Abstract: One or more embodiments of the invention provides a system for extracting combinations of arbitrary numbers of media, included in a possessed medium group and having high frequencies of occurrence, in a game that proceeds as a user selects media from the possessed medium group and places the media in a game field, the individual media included in the possessed medium group being individually selected from a medium set preset in the game, the system including: a plurality of computing devices that each store possessed medium group information concerning possessed medium groups that are used by a plurality of predetermined users; and a control device that stores the possessed medium group information and that controls parallel processing of the operations of the individual computing devices, the control device allocating and sending sets constituted of a plurality of extracted media to the individual computing devices.

Abstract: One or more embodiments of the invention is a medium recommendation system for recommending media or sets of media in a game that proceeds as a user selects media from a possessed medium group constructed to include D media and places the media in a game field, the recommended media or sets of media being media or sets of media to be added to a medium in order to construct at least a portion of the possessed medium group from the medium, the medium recommendation system including: an input acceptance unit that accepts the input of a single medium among the T kinds of media; a table storage unit that stores first tables; and a medium recommendation unit that is capable of outputting, as recommendation information, media or sets of media with which the single medium accepted by the input acceptance unit is associated in the first tables.

Abstract: One or more embodiments of the invention is a program that is executed on an electronic device equipped with a touchscreen, the program causing the electronic device to execute: holding data points as a data point sequence per predefined processing period, the data points being obtained based on touch events generated as a result of an operation performed on the touchscreen by a user; and determining displacement rates of data points in held data point sequences based on displacements of the data points in the data point sequences, and determining a speed factor with which the user controls movement of an operable object in a virtual space based on a deviation of the displacement rate in the latest data point sequence among the held data point sequences relative to the average of the displacement rates in the data point sequences held earlier than the latest data point sequence.

Abstract: With existing game apps, in the case where the stamina is recovered through time-based recovery to an upper limit value thereof while a user is not playing the game, a message or the like indicating full stamina recovery is displayed on a notification screen of a smartphone. According to the present invention, a terminal device, such as a smartphone, is configured so that a user can receive, from a game app, a push notification indicating full stamina recovery through time-based recovery and can perform an operation for instructing time-based stamina recovery beyond a stamina upper limit value on a screen of the push notification. This makes it possible to execute a game play more advantageously just by performing the operation on the screen of the push notification even when the user cannot afford to spend time for starting the game app and playing the game.

Abstract: A program may include the following units within a user terminal: a display control unit that displays content on a display and that switches the content displayed on the display by moving the displayed part either in a first direction or a second direction according to a user operation; a recording unit that records display position information together with a timestamp in log data; a normalization unit that performs normalization processing on the log data, in which the time elapsed since the start of viewing, indicated by the log data, is normalized by the total time of displaying the content on the display and viewing the content, and in which the display position information indicated by the log data is normalized by total length information of the content; and a transmission unit that transmits the log data subjected to the normalization processing to an external device.

Abstract: One or more embodiments of the invention is a system for executing prescribed processing in response to transmission of a message relating to a prescribed campaign, the prescribed processing relating to a user who has transmitted the message, wherein a server, upon receiving request information relating to a prescribed campaign from one user via a client terminal, generates or determines a second identifier including a first identifier, and transmits information including the first identifier to the client terminal, and upon a message including the second identifier including the first identifier being transmitted to an SNS server by the client terminal on the basis of the information received from the server, the server acquires user identification information on the basis of an access from the SNS server to the second identifier included in the message, and executes the prescribed processing in association with the user identification information.

Abstract: Provided are a content playback program, a content playback device, a content playback method, and a content playback system capable of playing back sounds closer to those intended by game creators by selecting sound files, as well as settings of an equalizer, a mixer, etc., according to a sound output destination. A content playback processing unit, when started and when returned from a background state to a foreground state, checks an audio device and performs setting appropriate for the audio device. In addition, when the audio device is changed in the foreground state, the content playback processing unit also performs setting appropriate for the audio device changed to. This makes it possible to play back sounds closer to those intended by game creators according to the audio device.

Abstract: One or more embodiments of the invention is a method for estimating the cause of a problem from game log data in a game that proceeds in accordance with actions selected by users, whereby a game state is updated, the method including a step of determining, for a combination of an action preceding the occurrence of the problem and a prescribed game state element included in a game state relating to that action, the action and the game state element being included in one irregular-log-data array among irregular-log-data arrays, whether or not the combination is a cause of the occurrence of the problem on the basis of the degree of presence of the combination in the irregular-log-data arrays included in the game log data and the degree of presence of the same combination in regular-log-data arrays included in the game log data.

Abstract: Provided is a content playback program and a content playback device that are capable of selecting a “favorite character” of a user as an application launcher icon, in accordance with the user's progress status of a game. The user selects a single character that is a favorite character from among characters for each of which an already-obtained flag and an icon-setting flag are both set to logical “true”, thereby making it possible to set an icon of the favorite character as a game-application launcher icon on a menu screen displayed by an application launch processing unit.

Abstract: One or more embodiments of the invention is a mixed reality system for displaying a mixed-reality image on a display, the system including a mobile terminal device having the display and a photographing device. The system includes a plurality of feature point sets arranged in the prescribed real space. The mobile terminal device recognizes each of the feature point sets photographed by the photographing device, determines a viewpoint position of a virtual camera, in a virtual space, corresponding to a position and a photographing direction of the photographing device in the real space, based on arrangement position and posture information for each of the feature point sets and relative position and posture information of the mobile terminal device with respect to each of the feature point sets, and generates a mixed-reality image in which an image of the virtual object is superimposed on a photographed image of the real space.

