JP2006094963A - Golf score management system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a golf score management system by which erroneous input of the number of strokes is prevented and the result of hitting of each shot can be grasped. <P>SOLUTION: The golf score management system 10 is provided with: a management server 11 having a data base 12; an access point 13 network-connected to the management server 11; and a portable information terminal 15 connected to the access point 13 by radio. On a score input screen 17 of a portable information terminal 15, a plurality of input cells 19 corresponding to each shot are matrix-displayed with one axis as the number of strokes and the other as the name of a player. By selecting the shot attribute icon 27 of a ball landing point being hitting result of each shot and inputting it to each input cell 19, the number of strokes at each hole is automatically counted according to the number of times of input. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a golf score management system, and more particularly, to a system that easily performs score management in a golf tournament or the like.

  Conventionally, in golf tournaments and the like, a player manually fills in a score card and collects score cards submitted to the headquarters from each player for score management. Various systems have been proposed that use this to count golf scores.

For example, in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2000-350801, a mobile terminal connected to a score management server via a wireless communication network is prepared, and a score is input to the score management server from a mobile terminal possessed by the player, while other players' A technique is disclosed in which when a user wants to know a score, a display request is transmitted from a mobile terminal to a score management server so that the score status of another player can be viewed.
In Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 10-225545, the number of strokes and the number of putts is input for each hole on the screen of the score processing device possessed by the player, and the data stored in the score input device is connected to a computer for aggregation by cable connection or IC A technique for reading using a card or the like is disclosed.

However, in the techniques of each of the above publications, the player inputs the total number of strokes of each hole as a score to the terminal device possessed by the player. The total number of strokes must be calculated and input, and there is a problem that an input error due to an incorrect number of strokes is likely to occur. Furthermore, since only the number of hits required for each hole is input as a score, there is a problem that it is not possible to grasp in detail what the hit result for each shot was.
JP 2000-350801 A JP-A-10-225545

  The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a system that can prevent a mistake in inputting the number of shots and realize score management capable of grasping a hitting result for each shot.

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention is a golf score management system comprising a management server having a database, an access point connected to the server via a network, and a portable information terminal connected wirelessly to the access point. And
On the score input screen of the portable information terminal, a plurality of input cells corresponding to each shot (one hit) are displayed in a matrix with one axis as the number of hits and the other axis as the player name,
By selecting the shot attribute of the ball landing point, which is the hitting result for each shot (each hit), and entering it in each input cell, the number of hits in each hole is automatically counted according to the number of inputs,
The portable information terminal provides a golf score management system capable of transmitting score data including the number of shots and shot attributes already input for each player to the management server via the access point. .

With the above configuration, the number of hits is automatically counted by inputting the hit result for each shot in one hole into the input cell of the portable information terminal, so that it is possible to prevent a mistake in inputting the number of hits due to miscounting. Further, since the shot attribute which is the hitting result for each shot is input instead of inputting the number of hits, it is possible to grasp detailed information of the ball landing point in each shot.
Further, score data is stored for each player in the database of the management server so that it can be viewed and edited on a display monitor connected to the management server. The shot attribute refers to the type of ball landing point such as fairway, rough, bunker, green, OB, water hazard, lost ball, cup-in and the like.

The portable information terminal is configured to switch to a shot attribute screen when the input cell is selected on the score input screen,
On the shot attribute screen, at least fairway, rough, bunker, green, OB, water hazard, lost ball, and cup-in shot attributes are arranged as options, and when one shot attribute is selected from each option, the score It is preferable that the selected shot attribute is displayed in the input cell of the input screen.

With the above configuration, the operation for inputting the shot attribute in the input cell may be a one-touch operation by selection, so that the operability is very good, and the shot attribute is displayed in the input cell that has already been input. The difference from a blank input cell that is not found can be seen at a glance, and the current number of shots can be easily grasped.
Further, it is more preferable that the total number of hits in each player's current hole is separately displayed as an increase / decrease value with respect to the number of par shots.

