KR101128259B1 - Virtual shooting system - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention provides a display unit for forming an image; A displayer providing an image to the display unit; A trigger device 12 including a trigger sensor for detecting a trigger by a user, and a laser generator for spotting a laser beam on a target portion of the display unit when the user triggers the trigger; A camera 11 for capturing an image on a display portion including a spot of a laser beam; A fluid compressor (14) for supplying compressed fluid to the percussion apparatuses; A fluid pressure control unit (15) including a first valve for controlling the flow of the compressed fluid through the connection pipe between the fluid compressor and the percussion device and a second valve for discharging the compressed fluid remaining in the connection pipe; A control unit (10) for receiving a trigger signal from the trigger sensor, controlling an operation of a camera according to the trigger signal, and controlling opening and closing of each valve constituting a fluid pressure control unit; And it provides a virtual shooting system including an image processing unit for determining whether or not to hit from the image data received from the camera.

Virtual shooting, competition, screen, firearm, shooting

Description

Virtual shooting system {Virtual shooting system}

The present invention relates to a virtual shooting system, more specifically, to experience the effect on the display, such as actual shooting, after the end of the game can discharge the remaining compressed fluid to prevent further triggering, and also a specific time Or a virtual shooting system capable of holding a virtual shooting competition for a plurality of users during a specific day or period of time.

From arcade game machines to 3D online games, the game industry is recognized for its potential as an industry with unlimited marketability. In particular, the increase in the screen golf shops that can enjoy golf on the screen installed in the fixed space is the opportunity to attract the adults back to the game site, accelerating the growth of the game industry.

In this atmosphere, there have been attempts to enjoy sports such as clay shooting indoors. However, in order to introduce a virtual shooting system, it is necessary to establish a trigger device that can be used safely and a system for effectively operating the trigger device. Currently known mock firearms are limited to pistols and the like, and the mock fire system using the same is used as a substitute for shooting training using military bullets in soldiers or police. In addition, the simulated firearms that are used in this case are only to be fired at the time of triggering, so that they are easily dismissed from the user by being separated from the actual shooting feeling, and the simulated firearms using some compressed fluids are disclosed, but they still remain in the supply line even after the game is finished. There is a disadvantage that additional triggering is possible even after the game ends due to remaining compressed fluid.

Screen golf shops, which are currently active, are also forced to consider a decline in sales due to excessive competition, and a more differentiated sales strategy should be taken. One such strategy is to consider how to use a screen golf shop with a simulated shooting range using already installed screen equipment. The present invention is to propose a virtual shooting system that can enjoy a shooting game safely using such a differentiated sales strategy and realistic trigger device.

The present invention has been proposed to solve the problems of the prior art as described above, the purpose of which can experience the effect on the display portion, such as actual shooting, after the end of the game by ejecting the remaining compressed fluid to further trigger It is to provide a virtual shooting system that can prevent.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a virtual shooting system further equipped with a scaffold capable of controlling a user's position on a display unit screen or performing a specific operation.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a virtual shooting system having a sound wave vibration speaker is further attached to maximize the haptic due to the vibration of the sound wave when triggered.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a virtual shooting competition system capable of holding a virtual shooting competition for a plurality of users for a specific time or a specific day or period.

The technical problem of the present invention as described above is achieved by the following means.

(1) a display unit to which an image is formed; A displayer providing an image to the display unit; Triggering devices including a trigger sensor for detecting a trigger by a user, and a laser generator for spotting a laser beam on a target portion of the display unit when the user triggers the trigger; A camera for capturing an image on a display unit including a spot of a laser beam; A fluid compressor for supplying compressed fluid to the percussion apparatus; A fluid pressure control unit including a first valve for controlling the flow of the compressed fluid through the connection pipe between the fluid compressor and the percussion apparatus and a second valve for discharging the compressed fluid remaining in the connection pipe; A control unit for receiving a trigger signal from the trigger sensor, controlling an operation of the camera according to the trigger signal, and controlling opening and closing of each valve constituting a fluid pressure control unit; And an image processing unit for determining whether or not to be hit from the image data received from the camera.

