JP5517416B2 - Replay distribution system - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a replay distribution system that allows a user to download his / her replay video and view it on a mobile terminal such as a personal computer or a mobile phone after playing with a game machine.

A system in which the applicant himself / herself plays a game on a game machine at a game center, accesses the server device, downloads the video screen of the game to a mobile phone, a personal computer, etc. (Patent Document 1).
Since this conventional system uploads image data of game machines in a game center to the server device, the data size of the game video is large, and it is impossible to save all game contents of the played players in the server device. Met.
JP 2003-320170 A

Therefore, the server device takes a method of limiting the production of the video only to the top prizewinners by ranking or the like.
Further, since image data is stored in the server device, when a replay is requested, it is not possible to reproduce the game display content, for example, the camera arrangement position and BGM. An object of the present invention is to reduce the size of data stored in a server device as compared to the conventional case, and can be replayed for all game machines, and when making a request, the game screen on the game machine is actually It is in providing the replay delivery system which can replace suitably a viewpoint position and BGM.

Claim 1 of the present invention in order to achieve the object, and one or more gaming machines to receive game operation information performed by any of the one or more gaming machines, receiving for each corresponding respective game machines It was a server device for storing game machine operation information in a memory unit composed of operation information and the reception date and time, when the game machine operation information stored in the server device is input, the game machine operation information to start the game program A server-side game machine that performs a game based on the above, a video capture unit that captures a video signal and an audio signal of a game screen output from the server-side game machine, and a video signal and an audio signal captured by the video capture unit, Movie encoder means for converting to MOV format, MP4 format or MPG format, and converted by the movie encoder means Communication means for transmitting video and audio signals in the MOV format, MP4 format, or MPG format, and a portable terminal or personal computer terminal accessible to the server device, from which the player plays the server The device accesses the device and transmits request data including a header, own ID, store ID, and footer, and the server device receives the request and displays an image for selecting a date time and a class mode on the portable terminal or the personal computer terminal. And when the player of the portable terminal or personal computer terminal selects the class mode and designates the date and time, the server device shows a game date / time history table of the date and time corresponding to the selected class, and the player When the game console operation information is specified from the date / time history table, The server device shows each item selection screen in the designated game machine, and the player specifies the playback file format in MOV format, MP4 format, or MPG format, and the viewpoint position of the game from each item selection screen. The server-side game machine captures the video signal and audio signal of the selected operation information at the specified viewpoint position to reproduce the game, and the captured video signal and audio signal are stored in the specified MOV. format, and transmitted to the portable terminal or personal computer terminal through said communication means is converted into one of the playback file formats MP4 format or MPG format, and wherein the table Shimesuru the display unit of the portable terminal or personal computer terminal .
According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect of the invention, the class mode is any one of an elementary mode, an intermediate mode, and an advanced mode .
According to a third aspect of the present invention, when the operation information in the table is selected from the portable terminal or the personal computer terminal in the first or second aspect, the position of the camera that captures the screen of the game to be played back is Either the position or the rear position can be selected .

According to the above configuration, the size of the data stored in the server device is significantly reduced and the effect to be added later
1. By switching the camera position sequentially, you can enjoy the timeless video.
2. By changing the BGM, you can enjoy a different atmosphere than when you played.
3. By adding a telop, you can announce your replay.
4). By displaying on the screen what operations have been performed, you can refer to the strategy.
5. The video is created with the proper encoding upon request, so you can be sure that it will be available when you download the completed video.
There is an effect.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an outline of a replay distribution system according to the present invention.
In this embodiment, the game machines 17a to 17n installed in the game center 2 and the like, the server apparatus 1 that accumulates the operation information from each of the game machines 17a to 17n, the operation information received from the server apparatus 1, and the game are played. The re-transmission server device 5, the movie reception / playback terminal such as the mobile phone 3 and the personal computer terminal 4, and the network 10 for connecting each device are configured.

  When a game is played by the player, the game machines 17 a to 17 n send information related to the game and operation information (operation data) to the communication unit 20 of the server device 1 to the server device via the communication line 11 and the network 10. Information relating to the game includes a player ID, a shop ID, a game machine ID, and the like, and the server device 1 also stores the date and time information when the game was performed together with the information.

The player can make a request to replay the game contents of the player using the mobile phone 3 and the personal computer terminal 4 (or other terminals may be used). For example, the mobile phone 3 communicates with the base stations 14 a to 14 n by accessing the URI of the server device 1, connects to the network 10 through the mobile phone communication business system 12, and connects to the server device 1. The request contents are the player ID, the store ID, etc., and the server device 1 displays the screen according to this request, so that the player can select each item according to the contents of the screen and replay the desired game. .
In the case of the personal computer terminal 4, by accessing the URI of the server device 1, the personal computer terminal 4 is connected to the network 10 through the ADSL modem 15 through the PC communication carrier system 13 and connected to the server device 1. The content of the request is made in the same way as in the case of the mobile phone.