  When the shot attribute of the hit result is to add a penalty to the number of shots such as OB, a configuration in which the shot attribute is input to the input cell of the current shot and the penalty hit number is automatically input and added to the input cell of the next shot This is preferable.

  With the above configuration, when the hitting result to be input to the input cell of the portable information terminal is OB, water hazard, lost ball or the like, there is no need to separately perform an input operation for newly adding the penalty hit number to the input cell of the next shot. Therefore, the operation burden on the user can be reduced. Moreover, it is good to set it as the setting which can add addition of penalty strokes manually so that a user can arbitrarily add a penalty operation.

The portable information terminal is set with a movement button for moving to the next hall screen when the input of the current hall is completed,
When the movement button is pressed, it is preferable to move to the score input screen for the next hole and to automatically transmit the score data to the management server via the access point.

With the above configuration, since the movement button for switching the screen of the portable information terminal to the screen of the next hall also serves as a score data transmission command, the user needs to separately perform an operation of transmitting the score data to the management server. The operation burden is reduced.
In addition, if the access point is installed in the vicinity of the green for each hole, even if the communication between the portable information terminal and the access point is short-range wireless, the score data is stored at the end of each hole. Can be reliably transmitted to the management server.

  The portable information terminal preferably stores the score data that has been transmitted to the server, and transmits difference data that is unsent score data to the management server during transmission in the next hall.

  With the above configuration, when transmitting score data from the portable information terminal to each management hole for each hall, only difference data is transmitted without transmitting all digested score data. Is suppressed, and communication time and transmission errors can be reduced.

When the management server receives the difference data from the portable information terminal, while returning a reception confirmation report to the portable information terminal,
In the portable information terminal, if the reception confirmation report is not received within a predetermined time after the transmission process to the management server, it is determined as a transmission error, and the difference data is not transmitted as updated without being transmitted. It is preferable that the information is stored as

  For example, when the score data is not correctly received by the management server due to a transmission error, if only the difference data for one hole is transmitted in the next hole, the score data of the previous hole may be dropped on the management server side. Therefore, with the above configuration, when the portable information terminal does not receive the reception confirmation report, it recognizes that it has not been transmitted, so the score data of the previous hall is included in the difference data at the next hall. Even if there is a transmission failure, the score data can be correctly reflected on the management server.

  As is clear from the above description, according to the present invention, the number of hits is automatically counted by inputting the hit result for each shot into the input cell of the score input screen of the portable information terminal. It is possible to prevent input mistakes and to grasp detailed information on the ball landing point in each shot.

Embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 shows an overall view of a golf score management system 10 according to the present invention. A management server 11 installed at a tournament headquarters of a golf tournament, an access point 13 installed around the green for each hole, and a pair of players And a portable information terminal 15 possessed by a scorer associated with each ring.

  The management server 11 stores tournament information such as a tournament name, course information such as the number of pars, player names, pairing information of players who go around the course together, batting results for each hole, shot attributes for each shot, and the like. A database 12 is provided, and various settings can be made using an attached display monitor (not shown) or an input device (not shown).

  Access points 13 are installed in each hole for wireless LAN construction, and each access point 13 is provided with an inverter and a battery 14 individually, and is stable even on a golf course that does not have infrastructure for power supply. Guaranteed operation. The access point 13 is preferably wirelessly connected to the management server 11, but the 9th and 18th holes that may be holed out may be wired to the management server 11 in order to improve communication reliability. It is.

The portable information terminal 15 uses a PDA with a built-in wireless LAN, has predetermined calculation means, storage means, communication means, a program for providing a score management function to be described later, etc., and is wirelessly connected to a nearby access point 13. It is configured to perform data communication.
Specifically, as shown in FIG. 3, an input operation is performed with the touch pen 18 on the display unit 16 of the portable information terminal 15, and no input buttons other than the power button provided below the display unit 16 are used. .
A terminal-side database is constructed in the storage means of the portable information terminal 15, and a log file that stores the hit result input to the portable information terminal 15 as an SQL statement to the management server 11, the size of the log file, and the final processing line A processing management file to be saved is provided.

