Patents Assigned to Dwango Co., Ltd.
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Publication number: 20250193499Abstract: A title creation system includes s at least one processor. Before distribution of contents is initiated, the at least one processor acquires distributor information that is information regarding a distributor of the contents, and content information that is information regarding the contents, creates a title of each of the contents by using the distributor information and the content information, and displays the title on a distributor terminal that is a terminal of the distributor.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2024Publication date: June 12, 2025Applicant: DWANGO CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuki YONEDA, Naoki TAKEDA
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Patent number: 12327490Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 27, 2022Date of Patent: June 10, 2025Assignee: Dwango Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shinnosuke Iwaki, Yoshimasa Kono, Rieko Kunii
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Patent number: 12292628Abstract: This display medium is formed so as to be capable of displaying a prescribed number of content items corresponding to a prescribed number of azimuth angles from prescribed elevation and azimuth angles. The display medium includes a planar member for reflecting light, the planar member being segmented into a plurality of unit cells, with each of the plurality of unit cells being segmented into a prescribed number of sub-cells corresponding to the prescribed number of azimuth angles. A protrusion member that has a light-shielding surface, parallel to the prescribed azimuth angle on the planar member, is formed in each sub-cell corresponding to the prescribed azimuth angle. The protrusion member is tinted with a plurality of colors that form an achromatic color by additive color mixing.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2021Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: DWANGO Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kaisei Sakurai
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Publication number: 20250138631Abstract: An eye tracking system according to one embodiment includes at least one processor. The at least one processor is configured to: dynamically set a partial area of first content displayed on a screen as a guidance area to have a user gaze at the partial area; identify first viewpoint coordinates on the screen based on an eye movement of the user gazing at the guidance area; calculate a difference between the first viewpoint coordinates identified and area coordinates of the guidance area on the screen; and calibrate second viewpoint coordinates of the user viewing second content displayed on the screen by using the difference.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2024Publication date: May 1, 2025Applicant: DWANGO Co., Ltd.Inventors: Nobuo KAWAKAMI, Yuri ODAGIRI
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Patent number: 12289501Abstract: A gift system comprising a control server for controlling a gift giving request submitted by a user in a live performance or live broadcast, and a user terminal that is held by the user. The control server comprises: a receiving portion for receiving a gift giving request that is transmitted in response to a user operation; an evaluating portion for evaluating whether to accept the gift giving request based on a target during the performance; and a controlling portion for accepting the gift giving request in exchange for payment depending on the evaluation result by the evaluating portion. The user terminal comprises a detecting portion for detecting a vibration, and a transmitting portion for transmitting a gift giving request when the detecting portion detects the vibration.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2020Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: DWANGO CO., LTD.Inventors: Takashi Kojima, Kazuomi Niwa
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Patent number: 12244551Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 1, 2021Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: DWANGO CO., LTD.Inventor: Emiko Hayashi
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Patent number: 12243120Abstract: Content distribution systems for displaying a virtual space to user terminals, content distribution methods executed by a content distribution system including at least one processor, and non-transitory computer-readable media storing a content distribution program are disclosed. An example system according to the disclosure includes at least one processor that detects when an avatar corresponding to a first user performs a predetermined action in a virtual space, and displays a content image of the virtual space on a user terminal of a second user among the plurality of user terminals. The predetermined action is invisible in the content image when the processor detects that the avatar performs the predetermined action.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2022Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: Dwango Co., Ltd.Inventor: Shinnosuke Iwaki
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Patent number: 12236538Abstract: A student terminal is for viewing a class given in a virtual space that is immersive. The student terminal includes: a VR function section configured to display the virtual space according to virtual space information; and an input section for receiving a video capturing a desk of a student who views the class. The VR function section extracts, from the video, an area including a top plate of the desk corresponding to a desk object in the virtual space, and performs image composition for fitting a video capturing the area onto a top plate of the desk object.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2021Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: Dwango Co., Ltd.Inventors: Nobuo Kawakami, Shinnosuke Iwaki
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Publication number: 20250022231Abstract: Provided is a program executable in a computer for viewing content. The computer includes a processor and a memory. The program causes the processor to execute generating a virtual space in response to an operation by a first user to designate content and setting a virtual viewpoint corresponding to the first user in the virtual space, starting reproduction of the content designated in the virtual space, and arranging, in the virtual space, at least one of an object pre-associated with the content or a second object corresponding to a second user who has viewed the content in the past. When the first user views the content, the object pre-associated or the second object is arranged at a position not related to a position of the virtual viewpoint of the second user in the virtual space or a position of the object pre-associated, when the second user viewed the content.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2024Publication date: January 16, 2025Applicant: DWANGO Co., Ltd.Inventor: Nobuo KAWAKAMI
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Patent number: 12183239Abstract: A display medium 1 capable of displaying different sets of contents with light beams in a plurality of directions, includes a first layer L1 and a second layer L2 each having a color region to which a color is given. The light beams in the plurality of directions display a plurality of sets of contents corresponding to the plurality of directions, on a basis of parts of the first layer L1 and the second layer L2 through which the light beams pass.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2019Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: Dwango Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kaisei Sakurai
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Patent number: 12184920Abstract: A video distributing device configured to provide a service readily enabling bidirectional communication between distributors that distribute live broadcast video content and viewers thereof and enliven the video content including: a first acquiring part that acquires real time video data supplied from a terminal; a second acquiring part that acquires input information containing communication image information selected terminal operations; and a distributing part that distributes video data for distribution containing communication image data and real time video data to viewer terminals and a distributor terminal.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2021Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: DWANGO Co., Ltd.Inventors: Koji Hosoda, Naoya Matsunaga, Ayaka Ujiie
