Patents Assigned to Dwango Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 11961190
    Abstract: A content distribution system according to an embodiment is provided with at least one processor. The at least one processor: specifies a real image region and a farthest region in a space represented with a content image showing a first virtual object; disposes a second virtual object in the farthest region; and displays, on a user terminal, a content image representing a space in which the second virtual object is disposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: DWANGO Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuo Kawakami, Takashi Kojima
  • Patent number: 11961421
    Abstract: A display medium with a substrate provided with a plurality of virtual cells C, and, on the cell C, a partition P having a plurality of surfaces respectively formed on a plane that intersects with the substrate and exposed when the display medium is viewed from a plurality of directions. A portion exposed when the display medium is viewed from a predetermined direction among the plurality of directions is given the color of a content corresponding to the predetermined direction. The display medium displays different contents in the plurality of directions, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: DWANGO Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kaisei Sakurai
  • Patent number: 11956504
    Abstract: Provided is a content distribution server which is able to establish restrictions on the public disclosure of an object displayed in virtual space at the convenience of the distributor. The content distribution server comprises: a distribution unit that distributes live content for synthesizing video in virtual space using information from the distributor as virtual character information; and a first setting receiving unit that receives from the distributor terminal used by the distributor public disclosure restriction settings for establishing restrictions on objects present in virtual space displayed on the distributor terminal that can be viewed on a viewer terminal used by a viewer to view live content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: DWANGO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuo Kawakami, Kentarou Matsui, Shinnosuke Iwaki, Takashi Kojima, Naoki Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 11949847
    Abstract: In a recording device configured to record a motion of an object in a virtual space, a data structure of data related to the motion of the object recorded by the recording device is used for a process of reproducing the motion of the object in the reproduction device. The recording device includes a controller and a storage. The controller causes the storage to store, in association with the object, the data related to the motion of the object and data related to available functions for a process of moving the object. The data related to the available functions for the process of moving the object is stored in the storage so that the reproduction device is able to specify a function class that is reproducible by the reproduction device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: DWANGO Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shinnosuke Iwaki
  • Publication number: 20240106985
    Abstract: A video distribution server, video distribution method, and recording medium which receives moving images from an originating terminal and distributes these moving images to a viewer terminal implements a questionnaire within the broadcast on the basis of commands from the originating terminal and provides the same questionnaire to a Web server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: DWANGO Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuo KAWAKAMI, Hiroki SHIMOMURA, Takashi KOJIMA
  • Publication number: 20240096227
    Abstract: A content provision system related to one embodiment includes at least one processor. The processor is configured to: generate action log information that records action information indicating an action of the first avatar operated while the first user views the content and specific action information indicating a timing of performance of a specific action by the first avatar and a detail of the specific action; reproduce the content along with an action of the first avatar based on the action information contained in the action log information, when a second user views the content after the first user viewed the content; and refer to the specific action information contained in the action log information and thereby arrange a display object that indicates the detail of the specific action in association with the first avatar at the timing of performance of the specific action by the first avatar being reproduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: DWANGO Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinnosuke IWAKI, Yoshimasa KONO, Rieko KUNII
  • Patent number: 11936939
    Abstract: A server system, application program distribution server, viewing terminal, content viewing method, application program, distribution method, and application program distribution method, in a content distribution system and the like. Posted comments can be played together with content, objects in a content play screen which each viewer desires to view can be viewed without being obstructed by the comments and each of the comments can also be viewed. Areas desired by the viewers are made selectable in a display screen on a terminal which plays content, and comments are not displayed in the selected areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: DWANGO Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuhiko Kusano
  • Patent number: 11915617
    Abstract: This display medium is formed of a sheet member that transmits light, is provided with a point group formed of one or more points, and includes a plurality of layers which at least partially overlap. The display medium displays a plurality of contents respectively corresponding to a first direction D1 and a second direction D2, on the basis of respective parts where each of light emitted in the first direction D1 and light emitted in the second direction D2 passes through each of the plurality of layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: DWANGO Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kaisei Sakurai
  • Patent number: 11871154
    Abstract: This video distribution server which receives moving images from an originating terminal and distributes these moving images to a viewer terminal implements a questionnaire within the broadcast on the basis of commands from the originating terminal and provides the same questionnaire to a Web server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: DWANGO CO., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuo Kawakami, Hiroki Shimomura, Takashi Kojima
  • Patent number: 11840252
    Abstract: A dialog confirmation unit in a vehicle communication device calculates the deceleration of a vehicle on the basis of vehicle speeds, when the vehicle speed at an operation start time and the vehicle speed at a time when a certain time has elapsed since the operation start time have been obtained by a vehicle information acquisition unit. Next, the dialog confirmation unit calculates a change in distance on the basis of distances when a distance information acquisition unit has obtained the distance between the vehicle and an object in front at the operation start time and the distance at the time when a certain time has elapsed since the operation start time. Next, the dialog confirmation unit selects a dialog that corresponds to the deceleration and the change in distance, from among a plurality of dialogs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignees: Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Dwango Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Muramatsu, Koji Hashimoto, Takafumi Inano, Takuto Miyazaki, Naomichi Kashima, Tatsuro Shiomi, Naoshi Gyoda
  • Publication number: 20230367403
