JPH07213737A - Punching game machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide a highly real punching game machine in which a player can easily empathize with a game, compared with a conventional game machine, and the effect on attracting the interest of the player is remarkably enhanced. CONSTITUTION:This punching game machine has a television camera 10 for taking the image of the face of a player, a device for storing the image taken by the television camera 10, an arithmetic device for calculating the data necessary for deforming and displaying the stored image according to the intensity and part of an impact when a punching pad 3 is punched, and a display device 2 for successivery displaying the image obtained by the arithmetic result. Thus, the face of the player itself or the face of a player which is the competitor is successively changed as gradually swollen or distorted, the degree of the empathy is remarkably enhanced, compared with a conventional device, thus a highly exciting punching game machine can be provided.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a punching game machine capable of competing players for punch strength, and at the same time, displaying a screen to greatly excite the interest of the game.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Punching game machines that allow a player to strike a punching pad that rises from a machine stand and compete for the strength of the punch are widely used.

However, the conventionally known punching game machine is a simple one in which the speed at which the punching pad hit by the beating falls is detected, and the strength of the punch corresponding to the speed is numerically displayed to compete. Therefore, it was not interesting, and if one person tried one or two times, he would get bored, and few people would perform many attempts in succession.

A television monitor is combined with such a punching game machine to give the story character that the player intends to become the fighter and defeat an enemy character while watching the image of the fighter displayed on the television screen. Although it is also provided, there is a problem that the emotional image is limited and the excitement is lacking because the image of the character of yourself and the enemy character uses the existing animation.

Further, a product for inputting an image of a player's face photographed by a TV camera at the time of name entry is also developed in the United States, but by simply capturing one's own face, the aspect of game characteristics and directivity is improved. So there was no particular effect.

[0006]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to make a player's emotional involvement in a game easier than in a conventional game machine. The effect of attracting the interest of the player is to provide a punching game machine with a remarkably large amount of reality.

[0007]

[Means for Solving the Problems]
In a punching game machine that has a punching pad that stands up on the machine stand and falls down by a player's strike, and a device that detects the striking strength when the punching pad is beaten and falls, in a punching game machine, a TV camera that shoots the image of the player's face A device for storing an image taken by a camera, and an arithmetic device for calculating data necessary for transforming and displaying the stored image when the punching pad is hit, according to the strength and part of the hit. And a display device for sequentially displaying the images obtained by the calculation result, which can be achieved by a punching game machine.

[0008] It is recommended that the display device display not only the image of the player's face that changes sequentially but also a numerical value indicating the punching power, a simple game operation instruction, and other simple figures and characters. To be done.

[0009]

With the above structure, the player's face on the display screen, or the face of the player who is the opponent is gradually swollen, distorted, etc., depending on the position and power of the punch. As it goes on, it is possible to generate a realistic consciousness as if you are actually fighting, and since you play while witnessing the change of the face of yourself or your opponent, you can feel more emotions than conventional devices. It is possible to provide a punching game machine with a high degree of importation and full of excitement.

[0010]

The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is an external perspective view showing an embodiment of a punching game machine according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the circuit configuration thereof, FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing the operating procedure of the game machine, and FIG. FIG. 5 is an explanatory view showing an example in which the stored face image of the player is subjected to arithmetic processing to be deformed, FIG. 5 is a schematic explanatory view in the case of capturing an image of a human face by its contour, and FIG. 6 is shown by the method shown in FIG. An image actually acquired and obtained, FIG. 7 is an image actually acquired by capturing the image of a person's face by its color, and FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a punch point setting method.

In FIG. 1, 1 is a machine base, 2 is a display device by a CRT, 3 is a punching pad, 4 is a holder for the punching device, 5 is a glove that the player fits for punching, 6 is a coin slot, and 7 is a coin slot. Is a selection button, 8 is a start button, 9 is a flash lamp, 10 is a CCD television camera, 11 is a speaker, and in FIG.
3, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11 are the same components as those shown by the same numbers in FIG. 1, 21 is a CPU, and 22 is an RO.
M and 23 are RAM, 24 is an input control circuit, 25 is a punching force detection circuit, 26 is a CCD television camera control circuit, 27
Is a CRT drive circuit, 28 is a sound drive circuit, and 29 is a flash control circuit.

At the start of the game, when a player inserts a coin into the coin slot 6, a display for selecting a game is displayed on the display device 2. There are two types of games: a digitizing mode in which the player's face image is captured and playing the game, a normal mode in which the game is played with an opponent that is displayed in animation as in the past, and a coin for two players is inserted. Playing games with players 2
It is divided into the P battle mode, and the player selects a desired game from these by pressing the select button 7. Since the present invention relates to a technique of capturing a video of a player's face and playing a game, a case where the player selects the digitizing mode will be described.