  In the re-transmission server device 5, the operation information of the game designated by the player using the portable terminal such as the cellular phone 3 is received from the server device 1, and the server-side game machine 6 plays the game. The server-side game machine 6 activates the game program and plays the game according to the received operation information. At that time, it is possible to specify the format of the playback file and the camera position. In the game played on the server-side game machine 6, the video signal and the audio signal are captured by the video capturing machine 7. The captured video signal and audio signal are converted into a movie in the reproduction file format designated by the movie encoder 8 and downloaded to the portable terminal requested by the communication unit 9. On the mobile terminal, the downloaded game screen is played.

FIG. 2A is a circuit diagram showing an embodiment of a circuit of a server device constituting the replay distribution system according to the present invention.
The server device 1 includes a communication unit 20, a ROM 21, a RAM 22, a database 23, and a CPU 24. The communication unit 20 is connected to a network, and communicates between the game machine or the portable terminal and the CPU 24 when accessed from a game machine or a portable terminal.
The ROM 21 stores a control program for controlling the server device, a game machine, a retransmission server device, a communication processing program for performing transmission / reception with a mobile phone, and necessary data. The RAM 22 is a work area used when the CPU performs calculations, and temporarily accumulates data.

The CPU 24 has a function of the server control unit 24 a by reading a control program from the ROM 21. Further, it has the function of the communication processing unit 24b by reading the communication processing program. The server control unit 24a displays the stored operation information of each game machine on the mobile terminal in response to a function for storing the operation information transmitted from the game machine or a request from the mobile terminal, and is selected from the mobile terminal. The game is processed so that the game is replayed with the contents.
The database 23 has an area 23a for storing game operation information.

FIG. 2B is a diagram illustrating an example of operation information stored in the database of the server device.
In the game operation information storage area 23a, operation information (operation data) is stored for each game machine having a store ID. For example, for the game machine A, the operation data 1 is stored at the date “March 10, 2007” and the time “8:40:16”. Operation data 2 is stored at “12: 31: 5”. Further, paying attention to the game machine B, the operation data 21 and the operation data 8 are respectively displayed at the date “March 15, 2007”, the time “4:24:53”, and “15: 3: 11”. Accumulated.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of a data structure requested from the mobile terminal to the server device, a game date / time history table, and game item selection screens.
The data requested from the mobile phone 3 designates its own ID and store ID as shown in (a) when accessing the URI of the server device 1. Upon receiving this request, the server device 1 sends a screen for designating the date time and class mode as shown in FIG. When the player of the mobile phone 3 selects XX year x month △ day to XX year x month △ day as the time, a screen of each time for each date in the period is displayed on the mobile phone 3 as shown in (c). send. In addition, the cellular phone 3 selects class mode information on the screen of (b). For example, if the intermediate mode is selected, what is displayed in (c) corresponds to the intermediate mode.

In (c), when the mobile phone 3 selects XX year, month, month, day, hour, and minute, a screen of a game date / time history table as shown in (d) is sent from the server device 1 to the mobile phone 3. .
In the mobile phone 3, for example, when the player selects operation data xx of the game machine B, each item selection screen in the game machine B is sent from the server device 1 as shown in (e). The movie format can be selected from MOV format, MP4 format, and MPG format. The camera position during game playback can be selected from the front position, the upper position, and the rear position. Even if the same game is played with the same operation data, selecting a position different from the camera position in the actual game will produce the same result as when playing with a game machine, but viewing the screen displayed in the movie The direction will be different.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the flow of the replay distribution system according to the present invention.
It shows the flow of replaying a game played on a mobile terminal after a player has played on a game machine.
A player plays a game with the game machines 17a to 17n of the game center 2 (step (hereinafter referred to as “S”) 001). When the operation information is input by the player, the game machines 17a to 17n send the operation information to the server device 1 for each store and each game machine (S002). The server device 1 accumulates the sent operation information in the game operation information storage area 23a of the database 23 (S101). Stored operation information includes a store ID, a game machine ID, a player ID, and the date and time when the game was played.

  The player can use the mobile phone 3 or the personal computer terminal 4 to access the server device 1 via the mobile phone communication business system 12, the PC communication carrier system 13, and the network 10 and request replay of the game. . Here, if a request is made by the mobile phone 3 (S003), the information sent in response to this request is a store ID, a game machine ID, a player ID, and the like. In response to the request, the server device 1 sends a screen for specifying the date and time and the class mode, causes the player to select, and sends a history table of the selected game date and time to the mobile phone 3. The player selects operation data of the game machine to be reproduced from the history table. Furthermore, the playback file format can be selected and the camera position can be specified during playback.

