| 摘要 |
This invention is to provide a system having a mechanism for matching lines of sight between interlocutors through transmission means to realize smooth counseling between the interlocutors in remote areas, and mainly oriented to a one-to-one two-way interactive operation, and this system is realized on the basis of results of experiments by the present inventor. In this system, a terminal equipment is located at the point of each interlocutor, which is constituted by a display unit having a monitor for displaying at least the image of a partner, a position regulation means for regulating the position of the interlocutor with respect to a monitor screen, and an image pickup apparatus having an image pickup unit for picking up the image of the interlocutor and a support mechanism for setting the image pickup unit at a predetermined position between the interlocutor and the monitor. Particularly, the image pickup unit is set in a line-of-sight matching area defined by the distance from the interlocutor to the monitor, which is specified by the position regulation means, and a parallactic angle for determining that the line of sight of the interlocutor matches the line of sight of the monitor image of the partner, thereby the monitor image of the partner is partially shielded with respect to the interlocutor. Therefore, according to this system, no special structure or device for ensuring the field of the interlocutor is needed. Line-of-sight matching between interlocutors is realized with a simple arrangement at a low cost.
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