    Abstract: A terminal device according to one aspect presents an augmented reality space to a user. The terminal device includes: an image-capturing unit configured to capture an image of a real space; a display unit configured to display an augmented reality space image representing the augmented reality space including the real space captured by the image-capturing unit and a virtual object; a determination unit configured to determine at least a part of the virtual object as an operation target; and an object control unit configured to control an operation of the operation target in the augmented reality space. The object control unit detects a direction and an amount of a movement of the terminal device after the operation target is determined and moves the operation target based on the detected direction and amount of the movement of the terminal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: DWANGO Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shinnosuke IWAKI
  • Publication number: 20230360548
    Abstract: An assist system in one embodiment includes at least one processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: DWANGO Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuo KAWAKAMI, Yuri ODAGIRI
  • Patent number: 11800185
    Abstract: In a system for distributing video image content from a server to a viewer terminal, a configuration is provided in which the load to the transmission path is reduced by reducing the volume of distribution volume while improving the image quality to be viewed. Content data based on a low-bitrate-encoded image and data of an image of a transformation matrix in a neural network which is model data for obtaining an image close to an original image from the low-bitrate-encoded image are transmitted to the viewer terminal from the video image content distribution server. These data are used by the viewer terminal to obtain improved video image content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Dwango Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Kojima, Kazuhiko Kusano, Hajime Kato
  • Patent number: 11790588
    Abstract: A terminal is a display control device for displaying a virtual space including an avatar that is operated by a user wearing a head-mounted display, the terminal being provided with: an avatar control unit which generates control data of the avatar corresponding to the movement of the user; a computation unit which, when the avatar and an object have collided with each other, computes physical behaviors of the avatar and the object that correspond to the collision; a VR space management unit which applies the result of the computation made by the computation unit to the virtual space; and a rendering unit which renders, as an image to be supplied to the head-mounted display, the avatar the behavior of which corresponding to the collision is kept within a predetermined range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: DWANGO Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shinnosuke Iwaki
  • Publication number: 20230328013
    Abstract: A comment art management system according to one embodiment displays a target comment art including a character string of a plurality of lines on a plurality of viewer terminals including a target person terminal. The comment art management system includes: a receiving unit (communication unit) configured to receive specifying information for specifying the target comment art from the target person terminal; a specifying unit configured to specify the target comment art from a plurality of registered comment art based on the specifying information by referring to a database storing the plurality of registered comment art, each of the plurality of registered comment art including a character string of a plurality of lines; and a display control unit configured to display the specified target comment art superimposed on the main content displayed on the plurality of viewer terminals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: DWANGO Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Emiko HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20230317090
    Abstract: A voice conversion apparatus includes: an input unit that inputs designation of a conversion destination voice; an extraction unit that analyzes a voice signal of a conversion source voice and extracts time series data including a phoneme and a pitch; an adjustment unit that matches a height of the pitch to a height of the designated conversion destination voice; and a generation unit that inputs the phoneme and the pitch to a deep learning model that learns voice data of many people and is capable of synthesizing a designated person's voice in time-series order, and generates a voice signal obtained by synthesizing the designated conversion destination voice.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2022
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: DWANGO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuyuki HIROSHIBA, Yuri ODAGIRI, Shinya KITAOKA
  • Publication number: 20230306880
    Abstract: A display medium includes a base material that has a three-dimensional shape, and a partition P that is provided on a surface of the base material and has a surface that radially divides a space on the surface of the base material for each of a plurality of directions. A portion that is exposed when observing the display medium from a predetermined direction among the plurality of directions is applied with a color of a content corresponding to the predetermined direction, and the content is image data of a portion where the display medium is provided in a field of view in which a position where the display medium is provided is observed from a visual point in the predetermined direction in a state in which the display medium is not provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2022
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: DWANGO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kaisei SAKURAI
  • Patent number: 11760371
    Abstract: When a vehicle information acquisition unit continuously acquires an On signal of a blinker switch, when the absolute value of a steering angle of a handle is 90° or greater, and a vehicle speed is a threshold or greater, a dialogue confirmation unit of this vehicle communication device selects a dialogue that corresponds to the On signal, the steering angle, and the vehicle speed from dialogues of group A stored in a dialogue storage unit. Thereafter, when the steering angle or the vehicle speed changes, the dialogue confirmation unit selects the dialogue that corresponds to changes in the steering angle or the vehicle speed from among dialogues of group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignees: Honda Motor Co., Ltd, Dwango Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Daisuke Muramatsu, Koji Hashimoto, Takafumi Inano, Takuto Miyazaki, Naomichi Kashima, Tatsuro Shiomi, Naoshi Gyoda
  • Patent number: 11729435
    Abstract: A content distribution server, includes: a communicator that receives live contents transmitted through a network NW from a distributor terminal used by a distributor of a live content; a designator that designates an area in the live content, where another content is superimposed and played; a selector that selects the other content to be played in the area designated; and a controller that generates a distribution content by superimposing the other content selected by the selector in the area designated by the designator in the live content, wherein the communicator distributes the distribution content to a viewer terminal through the network NW.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Dwango Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuo Kawakami, Hiroaki Saito, Takashi Kojima
  • Publication number: 20230254521
    Abstract: A video distribution device configured to provide a service enabling communication between distributors that distribute video content and viewers thereof and that increases excitement in the video content including: a first acquiring part configured to acquire real-time video data supplied by a distributor terminal and the user identification information of a distributor; a second acquiring part configured to acquire a distribution request from a viewer terminal and the user identification information of the viewer; a third acquiring part configured to acquire user identification information from a user terminal, possibly including the distributor terminal and the viewer terminal and candidate information of a favorite tag for classifying distributors or viewers by interests or favorited items; and a user information managing part configured to associate the favorite tag candidate information with the user identification information acquired by the third acquiring part as the favorite tag with reference to th
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Applicant: DWANGO Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yushi NAKATANI