US Patent Issued to NEC Platforms on Feb. 4 for "Teleconference system, communication terminal, and teleconference method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,961, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to NEC Platforms Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Teleconference system, communication terminal, and teleconference method" was invented by Mayuko Terata (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A teleconference system (1) capable of smoothly progressing a teleconference is provided. A speech determination unit (2) determines whether a voice of each of a plurality of participants in a teleconference indicates speech or back-channel. A voice output control unit (4) performs control so that the voice of each of a plurality of the participants is output by a communication terminal of each of a plurality...