JP2007082761A - Character parameter creation method by wireless lan wave - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To produce no character when detecting no electric wave in a wireless LAN access point, correspond attributes of a character appearing on a game such as the size, strength, value, and holding money to the strength of the electric wave level when detecting the electric waves, and create the character by determining the type of the character by corresponding to the name of the detected wireless LAN access point. <P>SOLUTION: When entering in a service area of the wireless LAN access point 3a, a mobile game device 1 detects the strength of the electric wave and acquires the wireless LAN access point 3a. The attributes and type of a character appearing on the game are thus determined and the character created in the said manner can be used. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a character parameter generation method for reflecting radio LAN radio waves in a parameter of a character appearing in a game.

Game devices that determine game character attribute parameters based on data have been put to practical use (Patent Documents 1, 2, 3, and 4).
Patent Document 1 digitizes an analog audio signal into a numerical value for each frequency band, and uses it as game data based on the obtained data. In this method, an arbitrary music CD is inserted into the game device, the music data is processed by the game device, and game data depending on the music in the inserted CD is generated. Note that the game data refers to, for example, attribute data for characters appearing in the game.

Patent Document 2 reads the total number of tracks and table of contents data recorded on the same type of medium (CD) other than the medium on which the game program is recorded, and calculates attribute data of the game character based on the total number of tracks and the table of contents data. Is.
Patent Document 3 relates to an application program used in a personal computer. The type, capacity, and creation date of a file stored in the trash box of the basic software of the personal computer are read, and the character in the application is determined from the type of the read file. The influence value on the characteristic parameter of the is calculated.
JP 11-197362 A JP 11-114226 A JP 2001-209612 A JP 2002-281666 A

In the above Patent Documents 1 and 2, the object for which data exists is a CD-ROM, and only the same data or a certain number of results can be obtained from the same material CD-ROM, and the created character attribute data is also the same. As long as a CD-ROM is used, the same parameters are created. Different parameters are created using other types of CD-ROMs, but the different parameters that are created are also limited. When considering the reflection in the characters that appear, there is a drawback that there is little change in character type and attributes.
Patent Document 3 is a game using a personal computer, and the target is the type and capacity of a file stored in the trash box and the creation date and time. As long as the contents of the trash box do not change, the influence value to the same feature parameter is calculated. Will be. In addition, there is a drawback that even if the contents of the trash box are partially changed, it is impossible to examine the direction in which the parameter changes, and the player cannot predict the development of the game. Although Patent Documents 1, 2, and 3 can take randomness to some extent, if they become excessive, the chance becomes strong, resulting in an unnatural change in the attributes of the character, so that the character leads the game in an interesting direction. This is out of the point of view of creating the attributes.

Patent Document 4 detects the radio wave reception intensity of radio signals emitted from a plurality of base stations of a mobile phone, and generates an enemy character that fights according to the value of the radio wave reception intensity stored in the storage area in the course of the game. Controls branching of items and game scenarios. That is, the item generated by the ID code of the base station is determined, and the branch scenario of the game scenario is selected according to the radio wave reception intensity.
This does not change the character attribute according to the radio wave reception intensity. Also, paying attention to the point of detecting the intensity for radio wave reception, the target radio wave area is the radio wave from the mobile phone base station arranged so that a part of the adjacent service area overlaps as shown in FIG. Yes, it is assumed that at the overlapping part of the service areas of the two base stations, switching to one of the strong radio wave sides and detecting one radio wave intensity. If there is a portion that can detect two or more radio waves at the same time, the system for selecting a branch scenario of the game scenario may not function properly unless one of the radio waves is detected.

  An object of the present invention is a case where radio waves are not detected in an area formed by a large number of wireless LAN access points including a part where two or more service areas overlap or a service area which does not overlap with other service areas. Does not create a character, and when radio waves are detected, it is detected according to attributes such as the size, strength, value, holding amount, etc. of characters appearing in the game according to the strength of the radio wave level. It is an object of the present invention to provide a character parameter generation method using a wireless LAN radio wave capable of creating a character by associating the name of a wireless LAN access point with a character type.

