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US 12,748,485 B2Granted
Terminal equipment, information processing device, information processing method, and program
AssigneeJapan Tobacco Inc.
InventorsKazutoshi Serita, Masatoshi Senju
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Abstract
To provide a mechanism that allows a user to have a novel inhalation experience, terminal equipment is provided that includes a communication unit that transmits inhalation information including information showing a location where a user is inhaling using an inhalation device and receives virtual space information that defines a virtual space created on the basis of the inhalation information; and a control unit that outputs from an output unit the virtual space defined by the virtual space information received.
Claims14
A terminal device comprising:
- a communication unit that receives virtual space information defining a virtual space that corresponds to a real space by placing virtual objects corresponding to real objects from a management device, wherein the virtual space information includes location information indicating an inhalation position of a user of an inhalation device that generates an aerosol to which a flavor component is added;
- and
- a control unit that causes the virtual space defined by the received virtual space information to be output by an output unit,
- wherein, in the virtual space, a virtual object indicating that inhalation is prohibited is placed at a location in the virtual space that corresponds to a prohibited inhalation location where inhalation using the inhalation device is not allowed in the real space,
- wherein, in the virtual space, an avatar is placed at a location inside the virtual space according to a location of the user in the real space, and
- wherein, in the virtual space, a virtual object through which the avatar is prevented from passing is placed or a virtual object is placed that causes the avatar to take damage if the avatar touches the virtual object, instead of the virtual object indicating that inhalation is prohibited.
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An information processing method comprising:
- receiving virtual space information defining a virtual space that corresponds to a real space by placing virtual objects corresponding to real objects from a management device, wherein the virtual space information includes location information indicating an inhalation position of a user of an inhalation device that generates an aerosol to which a flavor component is added;
- and
- causing the virtual space defined by the received virtual space information to be output by an output unit,
- wherein, in the virtual space, a virtual object indicating that inhalation is prohibited is placed at a location in the virtual space that corresponds to a prohibited inhalation location where inhalation using the inhalation device is not allowed in the real space,
- wherein, in the virtual space, an avatar is placed at a location inside the virtual space according to a location of the user in the real space, and
- wherein, in the virtual space, a virtual object through which the avatar is prevented from passing is placed, or a virtual object is placed that causes the avatar to take damage if the avatar touches the virtual object, instead of the virtual object indicating that inhalation is prohibited.
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A program embodied on a non-transitory computer readable medium for causing a computer to execute a process comprising:
- receiving virtual space information defining a virtual space that corresponds to a real space by placing virtual objects corresponding to real objects from a management device, wherein the virtual space information includes location information indicating an inhalation position of a user of an inhalation device that generates an aerosol to which a flavor component is added;
- and
- causing the virtual space defined by the received virtual space information to be output by an output unit,
- wherein in the virtual space, a virtual object indicating that inhalation is prohibited is placed at a location in the virtual space that corresponds to a prohibited inhalation location where inhalation using the inhalation device is not allowed in the real space,
- wherein, in the virtual space, an avatar is placed at a location inside the virtual space according to a location of the user in the real space, and
- wherein, in the virtual space, a virtual object through which the avatar is prevented from passing is placed, or a virtual object is placed that causes the avatar to take damage if the avatar touches the virtual object, instead of the virtual object indicating that inhalation is prohibited.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.