon image of the room member of the bench room, the user name, the chat icon, the time spent in the bench room, and the like. information is displayed.

On the right side of the bench room information display area BRIR, there is provided a conversation volume area CAR in which information on the conversation volume of each meeting room is displayed. In this example, the conversation volume area CAR displays a conversation volume graph in which the conversation volume of each meeting room is represented by a bar graph as an example and not as a limitation.

In addition, in the conversation volume area CAR, information for calling attention is displayed in association with the meeting room with the least conversation volume. In this example, based on the fact that the amount of conversation in room D is the smallest, a caution mark is displayed in association with the bar of the bar graph of room D in the amount of conversation graph. Such a display allows the meeting master to grasp the excitement of the conversation in each meeting room.

Note that the conversation amount graph is not limited to a bar graph, and may be a pie graph or the like. Also, a specific numerical value of the amount of conversation may be displayed. In addition to displaying the attention mark, the bar of the bar graph of the room with the least amount of conversation may be displayed by blinking.

Also, in this display screen example, in room C, user K.K. In the column where information about K is displayed, user K.K. A help sign is displayed asking for help from user K.K. The display column for K is displayed in a display mode different from the display columns for other users.

This is the user K. When the help information is transmitted from K's terminal 20K to the server 10, it can be displayed on the meeting master management screen. The help information is, for example and not by way of limitation, when the user is bored with the meeting in the meeting room or wants to leave the meeting room, the user operates his or her own terminal 20 to provide help to the server 10. You can send information. Then, the control unit 11 of the server 10 can transmit the received help information to the terminal 20 of the meeting master user.

In this example, the meeting master, user B. B is the user K.B. As an example and not by way of limitation, with help from user K.K. By operating the forced movement icon FIC displayed in association with K, as an example and not limitation, user K.K is moved to room D where the amount of conversation is the least. For example, K can be moved.
In performing this forced movement, the user K.K. K's consent may be obtained, or not.

Since the forced movement can be realized by the room movement processing performed by the control unit 11 of the server 10 described above, the explanation is omitted.

<Processing>
In the process of the present embodiment, the control unit 11 of the server 10 performs the meeting at a timing such as before the step of W160 as an example and not a limitation in the process executed in the communication system 1 including the process of FIG. 1-10. It is determined whether or not a request for information for displaying the management screen for the meeting master has been received from the terminal 20 of the master. Then, if it is determined that it has been received, the control unit 11 of the server 10 acquires the information necessary to display the meeting master management screen.

Specifically, by way of example and not limitation, meeting management data in which the meeting master ID of the meeting master is stored is identified from the meeting management database 155 . Then, based on the meeting room management data included in the meeting management data, for each room, various information such as the latest room topic, the amount of speech for each room member, and the participation status (ON/OFF) of each room member. to get

For each room, the control unit 11 of the server 10 calculates the ratio of the speaking volume of each room member in the room based on the speaking volume of each room member included in the room.
In addition, the control unit 11 of the server 10 calculates the amount of conversation in each room by, for example, adding up the number of times the room members have spoken in the room. Then, a low conversation volume flag "ON" is set for a room whose conversation volume is equal to or less than the set number (or less than the set number).

The control unit 11 of the server 10 transmits these pieces of information to the terminal 20 of the meeting master via the communication I/F 14 . Then, the terminal 20 of the meeting master displays the management screen for the meeting master on the display unit 24 based on the information received from the server 10 .

The server 10 side generates display information for displaying a meeting master management screen including graphs and the like, and transmits the generated display information to the terminal 20 of the meeting master. Then, the terminal 20 of the meeting master user may display a meeting master management screen including a graph or the like based on the received display information.
Also, based on the information received from the server 10, a graph or the like may be generated on the terminal 20 side of the meeting master and displayed on the meeting master management screen.
In other words, when displaying the management screen for the meeting master, which of the terminal 20 or the server 10 generates the components such as the graph may be programmed in any way.

Also, as a non-limiting example, the terminal 20 of the meeting master may transmit, via the server 10, the information on the speech volume of the room member to the terminal 20 of the room member. Then, the terminal 20 may display the received speech volume information on the display unit 24 .

