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7618303 System and method for toy adoption marketing  
A method that provides a virtual presentation including: registering a first registration code for at a product on a website, viewing a virtual replica of the product responsive to a successful...
7617461 Information processing device, information processing method, program, and storage medium  
A host device includes: a basic screen display processing section which selects either a main setting screen or a list display setting screen as a setting screen in accordance with user's input and...
7610556 Dialog manager for interactive dialog with computer user  
A dialog manager module accesses a dialog model, a discourse model and a domain model to render information to a computer user through the course of a dialog exchange with the computer user....
7604525 System and method for toy adoption and marketing  
A method provides a virtual presentation includes providing a toy that is represented on a website via a virtual replica of the toy, wherein the toy is associated with a registration code;...
7596763 Automatic 3D object generation and deformation for representation of data files based on taxonomy classification  
Disclosed are a system and method for generating three-dimensional objects to represent files in a three-dimensional environment. A primary classifier classifies stored files into groups based on a...
7594179 Information processing system, service providing apparatus and method, information processing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program  
The present invention is related to an information processing system, a service providing apparatus and method, an information processing apparatus and method, a recording medium, and a program...
7587338 Community service offering apparatus, community service offering method, program storage medium, and community system  
A community system is disclosed which allows community service offering apparatus to exchange information with a plurality of user terminals connected by a network. The community service offering...
7584105 Method and system for aligning natural and synthetic video to speech synthesis  
According to MPEG-4's TTS architecture, facial animation can be driven by two streams simultaneously—text, and Facial Animation Parameters. In this architecture, text input is sent to a...
7555717 Method for displaying screen image on mobile terminal  
A mobile terminal that is capable of displaying a screen image during a specific state, which includes a character memory for storing character images and a screen image created by a combination of...
7538775 Storage medium storing game program and game apparatus  
A relative position of each object with respect to a point of view is changed by changing at least one of information indicating a position of the point of view and information indicating a...
7530028 Shared online experience encapsulation system and method  
A novel technique enables participants of an online group interaction to capture and encapsulate an ongoing activity at a particular moment in time. During the online group interaction, a user...
7523464 Web based video enhancement apparatus, method, and article of manufacture  
Controlling an event in a virtual environment is disclosed. A video image from one or more video cameras is received. A video enhanced script is executed to display the virtual environment in a...
7472047 System and method for constraining a graphical hand from penetrating simulated graphical objects  
Movement of a graphical hand is constrained when the physical hand controlling the graphical hand does not have a similar physical constraint. An analysis of a revolute-joint-link-spring model in...
7468729 Using an avatar to generate user profile information  
An instant messaging user may be represented in communications with other users by an avatar that is capable of being animated or may convey information about the user by displaying other types of...
7442108 System and method for toy adoption marketing  
A method provides a virtual presentation and includes, on a website, validating a registration code associated with a toy; responsive to said validating, providing a virtual replica of the toy on...
7441190 Agent system, information providing method , information providing apparatus , and data recording medium  
An agent system which provides information for a user, displaying a character, includes: an agent program provided in a user computer connectable to a communication channel network; a user...
7429989 Mobile communication terminal capable of editing avatar motions and method for editing avatar motions  
A mobile communication terminal capable of editing avatar motions. The mobile communication terminal includes a memory and a controller. The memory stores a plurality of commands corresponding...
7426536 Communication promotion method and system  
A communication promotion method is provided to appropriately support communication by a plurality of users in different environments. A character 2 , operable by an IRC client 5 , is linked to...
7421660 Method and apparatus to visually present discussions for data mining purposes  
A method of organizing information is disclosed. The method comprises providing a visualization of actor communications in the context of one or more discussion, a discussion including at least one...
7369137 Method for mapping a single decoded content stream to multiple textures in a virtual environment  
A system includes a computing device to obtain encoded content data corresponding to at least one participant of a virtual reality environment. A memory device stores at least one texture...
7293235 Predicting avatar movement in a distributed virtual environment  
A method and apparatus for predicting the likelihood of an avatar under the control of a user in a virtual environment moving with a predetermined range of a boundary as disclosed in which the...
7284202 Interactive multi media user interface using affinity based categorization  
Computing devices capable of internetworking and receiving, storing and viewing programmed (scheduled) television and multimedia content provide a platform for access to a combination of Internet...
7275987 Virtual world system, server computer and information processor  
Objects which are created in conformity with the data format of objects to be handled in a virtual world are offered to users on the terminal computers of the users independently of the virtual...
7246315 Interactive personal narrative agent system and method  
A software application and method enables a personal narrative agent (PNA) to create and manage multiple dynamic customized story experiences for a subject user in a user-observable environment...
7213206 Relationship user interface  
A user interface having a user icon and associate icons to visualize an interpersonal relationship and to communicate in order to nurture the relationship. In one embodiment of the invention, the...
