Abstract: The present invention is an inconsistency detecting system in a mixed-reality system that includes a portable display device having a transmissive display unit and a photographing unit for photographing a real space and that renders a virtual object on the display unit in a predetermined real space such that the virtual object is visually recognized by a user, wherein the inconsistency detecting system generates first point cloud data from a combined image obtained by displaying the virtual object in a superimposed fashion on a naked-eye visual-field image, generates second point cloud data by using point cloud data of the three-dimensional space in the determined user environment as well as point cloud data of the virtual object, and detects an inconsistency on the basis of a result of comparison between the first point cloud data and the second point cloud data.

Abstract: A touch operation management unit detects, at prescribed time intervals, whether or not a touch operation has been performed on a touch operation input unit, and manages the touch operation. A state detection unit detects various kinds of states of a swipe operation performed by the player. A movement instruction acceptance unit accepts a movement instruction among various kinds of touch operations managed by the touch operation management unit. A skill instruction acceptance unit accepts a skill-related instruction among various kinds of touch operations detected by the touch operation management unit. In addition, the skill instruction acceptance unit accepts the designation of a prescribed direction in accordance with the movement direction of a touched position when the swipe transitions from the second state to the third state. A display image generation unit generates a display image for displaying various kinds of controllers.

Abstract: The present invention provides a program for a game that is executed at an electronic device that includes a display and a contact-type position input device, the program causing the electronic device to execute setting an operation reference position in a coordinate plane; determining whether a touch is being made on the contact-type position input device; setting an operation position in the coordinate plane in accordance with a touched position that is acquired; moving an object that is displayed on the display in the game, on the basis of the operation reference position and the operation position; saving the operation position as a displacement reference position; detecting a touched-position movement from the displacement reference position, the touched-position movement satisfying a predetermined condition; and resetting the operation reference position in the coordinate plane in a case where a touched-position movement satisfying the predetermined condition is detected.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to enable an instruction for timeshifted recording in a short time and with a simple operation. A play-video saving control unit 12 controls saving of log data regarding a game being executed. A display control unit 21 executes control so as to display, on a display medium, a plurality of images representing the proceedings of the game in sequential order of time on the basis of the log data in a case where a predetermined condition is satisfied. A touch-operation detecting unit 22 detects an operation of bringing a thing into contact with or in proximity to the display medium as an operation for selecting a certain image from the plurality of images. A recording-period detecting unit 23 determines a timing identified from the certain image selected by the detected operation as a start point for recording of an image representing the proceedings of the game.

Abstract: The present invention provides a board game system in which an electrostatic-capacitance-based touchscreen that is capable of detecting a plurality of touched positions by detecting changes in electrostatic capacitance is used as a board. The board game system includes an electronic device equipped with the touchscreen; and game pieces that are used while being placed on the touchscreen and that are constituted at least partially of a conductive section. The conductive section is laid out so as to be intervened by a non-conductive section or gaps on the contact face. In the case where the game piece is placed on the touchscreen, the conductive section causes the predetermined or greater amount of change in the electrostatic capacitance at the contact positions of the conductive section on the contact face in the case where the conductive section is touched by the user. The electronic device recognizes the game piece.

Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a position-independent user interface that can realize a large variety of commands and high responsiveness as perceived by a user. A control unit 30 functions when a game involving a plurality of kinds of actions corresponding to predetermined commands represented by predetermined sequences of input events is executed. An input detecting unit 31 detects an input event based on an operation of bringing something into contact with or in proximity to a touchscreen 40. An estimating unit 32 decides, as an estimated command, a command that is estimated as being an input command among the plurality of kinds of commands on the basis of a history of detection results in the input detecting unit 31. A display control unit 33 executes control for displaying an image related to the estimated command on the touchscreen 40.

Abstract: A difference calculating unit calculates the difference in evaluation quantity for a predetermined ranking index between a player of interest and another player at a higher rank than the player of interest according to the predetermined ranking index. A recording-recommendation presenting unit recommends the player of interest to create and upload a play-image for ranking information in the case where the difference has become less than or equal to a certain value.

Abstract: An information processing method executed by an information processing system that executes processing for searching data to be searched by using a query condition that can be entered via a predetermined user interface and in which individual conditions constituting a query satisfy three properties consisting of reductiveness, idempotence, and commutativity, includes a pre-processing executing step of executing processing prior to processing for searching, and a search processing step of executing processing for searching. The pre-processing executing step includes a query extracting step of extracting a plurality of limited kinds of sub-queries constituting minimum units of queries and satisfying the three properties consisting of the reductiveness, the idempotence, and the commutativity by analyzing a set of statically defined kinds of queries, and a query executing step of executing each of the plurality of kinds of sub-queries extracted in the query extracting step.

Abstract: A display control unit executes control to display images requested to be rendered, including effects in a plurality of formats and of a plurality of kinds according to rendering requests, on a display medium via a GPU by using effect data in which the amounts of data have been reduced in accordance with the rendering frequencies of the effects. Specifically, the display control unit determines the amount of data to be reduced for an effect in a format and of a kind according to a rendering request in accordance with the rendering frequency of the effect, extracts the effect data in which data has been reduced by the amount of data from effect-data storage DBs, and provides the effect data to the GPU.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to continuously and effectively motivate players playing a game to create and upload play-videos. At a server 1, an event obtaining unit 11 obtains log data of a demand-invoking event that has been processed as being negative in the game from a terminal 2-1, etc. on which the demand-invoking event has occurred. The event obtaining unit 11 obtains log data of a possible supply event that has been processed as being positive in the game from a terminal 2-2 on which the possible supply event has occurred. A demand-level calculating unit 13 selects demand-invoking events related to the possible supply event from one or more demand-invoking events on the basis of the individual log data obtained and calculates the level of potential demand on the basis of the result of selection.

