Patent ID: 9030463
Filing Date: 2015-05-12
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
1. An inspection apparatus, comprising: an index acquiring unit operative to acquire a first index from a user client processing device over a communications network, the user client processing device configured to display a virtual space with one or more predetermined objects disposed therein, the first index indicating a rate of exposure of a predetermined object displayed in the virtual space to the user of the user client processing device and the first index being calculated by the user client processing device; an image acquiring unit operative to acquire from the client processing device over the communications network one or more image frames of the virtual space that are displayed on a screen to the user on the client processing device; a region extracting unit operative to extract at least one region from the one or more image frames of the virtual space in which the predetermined object was visible to the user; an index calculating unit operative to calculate a second index indicating a second rate of exposure of the predetermined object displayed in the virtual space, the second index varying based on the at least one extracted region in which the predetermined object was displayed; and a verification unit operative to verify consistency of the calculation of the rate of exposure of the predetermined object displayed in the virtual space and as expressed in the first index by cross-checking the first index of the client processing device with the second index of the inspection apparatus.