(2) The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control unit comprises: a coordinate extraction unit for extracting coordinate information of a spot of a laser beam on a display unit from image data received from the camera; And an arithmetic processing unit which compares the coordinates of the laser beam spot with the coordinates of the target on the display unit and determines whether the target is hit.

(3) The virtual shooting system according to item 1, wherein the triggering signal is controlled to shut off the first valve and open the second valve when the trigger signal is the final signal in the game.

(4) The controller according to claim 1, further comprising: a plate on which the player climbs, and a plurality of pressure sensors for detecting pressure exerted by the player's foot under the plate, the position signal being controlled by the controller in the direction indicated by the pressure; Virtual shooting system, characterized in that the scaffold is installed to transmit the operation signal.

(5) The virtual shooting system according to claim 1, further comprising a sound wave vibration speaker for vibrating sound waves when a user triggers.

(6) the virtual shooting system of any one of paragraphs 1 to 5 above; And a main server configured to receive shooting information from the virtual shooting system, create user ranking and rank information, and transmit the same to the virtual shooting system.

(7) The virtual shooting competition system according to claim 6, further comprising an affiliated store terminal that receives sales information and affiliated store ranking information from the main server.

According to the present invention, an effect such as actual shooting can be experienced on the display unit, and after the end of the game, the remaining compressed fluid can be discharged to prevent further triggering. It is also possible to hold virtual shooting competitions for a large number of users at specific times or for specific days or periods of time.

Hereinafter, the content of the present invention will be described in more detail.

The present invention provides a display unit for forming an image; A displayer providing an image to the display unit; Triggering devices including a trigger sensor for detecting a trigger by a user, and a laser generator for spotting a laser beam on a target portion of the display unit when the user triggers the trigger; A camera for capturing an image on a display unit including a spot of a laser beam; A fluid compressor for supplying compressed fluid to the percussion apparatus; A fluid pressure control unit including a first valve for controlling the flow of the compressed fluid through the connection pipe between the fluid compressor and the percussion apparatus and a second valve for discharging the compressed fluid remaining in the connection pipe; A control unit for receiving a trigger signal from the trigger sensor, controlling an operation of the camera according to the trigger signal, and controlling opening and closing of each valve constituting a fluid pressure control unit; And a virtual shooting system including an image processing unit for determining whether or not to be hit from the image data received from the camera.

1 shows an embodiment of a schematic diagram of a virtual shooting system according to the present invention.

The system of the present invention includes a control unit 10, a camera 11, a percussion device 12, a fluid compressor 14, a fluid pressure control unit 15, a display 16, a display unit 20 and a personal computer (PC). (19).

The controller 10 generates a signal for controlling the operation of each device and sends it to the corresponding device, or receives and processes signals generated from the corresponding devices. Such a device includes a camera 11, a trigger device 12, a fluid pressure control unit 15, and a footrest 13 may be added as necessary.

The camera 11 captures an image of the predetermined time display unit 20 according to the control signal sent from the controller 10.

The trigger device 12 includes a sensor (not shown) capable of detecting a trigger by a user, and at the same time as the trigger, a laser generating unit (not shown) that generates a laser spot on the display unit 20. Is provided. In addition, the trigger device 12 is configured to be triggered by a compressed fluid, the connection pipe is supplied with a compressed fluid is coupled.

The fluid pressure control unit 15 is operated according to a control signal by the control unit 10 and is installed between the fluid compressor 14 and the percussion apparatus 12. The fluid pressure control unit 15 supplies or blocks the compressed fluid supplied from the fluid compressor 14 to the trigger device 12.

The scaffold 13 may be installed as needed in the system of the present invention, and may have a structure as shown in FIG. The structure of the scaffold 13 presented as an embodiment of the present invention is provided with a plate on which the player climbs, and a plurality of pressure sensors (not shown) for detecting the pressure exerted by the player's foot at the bottom of the plate. The control unit 10 receives such a signal from the sensor and controls to move the user's position on the display unit screen or perform a specific operation, for example, jumping, sitting or running.