When the player selects the digitize mode, a high-intensity flash lamp 9, such as a halogen lamp,
9 turns on and the CCD camera 10 turns on,
Enter the face of the player. At this time, on the display device 2, a message such as "Capture your face. Please stand in front of the camera.""Match your face and press the start button." Is displayed. According to this, when the position of one's face is adjusted and the start button 8 is pressed, the CCD camera 10 shoots.

At this time, whether the photographed image is an actual human face or an image captured from a photograph or the like is checked by a detecting means such as an infrared sensor, and the image is a non-human image. In this case, it is judged as an error, and a message such as "Capture your face. Please stand in front of the camera." Is displayed again on the display device 2. Such a check is performed by capturing the face of a third party with a photograph etc. and making it an opponent without permission,
This is to prevent the problem of portrait infringement.

When the player's face is taken in as described above, the image data thereof is RA shown in FIG.
While being recorded in M23, the flash lamps 9 and 9 and the CCD camera 10 are turned off. After that, since a display for selecting the difficulty level of the game is displayed on the display device 2, the player selects the desired difficulty level with the selection button 7.

Then, on the screen of the display device 2, an enemy with his / her own face appears, a provocative word is displayed as a telop, and the speaker's voice and sound effects are also displayed from the speaker 11. Shed Therefore, when the player strikes the punching pad 3, the enemy's face on the screen sways to the left and right, and the deformed face is displayed as if it is narrowing toward you while repeatedly expanding and shrinking, and at the same time, the strike force is a numerical value. Is displayed.

As the image data for displaying the deformed face, the image data of the photographed image recorded in the RAM 23 is converted into the CPU 21 according to the program from the ROM 22.
Adjust by performing arithmetic processing in. 3 players
You are allowed to punch twice, and every time you hit two or three, the enemy's face on the screen (your first captured face) gradually swells or your hair bounces as shown in Figure 4. It gradually changes, such as by changing. When the player punches three times and the total striking force exceeds a predetermined value, the player wins, the image that the enemy is defeated is displayed on the screen, and the sound effect that notifies the victory is output from the speaker 11. Shed On the contrary, when the total of the beating powers does not reach the predetermined value, the player loses, the image that the enemy mockes the player is displayed on the screen, and the speaker 11 also disparages the enemy.

The above is the case where one player plays the game. However, when playing the game with two players, two coins are inserted and the 2P battle mode is selected and started at the time of the first game selection. I press the button. Then, on the screen, the message "People who hit first should stand in front of the camera.""Make a face and press the start button." Take a picture by aligning the face position of. Next, a message "Please hit the camera next to you, please stand in front of the camera." Is displayed on the screen, so that another player can take a picture in the same manner. Then, select the difficulty level of the game and start the game. When the first player plays the game, the face of the other player shot later is displayed, and when the player who shot later plays the game, the face of the player shot first is displayed.
This means that different players will alternately play as opponents, which will greatly enhance the fun of the game.

A method of capturing a video image of the player's face at the start of the game and a modification method thereof will be described below.

Image capturing means include, for example, contour capturing and color capturing. First of all, taking in the outline will be described. Considering a certain point A in the image taken by the CCD camera,
The points 9 to 9 are set as shown in FIG. Here, if the difference in brightness between points A and 6 is X element fx, and the difference in brightness between points A and 8 is Y element fy, the direction of vector (fx, fy) atan (fy / fx) Is the "contour direction", and the length of the vector (fx, fy) | fx | + | fy | is the "contour strength", whereby the contour strength is obtained for each point of the entire image, The contour can be obtained by extracting points whose strength is a certain value or more. FIG. 6 shows a display of the image data thus obtained.

Next, the capturing by color will be described.
The color is normally represented by RGB, but here it is represented by HSV below. H = hue (color type) S = saturation (color intensity) V = brightness (brightness of color) As described above, when represented by HSV, for example, when extracting a skin color, only the hue is sufficient. It is possible to extract a part. The conversion from RGB to HSV is C1 = R * 0.70-G * 0.59-B *
0.11 C2 = -R * 0.30-G * 0.59-B *
Assuming 0.89, H = atan (C1 / C2) S = C1 * C1 + C2 * C2 square root V = R * 0.30 + G * 0.59 + B *
It can be determined by 0.11. The processing result is as shown in FIG. Under the condition that only one person is shown on the screen, the image data of the entire face can be captured by extracting the image in a range that is a few dots wider than the point obtained in this way.

Next, the arithmetic processing for transforming the image data captured as described above will be described. For example, if the process of "enlarging a point in a circle with a fixed center point and a radius of R by N times" is performed many times while making R small and making N large, the face hit The feeling of uneven swelling can be expressed well. In that case, in order to increase the processing speed, it is preferable that the zoom value is not represented by a small number such as 1.26 times but is an integer multiplied by 256 in advance. Example) 1.1 times-> 256 x 1.1 = 281 Programmatically, if the above processing is written in C language, pget (x, y) = point color of the input image (x, y) Return function (center is (0,0)) pset (x, y, color) = output image (x, y)
As a function (center point is (0, 0)) that strikes a point of (color) color at, for (x = −48; x <48; x ++) {for (y = −48; y <48; y ++ ) {If (x * x + y * y <= r * r) {color = preg ((x << 8) / zoom, (y << 8) / zoom); pset (x, y, color);}} } Becomes. For reference, the parameters used in the demo program are shown below.

