Communication assistance program, communication assistance method, communication assistance system, terminal device, and non-verbal expression program
AssigneeSumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
InventorsGuiming Dai, Toshiaki Kakii, Toshifumi Hosoya, Yasushi Nomura, Yuna Okina, Tingting Fang
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Abstract
A communication assistance program is a communication assistance program assisting communication of a user, the communication assistance program causing a computer to perform a step of integrally displaying identification information that can be used for identifying a communication target and a state animation representing a state of the communication target.
Claims21
A non-transitory computer readable medium including executable instructions, which when executed by a computer cause the computer to:
- control a display to integrally an icon including identification information that can be used for identifying one or a plurality of communication targets and a state animation representing a state of the communication target, wherein the state animation is displayed on an outer side of the identification information to extend upward from the icon on a screen on which the state animation is displayed;
- select an operation pattern from a plurality of the operation patterns set in advance to control an operation of the state animation to cause a user to imagine the state of the communication target;
- and
- control at least a portion of the state animation extending upward to change in accordance with the selected operation pattern, wherein
- the state animation and the icon do not include a facial expression that dynamically changes.
A communication assistance method for assisting communication of a user, the communication assistance method comprising:
- controlling a display to integrally display an icon including identification information that can be used for identifying one or a plurality of communication targets and a state animation representing a state of the communication target, wherein the state animation is displayed on an outer side of the identification information to extend upward from the icon on a screen on which the state animation is displayed;
- selecting an operation pattern from a plurality of the operation patterns set in advance to control an operation of the state animation to cause a user to imagine the state of the communication target;
- and
- controlling, using processing circuitry, at least a portion of the state animation extending upward to change in accordance with the selected operation pattern, wherein
- the state animation and the icon do not include a facial expression that dynamically changes.
A communication assistance system assisting communication of a user, the communication assistance system comprising:
- processing circuitry configured to
- control a display to integrally display an icon including identification information that can be used for identifying one or a plurality of communication targets and a state animation representing a state of the communication target, wherein the state animation is displayed on an outer side of the identification information to extend upward from the icon on a screen on which the state animation is displayed;
- select an operation pattern from a plurality of the operation patterns set in advance to control an operation of the state animation to cause a user to imagine the state of the communication target;
- and
- control at least a portion of the state animation extending upward to change in accordance with the selected operation pattern, wherein
- the state animation and the icon do not include a facial expression that dynamically changes.
A terminal device assisting communication of a user, the terminal device comprising:
- processing circuitry configured to
- control a display to integrally display an icon including identification information that can be used for identifying one or a plurality of communication targets and a state animation representing a state of the communication target, wherein the state animation is displayed on an outer side of the identification information to extend upward from the icon on a screen on which the state animation is displayed;
- select an operation pattern from a plurality of the operation patterns set in advance to control an operation of the state animation to cause a user to imagine the state of the communication target;
- and
- control at least a portion of the state animation extending upward to change in accordance with the selected operation pattern, wherein
- the state animation and the icon do not include a facial expression that dynamically changes.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.