The display 16 receives the screen information of the current state from the control unit 10 and projects it on the display unit 20. If the user hits the target, the number of bullets remaining and the score so far are displayed on the screen. Such a display may be a device such as a beam projector, in which case the display 20 is typically a screen. In addition to the screen, the display unit 20 may be a display panel used for various panels, for example, an LCD and a PDP.

PC 19 may be configured separately from the control unit for the processing of the video data, audio data, etc. required for the virtual shooting system of the present invention.

Figure 3 shows a detailed configuration of the fluid pressure control unit constituting the system of the present invention. In the present invention, the fluid pressure generally means a gas pressure such as air pressure, but in addition to this, a liquid pressure such as hydraulic pressure is included. Therefore, in the present invention, the fluid includes a liquid in addition to a gas such as air. Hydraulic control unit 15 of the present invention is the first valve 17 for blocking or opening the flow of the compressed fluid supplied from the fluid compressor 14 in accordance with the control signal of the control unit 10, and the first valve (17) ) And a second valve 18 that is opened and closed to discharge the compressed fluid remaining in the connection pipe between the percussion apparatus 12.

According to the present invention, when there is still bullet, the first valve 17 is always kept open, and the second valve 18 is kept closed. Thus, in this case, the triggering device 12 is always in a state filled with a compressed fluid.

Hereinafter, a game process using the virtual shooting system of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 4.

It is assumed that the user initially has n bullets. In step 401, the user aims the target projected on the display unit 20 with the trigger device 12, and the sensor mounted on the trigger device 12 recognizes this when the trigger is pulled and triggers the control unit 10. Send a signal. At this time, the controller 10 is programmed to decrease the count of bullets remaining to the user by one. As soon as the user pulls the trigger, the laser generating unit mounted on the trigger device 12 emits a laser for a predetermined time to form a spot on the display unit 20.

The control unit 10 sends a control signal to the camera 11 to photograph the screen currently being displayed on the display unit 20 (step 402). The screen taken by the camera 11 is processed as a digital signal and transmitted to the controller 10.

According to the first embodiment of the present invention, when the current bullet count is 0 by the step 403 according to the logic programmed in the control unit 10, the control signal is sent to the fluid pressure control unit 15 to the trigger device 12. The compressed fluid supplied is shut off (step 404). If the current bullet count is not zero, compressed fluid must continue to be supplied to the trigger device 12 to allow additional fire.

According to the second embodiment of the present invention, when the bullet count is 0, the fluid pressure control unit 15 may not be immediately controlled, and the user may wait for an input signal related to reloading the bullet from the user. For example, if the user wants to extend the game, press the button with his or her hand, press the muzzle of the holding device down or raise it, or move the laser spot away from the display. It can be input to the control unit 10.

In the second embodiment, the input signal for reloading the bullet is possible even at a stage where the bullet count is not zero. For example, if the current number of bullets is n-2, the number of bullets can be set to n by replenishing two bullets by one input signal for reloading.

Bullets can also be programmed to receive a few more bonuses if the user's triggers meet certain conditions, for example if they exceed the threshold. It is also possible to program multiple bullets to be exhausted by a single trigger. For example, it is possible to program pellets so that two or three bullets are used up in a single trigger.

As described in FIG. 3, in the state where the first valve 17 of the fluid pressure adjusting unit 15 is opened and the second valve 18 is blocked, the compressed fluid supplied from the fluid compressor 14 is triggered. It is supplied to (12). Therefore, the user can trigger by pulling the trigger 12 at any time. When the number of bullets remaining to the current user according to the first embodiment is 0, the control unit 10 controls to block the first valve 17 so that the compressed fluid is not supplied to the trigger device 12. However, in most cases, there is a residual compressed fluid in the connecting pipe connecting the first valve 17 and the trigger device 12, and even more than one additional trigger is possible even with this amount of compressed fluid. Do. In the present system, the second valve 18 is additionally installed by branching the connecting pipe between the first valve 17 and the triggering device 12 to prevent such additional triggering. Therefore, when referring to the first embodiment of the present invention, when the number of bullets is zero, the controller 10 blocks the first valve 17 and simultaneously controls the second valve 18 to open. The compressed fluid remaining in the connecting pipe leading to the trigger device 12 is completely discharged (however, if a liquid is used as the fluid, a circulation circuit is provided to recover the discharged fluid). On the other hand, if the current number of bullets is not zero, the first valve 17 remains open, the second valve 18 remains blocked and waits for the next trigger signal by the player.