Note that, as described above, based on a request from the terminal 20 of a user other than the meeting master, the control unit 11 of the server 10 outputs information on the amount of speech of the user to the terminal 20 of the meeting master. You may make it transmit to the terminal 20 of a user.
By doing so, the user of each terminal 20 can know the amount of his speech.

The present embodiment shows a configuration in which the terminal 20 acquires the amount of speech by the user of the terminal 20 itself by means of the control unit 11, the communication I/F 14, etc. (not limited, but an example of an acquisition unit).
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, the terminal can acquire the speech volume of the user of the terminal. Also, as an example and not a limitation, the terminal displays the acquired speech volume on the display unit, so that the user of the own terminal can grasp his/her own speech volume.

<Thirteenth embodiment>
The thirteenth embodiment is an embodiment in which the technique of the present disclosure is applied to a meeting of a format different from the face-to-face meetings described in the first to twelfth embodiments and the corresponding modifications. .

The content described in the thirteenth embodiment can be applied to each of the other embodiments and each of the other modifications.
Moreover, the same code|symbol is attached|subjected about the component same as an already-appearing component, and description for the second time is abbreviate|omitted.

In this embodiment, unlike the first to twelfth embodiments and the corresponding modifications, an example of an embodiment in which user groups are configured without rooms, etc. (rooms, teams, channels, etc.) will be described. . In other words, the group in this embodiment does not involve a room or the like.
However, as described above, a group can be regarded as a group consisting of at least one user when users communicate using an application or the like, and is a kind of data (data structure). It is the same in that it can be understood as

<Display screen>
The upper diagram of FIG. 13-1 shows user A.1 in this example. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on the display unit 24 of A's terminal 20A. FIG.
This screen is an example of a screen displaying information indicating the user of the terminal 20 in a two-dimensional virtual space (virtual two-dimensional space, virtual plane) as an example and not a limitation.

The information indicating the user (as a way of indicating the user) can apply at least one of a user name, an icon image, a character, an avatar, one's own face image, etc., for example and not limitation. In this display screen example, a user is indicated by information combining an icon image and a user name (hereinafter, for convenience of explanation, this is referred to as an "avatar"). A virtual area GR including each user's avatar is displayed.
It should be noted that the virtual space may be regarded as a kind of metaverse. Also, the virtual space may be three-dimensional (virtual three-dimensional space). Also, in this case, as information indicating the user, a character, avatar, or the like modeled in the virtual three-dimensional space may be used.

In this example, the user of each terminal 20 operates the terminal 20 at his/her favorite place (a place convenient for himself/herself), operates his/her own avatar located in the virtual space, and operates the terminal 20 via the server 10. It is configured to be able to have conversations with other users.
A conversation in a virtual space can be regarded as a kind of online meeting, so it is called an "online meeting application" as in the above-described embodiment. However, it is not limited to this, and may be a "metaverse application" or the like.

In this embodiment, as an example and not as a limitation, users whose avatars are included within a certain range in the virtual space transmit sound information (as an example, not as a limitation) between their terminals 20 via the server 10 information of one's own voice input to the input unit 25) or image information (for example, not limitation, information of an image of one's own avatar's viewpoint. A face image of one's own captured by the imaging unit 27 may be transmitted. ) can be sent and received. Users who are close to each other in the virtual space have an image that their voices and appearances are transmitted to each other.

More specifically, the user can operate his/her own avatar located in the virtual space and freely move and talk without being aware of the concept of a group (those who are explicitly grouped). However, in the method of the present disclosure, a cluster formed by a group of avatars (its users) in the virtual space is regarded as a "group", and the terminal 20 and the server 10 perform the same processing as in the above-described embodiments. configured so that it can be done.

In this example, grouping (group classification) is performed by the server 10, and information of other groups is displayed on the right side of the virtual area GR as information based on the result. In this example, the information is divided into groups such as group A, group B, group C, and so on. In this embodiment, users included in the same group may be referred to as "group members", and terminals 20 of users included in the same group may be referred to as "in-group terminals".

