METHOD AND DEVICE FOR JUDGING SPEAKING PERSON

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To automatically judge a speaking person from plurally inputted speech signals in a video conference system. ;SOLUTION: A speech signal storage processing part 61 stores the plural speech signals 11 inputted at prescribed intervals. A speaking person judging processing part 62 judges the speaking person by referring to the speech signals stored by the speech signal storage processing part 61 and inputs a control signal indicating the speech channel of the judged speaking person to a camera control processing part 63. The camera control processing part 63 determines the photographing condition based on the inputted control signal and inputs a control signal 14 indicating the condition to a photographing camera 2. The camera 2 photogaphs the speaker according to the inputted control signal 14.;COPYRIGHT: (C)1997,JPO