When the user selects a new game in step 405, the control unit 10 opens the first valve 17, and controls the second valve 18 to be in a blocked state. At this time, the opening and closing states of these valves are not necessarily performed after the reception of a signal indicating the start of a new game. Therefore, it may be decided to automatically return to the initial playable valve connection state after a predetermined time when the residual compressed fluid in the connecting pipe is discharged. Typically, the first valve 17 and the second valve 18 is implemented as a solenoid valve that is opened and closed by a current signal.

5 shows a configuration of an image processing unit for processing an image obtained from a camera constituting the system of the present invention.

The image processor may be implemented in software, firmware, or hardware in the controller, or may be implemented separately from the controller. Therefore, the control unit 10 mainly performs a function of controlling an operation of an external device, but it is also possible to input and execute a program for executing a predetermined algorithm for processing the same into a memory mounted therein. May be mounted in a separate external device (for example, the PC 19 of FIG. 1) to process the image acquired by the camera 11.

The image processor of the system of the present invention includes a coordinate extractor 21 and arithmetic processor 22. The coordinate extraction unit 21 extracts coordinate information of the spot of the laser beam on the display unit from the image data received from the camera 11. The calculation processor 22 compares the coordinates of the laser beam spot with the coordinates of the target on the display unit and determines whether or not it is hit. When the camera captures an image on the display unit, the screen data at the time of capturing is stored in the database DB and called through a program. Therefore, when the position information of the spot of the laser beam is determined, the coordinates of the target at the time of photographing may also be called programmatically, so it may be determined whether the spot is included in the range of the target.

Figure 6 shows the processing of the image obtained by the system of the present invention.

According to the present invention, the image obtained through the camera 11 may be a still image or a moving image. The image formed on the display unit 20 acquired by the camera 11 in step 601 is used to detect the spot projected by the display 16 and the spot of the laser beam emitted from the triggering device 12 by the user's triggering. Include.

In operation 602, the coordinates of the laser spot are extracted from the image acquired by the camera 11. The coordinates are set to have a rectangular shape exactly in the captured image, and then the center point of the laser spot is found and the position (center point) of the center point is set as the reference position, for example, the lower left corner (0,0). If you do, you can use xy coordinates to specify the location.

In step 603, the coordinates of the center point of the laser spot obtained in the step 602 are compared with the position coordinates of the target at the time of photographing stored in the DB in the control unit. I do not think that it is missing.

Such a result is output in the configuration of a predetermined screen for the user to check on the display unit through the display 16 (step 604). In other words, when the target is hit, the target is processed as an image to be exploded, and thus a screen to which a predetermined score is added is output.

Although the simulated shooting system of the present invention has been described as an example in which one trigger device 12 is used, of course, two or more trigger devices may be mounted and used. In addition, there is no particular limitation on the type of triggering devices that can be used in the present invention. For example, various simulated firearms such as pistols, clay shooting guns, non-guns such as bows and crossbows, simulated artillery such as guns, cannons, howitzers, and the like can be introduced into the present system. In the case of triggering it is desirable to give the user a sense of recoil when giving a sense of resilience.

In addition, an acoustic wave speaker (not shown) may be used to further amplify the reality when triggered. The sound wave vibration speaker may be controlled by the control unit 10, and the control unit 10 transmits a control signal for generating a specific sound wave to the sound wave vibration speaker after receiving a trigger signal by the user. In this case, the user may be provided with an effect of maximizing sensation due to vibration of sound waves.