The oversized deformation is performed by the following 11 times of deformation. Radius 47 Expansion ratio 257 Radius 45 Expansion ratio 259 Radius 42 Expansion ratio 264 Radius 39 Expansion ratio 275 Radius 36 Expansion ratio 290 Radius 33 Expansion ratio 300 Radius 30 Expansion ratio 320 Radius 26 Expansion ratio 350 Radius 22 Expansion ratio 380 Radius 18 Expansion ratio 400 Radius 14 Expansion rate 450

A large deformation is performed by the following 11 times of deformation. Radius 47 Expansion ratio 257 Radius 45 Expansion ratio 258 Radius 42 Expansion ratio 262 Radius 39 Expansion ratio 270 Radius 36 Expansion ratio 280 Radius 33 Expansion ratio 290 Radius 30 Expansion ratio 300 Radius 26 Expansion ratio 320 Radius 22 Expansion ratio 340 Radius 18 Expansion ratio 370 Radius 14 Expansion rate 400

The inner deformation is performed by the following eight deformations. Radius 40 Expansion ratio 257 Radius 36 Expansion ratio 259 Radius 33 Expansion ratio 265 Radius 30 Expansion ratio 280 Radius 26 Expansion ratio 300 Radius 22 Expansion ratio 325 Radius 18 Expansion ratio 360 Radius 14 Expansion ratio 390

The small deformation is performed by the following five deformations. Radius 32 Expansion ratio 257 Radius 28 Expansion ratio 258 Radius 24 Expansion ratio 265 Radius 20 Expansion ratio 280 Radius 16 Expansion ratio 300

Next, the setting of punch points will be described. In FIG. 8, a punch point (represented by a double circled cursor in the figure) is automatically moving along the arrow direction in the image area to be displayed on the display screen during the game period. An example is shown in which data processing is performed so that the image portion at the position of the cursor is deformed when a punch by the player is detected.

[0028]

Since the present invention is constructed as described above, according to the present invention, the face of the player itself on the display screen or the face of the player who is the opponent is displayed according to the position of the punch and the punching force. Gradually swells,
Because it changes gradually such as distortion and so on, it is possible to generate a realistic consciousness as if you are actually fighting, and since you play while witnessing the change in the face of yourself or your opponent, It is possible to provide a punching game machine with a high degree of emotional empathy and a lot of excitement as compared with the above device.

The configuration of the present invention is not limited to the above embodiment, and the arrangement of each component on the machine base, the image capturing method, the deforming method, etc. are within the scope of the object of the present invention. The design can be freely modified within the scope of the present invention, and the present invention covers all modifications that can be easily inferred from the above description.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an external perspective view showing an embodiment of a punching game machine according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the circuit configuration thereof.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing an operating procedure of the game machine.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing an example in which an image of a player's face photographed and stored by a television camera is arithmetically processed and deformed.

FIG. 5 is a schematic explanatory diagram for capturing an image of a person's face by its contour.

FIG. 6 is an image actually acquired by the method shown in FIG.

FIG. 7 is an image obtained by actually capturing an image of a person's face with its color.

FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a punching point setting method.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Machine stand 2 Display device 3 Punching pad 4 Holder 5 Globe 6 Coin slot 7 Select button 8 Start button 9 Flash lamp 10 CCD camera 11 Speaker 21 CPU 22 ROM 23 RAM 24 Input control circuit 25 Punch force detection circuit 26 CCD camera control Circuit 27 CRT drive circuit 28 Sound drive circuit 29 Flash control circuit

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Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. A machine stand (1), a punching pad (3) standing on the machine stand (1) and falling down by a player's strike, and a striking strength when the punching pad (3) is hit and fallen down are detected. In a punching game machine having a display device, a television camera (10) for taking a picture of a player's face
And a device for storing images taken by a TV camera (2
3) and, when the punching pad is struck, an arithmetic unit (21) for calculating data necessary for deforming and displaying the stored image according to the intensity and part of the impact.
A punching game machine comprising: a display device (2) for sequentially displaying images obtained by the calculation result. 2. A player uses a television camera (1
The punching game machine according to claim 1, wherein an image of one's face captured by 0) is played as an opponent. 3. The two players are television cameras (1
The punching game machine according to claim 1, wherein the image of the face of the opponent captured by 0) is alternately played as an opponent. 4. The punching game machine according to claim 1, wherein the punch point in the image of the face of the player captured by the television camera (10) is automatically moved and set. 5. The punching game machine according to claim 1, further comprising means for determining whether or not the image captured by the television camera (10) is an image of an actual person.