The control unit 11 of the server 10 performs grouping based on the distance of the avatars in the virtual space, as an example and not a limitation.
・As a non-limiting example, in the first step, the two avatar users whose distance is equal to or less than the set distance (or less than the set distance) in the virtual space are grouped, and the representative position (as an example, not a limitation, center of gravity). In the second step, if there is an avatar whose distance is equal to or less than the set distance (or less than the set distance) from this representative position, the user of that avatar is also included in the group, and the representative position is calculated again. Thereafter, the second step is repeated. In other words, users whose avatars are included within a predetermined range from the center of gravity of the group are included in the group. The center of gravity may be calculated from the positions of the avatars of all users included in the group, or may be calculated from the positions of the avatars of some users included in the group.
If the avatar moves beyond the set distance (or more than the set distance) from the representative position, the user of that avatar is removed from the group, and the representative position of the group is calculated again.

Instead of using the representative position as the center of gravity, the position of the avatar of a specific user included in the group may be used as the representative position. In this case, a user whose avatar approaches the avatar of a specific user included in the group will be included in the group.

The user touches and moves his/her avatar to perform a movement operation to move his or her avatar on the virtual area GR.
In this example, currently user A.A. A to user D. D is classified into group A by server 10 and user E.D. E to user H.E. H is classified by the server 10 into group B and user I.H. I through user K.I. K is classified into group C by server 10 and user L.K. L to user O. O is classified into group D by the server 10 .

Accordingly, in the upper diagram of FIG. 13-1, user A. is displayed to the right of virtual area GR. Group B, Group C, Group D, . MRGB, MRGC, MRGD, . . . are displayed. Further, each other group information display area is provided with sub-areas SRGB, SRGC, SRGD, . . . similar to the sub-areas described above. Information for topic or group tag notification) is displayed.

In this example, user A. User E.A touches his avatar and is located in the upper right direction. E, user F.E. F, user G.F. G, user H.G. A state is shown in which a move operation is performed to slide H's avatar closer to the cluster. Then, the lower diagram of FIG. 13-1 is displayed.

By the above movement operation, the user A.A. A's avatar is moved and user E.A's avatar is moved. E, user F.E. F, user G.F. G, user H.G. User A.H is near a cluster of four avatars of user A.H. A's avatar is displayed. As a result, user A. A is classified by the server 10 into Group B, and the group members of Group B are users A.A. A, user E. E to user H.E. A total of 5 people, H. That is, reclassification of groups is performed.

Along with this, in the lower diagram of FIG. 13-1, the user A. is displayed to the right of the virtual area GR. contains group A that A has left, and user A.A. Other group information display areas MRGA, MRGC, MRGD, . .

The upper diagram of FIG. 13-2 shows user A.2 in this example. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on the display unit 24 of A's terminal 20A. FIG.
On this screen, a participation button PBT similar to that of the above-described embodiment is provided in the area where group names and the like are displayed among the other group information display areas MRGB, MRGC, MRGD, . And, in this example, user A. A indicates a state in which the participation button PBT included in the other group information display area MRGD of the group D is tapped. Then, the lower diagram of FIG. 13-2 is displayed.

By operating the participation button PBT, the user A.A. A's avatar is moved and user L.A's avatar is moved. L, user M.L. M, user N.M. N, user O.N. User A.O is near a cluster of four avatars. A's avatar is displayed. As a result, user A. A is classified into Group D, and the group members of Group D are users A.A. A, user L.A. L to user O. A total of 5 people, O. That is, reclassification of groups is performed.

Along with this, in the lower part of FIG. 13-2, the user A. is displayed to the right of the virtual area GR. contains group A that A has left, and user A.A. Other group information display areas MRGA, MRGB, MRGC, MRGE, . is displayed.

The upper diagram in FIG. 13-3 shows user E.E. FIG. 10 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on the display unit 24 of the terminal 20E of E. FIG.
In this screen, in the other group information display areas MRGA, MRGC, MRGD, . An IIC is provided. And, in this example, user E. User A.E included in group A's other group information display area MRGA. The invite icon IIC associated with A is shown tapped.

The lower diagram of FIG. 13-3 shows the user B.B. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on the display unit 24 of B's terminal 20B. FIG.
User E. above. User A.E included in group A by E. By operating the invitation icon IIC for inviting user A, user A.A is displayed at the bottom of virtual area GR. Information PPR13 indicating that A has received an invitation from group B is displayed in a pop-up format.