An initial setting screen 25 shown in FIG. 4 is displayed on the display unit 16 at the start of play, and the initial setting screen 25 is provided with a pairing number input unit 25a and a start hole input unit 25b.
As shown in FIG. 3, the score input screen 17 displays the hole number and the number of pars at the top, and has a move button 23 for moving to the next hole screen when the input of the current hole is completed. is doing. In the middle row, a plurality of input cells 19 corresponding to each shot are displayed in a matrix with the vertical axis representing the number of strokes (1, 2, 3, 4, 5,...) And the horizontal axis representing the player name (Tanaka, Suzuki, Yamada). ing. The matrix is scrolled up and down by clicking the scroll bar 24 on the right side of the screen with the touch pen 18. Further, the par save line 20 is displayed in different colors at the boundary between the number of par shots and the number of bogey strokes.

A player name is displayed above the group of input cells 19 and an area on the screen including the player name is set as an abstention setting area 22. When the abstention setting area 22 is clicked, a screen for setting a player who abstains is displayed.
Below the input cell 19 group, the total number of hits up to the cup-in is displayed as an increase / decrease value with respect to the number of par shots, and the area on the screen including the total number of hits is a hole-by-hole area 21. When this hole-by-hole area 21 is clicked, the screen is switched to a hole-by-hole screen 30 shown in FIG.

The input cell 19 is configured to switch to the shot attribute screen 26 shown in FIG. 5 when selected and clicked with the touch pen 18. At this time, even if the previous shot (previous hit) is skipped and the input cell 19 is clicked, an input error is prevented so that the shot attribute screen 26 is not advanced.
The shot attribute screen 26 displays the player name (for example, Tanaka) and the shot number (hit number) (for example, the first shot) of the input cell 19 that is clicked on in the upper stage, and the fairway, rough, bunker in the middle stage. , Target bunker, green, cup-in, OB, water hazard, lost ball and penalty shot attribute icons 27 are arranged as options. In the lower row, a clear button 28 and a return button 29 are arranged.

  The “fairway” of the shot attribute icon 27 is selected when the shot stops on the fairway. “Rough” is selected when the shot stops rough. The “target bunker” is selected when entering a bunker described in a list distributed separately, and is used to calculate a sand save rate specified by the JGTO. “Bunker” is selected when entering any bunker other than the target bunker. “Green” is selected when the green is turned on or during a putting stroke other than cup-in. “Cup in” is selected when cup in. “OB” is selected when OB is confirmed. "Water hazard" is selected when entering a pond or creek. The “lost ball” is selected when the lost ball is confirmed. “Penalty” is selected when a penalty is imposed.

  When one of the shot attribute icons 27 displayed on the shot attribute screen 27 is clicked, as shown in FIG. 7A or FIG. 8, the score input screen 17 is automatically returned and the input cell 19 clicked first is displayed. The selected shot attribute icon 27 is displayed.

  As shown in FIG. 6, the hole-by-hole screen 30 displays a matrix of a cell 31 for displaying a hole number, a cell 32 for displaying the number of per shots, and a cell 33 for displaying the total number of hits for each hole of each player. The scroll bar 34 scrolls the matrix up and down, and the screen is switched to the score input screen 17 by the lower return button 35.

Next, the procedure of golf score management will be described based on the flowchart of FIG.
First, before starting the play, setting operations such as course information and pairing information are performed on the management server 11 at the tournament headquarters side (S1). Thereafter, the scorer associated with the player for each pairing sets the pair link number and the start hole number on the initial setting screen 25 shown in FIG. 4 displayed on the display unit 16 of the portable information terminal 15. Information and pairing information are downloaded from the management server 11 (S2).

