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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 28, 2021

Filed:

Jul. 11, 2019
Applicant:

Dwango Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Nobuo Kawakami, Tokyo, JP;

Kentarou Matsui, Sapporo, JP;

Shinnosuke Iwaki, Tokyo, JP;

Takashi Kojima, Tokyo, JP;

Naoki Yamaguchi, Sapporo, JP;

Assignee:

DWANGO Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/24 (2011.01); H04N 21/258 (2011.01); G06F 21/10 (2013.01); H04N 21/254 (2011.01); H04N 21/81 (2011.01); H04N 21/84 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/25808 (2013.01); G06F 21/10 (2013.01); H04N 21/2407 (2013.01); H04N 21/2541 (2013.01); H04N 21/8146 (2013.01); H04N 21/84 (2013.01);
Abstract

Provided is a content distribution server or the like capable of limiting undesirable behavior of viewers. This content distribution servercomprises: an information acquisition unitwhich acquires character information indicating a virtual character used by a distributor in a virtual space, additional information added to the character information, and/or limit information set by the distributor; a distribution unitwhich distributes live content according to an image in the virtual space in which the movement of the distributor is synthesized as the movement of the virtual character, on the basis of the character information acquired by the information acquisition unit; and a behavior limiting unitwhich limits the behavior of a viewer who watches the live content, on the basis of the additional information and/or the limit information set by the distributor.


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