In this example, as in the previous embodiment, the member solicitation information can be transmitted to the intra-group terminals of group A, and the invited user A.A. User B.A who is not A. Such information can also be displayed on the display unit 24 of B's terminal 20B.
It should be noted that, as in the above-described embodiment, the member solicitation information is sent to the invited user A.A. It may be transmitted only to A's terminal 20A.

The upper diagram of FIG. 13-4 shows user A.3 in this example. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on the display unit 24 of A's terminal 20A. FIG.
In this screen, no information is displayed in the sub-regions SRGB, SRGC, SRGD, . . . of the other group information display regions MRGB, MRGC, MRGD, .

A rest area in virtual space is provided below the virtual area GR. This rest area is an area corresponding to the aforementioned bench room, and in this example, user A.A. The state is shown in which A touches his own avatar and performs a movement operation to slide it to a resting place. Then, the lower screen of FIG. 13-4 is displayed.

By the above movement operation, the user A.A. A's avatar has been moved to a resting place. Also, user P.P. P and user Q.P. In this example, user A.Q has also performed a movement operation to move to the rest area. A and user P.A. P and user Q.P. The three users Q and Q are at the resting place, and the state in which these three users are classified into the resting place group by the server 10 is shown.

Also, as the user moves to the rest area, in the lower diagram of FIG. 13-4, user A.A. In other group information display areas SRGA, SRGB, SRGC, . group tag notification information) is displayed.

The display may be switched from the meeting screen represented in the virtual space to the face-to-face meeting screen described in the first to twelfth embodiments. Also, the opposite may be possible.

In this case, as a non-limiting example, a button such as "mode switching" is provided on the display screen displayed on each user's terminal 20, and when this button is tapped, based on the control of the server 10, The control unit 21 of the terminal 20 may switch screens (modes). Also, the opposite may be possible.
However, although it is possible for only one user, unless at least two or more users are in the same mode, it is practically impossible to hold a meeting in that mode. It may also be possible to transmit a prompting message or transmit information similar to the above-described member solicitation information (member invitation status).

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The processing in this embodiment can be realized in the same manner as the processing described in the first to twelfth embodiments and each modified example, so detailed description thereof will be omitted.
Moreover, the contents described in the first to twelfth embodiments and the modifications can be similarly applied to the thirteenth embodiment.

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In the thirteenth embodiment, as described above, grouping is performed based on the distance of the avatar (not limited, but an example of information indicating the user) in the virtual space. As a type of area, one or more virtual buildings (as an example, but not as a limitation, an image of a conference room or a meeting room) may be configured. Then, the server 10 may classify the avatar users located in the same building into the same group. In other words, grouping may be performed based on the locations of the avatars in the virtual space.
It should be noted that one or more areas other than the building (such as a meeting space) may be configured in the virtual space, and similar processing may be performed.

In these cases, when the avatar enters the area, the display is automatically switched to the face-to-face meeting screen described in the first to twelfth embodiments on the terminal 20 under the control of the server 10. good too. After entering the area, the screen (mode) may be switched manually by button operation or the like in the same manner as described above.

In addition, as an example and not a limitation, the server 10 may transmit information indicating that the group user has been classified into the group to terminals within the group of group users classified into the same group. Then, the intra-group terminal that has received the information may perform control to change the display mode of the information indicating the user of its own terminal 20 based on the received information. As a non-limiting example, if avatars are used as information indicating users, avatars in the same group can be controlled to have the same color, or avatars in the same group can be given the same mark or icon. good.

In addition, the server 10 designates a range in the virtual space that includes information indicating users corresponding to users classified into the same group, and based on the designation, the terminal 20 is in the same group in the virtual space. You may display the effect which shows .

In the above example, groups are clearly displayed in the virtual space from the viewpoint of the terminal side (user side), and the user can know which group he/she belongs to by the display in the virtual space. As an example and not a limitation, if such a display is regarded as a kind of UI (GUI), as described above, the group may be regarded as being represented by the UI (GUI). In addition, it may be regarded as the same as or similar to the above-described room, etc. (room, team, channel, etc.).