Abstract: A system that enables real-time recognition of a real-space environment in a mixed-reality environment includes a server, a portable display device including a display unit for displaying a virtual object to a user and a photographing unit that photographs a real space, and image acquisition devices that acquire images individually from a plurality of fixed points where it is possible to photograph a region in a predetermined real space, the system making it possible to render the virtual object in a superimposed fashion on a real space or a photographed image of the real space, viewed by the user via the display unit, the server or the display device including a three-dimensional-space-data storage part, a table storage part, a color-information determining part, a color-information updating part, a user-environment determining part, a virtual-illumination-information generating part, and a rendering part.

Abstract: A state monitoring unit monitors whether or not the designation of a specific state is continuing at a user terminal that has performed an access using a first identifier. A second identifier generation unit generates a second identifier when the access using the first identifier by the user terminal is accepted by an accepting unit. An association management unit manages the association between the first identifier corresponding to the specific state and the generated second identifier during a period in which the designation of the specific state is continuing or during a prescribed period after the end of said period at the user terminal, and after that, when it is determined that the designation of the specific state has ended or the prescribed period has elapsed after the end at the user terminal, the association management unit discards the association between the first identifier and the second identifier.

Abstract: A program stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium executable on a computer to perform discriminating a fiducial marker from captured images successively output from a camera, based on marker information representing associations between fiducial markers and object identifiers, identifying start points of one or more structured markers in the captured images based on the discriminated fiducial marker and position information defined in association with the fiducial marker, determining states of the one or more structured markers continuing from the start points, and outputting an operation instruction in accordance with the determined states of the one or more structured markers to an object discriminated based on the object identifier associated with the discriminated fiducial marker.

Abstract: A touch-pressure detection unit detects a touch pressure that changes according to a degree of a touch operation on a display surface of a display unit. An interrupt necessity determination unit determines whether or not an interrupt is necessary on the basis of a change period and change amount of the touch pressure. In the case where an interrupt is unnecessary, the ratchet function output unit inputs the touch pressure to a predetermined ratchet function, and provides an output value of the ratchet function to a game-character-action-amount determination unit. The game-character-action-amount determination unit determines a movement speed of the game character C according to the output value of the ratchet function.

Abstract: A display control unit executes control to display images requested to be rendered, including effects in a plurality of formats and of a plurality of kinds according to rendering requests, on a display medium via a GPU by using effect data in which the amounts of data have been reduced in accordance with the rendering frequencies of the effects. Specifically, the display control unit determines the amount of data to be reduced for an effect in a format and of a kind according to a rendering request in accordance with the rendering frequency of the effect, extracts the effect data in which data has been reduced by the amount of data from effect-data storage DBs, and provides the effect data to the GPU.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to establish, in new countermeasure technologies against the acts of tampering with or otherwise interfering with operation histories, a method that works effectively even in the case where a tampering detection method has become known to the public or in the case where program code for executing detection itself has been tampered with. A vibration-information obtaining unit 111 obtains, from a player terminal 1, vibration history information representing a time series of the results of detection by a vibration detecting unit 31 of the player terminal 1. An operation-information obtaining unit 113 obtains, from the player terminal 1, operation history information representing a time series of the results of detection by a touch-operation input unit 26 of the player terminal 1.

Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable medium contains a program for a portable terminal including a touchscreen having a first area for selecting a command and a second area in which objects are displayed. The program causes a computer to store command information indicating associations between commands and objects that may serve as targets of the commands regarding a plurality of commands in relation to a plurality of objects, store position information indicating displayed positions of the individual objects in the second area, select the command based on a state in which an operation is being performed with a first finger of a user in the first area, and define, based on the command information and the position information, an area corresponding to the display position of an object that may serve as a target of the selected command in the second area as an area in which an operation is acceptable.

Abstract: A system according to the present invention includes a server and electronic devices and, in this system, characters operated by players are placed in a common game field and the game progresses. The system determines a movement start position and a movement target position for moving an NPC, determines, on the basis of history information of global movement paths represented by orders of positions of log blocks from the movement start position to the movement target position of a player character that is operated by players, a global movement path having the highest frequency at which the global movement path is selected by the players, determines a path from the determined movement start position or a sub-destination position to a sub-destination position in the next log block or to the determined movement target position on the determined global movement path, and moves the NPC according to the determined path.

Abstract: The present invention provides a program that causes an electronic device including a display unit and a processing unit to execute selecting, as candidate objects, objects related to game events from among objects to be rendered on the display unit; determining attention scores representing the degrees of attention that will be paid by a player to the individual selected candidate objects by determining weights relating to the occurrence of individual candidate events, which are events related to the candidate objects, on the basis of the candidate objects, an event or a sequence of events that occurred immediately before, and event history information; and determining resource allocation in the processing unit for rendering the individual candidate objects on the basis of the attention scores and depth distances of the candidate objects as viewed from the player.

Abstract: A player terminal displays a list including a plurality of candidate stamps and sends a stamp selected therefrom by a player to another player terminal. A stamp-metadata management unit of a server manages each of the plurality of candidate stamps in association with metadata indicating a certain situation in a game. A stamp-display-order determining unit controls the listing order for displaying the plurality of stamps on the player terminal on the basis of individual correlations between the plurality of metadata individually associated with the plurality of candidate stamps and situation data indicating a current situation in the game being executed. A metadata updating unit updates the content of the metadata for each of the plurality of candidate stamps on the basis of the result of selection of an item to send by the player.