JPS5947868A - Electronic device for game of "go" - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To attain ease of playing a game with a remote party, by displaying a move when a move input of a ''Go'' (the national board game of Japan) or the like exists, and driving an automatic dial circuit so as to transfer move information to a game playing device or a computer of an opposite party. CONSTITUTION:When a move is inputted from an input key 4, the move information is given to a display circuit 5 and the move is displayed on a screen. Then, an automatic dial circuit 7 is started to connect a telephone line 10, a data block comprising an own telephone number and the move information is transferred via a communication line interface 8, a telephone set 9, and a telephone line 10, and the line is disconnected after awaiting the display on the screen of the electronic game playing device of the opposite party.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (1) Description of the field to which the invention pertains The present invention relates to an electronic game device, particularly a game system for playing multiple games such as boxing, shogi, and Othello against opponents in remote locations via an electronic game device, particularly a public telecommunications line. This invention relates to an electronically controlled electronic game device for playing games.

(2) Explanation of conventional technology All conventional "electronic games" are games played between humans and machines against programmed machines; There was nothing. A game called ``Four Posts'' or ``Postal Shogi'' is sometimes played among enthusiasts. Players take turns communicating their next moves by letter, and while it's fun to play with distant enemies, it can also be a year-long game. It would be nice to have something like "four telephones", but - it's a pain to have to dial the phone in each hand to contact each other.1. Because the price is higher than Jin's,
There are not many examples of this being done. Therefore, there has been no game device for enjoying games such as Iki, Shogi, and Othello using public telecommunications lines such as telephones as in the present invention.

(3) Purpose of the Invention The present invention is a method for playing a game between a plurality of players, such as Iki, Sho, Toku, and Othello, with spatially distant opponents via a public telecommunications line such as a telephone. It aims to provide an electronic game device for playing games, and by switching the mode, you can leave the line connected, or the line will be automatically connected the moment you make a move, and the line will be connected immediately after transferring move information. Being able to hang up is also a feature of NJ, so even when playing a game with someone far away, the call rate is low (and the player can play the game without having to worry about operations such as turning the dial on the phone). It has the characteristic of being immersive.

(4) Explanation of structure and operation of the invention FIG. 1 shows an explanatory diagram showing the mode of use of the electronic game device of the invention. In the figure, 1 is an electronic game device, 2 is an exchange, and 3 is a computer, which are used by connecting the devices to each other or the device and the computer via a public telecommunications line 10.

In the illustrated case, therefore, in addition to a game between people, it is also possible to play a game against a library stored in the computer 3.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of this device, in which 4 is an input key, 5 is a display screen display circuit, 6 is a transmitter/receiver circuit, 7 is an automatic dial/ear switch circuit, and 8 is an audio Cup Love l: Which communication line interface 'C1(i).

The solid line is the moving direction of move information i..., point it', i!
+]r- Indicates the direction of movement of received information (the same applies below). In this figure, r sho 1. As an example of -1 public telecommunications network, 1) also describes an example of connecting to a -1uy telephone network.
9 is a telephone, and 1° is a telephone line. 9.10 is not mentioned in the present apparatuses i/, l, but is described for convenience of explanation.

FIG. 3 shows a specific example of the configuration of the display circuit 5.
1 is a game board generation circuit, 52 is a display screen, 53 is a control circuit, 54 is a -1-1-g, 55.56 is a switch for switching input information and reception/1i information, and 55.56 is an interlocking are doing.

Figure 4 shows a specific example of the configuration of the transmitter/receiver circuit.
1 is data block I] Tsuku appearance 1; "11, ('+ 2 is city: story number memory (for own use), 63 is a register that stores the move information each time, 64:, jino l use register , 65 is a collation circuit. 66 is a switch that switches the first hand information between the register 63 and the shift register 6/I, and 67 is a switch that switches the input of the collation circuit between the register 63 and the automatic dialing circuit 7. A switch 68 is a switch for switching the received information output from the shift register 64 between the verification circuit 65 and the display circuit 5.

