US 12,265,747 B2
Method and medium for multiple users participating in a communication service to watch a same distribution image
Daiki Hayata, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to GREE, INC., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by GREE, Inc., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Dec. 29, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/090,496.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-060389 (JP), filed on Mar. 31, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0315370 A1, Oct. 5, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 3/14 (2006.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 3/16 (2006.01); G09G 5/377 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/14 (2013.01) [G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 3/16 (2013.01); G09G 5/377 (2013.01); G09G 2340/04 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A control method, comprising:
receiving information, from a terminal device of a distributing user via a network, relating to display of a distributing user image including a distributing user animation object representing an animation of the distributing user, the information having been transmitted to terminal devices of a plurality of audience users;
displaying the distributing user image; and
conducting a group communication service, based on an instruction to join the group communication service from a terminal device of a first audience user and a terminal device of a second audience user, by:
displaying, by the terminal device of the first audience user, a first image and a second image both in a same display as display of the distributing user image, wherein the first image includes a first animation object representing an animation of the first audience user, and the second image includes a second animation object representing an animation of the second audience user that is different from the animation of the first audience user;
transmitting, to the terminal device of the second audience user via the network, information relating to display of the first image;
in a case that first audio data of the first audience user is obtained, transmitting the first audio data to the terminal device of the second audience user via the network;
displaying, in the same display as display of the distributing user image, the first image including the first animation object as being changed in accordance with an action of the first audience user or the first audio data;
in a case that second audio data of the second audience user is received via the network, outputting the second audio data; and
displaying, in the same display as display of the distributing user image, the second image including the second animation object as being changed in accordance with an action of the second audience user or the second audio data, wherein
in the conducting the group communication service, the first image, the first audio data, the second image and the second audio data are transmitted to only terminal devices which have transmitted the instruction to join the group communication service.