7181692 Method for the auditory navigation of text  
A method of navigating textual information via auditory indicators is provided. Through the pervasive and immediate articulation of virtually all textual elements in response to a comparatively...
7181690 System and method for enabling users to interact in a virtual space  
The present invention provides a highly scalable architecture for a three-dimensional graphical, multi-user, interactive virtual world system. In a preferred embodiment a plurality of users...
7155680 Apparatus and method for providing virtual world customized for user  
The invention relates to generating a variable virtual world in accordance with user's potential needs. An information processing apparatus includes a processor. The processor causes an image of a...
7136080 Entertainment system, entertainment apparatus, recording medium, and program providing color coded display messages  
An entertainment system comprises display color code setting means for setting a suitable display color code for each of undefined display color codes in unprocessed message data, the message data...
7117155 Coarticulation method for audio-visual text-to-speech synthesis  
A method for generating animated sequences of talking heads in text-to-speech applications wherein a processor samples a plurality of frames comprising image samples. Representative parameters are...
7110950 Method and system for aligning natural and synthetic video to speech synthesis  
According to MPEG-4's TTS architecture, facial animation can be driven by two streams simultaneously—text, and Facial Animation Parameters. In this architecture, text input is sent to a...
7093007 Identifying a physical device's avatar using a unique, substantially non-removable communication identifier  
The present invention provides a system and method for automatically linking a physical device and a predetermined associated virtual device to provide the physical device with access to at least...
7086005 Shared virtual space conversation support system using virtual telephones  
A conversation support system and a conversation support method for providing a realtime communications environment in which a plurality of users simultaneously participate in a virtual world built...
7084876 Method for presenting a virtual reality environment for an interaction  
One aspect of the invention is a method for presenting a virtual reality setting for an interaction. An example of the method includes presenting a streaming video of a real-world background scene,...
7028265 Window display system and method for a computer system  
An example window display device on a window-system type computer system displays a main window and a sub-window. The window display device includes a sub-window moving mechanism for moving the...
6993719 System and method for animated character photo-editing interface and cross-platform education icon  
A system and method for indicating suggested user responses is disclosed. The method includes loading an image into image-editing equipment. The method further includes determining a set of...
6910186 Graphic chatting with organizational avatars  
A new class of avatars (“organizational avatars”) created in accordance with the present invention holds a value or a significance independent from their use in a virtual environment, unlike...
6898759 System of generating motion picture responsive to music  
In a system for animating an object along a music, a sequencer module sequentially provides music control information and a synchronization signal in correspondence with the music to be played. A...
6892349 Information processing apparatus, method and program for displaying one or more characters on a plurality of application display areas responsive to scenario information  
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 (...
6892223 System and method of displaying information on desktop  
A terminal and first, second and third servers are connected through a communication circuit. The first server stores a list of data of obtainable characters and a server address of character...
6845486 User support method and user support apparatus  
User support method and user support apparatus for facilitating a user to find desired information from an enormous size of Web sites in a user friendly manner so as to make efficient use thereof....
6839411 Graphical user interface and method for displaying messages  
A graphical user interface is disclosed that displays messages to a user in a manner such that attached or embedded message (as well as attachments to the embedded messages) within a message can be...
6834115 Method for optimizing off-line facial feature tracking  
The present invention relates to a technique for optimizing off-line facial feature tracking. Facial features in a sequence of image frames are automatically tracked while a visual indication is...
6820112 Information processing system, information processing method and apparatus, and information serving medium  
An AO server 100 , shared server 105 and a client PC 110 are connected to one another via the Internet to build virtual community space accessible from a plurality of client PCs 110, 120,...
6819341 System and method of establishing communication between an appliance and an external device  
An appliance indicates that it is transferring information over a wireless communication path to an external device by displaying an animation. In one embodiment, an animation indicates that the...
6817979 System and method for interacting with a user's virtual physiological model via a mobile terminal  
A system and method provide for interacting with a virtual physiological model of a user with use of a mobile communication device. Physiological data associated with the user is acquired from the...
6816159 Incorporating a personalized wireframe image in a computer software application  
A method and system for incorporating a personalized wireframe image within a computer software application. The method can include comparing an acquired image of a computer software application...
6803909 Data processing apparatus, method, system, and storage medium  
A data processing system including a data processing apparatus having an apparatus having relatively low picture image processing capacity. The system enables such a low-performance data processing...
6801637 Optical body tracker  
An optical system tracks the motion of objects, including the human body or portions thereof using a plurality of three-dimensional active markers based upon triangulation from data read via...
6798426 Character image display control method and apparatus, and storage medium therefor  
Upon making an input selection request to a player, an idle time for an expected command input from the player is calculated, and further, an elapsed time after making the input selection request...
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