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Publication number: 20240404156Abstract: An avatar display device with: a storage device for storing passive permission data including a permission flag indicating permission or denial of a passive avatar in relation to an action of an active avatar with respect to the passive avatar; and an output unit which, if the action from the active avatar with respect to the passive avatar is detected, and the permission flag in the passive permission data indicates permission, outputs data for displaying, on an active terminal and a passive terminal, moving image data in which the passive avatar accepts the action of the active avatar.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2024Publication date: December 5, 2024Applicant: DWANGO Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hiroaki SAITO
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Publication number: 20240406491Abstract: This comment distribution system includes a contributor terminal, a video distribution server, a comment distribution server that distributes comments input regarding the video, and a viewer terminal for displaying the video and comments received. The comment distribution server includes a comment receiving part for receiving comments, a comment classifying part for classifying the comments into first comments that are displayed both in a video display area and in a comment field outside the video display area and second comments that are displayed only in the comment field, and a comment distributing part for distributing the first comments and the second comments. The viewer terminal includes a video display part for displaying video received and a comment receiving part for receiving the first comments and the second comments. The video display part displays the first comments in both the video display area and the comment field and displays the second comments in only the comment field.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2024Publication date: December 5, 2024Applicant: DWANGO Co., Ltd.Inventor: Satoshi YOKOHATA
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Patent number: 12155873Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to display a list of trimmed portions of exciting live video content to a viewer who is in the process of selecting a video in order to make it easier for the viewer to select live broadcast video.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2021Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: DWANGO Co., Ltd.Inventor: Emiko Hayashi
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Publication number: 20240388462Abstract: A meeting assistance system according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes at least one processor. The at least one processor is configured to: record meeting data including audio of an online meeting; obtain a time point the online meeting is to be traced back from a terminal of one user; generate content corresponding to the meeting data for a time range from the time point and thereafter, and cause the terminal of the user to reproduce the content at a reproduction speed faster than an original reproduction speed of the meeting data while the online meeting is in progress.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 4, 2022Publication date: November 21, 2024Applicant: DWANGO Co., Ltd.Inventor: Akihiko KOIZUKA
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Patent number: 12136171Abstract: Provided is a program executable in a computer for viewing content. The computer includes a processor and a memory. The program causes the processor to execute a first step of generating a virtual space in response to an operation by a first user to designate content and setting a virtual viewpoint corresponding to the first user in the virtual space, a second step of starting reproduction of the content designated in the virtual space, and a third step of arranging, in the virtual space, at least one of an object pre-associated with the content or a second object corresponding to a second user who has viewed the content in the past, When the first user views the content, the object pre-associated or the second object is arranged in the third step at a position not related to a position of the virtual viewpoint of the second user in the virtual space or a position of the object pre-associated, when the second user viewed the content.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2020Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: Dwango Co., Ltd.Inventor: Nobuo Kawakami
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Publication number: 20240361836Abstract: An alert display system includes at least one processor. The at least one processor displays an alert on a display device of a user terminal, detects the line of sight of a user of the user terminal, acquires user viewpoint coordinates on the display device, and changes a display form of the alert on the basis of the viewpoint coordinates and area coordinates of the alert on the display device.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2022Publication date: October 31, 2024Applicant: DWANGO CO., LTD.Inventors: Takashi KOJIMA, Yuri ODAGIRI, Akihiko KOIZUKA
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Publication number: 20240361831Abstract: A communication assistance system related to one embodiment assists audio communication among a plurality of users. The system includes at least one processor that: specifies a second user who is a conversation partner of a first user, based on a positional relationship between a line of sight of the first user with respect to a screen and user objects, and a detection result of a speech of the first user, the screen showing a virtual space in which the user objects respectively corresponding to the users are arranged, the virtual space being two-dimensional or three-dimensional; sets a group including the first user and the second user; and outputs, to the first user, a speech voice of the second user who belongs to the group with a larger volume than a speech voice of the second user in a case where the second user does not belong to the group.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2022Publication date: October 31, 2024Applicant: DWANGO Co., Ltd.Inventor: Akihiko KOIZUKA
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Patent number: 12120403Abstract: To provide a content generating device, content streaming server, content generating method, and content generating program for generating highly interesting video content. A content generating device according to an embodiment comprises: an acquiring portion for requesting, from an accumulating portion that accumulates a plurality of video data, video data that satisfies a prescribed condition, to acquire a plurality of video data that satisfies the condition; a starting frame identifying portion for identifying starting frames wherein prescribed actions start, in the video playback of the plurality of video data acquired by the acquiring portion; and a generating portion for generating multi-video data by combining a plurality of video data with the timings of the identified starting frames synchronized.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2020Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: DWANGO CO., LTD.Inventors: Takashi Kojima, Kazuomi Niwa
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Publication number: 20240340501Abstract: A moving-image delivery system including a recording/playback device 1 for playing back television broadcast programs and live moving images, and a moving-image delivery server 5 for delivering live moving images. The recording/playback device 1 is provided with: a delivery request unit 12 for transmitting a delivery request that requests the delivery of live moving images of a television broadcast program, the delivery request including meta-information for specifying a television broadcast program when playing back television broadcast programs; and a display control unit 13 for, upon receiving the delivery of a live moving image, outputting a display screen image in which the television broadcast program and the live moving image are displayed in the same screen image. The moving-image server 5, upon receiving a delivery request, starts delivering live moving images of the television broadcast program specified by the meta-information included in the delivery request.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2022Publication date: October 10, 2024Applicant: DWANGO CO., LTD.Inventor: Keiichi ICHINOSE