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Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2025

Filed:

Jul. 21, 2020
Applicant:

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Kazunori Kobayashi, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/239 (2011.01); H04N 21/233 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/239 (2013.01); H04N 21/2335 (2013.01);
Abstract

The user communicates reactions to the distribution source without inputting character strings, and parties of an event naturally feel the reactions of the users so as not to disturb the progress. A cheering support device () reproduces, in a space of a distribution source, a cheering composed of an acoustic signal based on sounds generated by viewers in a plurality of spaces different from the space of the distribution source and a video signal. A voice acquisition unit () acquires a voice material from a voice material storage unit (). A video acquisition unit () acquires a video material from a video material storage unit () according to the voice material acquired by the voice acquisition unit (). A voice reproduction unit () emphasizes and reproduces the voice material corresponding to the sound type in which many viewers have uttered. A video reproduction unit () reproduces the video material acquired by the video acquisition unit ().


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