摘要 |
PURPOSE: To form a psychological common space for both talkers by displaying a background video image onto a video display section of an opposite party person in place of a video image of a talker picked up by a video image pickup section and allowing the other party talker to hear a modified voice of the talker. CONSTITUTION: When the selection of a video image to be displayed on a TV monitor 30 of a talker 10 being a counselor is finished by a talker 11 being a client, the conversation by the talkers 10, 11 is made available. A video selection section 61 and a background video image storage section 70 make a commanded operation based on the information selected by a control unit 81. The selection section 61 selects a video image sent from a camera 21 or a background video image extracted from the storage section 70 based on the information from the unit 81. When the display of the background image is selected in place of the display of the video image of the talker 11 itself on the monitor 30 of the talker 10, the background video image selected in a database of the storage section 70 is outputted based on the information of the unit 81. |