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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2005
Filed:
Sep. 06, 2001
Utaha Shizuka, Tokyo, JP;
Satoshi Fujimura, Kanagawa, JP;
Utaha Shizuka, Tokyo, JP;
Satoshi Fujimura, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
To project a character with story properties among a plurality of application softwares or on the desktop screen, and to instruct the user on the operating procedure. A character control section () provides character data from character data storage section () to application softwares (), () and () or a basic software on the basis of scenario information from scenario information storage section (). The application softwares (), () and () communicates with the character control section () to give scenario information to the character control section (), and to obtain the character data. Thus, the application softwares (), () and () obtain the state of the characters or image information, and display the characters on the respective application windows on the basis of scenario information.