  Next, play is started from the first hole. For example, when the first hit of the player “Tanaka” is finished, “Tanaka” is displayed on the score input screen 17 displayed on the display unit 16 of the portable information terminal 15 shown in FIG. The input cell 19 of the first stroke in the column is clicked with the touch pen 18. Then, as shown in FIG. 5, since the display unit 16 is switched to the shot attribute screen 26, the shot attribute at the first ball landing point is selected from a plurality of shot attribute icons 27 and clicked (S3). Note that the same operation is performed for each of the other players.

  When one shot attribute icon 27 is clicked on the shot attribute screen 26, as shown in FIG. 7A, the shot attribute icon 27 is displayed in the input cells 19A and 19B, and the input cell 19 filled with the shot attribute icon 27 is displayed. By referring to the matrix vertical axis (number of strokes), the number of strokes of each hole is automatically counted according to the number of times of input. At this time, when the hitting result for each hit is input, the hitting result is accumulated and saved in the log file of the storage means of the portable information terminal 15 in a state converted into an SQL sentence to be transmitted to the management server 11.

Here, a case where it is desired to correct or clear the input result will be described.
For example, if the first hit of the player “Tanaka” is input as a fairway, but it is rough when going to the second point, the input cell 19A on which the fairway of FIG. 5 is displayed, and a rough shot attribute icon 27 is clicked. Then, the confirmation screen 36 of FIG. 7B is displayed. Clicking “Yes” completes the correction and returns to the score input screen 17.

Further, if the player “Yamada” intends to input the first hit, but the player “Suzuki” has input the first hit as shown in FIG. 7A, the “Suzuki” first hit. The input cell 19B on which the bunker is displayed is clicked, the shot attribute screen 26 of FIG. 5 is displayed, and the clear button 28 is clicked. Then, a confirmation screen 37 in FIG. 7C is displayed. Clicking “Yes” completes the clear and returns to the score input screen 17.
By performing each of the above operations, correction and clear are correctly executed on the score input screen 17 as shown in FIG.

  Further, when the shot attribute of the hit result is to add a penalty to the number of hits such as OB, for example, as shown in FIG. 8, the shot attribute of OB is set in the input cell 19 of the first shot of the player “Yamada”. When input, a penalty is automatically added to the input cell 19 of the second shot (second shot). The same applies to water hazards and lost balls.

The above-described input of the hit result for each shot is repeated for each player, and as shown in FIG. 8, when all the players making up the pairing input the cup-in and one hole is completed, “next” is written. The move button 23 is clicked (S4). Then, after confirming whether the cup-in has been input for all players, the screen moves to the score input screen for the next hole, and score data including shot attributes and number of strokes are automatically passed through the access point 13 in the background processing. Is transmitted to the management server 11 (S5).
When sending this score data, refer to the process management file to send only the difference data that was not sent at the previous transmission, and the file size of the log file is larger than the size when the previous transmission was executed. If so, the setting is made so that the SQL statement after the last final processing line of the log file is transmitted. (Currently, since it is the first transmission in the 1st hole, all SQL statements accumulated in the log file will be transmitted)

On the management server 11 side, the received SQL statement is executed on the database 12 to update and reflect the score data in the database 12 (S6). If the update process is correctly completed, the management server 11 returns a reception confirmation report to the portable information terminal 15 (S7).
The portable information terminal 15 determines whether or not a reception confirmation report has been received within a predetermined time from the transmission (S8), and if received, performs an update process for writing the current status into the process management file (S9). On the other hand, if the reception confirmation report is not received, it is recognized as a transmission error and the process management file is not updated, thereby recognizing that the difference data remains untransmitted (S10). At this time, the transmission error is not displayed on the display unit 16 and is handled in the background, so that the user is not confused.
It is preferable to provide a retry function for performing transmission again when the reception confirmation report cannot be received within a predetermined time.

