# US 12,179,112 B2 · Content playback program and content playback device

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- Number: US 12,179,112 B2
- Document ID: US12179112B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 18/057,978
- Filed: 2022-11-22
- Published: 2023-03-16
- Granted: 2024-12-31
- Earliest claimed: 2020-05-22
- Assignees: Cygames, Inc.
- Applicants: Cygames, Inc.
- Inventors: Shuichi Kurabayashi
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12179112B2

## CPC

- A63F 13/60: Generating or modifying game content before or while executing the game program, e.g. authoring tools specially adapted for game development or game-integrated level editor
- G06F 3/147: using display panels
- A63F 13/52: involving aspects of the displayed game scene
- A63F 13/54: involving acoustic signals, e.g. for simulating revolutions per minute [RPM] dependent engine sounds in a driving game or reverberation against a virtual wall
- A63F 13/56: Computing the motion of game characters with respect to other game characters, game objects or elements of the game scene, e.g. for simulating the behaviour of a group of virtual soldiers or for path finding
- A63F 13/825: Fostering virtual characters
- A63F 13/92: Video game devices specially adapted to be hand-held while playing
- G06F 3/14: Digital output to display device {; Cooperation and interconnection of the display device with other functional units}
- A63F 2300/6009: for importing or creating game content, e.g. authoring tools during game development, adapting content to different platforms, use of a scripting language to create content
- A63F 2300/6081: generating an output signal, e.g. under timing constraints, for spatialization
- A63F 2300/66: for rendering three dimensional images
- A63F: CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

## Abstract

Provided are a content playback program and a content playback device in which a character displayed on a display unit takes a predetermined reaction in response to a screenshot acquisition operation. When execution of a screenshot caused by a user's operation is detected in a state in which a character is displayed on the display unit, a content playback processing unit executes a production in which a facial expression of the character changes and/or a production in which the character speaks, immediately after completion of the screenshot.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A content playback program causing a computer that is a content playback device having
a display unit on which a character is displayed,
an operation unit,
an operation-information processing unit that verifies whether operation information output from the operation unit is an instruction for screen capture processing for recording a screen displayed on the display unit in an image file, and
a capture processing unit that is an OS standard program in the computer and that executes the screen capture processing on the basis of the instruction for the screen capture processing issued from the operation-information processing unit,
to realize:
a capture detecting function that is a program for content playback different from the OS standard program and that detects that the capture processing unit, which is the OS standard program in the computer, has executed the screen capture processing; and
a scenario processing function that is the program for content playback different from the OS standard program and that executes processing for displaying a first visual file, which stores a visual of a character in a first state, on the display unit before the capture detecting function detects that the capture processing unit has executed the screen capture processing and for displaying a second visual file, which stores a visual of the character in a second state different in display mode from the first state, on the display unit in response to the fact that the capture detecting function, which is the program for content playback different from the OS standard program, detects that the capture processing unit has executed the screen capture processing.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

A content playback program according to claim 1, wherein the scenario processing function further executes processing for playing back predetermined audio data in response to the fact that the capture detecting function, which is the program for content playback different from the OS standard program, detects that the capture processing unit, which is the OS standard program in the computer, has executed the screen capture processing.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

A content playback program according to claim 1, wherein the scenario processing function includes a function of the program for content playback different from the OS standard program, for determining output content to be output through a display function and/or an audio playback function, which are/is an OS standard program(s) in the computer, immediately after execution of a screen capture processing function, which is an OS standard program in the computer, in accordance with a level value indicating the progress status in a game.

### Claim 4

A content playback device comprising:
a display unit on which a character is displayed;
an operation unit;
an operation-information processing unit that verifies whether operation information output from the operation unit is an instruction for screen capture processing for recording a screen displayed on the display unit in an image file;
a capture processing unit that is an OS standard program in a computer and that executes the screen capture processing on the basis of the instruction for the screen capture processing issued from the operation-information processing unit;
a capture detecting unit that is a program for content playback different from the OS standard program and that detects that the capture processing unit, which is the OS standard program in the computer, has executed the screen capture processing; and
a scenario processing unit that is a program for content playback different from the OS standard program and that executes processing for displaying a first visual file, which stores a visual of a character in a first state, on the display unit before the capture detecting unit detects that the capture processing unit has executed the screen capture processing and for displaying a second visual file, which stores a visual of the character in a second state different in display mode from the first state, on the display unit in response to the fact that the capture detecting unit, which is the program for content playback different from the OS standard program, detects that the capture processing unit has executed the screen capture processing.