ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,916, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).
"Information processing apparatus" was invented by Hiroyuki Fujino (Chiyoda-ku, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes: an acquirer configured to acquire state information regarding a state of an avatar in a virtual space, the avatar corresponding to a first user; and a display controller configured to: cause a display used by a second user to display a first character as the avatar based on the state information satisfying a first condition regarding the state; and cause the display to display a second character as the avatar ...