JPH04341291A - Radio controller - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To eliminate the controller cable by executing the transmission of data between a video game device main body and a controller, of a video game deuce by radio. CONSTITUTION:The controller is provided with a radio transmitter 1 containing a control switch means, a data encoding means and a radio transmitting means, and a video game device main body 3 is provided by containing or adding a radio receiver 2 containing a radio receiving means, a data decoding means and a video game device interface means.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention]

0001

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a video game device and a wireless control device that is added to or built into the controller of the device.

0002

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a controller for operating a video game device and the main body of the video game device have been connected by wire through an electric cord.

0003

[Problem to be solved by the invention] In this conventional method,
There were problems such as the electrical cord breaking during repeated operations, and even if it did not break, the length range of the electrical cord was limited and it could be pulled accidentally. Also, since the lines were outside, it was annoying no matter what.

0004

[Means for Solving the Problems] The present invention provides a video game device in which a wireless receiver is added to or built into the main body, and the wireless transmitter is used as a video game controller;
Control signal transmission is now done wirelessly.

[0005]

[Operation] In the control device configured as described above, a signal input from the switch means on the controller side is transmitted by the wireless transmission means via the data encoding means, and the transmitted wireless signal is transmitted to the video game device. The data is received by the wireless receiving means, and further transmitted to the video game device via the data decoding means and the interface.

[0006]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be explained below based on drawings of embodiments thereof. FIG. 1 is an overall block diagram including a radio control device of the present invention, including a radio transmitter 1, a radio receiver 2,
It is composed of a video game device 3. (FIG. 2 is an example of a data format wirelessly transmitted between the wireless transmitter 1 and the wireless receiver 2.) It is a controller for operating a game executed by the video game device 3. The control switch means 4 usually consists of up, down, left and right direction switches, an A button switch, a B button switch, a start switch, a pause switch, etc., and is operated when the video game device 3 executes a game. Further, each switch of the control switch means 4 is connected to the data encode means 5 in parallel. The data encoding means 5 periodically samples the state of each switch of the control switch means 4, and based on the results, performs parallel-to-serial conversion as in the example of a to h of the wireless data format signal 11 shown in FIG. At the same time, a preamble signal (bit synchronization signal), a start bit or start code signal, an error detection/correction bit, a parity bit signal such as a stop bit or stop code is added as necessary.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram of an example of these data formats. Further, when the state data written in the above data format is input to the wireless transmitting means 6, the wireless transmitting means 6 modulates the wireless carrier wave with the above state data and spatially transmits the modulated carrier wave as the wireless signal 10. Output to. The carrier wave at this time is light such as infrared light, radio waves,
Possible sources include magnetic field waves.

As described above, the radio signal 10 outputted from the radio transmitter 1 is received by the radio receiving means 7 of the radio receiver 2, demodulated into status data, and further sent to the control switch by the data decoding means 8. Serial-to-parallel conversion is performed into bit data corresponding to each of the four switches. At this time, each bit added by the data encoding means 5 is removed, and at the same time, if an error detection or error correction bit is added, error detection or error correction is performed using the added bit. The bit data converted by the data decoding means 8 is input to a video game device interface 9. The video game device interface 9 has a format that can connect the bit data to the video game device main body 3, such as a relay, a photocoupler, a switching transistor, or a TT.
The signal is converted to L level, etc., and output to the video game device main body 3. If the video game device main body 3 imports control switch data using a dynamic scan method, the video game device interface 9 may be configured in a format corresponding to this.

Furthermore, when using two or more controllers, the number of wireless receivers 2 corresponding to the number of controllers is added to the video game device main body 3, and each wireless transmitter 1 and wireless receiver 2 are connected to each other.
The frequency of the carrier wave or the medium may be different. Furthermore, when connecting a plurality of controllers with a set of wireless transmitter 1 and wireless receiver 2, the data encoding means 5 scans the control switches of each controller in a predetermined order, and sequentially formats the wireless data. This can be realized by converting the control switch data into 11 and transmitting it, and in the radio receiver 2, the data decoding means 8 outputs the control switch data to the port corresponding to each controller.

0010

Effects of the Invention As explained above, the present invention enables the transmission of control data between the video game device main body and the controller of the video game device to be carried out wirelessly. This has the effect of eliminating the need for connection cords.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a wireless device according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram illustrating an example of the format of wireless transmission data in the embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Wireless transmitter 2 Wireless receiver 3 Video game device main body 4 Control switch means 5 Data encoding means 6 Wireless transmitting means 7 Wireless receiving means 8 Data decoding means 9 Video game device interface 10 Wireless signal 11 Wireless data format signal

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A wireless transmitter including control switch means, data encoding means, and wireless transmitting means; and a wireless receiver including wireless receiving means, data decoding means, and a video game device interface; The wireless transmitter is added to or built into the game device main body, and the wireless transmitter is added to or built into the controller, and a wireless signal emitted from the wireless transmitter is received by the wireless receiver, so that the control switch means can control the video game. A wireless control device for a video game device, characterized in that a game being executed on the device main body can be operated.