Patent ID: 8271491
Filing Date: 2012-09-18
Classification: A63F,G06N

Abstract:
1. An activity recording apparatus for recording activities of an avatar in a virtual world by means of a computer, comprising: block dividing means for dividing all space in the virtual world into a plurality of three-dimensional blocks each provided with a unique identifier (ID), each of the plurality of three-dimensional blocks overlapping all adjacent blocks on the left, right, front, back, top and bottom sides partially by a predetermined distance; movement history recording means for recording a movement history in a storage area of the computer, the movement history including an entered block ID for each block into which an avatar acting in the virtual world enters, and a time point at which the avatar enters the block; movement history deleting means for deleting the movement history between the first and last blocks of a plurality of blocks which the avatar enters if the plurality of blocks are continuous, in a straight line and in one direction; and activity record database (DB) recording means for recording, as an activity dataset in an activity record DB, an event content, the movement history and a repetition count of an event when the event occurs with an activity of the avatar, wherein the event content comprises the activities of the avatar selected from the group consisting of touching, chatting, buying, sitting, standing-up, making a gesture, equipping himself/herself with something, walking, running, eating, and combinations thereof, and wherein the activity record DB recording means is means for recording an activity dataset together with the repetition count of the activity and, when there is an already existing activity dataset having the same entered block ID and event content as a new activity dataset, the activity record DB recording means increments by one and records the repetition count of the already existing activity dataset.