In order to achieve the above object, claim 1 of the present invention provides a wireless LAN radio wave comprising a plurality of wireless LAN access points and a portable communication game terminal having a function of receiving radio waves output from the wireless LAN access point. A reception game system, wherein the wireless LAN access point has a first wireless LAN access point that does not overlap with another service area or a second wireless LAN access that overlaps with one or more other service areas The mobile communication game terminal detects a reception level of one radio wave in a non-overlapping service area and detects two or more radio LAN access point compatible radio waves in the overlapping part. Radio wave reception level detection means to detect each reception level, and emit the detected radio wave Means for acquiring a name set for the wireless LAN access point; attribute setting means for setting the size, strength, preciousness or quantity of the character attribute according to the magnitude of the radio wave reception level; Type determining means for determining the character type in association with the name set for the wireless LAN access point, and character generating means for generating a character of the type and attribute set by the type determining means and the attribute setting means It is characterized by that.
According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect of the invention, the character type is a fish type, a monster type, a character type to be captured, or a character appearance type. It is characterized by size, strength of monster, value of capture target or character possession amount.
A third aspect of the present invention is characterized in that, in the first or second aspect of the invention, the mobile communication game terminal is a mobile game machine or a mobile phone.

According to the above configuration, for example, if a radio wave is detected from three wireless LAN access points simultaneously when moving to a vicinity of a certain station, the attribute (magnitude) is determined according to the strength of the radio wave level and the name of each wireless LAN access point. Etc.) can be created. In addition, when moving to another station, radio waves from different wireless LAN access points can be detected, so that other types of characters with other attributes can be created. Furthermore, if the radio wave cannot be detected away from the station, a new character cannot be created.
In this way, characters of various types and attributes can appear according to the action range of the player, and even in the same game, it is possible to enjoy a game in which different characters appear depending on the movement range of each player.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a game system to which a character parameter generation method according to the present invention is applied.
The player 2 owns the portable game machine 1 and plays a game. The portable game machine 1 is ready to receive a radio wave of the wireless LAN access point 3a that emits a radio wave from the antenna 4a. It has become. The portable game machine 1 can detect the radio wave from the wireless LAN access point 3a to obtain the name of the wireless LAN access point 3a and determine the attribute of the character to be created according to the level strength of the radio wave. For example, in the case of a fishing game, the size of the fish to be fished is associated with the strength of the radio wave, and the name of the wireless LAN access point 3a is associated with the type of fish (black bass, yamame etc.) to create a fish character to be fished. .

  The wireless LAN access point 3b is far away, and the portable game machine 1 cannot detect the radio wave radiated from the antenna 4b. Similarly, radio waves from the wireless LAN access point 3n cannot be detected. However, when the radio wave from the wireless LAN access point 3b is detected at the same time, the fish (bluegill or the like) corresponding to the radio wave access point 3b name corresponding to the radio wave intensity is also the black bass or Created as a fish character to fish with a mountain lady.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of a configuration of a wireless LAN service area.
There are 15 wireless LAN access points 10a to 10o in a certain area, and some of the service areas of the wireless LAN access points 10a, 10e and 10f are areas that do not overlap with service areas of other wireless LAN access points. is there. Regions 101, 102, 108, and 109 are portions where the service areas of two wireless LAN access points overlap, and two types of characters corresponding to the radio field intensity can be created. Regions 105, 106, and 107 are portions where three wireless LAN access point service areas overlap, and three types of characters corresponding to the radio field strength can be created. The area 104 is a portion where four service areas of four wireless LAN access points overlap, and four types of characters having sizes corresponding to the radio field strength can be created. The area outside the service area of the wireless LAN access point is not the processing timing at which the game machine can create a character, and a character cannot be obtained. Thus, when the portable game machine is in the service area, the same number of characters as the number of overlapping service areas are created.