Figure 7 is a block diagram of the overall shooting competition system that can open a virtual shooting competition online using the present invention system.

Reference numeral 100 denotes a virtual shooting system of the present invention, reference numeral 200 denotes an affiliated store terminal equipped with the virtual shooting system of the present invention, and reference numeral 300 denotes a main server that receives shooting information from the virtual shooting system of the present invention.

The virtual shooting system 100 of the present invention transmits unique identification information such as a shooting score of a current user (or a gamer), a mobile phone number, and affiliated store identification information to the main server 300. The main server 300 receives such information through a network directly from the plurality of virtual shooting systems 100 installed in each affiliate store and manages it as a DB. The main server 300 creates a ranking of all users and a ranking of affiliated stores and transmits them to each virtual shooting system 100 and the affiliated store terminal 200. In addition, the affiliated store terminal 200 may be able to receive the sales information from the main server (300).

Utilizing such a whole system, each affiliated unit can be bundled to simultaneously or set a period of time to hold a virtual shooting competition for all users who have performed shooting within the period, and the user can display his current ranking information on the main server ( 300 can be received in real time, the affiliated store can receive the ranking information of the affiliated stores up to now from the main server 300 in real time.

As described above, it will be described with reference to preferred embodiments of the present invention, but those skilled in the art will be variously modified and modified within the scope of the present invention without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention described in the claims below. It will be appreciated that it can be changed.

1 is a block diagram of a virtual shooting system according to the present invention.

Figure 2 is a structural example of the scaffold constituting the system of the present invention.

Figure 3 is a specific configuration example of the hydraulic control unit of the present invention.

4 is a signal flow diagram of a virtual shooting system using the system of the present invention.

5 is a block diagram of an image processing unit constituting the present invention system.

6 is a flowchart of an image processing procedure in the system of the present invention.

Figure 7 is a block diagram of the entire system that can hold a shooting competition using the virtual shooting system of the present invention.

<Code Description of Main Parts>

10: control unit

11: camera

12: percussion

13: scaffolding

14: fluid compressor

15: fluid pressure control unit

16: displayer

17: first valve

18: second valve

19: PC

20: display unit

Claims (6)

A display unit to which an image is formed; A displayer providing an image to the display unit; Triggering devices including a trigger sensor for detecting a trigger by a user, and a laser generator for spotting a laser beam on a target portion of the display unit when the user triggers the trigger; A camera for capturing an image on a display unit including a spot of a laser beam; A fluid compressor for supplying compressed fluid to the percussion apparatus; A fluid pressure control unit including a first valve for controlling the flow of the compressed fluid through the connection pipe between the fluid compressor and the percussion apparatus and a second valve for discharging the compressed fluid remaining in the connection pipe; Receives a trigger signal from the trigger sensor, controls the operation of the camera according to the trigger signal, and controls the opening and closing of each valve constituting the fluid pressure control unit, the first valve when the trigger signal is the final signal in the game A control unit to block the control unit and to open the second valve; And an image processing unit for determining whether or not to be hit from the image data received from the camera. The method of claim 1, The image processing unit may include: a coordinate extracting unit extracting coordinate information of a spot of a laser beam on a display unit from image data received from a camera; And an arithmetic processing unit which compares the coordinates of the laser beam spot with the coordinates of the target on the display unit and determines whether the target is hit. delete The method of claim 1, A plate on which the player climbs, and a plurality of pressure sensors for detecting the pressure applied to the foot of the game player is provided on the bottom of the plate, the footrest for transmitting the position signal and the operation signal to the control unit in the direction indicated by the pressure is installed Virtual shooting system. The method of claim 1, Virtual shooting system, characterized in that it further comprises a sound wave vibration speaker for vibrating sound waves when a user triggers. A virtual shooting system according to any one of claims 1, 2, 4 and 5; And a main server configured to receive shooting information from the virtual shooting system, create user ranking information and rank information, and transmit the same to the virtual shooting system.

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