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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 12, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2023
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Wataru Kaku, Musashino, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
A method performed by a terminal apparatus configured to communicate with a server, the method includes displaying, on a screen, a plurality of objects including first objects indicating faces of other users who are interlocutors of a user of the terminal apparatus, detecting an object on the screen at which the user is gazing, as the user's gaze object, transmitting information indicating the user's gaze object to the server, receiving information indicating each interlocutor's gaze object from the server, and controlling orientation of each of the first objects and arrangement of the plurality of objects so as to satisfy, on the screen, a first condition that each interlocutor's line of sight is directed to the interlocutor's gaze object, and a second condition that there are no objects, in each interlocutor's the line of sight, other than the interlocutor's gaze object.