US 2021/0400319 A1 · CONTENT DISTRIBUTION SERVER, CONTENT DISTRIBUTION METHOD AND CONTENT DISTRIBUTION PROGRAM

Abstract

A content distribution server, includes: a communicator that receives live contents transmitted through a network NW from a distributor terminal used by a distributor of a live content; a designator that designates an area in the live content, where another content is superimposed and played; a selector that selects the other content to be played in the area designated; and a controller that generates a distribution content by superimposing the other content selected by the selector in the area designated by the designator in the live content, wherein the communicator distributes the distribution content to a viewer terminal through the network NW.

Claims21

Dependent claims

A server comprising a processor configured to:

receive a live content from a first terminal through a network;
generate an area within a video image of the live content responsive to a first operation of either the first terminal or a second terminal;
select another content responsive to a second operation by either the first terminal or the second terminal;
and
generate a distribution content by superimposing the other content on the area in the live content,
wherein the processor is configured to distribute the distribution content to a third terminal through the network.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

17/402,240Filed 13 Aug 2021

Priority

JP 2017-1692994 Sep 2017

Published

23 Dec 2021

Term ends

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Classification10 codes

H04N 21/23418
Processing of video elementary streams, e.g. splicing of video streams or manipulating encoded video stream scene graphs: involving operations for…
G06F 13/00
Interconnection of, or transfer of information or other signals between, memories, input/output
H04H 60/375
For identifying segments of broadcast information, e.g. scenes or extracting programme ID: commercial
H04H 60/377
For identifying segments of broadcast information, e.g. scenes or extracting programme ID: scene

Content distribution server, content distribution method and content distribution program

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Content distribution server, content distribution method and content distribution program

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Abstract

Claims21