FIG. 3 is a circuit block diagram showing an embodiment of the portable game machine in FIG.
This example shows a circuit block portion directly related to the present invention.
The portable game machine includes a key input unit 18 for operation by a player, an external storage device 19 such as a card memory for holding game data, and a wireless LAN communication circuit 17 for communication using a carrier wave in a frequency band defined by a wireless LAN. I have. The key input unit 18 includes a cross key used for direction or selection, a start button, a determination button, an A button, a B button, and the like. The card memory stores the player ID, information cleared for each game, information indicating the position where the game has progressed, and the like. The wireless LAN communication circuit 17 has a demodulation circuit that demodulates digital data by receiving radio waves in a predetermined frequency band from a wireless LAN access point, and a modulation circuit that modulates a carrier wave with digital data in a predetermined format. The level information is sent to the CPU 11.

Input / output terminals of the key input unit 18, the external storage device 19 and the wireless LAN communication circuit 17 are connected to a bus 21, and data on the bus 21 is controlled by a DMAC (direct memory access controller) 22. 20.
The RAM 13 stores a control program for controlling the entire game machine, each game program, and data and tables related to each program. The control program controls the entire portable game machine from when the power is turned on until the control is transferred to the game program, and the portable game machine after the game program ends. The game program is a fishing game, a monster battle game, or the like. Data relating to each program includes information and ID attached to the game program, data input by the player, and the like. The table relating to each program is a table in which character information is associated with each wireless LAN access point, and is prepared for each game program.

4A to 4D are diagrams illustrating examples of tables in which each wireless LAN access point is associated with a character attribute or type.
FIG. 4A is a table in the case of a fishing game. FIG. 4A (a) shows image data indicating the type of fish for the wireless LAN access points A, B, C,..., That is, image data of rock fish, yamame, amago, black bass,. Stored. FIG. 4A (b) is a table that describes the size that is the attribute of the fish for each radio wave intensity range received for each of the wireless LAN access points A, B, C. In the wireless LAN access point A, when the radio wave reception level is 20 dB or less, the size of the rock fish is described as 8 cm, and when it is 20 to 25 dB, the size data is described as 12 cm. The same applies to Yamame, Amago, Black Bass, etc.

  FIG. 4B is a table in the case of a monster battle game. 4B (a) shows image data indicating the type of monster for the wireless LAN access points A, B, C... I, that is, image data of monsters A, B, C. Stored. FIG. 4B (b) is a table in which the strength, which is a monster attribute, for each radio wave intensity range received for each wireless LAN access point A, B, C. In the wireless LAN access point A, strength data is described such that the strength of the monster A is 20, when the radio wave reception level is 20 dB or less, and 50 when the radio wave access level is 20 to 25 dB. The same applies to monsters B, C, I and the like. Hereinafter, FIG. 4C is a case of a character capture game, where a character image corresponding to each wireless LAN access point is a gold sword, a pot, a silver spoon, etc., and the preciousness α1, α2,. The data of ... are described. FIG. 4D shows an enemy character battle game, where the character image is a monster A, B, C, etc. corresponding to each wireless LAN access point, and the amount of money 100, 200... 400. Data are listed.

  In FIG. 3, the CPU 11 has a function of a game machine control unit 11 a that reads a control program from the RAM 13 and performs game machine control. In addition, the game execution unit 11b has a function of reading a game program when the game is started and performing a process by executing a process according to the operation of the player. The game execution unit 11b also has functions of a radio wave check circuit 11c and a pamelator generation unit 11d in connection with character creation based on the wireless LAN radio wave intensity. The radio wave check circuit 11c obtains the received radio wave level information through the wireless LAN communication circuit 17 and detects the received radio wave level when the game is activated and there is a portable game machine in the service area of the wireless LAN access point.

