Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.

Ken Yoshihiko Hirakawa

Daisuke Kawamura

Daniel Morales

Satoshi Kobayashi

Keisuke Saito

Keith D Brown

Takuya Kawasaki

Dilip Krishnamoorthi

Robert Eldon Brown

Toru Yamamoto

Katsuya Hyodo

Joseph B Lynch

Yuichi Ando

Koichi Aoki

Display screen with animated graphical user interface

A technique presents on a display a computer game character and a first scannable code (SC) scannable by a camera of at least a first user apparatus to cause a server to download to the first user apparatus a photo app operable to generate a photo of a first user and send the photo to the server, which alters the character in accordance with the photo. The character with the face altered is presented along with a second SC that can be scanned to cause the server to download to the first user apparatus a share app operable to select a second user apparatus to send an image of the character with the face altered in accordance with the photo such that the second user apparatus can display the character with the face altered in accordance with the photo. User options may be provided to alter the character or game.

User options in modifying face of computer simulation character

A technique presents on a display a computer game character and a first scannable code (SC) scannable by a camera of at least a first user apparatus to cause a server to download to the first user apparatus a photo app operable to generate a photo of a first user and send the photo to the server, which alters the character in accordance with the photo. The character with the face altered is presented along with a second SC that can be scanned to cause the server to download to the first user apparatus a share app operable to select a second user apparatus to send an image of the character with the face altered in accordance with the photo such that the second user apparatus can display the character with the face altered in accordance with the photo.

Techniques for combining user's face with game character and sharing altered character

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San Mateo, CA, United States of America

Ken Yoshihiko Hirakawa