From the second hole onward, the same operation as described above is repeated to input and transmit the hit results up to the 18th hole.
As described above, the management server 11 can appropriately perform the number of hits of each player and various data aggregation processes (fairway keep rate, number of putts, sand save rate, etc.).
In addition, the 9th hole and the 18th hole often improve the communication reliability between the portable information terminal 15, the access point 13, and the management server 11. For example, the access point 13 in the 9th hole or the 18th hole is It is preferable to be connected to the management server 11 by wire.

  In addition, this system is provided with a message function for making a business contact from the management server 11 to the portable information terminal 15. For example, the portable information terminal transmits weather information, attention notice, interruption, progress promotion, etc. from the management server 11 15 display units 16 are displayed. Further, the portable information terminals 15 between the respective perings may be able to perform message communication and IP telephone with each other. Moreover, it is preferable that the portable information terminal 15 is multi-language compatible.

1 is an overall view showing a golf score management system according to an embodiment of the present invention. It is a flowchart which shows a process sequence. It is a front view which shows a portable information terminal. It is an initial setting screen of a portable information terminal. It is a shot attribute screen of a portable information terminal. It is a hall-by-hole screen of a portable information terminal. (A) is a score input screen in which an input error has occurred in the portable information terminal, (B) and (C) are confirmation screens, and (D) is a score input screen after correction. It is a score input screen at the time of the hall | hole end of a portable information terminal.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Golf score management system 11 Management server 12 Database 13 Access point 14 Battery 15 Portable information terminal 16 Display part 17 Score input screen 18 Touch pen 19 Input cell 20 Per save line 21 Hole-by-hole area 22 Abstention setting area 23 Move button 24 Scroll bar 25 Initial setting screen 26 Shot attribute screen 27 Shot attribute icon 30 Hole-by-hole screen

Claims (6)

A golf score management system comprising a management server having a database, an access point connected to the management server via a network, and a portable information terminal wirelessly connected to the access point,
On the score input screen of the portable information terminal, a plurality of input cells corresponding to each shot are displayed in a matrix with one axis as the number of strokes and the other axis as the player name,
By selecting the shot attribute of the ball landing point that is the hitting result for each shot and entering it in each input cell, the number of hits of each hole is automatically counted according to the number of inputs,
The golf score management system, wherein the portable information terminal is capable of transmitting score data including the number of hits and shot attributes already input for each player to the management server via the access point. The portable information terminal is configured to switch to a shot attribute screen when the input cell is selected on the score input screen,
On the shot attribute screen, at least fairway, rough, bunker, green, OB, water hazard, lost ball, and cup-in shot attributes are arranged as options, and when one shot attribute is selected from each option, the score The golf score management system according to claim 1, wherein the selected shot attribute is displayed in the input cell of the input screen.   When the shot attribute of the hit result is to add a penalty to the number of shots such as OB, a configuration in which the shot attribute is input to the input cell of the current shot and the penalty hit number is automatically input and added to the input cell of the next shot The golf score management system according to claim 1 or claim 2. The portable information terminal is set with a movement button for moving to the next hall screen when the input of the current hall is completed,
4. The configuration according to claim 1, wherein when the move button is pressed, the score data is automatically transmitted to the management server via the access point while moving to the score input screen of the next hole. The golf score management system according to item 1.   The said portable information terminal memorize | stores the said score data transmitted to the said server, It is set as the structure which transmits the difference data which is unsent score data to the said management server at the time of transmission in the next hall | hole. Golf score management system. When the management server receives the difference data from the portable information terminal, while returning a reception confirmation report to the portable information terminal,
In the portable information terminal, if the reception confirmation report is not received within a predetermined time after the transmission process to the management server, it is determined as a transmission error, and the difference data is not transmitted as updated without being transmitted. The golf score management system according to claim 5, wherein the golf score management system is stored as

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