  Similarly, when the portable game machine is in the service area of the wireless LAN access point, the parameter generation unit 11d also obtains information on the name of the wireless LAN access point from the wireless LAN communication circuit 17. For example, in the case of a fishing game, the wireless LAN access point-fish image data table of FIG. 4A (a) is read from the RAM 13 and the image information of the fish corresponding to the name of the wireless LAN access point is read. In addition, information on the dimensions of the fish is read out from the wireless LAN access point radio wave reception level-size data table of FIG. 4A (b). Based on these information, for example, if the name of the wireless LAN access point is B and the radio wave reception level is 35 to 40 dB, a Yamame character with a body length of 27 cm is created. As a result, the fish caught at the wireless LAN access point B is a mountain woman with a length of 27 cm.

  The image processing circuit 14 constituting the image display system converts the image information sent based on the control of the CPU 11 into a predetermined display format. The display driving circuit 15 drives the liquid crystal display unit 16 by a signal from the image processing circuit 14 to display a game screen. In addition, background sound and sound during the game are output from the speaker 23 by the sound output circuit 12.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart for explaining the flow of processing by radio wave reception in the wireless LAN, and FIG. 6 is a flowchart for explaining details of a character generation process based on radio wave reception.
The player is playing a favorite game (step (hereinafter referred to as “S”) 01), and the CPU 11 of the portable game machine controls the game progress based on the operation of the key input unit 18 of the player (S02). The CPU 11 determines the timing at which the current game progress process generates character generation processing, that is, whether or not a radio wave of a predetermined level or higher has been detected (S03). The process generation timing of character generation occurs any number of times as the player moves in the service area while the game is in progress. If it is not the process occurrence timing, it is determined whether or not the game has ended (S05). If the game has not ended, the process returns to S02 to determine whether or not the process occurrence timing is reached by performing game progress control. Will be done.

On the other hand, if it is the character generation process generation timing, the process proceeds to the character generation process (S04). In FIG. 6, the CPU 11 acquires the number N of radio waves received by the wireless LAN base station (access point) performed through the wireless LAN communication circuit 17 (S041). For example, if there is a portable game machine in the area 104 of FIG. 2, four radio waves having respective strengths are received from four wireless LAN access points. Next, it is determined whether or not the number of received radio waves is 0 (S042), and if all the character creation processes have been completed, the process proceeds to determining whether or not the game has ended (S05).
In the initial process, there is at least one received radio wave, and the process proceeds to S041, so that N is 1 or more in the determination of S042, and the radio wave check circuit 11c obtains the intensity of the radio wave (S043).

  Next, the parameter generating unit 11d acquires the name set for the wireless LAN access point (S044). A fish character can be created by reading the data from the RAM (S045), and when the fish hits, the fish is picked up and reflected in the game (S046). After the character is created by one detected radio wave, 1 is subtracted from N (S047), and then it is determined whether or not the subtracted N is 0. (S042).

For example, when four radio waves are detected, the processes from S042 to S47 are repeated four times until N becomes 0, and four types of fish characters having respective sizes are created. Therefore, there are four types of fish to be picked up.
When the character creation is completed for all the detected radio waves, N = 0, and the process proceeds to the determination of whether or not the game is over (S05).

FIG. 7 is a diagram for explaining an example in which a character is generated by moving through a plurality of wireless LAN service areas installed in the vicinity of a railway station.
A large number of wireless LAN access points are installed at each station, and their service areas are arranged so as to overlap in particular at the station portion. For example, at the station [1], wireless LAN access points A, B, C, and D are overlapped, and the character obtained here is a character corresponding to each wireless LAN access point and has different attributes (for example, strength). ing. The service area of the station [2] has overlapping portions of the wireless LAN access points E, F, and G. When the player moves to the station [2], a character different from the station [1] and having a different attribute is created. For example, in the case of a fishing game, the player can target different types of fish of different types by changing the station.

FIG. 8 is a diagram for explaining the strength of the received radio wave level depending on the distance from the wireless LAN access point.
If the mobile phone is moved to the position [B] as compared with the case where the mobile phone is at the position [A], the intensity of the received radio wave becomes very large. For example, a large object can be aimed by moving.
In addition, due to the nature of operation of a wireless LAN access point, there is a high possibility that radio waves emitted from a specific location can be caught at any time by going to that location. Therefore, if the radio wave of such a specific place is fish, even if you miss fishing one day, you can re-challenge the fish you missed because you can catch the same radio wave if you visit the same place on another day .

