摘要:
Provided is a real-time multimedia transcoding apparatus and method using personal characteristic information. The apparatus provides a real-time multimedia transcoding apparatus using personal characteristic information for providing a fresh communication service by transforming a media type and/or a media codec by reflecting personal characteristic information such as gender and emotional condition between terminals calling through different media types and media codecs in a real-time multimedia service. The apparatus includes a receiving block for receiving a media stream; a characteristic extracting block for extracting user characteristics from the received media stream; a transforming block for transcoding the received media stream; and a transmitting block for transmitting the transcoded media stream.