IP Library Patent Application 18216615
Patent Application
App. No. 18/216,615

INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, METHOD FOR PROCESSING INFORMATION, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM

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18/216,615
Abstract

An information processing system includes processing circuitry configured to store a skill related to an action in a virtual space; store a trigger condition associated with the skill, the trigger condition being related to an object in the virtual space; determine, in a case that the skill is associated with an avatar, whether the trigger condition is satisfied; and control, in a case that the trigger condition is determined to be satisfied, the avatar to perform the action based on the skill.

Claims (58)

1 . An information processing system, comprising:

processing circuitry configured to:

store a skill related to an action in a virtual space;

store a trigger condition associated with the skill, the trigger condition being related to an object in the virtual space;

determine, in a case that the skill is associated with an avatar, whether the trigger condition is satisfied; and

control, in a case that the trigger condition is determined to be satisfied, the avatar to perform the action based on the skill.

2 . The information processing system according to claim 1 , wherein the trigger condition is related to a positional relationship between the object and the avatar.

3 . The information processing system according to claim 1 , wherein the trigger condition is satisfied when a positional relationship between the object and a body part of the avatar becomes a particular relationship.

4 . The information processing system according to claim 1 , wherein

the object includes an item wearable by the avatar, and

the trigger condition is satisfied when the avatar wears the item.

5 . The information processing system according to claim 1 , wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to:

store a plurality of skills including the skill; and

store a plurality of trigger conditions including the trigger condition such that one or more trigger conditions are associated with one skill of the plurality of skills.

6 . The information processing system according to claim 5 , wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to:

acquire a user input associated with the avatar; and

in a case that one common trigger condition associated with the plurality of skills is satisfied, control the avatar to perform an action based on one or more skills selected based on the user input from among the plurality of skills associated with the one common trigger condition.

7 . The information processing system according to claim 5 , wherein and

at least two of the plurality of trigger conditions are associated with one of the skills, and

the at least two trigger conditions are related to different objects.

8 . The information processing system according to claim 1 , wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to:

store data for rendering an action in association with the skill;

render the avatar performing the action based on the skill; and

render the object and the avatar, based on the data.

9 . The information processing system according to claim 8 , wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to:

acquire a user input associated with the avatar;

render a body part of the avatar, based on the data, the body part being included in movable body parts of the avatar; and

render at least one movable body part, other than the body part among the movable body parts, based on the user input.

10 . The information processing system according to claim 9 , wherein the processing circuitry is configured to render the body part and the object move in conjunction with each other.

11 . The information processing system according to claim 10 , wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to render another body part, different from the body part among the movable body parts of the avatar, to move in conjunction with a movement of the body part.

12 . The information processing system according to claim 9 , wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to be capable of rendering the body part based on the user input for at least a period when the action based on the skill is being performed.

13 . The information processing system according to claim 8 , wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to:

store personality information related to a personality of a user associated with the avatar or a personality of the avatar; and

render the avatar based on the data and the personality information of the avatar when the action based on the skill is being performed.

14 . The information processing system according to claim 8 , wherein the data includes animation data.

15 . The information processing system according to claim 8 , wherein the data includes data sharable across a plurality of avatars including the avatar.

16 . The information processing system according to claim 8 , wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to:

store a plurality of skills including the skill; and

store a plurality of types of data including the data in such a manner that one or more types of data are associated with one of the skills.

17 . The information processing system according to claim 1 , wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to, in a case that the target avatar performs the action based on the skill, change a field of view of another avatar located around the target avatar, based on position information of the target avatar.

18 . The information processing system according to claim 17 , wherein the processing circuitry is configured to change the field of view of the other avatar such that the target avatar is in the field of view of the other avatar.

19 . The information processing system according to claim 1 , wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to change a field of view of the target avatar such that another avatar located around the target avatar is in the field of view of the target avatar when the other avatar performs an action related to the action based on the skill performed by the target avatar.

20 . A non-transitory computer-readable information storage medium storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of an information processing system, cause the one or more processors to:

store a skill related to an action in a virtual space;

store a trigger condition associated with the skill, the trigger condition being related to an object in the virtual space;

determine, in a case that the skill is associated with an avatar, whether the trigger condition is satisfied; and

control, in a case that the trigger condition is determined to be satisfied, the avatar to perform the action based on the skill.

21 . A method for processing information, executed by a computer, the method comprising:

storing a skill related to an action in a virtual space;

storing a trigger condition associated with the skill, the trigger condition being related to an object in the virtual space;

determining, in a case that the skill is associated with an avatar, whether the trigger condition is satisfied; and

controlling, in a case that the trigger condition is determined to be satisfied, the avatar to perform the action based on the skill.

22 . An information processing device, comprising:

processing circuitry configured to:

store a skill related to an action in a virtual space;

store a trigger condition associated with the skill, the trigger condition being related to an object in the virtual space;

determine, in a case that the skill is associated with an avatar, whether the trigger condition is satisfied; and

control, in a case that the trigger condition is determined to be satisfied, the avatar to perform the action based on the skill.

Assignments (3)
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE RECEIVING PARTY STREET ADDRESS AND ATTORNEY DOCKET NUMBER PREVIOUSLY RECORDED AT REEL: 71308 FRAME: 765. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE CHANGE OF NAME. Recorded Jun 10, 2025
From: GREE, INC.
To: GREE HOLDINGS, INC.
Reel/Frame 071611/0252 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded May 16, 2025
From: GREE, INC.
To: GREE HOLDINGS, INC.
Reel/Frame 071308/0765 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 30, 2023
From: SHIRAI, AKIHIKO
To: GREE, INC.
Reel/Frame 064122/0092 →