The server device 1 sends the operation data specified by the player in this way to the retransmission server device 5. The re-transmission server device 5 reproduces the game by the server-side game machine 6 using this operation data (S102). The reproduced game image is captured by the video capturing device 7 (S103). When the game reproduction is completed, the retransmission server device 5 displays a download link through the communication unit 9 (S104).
On the other hand, after making a request to the server device 1, the player waits for a game with the operation information selected on the server device side to be played (S004). Then, it is monitored whether or not the reproduction is completed (S005). If a download link is displayed from the re-transmission server device 5, the completion of the reproduction is confirmed, and the transmitted video is downloaded (S006).
The player can see the video of the game machine replayed on the screen of the mobile phone.

Conventionally, image data itself has been uploaded to a server device. In the present invention, since only operation data is uploaded to the server device, the file size stored in the server device is about 1/1000.
For example, the video file size for 5 minutes is conventionally 20 Mbytes to 50 Mbytes, but according to the present invention, the input data size for 5 minutes is 20 Kbytes to 50 Kbytes. Since the present invention makes a video of a game from when a player requests it, various effects such as changing the viewpoint of the camera or adding a telop are added compared to direct shooting of the screen being played. Can do.

  In the above embodiment, the server device for storing the operation information and the re-transmission server device for replaying and transmitting the game have been described. However, the function and the game for storing the operation information in one server device are described. It is possible to implement the present invention by providing a function of replaying and transmitting a message.

  This is a replay distribution system in which each player can download a replay video and view it on a personal computer or a portable terminal of a mobile phone after playing with a game machine such as a game center.

It is a figure which shows the outline of the replay delivery system by this invention. It is a circuit diagram which shows embodiment of the circuit of the server apparatus which comprises the replay delivery system by this invention. It is a figure which shows an example of the operation information accumulate | stored in the database of a server apparatus. It is a figure which shows an example of the data structure which requests | requires from a portable terminal to a server apparatus, a game date history table, and each item selection screen of a game. It is a flowchart which shows the flow of the replay delivery system by this invention.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Server apparatus 2 Game center 3 Cellular phone 4 Personal computer terminal 5 Retransmission server apparatus 6 Server side game machine 7 Video capture machine 8 Movie encoder 9 Communication part 10 Network 11 Communication line 12 Communication business system for mobile phones 13 Communication company for PC System 14a-14n Base station 15 ADSL modem 16 Antenna 17a-17n Game machine 20 Communication part 21 ROM
22 RAM
23 Database 24 CPU

Claims (3)

One or more game consoles,
A server device that receives operation information of a game performed in any one of the one or more game machines, and stores in a memory unit game information that includes operation information and reception date / time received for each game machine; ,
When the game machine operation information stored in the server device is input, a server-side game machine to start the game program performing a game based on the game machine operation information,
Video capturing means for capturing a video signal and an audio signal of a game screen output from the server-side game machine;
Movie encoder means for converting the video signal and audio signal captured by the video capturing means into MOV format, MP4 format or MPG format;
Communication means for transmitting video signals and audio signals in MOV format, MP4 format or MPG format converted by the movie encoder means;
A portable terminal or a personal computer terminal accessible to the server device;
The player accesses the server device from the portable terminal or the personal computer terminal , and transmits request data including a header, a self ID, a store ID, and a footer. The server device receives the request and selects a date time and a class mode. Image to the mobile terminal or personal computer terminal,
When the player of the portable terminal or the personal computer terminal selects the class mode and designates the date / time, the server device shows a game date / time history table corresponding to the date / time corresponding to the selected class, and the player shows the date / time history table. When the operation information of the game machine is designated, the server device shows each item selection screen in the designated game machine,
When the player designates a playback file format of MOV format, MP4 format or MPG format and a camera position for designating a game viewpoint position from the item selection screens,
The server-side game machine reproduces the game by capturing the video signal and audio signal of the selected operation information at the specified viewpoint position, and the captured video signal and audio signal are the specified MOV format, MP4 format or Replay distribution system is converted into one of the playback file formats MPG format and transmitted to the portable terminal or personal computer terminal through the communication means, wherein said portable terminal or table Shimesuru on the display unit of the personal computer terminal. The replay distribution system according to claim 1 , wherein the class mode is one of an elementary mode, an intermediate mode, and an advanced mode . When the operation information in the table is selected from the portable terminal or the personal computer terminal, the position of the camera that captures the screen of the game to be played back can be selected from the front position, the upper position, and the rear position. The replay distribution system according to claim 1 or 2.

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