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A program executed by a terminal that outputs audio information and video information transmitted and received in a first group,
outputting, by an output unit of the terminal, the audio information and the video information transmitted and received by the first group including the user of the terminal;
performing control by a control unit of the terminal to stop outputting the audio information and the video information transmitted and received in the first group based on a first input to the terminal by a user of the terminal;
Displaying information indicating the first group and information indicating a second group different from the first group on a display unit of the terminal is executed by the terminal. The program according to claim 1,
Based on the first input, the terminal performs control by the control unit to stop the user of the terminal from participating in the first group. The program according to claim 1 or claim 2,
Based on the input of the information indicating the second group, the control unit controls participation in the second group by the terminal. The program according to any one of claims 1 to 3,
Based on the first input, the terminal performs control by the control unit to move to a third group different from the first group. The program according to claim 4,
The third group cannot transmit and receive audio information and video information within the third group. The program according to claim 5,
The third group is capable of transmitting and receiving messages. The program according to any one of claims 4 to 6,
When the user of the terminal is included in the third group, the terminal may be controlled by the control unit to display information indicating the first group and information indicating the second group on the display unit. performed by The program according to any one of claims 4 to 7,
When the user of the terminal is included in the third group and the information regarding the invitation is received by the communication unit of the terminal, the controlling unit performs control to move to the group based on the information regarding the invitation. be done. The program according to any one of claims 4 to 8,
When the user of the terminal is included in the third group for a set time or longer or until a set time, display of information indicating the first group and information indicating the second group is displayed on the display unit. The terminal performs the control of not performing the control by the control unit. The program according to any one of claims 4 to 8,
When the user of the terminal is included in the third group for a set time or longer or until a set time, the terminal may be controlled by the control unit to move to a fourth group different from the third group. performed by The program according to any one of claims 1 to 10,
Acquiring information about a user of the terminal by an acquisition unit of the terminal;
performing control by the control unit to stop outputting the sound information and the video information transmitted and received in the first group based on the acquisition by the acquisition unit;
Displaying information indicating the first group and information indicating a second group different from the first group on the display unit is executed by the terminal. A program according to claim 11,
The acquisition unit is an imaging unit,
The terminal obtains from the image whether or not the user of the terminal is included in the image captured by the imaging unit. A program according to claim 11 or claim 12,
Acquiring the speech volume by the user of the terminal by the acquisition unit is executed by the terminal. The program according to any one of claims 1 to 10,
When the video information captured by the imaging unit of the terminal has not been transmitted to the first group for a set period of time or until a set time, the audio information and the video information transmitted and received in the first group. and performing control by the control unit to stop the output of
Displaying information indicating the first group and information indicating a second group different from the first group on the display unit is executed by the terminal. The program according to any one of claims 1 to 14,
After the first input, when a set time has passed or when a set time has come, the control is performed to stop outputting the sound information and the video information transmitted and received in the first group. What is done by the unit is performed by the terminal. An information processing method for a terminal that outputs sound information and video information transmitted and received in a first group,
outputting, by an output unit of the terminal, the audio information and the video information transmitted and received by the first group including the user of the terminal;
performing control by a control unit of the terminal to stop outputting the audio information and the video information transmitted and received in the first group based on a first input to the terminal by a user of the terminal;
Displaying information indicating the first group and information indicating a second group different from the first group on a display unit of the terminal. A terminal that outputs audio information and video information transmitted and received in a first group,
an output unit configured to output the audio information and the video information transmitted and received by the first group including users of the terminals;
a control unit that controls to stop outputting the audio information and the video information transmitted and received in the first group based on a first input to the terminal by the user of the terminal;
A display unit for displaying information indicating the first group and information indicating a second group different from the first group. A terminal that outputs audio information and video information transmitted and received in a first group,
A processor that reads a program stored in memory and executes processing based on the program,
The processor
outputting, by an output unit of the terminal, the audio information and the video information transmitted and received by the first group including the user of the terminal;
performing control to stop outputting the audio information and the video information transmitted and received in the first group based on a first input to the terminal by the user of the terminal;
Displaying information indicating the first group and information indicating a second group different from the first group on a display unit of the terminal. A server that relays audio information and video information transmitted and received in a first group,
Based on a first input to the first terminal by a user of the first terminal included in the first group, the audio information and the video information transmitted from the terminals included in the first group are transmitted to the first terminal. 1 A control unit that controls to stop transmitting to the terminal;
A communication unit configured to transmit information indicating the first group and information indicating a second group different from the first group to the first terminal.

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