INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM

• US 20120287020A1
• Filed: 05/03/2012
• Published: 11/15/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/12/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: UTSUKI, Shingo, Ihara, Koji, Matthew, D. Forrest
• Application Number:
  US13/463,237
• Publication Number:
  US 20120287020A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/1.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/75 Indicating network or usage conditions on the user display

Abstract

Provided is an information processing apparatus including a content display unit for sharing and displaying same content as content that is operated by a player who directly operates content, in real time with the player side, and a display control unit for causing comments transmitted from the information processing apparatus and another information processing apparatus that are used only to view an operation of the player to appear regularly according to a predetermined pattern, in a predetermined area of the content shared and displayed in real time with the player side by the content display unit.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a content display unit for sharing and displaying same content as content that is operated by a player who directly operates content, in real time with the player side; and

a display control unit for causing comments transmitted from the information processing apparatus and another information processing apparatus that are used only to view an operation of the player to appear regularly according to a predetermined pattern, in a predetermined area of the content shared and displayed in real time with the player side by the content display unit.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display control unit causes the comments transmitted from the information processing apparatus and the another information processing apparatus to appear sequentially in a horizontal direction with a space for one message in between.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display control unit does not change the pattern even if a window size for the shared content displayed by the content display unit is changed.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display control unit causes to be displayed a feedback input unit for returning feedback to the player, in an overlapping manner with the shared content displayed by the content display unit.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the display control unit causes an object used for returning, as the feedback, an emotional expression to be displayed at the feedback input unit.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, in a case a predetermined number or more comments are transmitted from other players, the display control unit displays in the feedback input unit, at a time a comment input in the feedback input unit is entered, that the comment cannot be transmitted.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display control unit performs control regarding a frequency of feedback using emotional expressions, including the feedback from the information processing apparatus, based on a display frequency of a mark in the predetermined area.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display control unit causes a comment transmitted from an apparatus operated by a user satisfying a predetermined condition to be displayed at a fixed position in the predetermined area.

9. The information processing apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the predetermined condition is that the number of transmission times of comments is a predetermined number or more.

10. An information processing method performed by an information processing apparatus, comprising:

displaying same content as shared content that is operated by a player who directly operates content, in real time with the player side; and

causing comments transmitted from the information processing apparatus and another information processing apparatus that are used only to view an operation of the player to appear regularly according to a predetermined pattern, in a predetermined area of the content that is shared and displayed in real time with the player side in the step of displaying.

11. A computer program for causing an information processing apparatus to perform:

displaying same content as shared content that is operated by a player who directly operates content, in real time with the player side; and

causing comments transmitted from the information processing apparatus and another information processing apparatus that are used only to view an operation of the player to appear regularly according to a predetermined pattern, in a predetermined area of the content that is shared and displayed in real time with the player side in the step of displaying.