VIDEO TELEPHONE DEVICE AND VIDEO TELEPHONE PROCESSING METHOD

摘要

Provided are a video telephone device and a video telephone processing method in which a video call environment with excellent usability is provided even when used by a plurality of persons. A video telephone device that performs a call with another video telephone device via a network photographs an image of a speaker, recognizes the speaker based on the photographed image, and changes a background image in an image to be transmitted according to a recognition result. Thus, for example, when the users who are not close to each other perform a call, a situation in which an image showing a state of a room is supplied as a background image is solved.

主权项

1. A video telephone device, comprising:
an imaging unit that images an image; an image processing unit that generates image information including the image imaged by the imaging unit; a communication unit that transmits the image information generated by the image processing unit to another video telephone device and receives image information including an image imaged by an imaging unit of the other video telephone device; a display unit that displays the image information from the other video telephone device received by the communication unit; an individual information storage unit that stores account information identifying members who are able to perform a call using the video telephone device and/or the other video telephone device, member information of the members registered in association with the account information, speaker recognition information for recognizing a speaker using the video telephone device and a speaker using the other video telephone device, and individual setting information according to a combination of the member of the video telephone device and the member of the other video telephone device; a speaker recognizing unit that recognizes the speaker using the video telephone device and the speaker using the other video telephone device based on the speaker recognition information stored in the individual information storage unit; and a control unit that sets the image information to be transmitted to the other video telephone device through the communication unit or a display of the image information to be displayed on the display unit based on a recognition result of the speaker recognizing unit and the individual setting information stored in the individual information storage unit.