| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a video communication apparatus in which a feeling of psychological load due to image pickup is reduced, and a method for controlling the video communication apparatus. <P>SOLUTION: In a system for communicating images and sounds between a user's terminal provided with a camera for the user's terminal and a party's terminal provided with a camera for the party's terminal, the video communication apparatus comprises a user's terminal distance detection means for detecting a distance between the camera for the user's terminal and the user of the user's terminal and a video signal processing means for processing images to be presented to the party's terminal so as not to be easily identified in accordance with the distance between the camera for the user's terminal and the user of the user's terminal and a distance between the camera for the party's terminal and the party of the party's terminal. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI |
