US 11,729,435 B2
Content distribution server, content distribution method and content distribution program
Nobuo Kawakami, Tokyo (JP); Hiroaki Saito, Tokyo (JP); and Takashi Kojima, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Dwango Co., Ltd., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by DWANGO Co., Ltd., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Aug. 13, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/402,240.
Application 17/402,240 is a continuation of application No. 16/644,149, granted, now 11,122,303, previously published as PCT/JP2018/031098, filed on Aug. 23, 2018.
Claims priority of application No. 2017-169299 (JP), filed on Sep. 4, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2021/0400319 A1, Dec. 23, 2021
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04N 21/234 (2011.01); H04H 60/37 (2008.01); H04N 21/2187 (2011.01); H04N 21/81 (2011.01)
CPC H04N 21/23418 (2013.01) [H04H 60/375 (2013.01); H04H 60/377 (2013.01); H04N 21/2187 (2013.01); H04N 21/23424 (2013.01); H04N 21/812 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A server comprising a processor configured to:
receive a live content from a first terminal of a distributor through a network, the live content created by the distributor;
generate an area within a video image of the live content, the area designated by the distributor of the live content;
select another content responsive to an operation by the server, a second terminal, or a third terminal, the another content provided by the second terminal; and
generate a distribution content by superimposing the another content on the area in the live content; and
distribute the distribution content to the third terminal through the network.