Information processing device and image generating method
AssigneeSony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
InventorsDaisuke KAWAMURA, Ikuo KOBAYASHI
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Abstract
An acquisition unit 104 acquires from a server a status of a friend user. A menu image generation unit 110 generates a menu image including an icon. A user image placement unit 116 places, on the periphery of the icon, images of friend users whose statuses acquired by the acquisition unit 104 are related to the icon. The icon is an icon representing content, and the user image placement unit 116 places, on the periphery of the icon, an image of a friend user currently performing the content.
Claims9
An information processing device that connects to a server that manages statuses of a plurality of users, the information processing device comprising:
- an acquisition unit configured to acquire a status of each user from the server;
- and
- an image generation unit configured to generate an image including an icon,
- wherein the image generation unit includes a user image placement unit that places, on a periphery of the icon, an image of the user the acquired status of which is related to the icon.
An image generating method comprising:
- a acquiring status of a user from a server;
- and
- a generating an image including an icon, the image having an image of the user the acquired status of which is related to the icon placed on a periphery of the icon.
A program for a computer, comprising:
- by an acquisition unit, acquiring a status of a user from a server;
- and
- by an image generation unit, generating an image including an icon, the image having an image of the user the acquired status of which is related to the icon placed on a periphery of the icon by a user image placement unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.