In the above embodiment, an example of a portable game machine as a portable communication terminal has been described. However, a portable phone that can execute game software and that can access a wireless LAN can be similarly applied.
Moreover, although the table of the attribute data of the character is made in advance with respect to the strength of the radio wave of the wireless LAN and the attribute is determined by referring to the table, the character attribute data is not based on the table. It is also possible to obtain it by executing a predetermined arithmetic expression. In such a case, it is possible to obtain the attribute when the radio wave intensity continuously changes instead of step by step.

  It is a portable game machine or mobile phone that can generate a character by receiving radio waves from a wireless LAN access point and creating parameters such as attributes according to the characteristics of the radio waves.

1 is a schematic diagram of a game system to which a character parameter generation method according to the present invention is applied. FIG. It is a figure which shows an example of a structure of a wireless LAN service area. It is a circuit block diagram which shows embodiment of the portable game machine in FIG. It is a figure which shows an example of the table of the character information with respect to each wireless LAN access point in a fishing game. It is a figure which shows an example of the table | surface of the character information with respect to each wireless LAN access point in a monster battle game. It is a figure which shows an example of the table | surface of the character information with respect to each wireless LAN access point in a character capture game. It is a figure which shows an example of the table | surface of the character information with respect to each wireless LAN access point in an enemy character battle game. It is a flowchart for demonstrating the flow of the process by the radio wave reception of wireless LAN. It is a flowchart for demonstrating the detail of the character production | generation process based on a radio wave reception. It is a figure for demonstrating the example which moves a some wireless LAN service area installed in the vicinity of a railway station, and produces | generates a character. It is a figure for demonstrating the strength of the received radio wave level by the distance from a wireless LAN access point. It is a figure for demonstrating the structure of the service area of a mobile telephone base station.

Explanation of symbols

1 Portable game machine
2 players (players)
3 Wireless LAN access point (wireless LAN base station)
4 Antenna
5 radio waves
10a to 10o Wireless LAN service area 11 CPU
12 Audio output circuit 13 RAM
14 Image processing circuit 15 Display drive circuit 16 Liquid crystal display unit
17 Wireless LAN communication circuit 18 Key input unit (operation unit)
19 External storage device (memory card)
20, 21 bus 22 DMAC (direct memory access controller)
30a-30j Mobile radio base station service area

Claims (3)

A wireless LAN radio wave reception game system comprising a plurality of wireless LAN access points and a mobile communication game terminal having a function of receiving radio waves output from the wireless LAN access point,
The wireless LAN access point includes a first wireless LAN access point that does not overlap with other service areas or a second wireless LAN access point that has a portion overlapping with one or more other service areas,
The mobile communication game terminal is
Radio wave reception level detection that detects the reception level of one radio wave in the non-overlapping service area and detects the reception level of two or more radio waves when two or more wireless LAN access point compatible radio waves are detected in the overlapping part Means,
Means for acquiring a name set in the wireless LAN access point that emits the detected radio wave;
Attribute setting means for setting the size, strength, preciousness, or quantity of the character attribute according to the magnitude of the reception level of the radio wave;
Type determining means for determining the type of character in association with the name set in the wireless LAN access point;
Character generating means for generating characters of the type and attribute set by the type determining means and attribute setting means,
A character parameter generation method using wireless LAN radio waves. The character type is a type of fish, a type of monster, a type of character to be captured, or a type of character appearance.
2. The character parameter generation method using wireless LAN radio waves according to claim 1, wherein the attribute is a fish size, a monster strength, a capture target value, or a character possession amount.   3. The character parameter generation method using wireless LAN radio waves according to claim 1, wherein the mobile communication game terminal is a mobile game machine or a mobile phone.

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