RELAY DEVICE, PROGRAM, AND RELAY METHOD

• Main Authors: HASEGAWA TOMOYA, HORIBA KATSUHIRO, MURATA TATSURO, WAKUKAWA TAKATSUGU, WATANABE TOMORO, NAKAMURA TAKASHI, HIRAI RYOJI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 15.09.2022
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRICITY; PHYSICS; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION

To implement an audio/video transmission method optimum to each environment and perform overall optimization in consideration of device information of a communication terminal used by a user and a transmission speed.SOLUTION: A server 100 as a relay device that transmits video data received from one communication terminal to another communication terminal in a communication system includes a terminal information acquisition unit for acquiring terminal information including processing capacity information indicating the processing capability of another communication terminal, a band information acquisition unit for acquiring band information indicating a communication band assigned to the other communication terminal, a determination unit for determining, based on terminal information and band information, a video data adjusting method when video data received from one communication terminal is transmitted to another communication terminal, and a data transmission unit for adjusting the video data received from the one communication terminal by the adjustment method determined by the determination unit, and transmitting the video data to the other communication terminal.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 4 【課題】ユーザが利用している通信端末の機器情報、伝送速度を考慮し、各環境に最適な音声・映像伝送手法を実現し、全体最適化を行う。【解決手段】通信システムにおいて、一の通信端末から受信した映像データを他の通信端末に伝送する中継装置としてのサーバ１００であって、他の通信端末の処理能力を示す処理能力情報を含む端末情報を取得する端末情報取得部と、他の通信端末に割り当てられている通信帯域を示す帯域情報を取得する帯域情報取得部と、端末情報及び帯域情報に基づいて、一の通信端末から受信した映像データを他の通信端末に送信する場合における映像データの調整方法を決定する決定部と、決定部が決定した調整方法で一の通信端末から受信した映像データを調整して、他の通信端末に伝送するデータ伝送部と、を備える。【選択図】図４