Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd.

Erika Nakamura

Takashi Hamano

Takashi Suenaga

Koki Kimura

Wataru Ito

Masaki Shimizu

Fumiaki Oshita

Atsushi Takeda

Chiaki Nakanishi

Hiroyasu Orui

A browsing service of messages exchanged through posts and responses to the posts among multiple users is provided in a message-browsing system. A terminal device includes an assigning unit assigning user images corresponding to multiple specific users who are a subset or all of the multiple users to respective ones of a number of reference positions that is equal to the number of the user images on a screen according to a predetermined rule, a position determining unit determining the reference positions assigned to the user images corresponding to the multiple specific users as display positions displaying the respective user images, and a position changing unit changing a display position of a user image corresponding to a user responding to a post another user has contributed to a position close to a user image corresponding to another user who has contributed the post.

Message-browsing system, server, terminal device, control method, and recording medium

A message-browsing system includes an image storage unit storing user images corresponding to respective multiple users, a motion storage unit storing pieces of motion information defining motions of the images associated with types of feelings or forms of posts, a keyword storage unit storing keywords according to the types of feelings, a determination unit determining whether or not any of the types can be identified from a sentence of a post by determining whether the sentence includes any of the keywords stored in the keyword storage unit, and a setting unit, when a type of feelings can be identified, selecting one of pieces of motion information that corresponds to the identified type of feelings, selecting one piece of motion information that corresponds to a form of the post when the type cannot be identified, and setting a motion of a user image corresponding to the user who has contributed the post based on the selected piece of motion information.

A message-browsing system includes an image storage unit storing user images to be displayed on a screen, each user image corresponding to respective ones of the multiple users, an input instruction unit providing a response in multiple response forms to a post, the response forms corresponding to multiple fixed response sentences that are different from one another, a motion storage unit storing pieces of motion information defining motions of the user images, each in association with respective ones of the multiple response forms, and a setting unit selecting a piece of motion information that corresponds to a response form of a response provided to a post, and setting a motion of a user image corresponding to a user who has contributed the post, the user image being displayed on a screen of another user who has provided the response.

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Tokyo, Japan

Erika Nakamura