Abstract: One or more embodiments of the invention is a method for generating a trained model for predicting an action to be selected by a user in a game that proceeds in accordance with actions selected by the user, while updating game states, the method including: determining weights for individual history-data element groups; generating training data from data of game states and actions included in the history-data element groups; and generating a trained model on the basis of the generated training data, wherein the generation of training data includes generating a number of items of game state text as game state text corresponding to one game state, having different orders of a plurality of text elements, the number being based on the determined weight, and generating training data including pairs of the individual generated items of game state text and corresponding action text.

Abstract: A game management device includes a storage unit that stores a list of a plurality of groups constituted of a member. The device further includes a merging-subject search unit that searches for various groups that satisfy a merging condition and that can be mutually merged from among groups with which the numbers of members have not reached an upper limit set in advance in a game and that are in a state in which it is possible to add a member. The device further includes a proposition unit that presents a proposal for merging to the groups that can be mutually merged and that accepts replies to the proposal. The device further includes a merging unit that merges the groups to generate a single group in the case where replies to the effect of accepting the proposal have been received from the groups.

Abstract: Provided is an image processing method wherein a computer: generates an estimation model for estimating the colorized image from the line-drawing image for each element through machine learning using the learning data of that element; identifies the element corresponding to the subject line-drawing image; generates the colorized image that is to be paired with the subject line-drawing image, on the basis of the estimation model corresponding to the identified element and the subject line-drawing image; generates a colorization layer of an image file including a line-drawing layer and the colorization layer by using the subject colorized image; extracts the modified colorization layer and the corresponding line-drawing layer as the image pair for learning; and stores a pair of the line-drawing image of the extracted line-drawing layer and the colorized image of the extracted colorization layer, as the learning data, in association with the element corresponding to the estimation model.

Abstract: Provided is an electronic device including: a sensor; an image acquisition unit; a storage unit that stores a reference image that is an image of a target object; a feature-point position determining unit that determines the positions of feature points indicating local feature quantities in the reference image; a feature-point distance calculating unit that repeatedly executes detection of points corresponding to the feature points in the reference image from the acquired image of the space and calculation of the distances with respect to the positions of the detected points; a judgment unit that judges whether the amount of movement is equal to or less than a predetermined allowable reference value; and a control unit that obtains the acquired image of the space and stores the image of the space if it is judged that the amount of movement is equal to or less than the allowable reference value.

Abstract: One or more embodiments of the invention is a method for generating a trained model for predicting an action to be selected by a user in a game that proceeds in accordance with actions selected by the user, while updating game states, the method including: a step of generating game state text and action text, which are text data expressed in a prescribed format, from data of game states and actions included in history data concerning the game, and generating training data including pairs of game state text and action text corresponding to pairs of one game state and an action selected in the one game state; and a step of generating a trained model on the basis of the generated training data.

Abstract: An edge-side server, upon receiving a request transmitted from a player terminal, transmits a first response to the request to the player terminal, and, per certain period, transmits an aggregation result, in which the results of processing based on requests are aggregated, to a cloud-side server. Then, the edge-side server receives the result of processing based on the aggregation result, executed at the cloud-side server, and transmits the result of processing as a second response to the player terminal. For a single request, the player terminal receives the first response and the second response in this order via asynchronous I/O from the edge-side server.

Abstract: One or more embodiments of the invention is a method that is executed on a computer equipped with a touch panel, wherein an angle indicated by a set of data points is determined on the basis of the data points, the data points being acquired on the basis of a user operation on the touch panel; for each predefined period, one or more acquired data points are held as a data point sequence; a displacement speed in the held data point sequence is determined on the basis of a displacement of data points in the data point sequence as well as a weight coefficient; and at least on the basis of the variation of the most recently determined displacement speed with respect to the average of precedingly determined displacement speeds, a weighted speed for determining a parameter of an operable object is determined.

Abstract: One or more embodiments of the invention is a method including: retaining, as a data point sequence at intervals of a predetermined time period, at least one data point that is acquired on the basis of a touch event; determining, on the basis of a displacement of the at least one retained data point in the data point sequence, a displacement speed corresponding to a speed of displacement of the position, in the data point sequence, at which the touch event has been generated and determining a weighted speed on the basis of at least a bias of the latest determined displacement speed with respect to the mean value of displacement speeds determined before the latest displacement speed; and inputting the determined weighted speed into a predetermined function, thereby determining a converted weighted speed for determining a parameter of an operated object in a virtual space.

Abstract: A server among various servers is included in a game system in which the servers are responsible for various respective areas in a game space and manage object information indicating a state of each of various objects movable among the areas. The server stores the object information, updates the object information of an object existing in the area for which the server is responsible, stores the MAC address of a target server, transmits to the target server by packet transfer based on data in the data link layer with the stored MAC address being set as a destination update information that indicates update content of the object information updated by the first update unit and time information indicating an in-game clock time at the time of the update, and updates the object information of an object existing outside the area for which the server is responsible.

Abstract: Provided are a content playback program and a content playback device in which a character displayed on a display unit takes a predetermined reaction in response to a screenshot acquisition operation. When execution of a screenshot caused by a user's operation is detected in a state in which a character is displayed on the display unit, a content playback processing unit executes a production in which a facial expression of the character changes and/or a production in which the character speaks, immediately after completion of the screenshot.