FIG. 5 shows a specific configuration example of the automatic dialing circuit 7, in which 71 is a numeric keypad for manually inputting a telephone number, 72 is a telephone number memory (for the other party), 74 is a control circuit, 75 is a reading circuit, 76 is a counter, 77 is a counter for the repeat dial function, and 78 is a dial pulse generating circuit. 73 is a readout circuit 7 based on a control circuit 740 command.
5 between the counter 76 and the transmitting/receiving circuit 6. 79 is a switch that turns on/on the output of the control circuit 74 that drives the hook switch of the telephone 9;

Taking the most popular game game as an example, the operation of this device will be explained in detail based on the drawings. First, turn on the power switch of this device and turn on the game board surface generation circuit 51.
is activated to generate a base surface on the display screen 52. Next, after the players have agreed to the end of the series over the phone, place the handset of the telephone 9 on the communication line interface 8, and input the telephone number of the other party using the numeric keys 71 into the telephone number 4 memory 72.
Set to . The automatic dialing circuit 7 includes 44 transmitting/receiving circuits 6
A pulse corresponding to the set telephone number is sent to the readout circuit 75 via the control circuit 74 in response to a control signal input from the control circuit 74.
, the counter 76, and the dial pulse generating circuit 78 to automatically transmit the signal, which has the same function as turning a telephone dial. Control circuit 74 also controls the hook switch of telephone 9 during transmission and reception. Since the other party's phone may be "busy," the automatic call circuit 7 repeats the call at regular intervals.
A dial φ counter 77 is provided.

The game is played by interacting with the base surface of the display screen 52-H using the input key 4.
~In addition to the numeric keypad up to the decoy, there are also 1, 〆, and 〆, which indicate breaks.
It consists of keys such as 挪渭, 挪渭, ``I, 圓WORO, 口, 7加, 宨J面 -- 口 (not shown in the drawing) that indicate the type of stone. Proceed in the following way.Use these keys to enter the position and type of Go stone (for example, 1 old, ]November 1. Meaning of placing a black stone on 13 of ILI 43)■2, then press the [key When the key is pressed in this way, the pointing information is converted into, for example, an ASCII code and sent to the display circuit 5.

With this electronic game system @1, when there is a move input like this,
First, after displaying a black stone at a predetermined position on the display screen 52,
Activating the automatic dialing circuit 7 and connecting the telephone line 10,
Transfer the data block consisting of your phone number and handwriting information via the communication line interface 8 -> telephone 9 -> telephone line 10, and wait for the black stone to be displayed on the board 52 of the other party's electronic game device 1. A series of processes are performed, including disconnecting the line. In addition, o ” iz −/L/
' If the key is pressed, the switch 79 will be turned off, and the control circuit 74 will also cut off the Shingetsu line going to the telephone 9.
The hook switch is not turned off and the line goes into a hold state.

The guidelines for determining whether to hold a line will be discussed later.

A more detailed explanation of the series of processing in transmission is as follows. First, the display circuit 5 performs the following operations. When a move is input, the control circuit 53 operates to switch the interlocking switches 55 and 56, and the decoder 54 decodes the move information '3, 13, black' to display X-3, Y=t on the display screen 52.
Display a black stone at position a. Next, the control circuit 53 switches the switches 55 and 56 to transfer the pointing information to the transmitting/receiving circuit 6. In response to this, the transmitting/receiving circuit 6 first activates the data blocking circuit 61, calls the own telephone number 4 [January] from the telephone number memory 62, and adds the specified raw information, for example, '''0su○XXXX, 3 ,13゜black (○○○
Create a data block where ×××× is a phone number). Next, switch 66! , 11 is switched to store this data block in the register 63, and 66 is switched again to transfer it to the shift register 64. The shift register transfers the data block to the other device via the communication line ink face 8.

On the receiving side, the received signal is checked, the telephone number part is checked, and if it is confirmed that the signal is from a predetermined party, the signal is displayed on the base surface of the display screen 52. . Specifically, the received cheater block is first received by the shift register 64, and then the telephone number portion is transferred to the matching circuit 65, where it is compared with the other party's telephone number stored in the telephone number memory 72. If it's the same, switch 6
8, the remaining data is transferred to the display circuit 5, decoded by the decoder 54, and displayed on the display screen 52.C To check whether the transfer was performed correctly, the receiving side sends back the raw information. It is also possible to add a call back function to check with the memory on the sending side. In this case, after receiving the signal sent back, the transmitting side switches the switch 67 to the register 63 side, and
The above data block is taken into the inquiry circuit and compared with this.

If they do not match, the pointing information on the register 63 is transferred again according to the above procedure.

At the end of the game, the country τ whose one side is in the input key 4,
Or, this is done by pressing the key of 圓亚() to indicate that intention, and the other person presses the key of 匝次(21).Specifically, a predetermined code corresponding to that is transmitted. C1. It is decoded by the other party's decoder 54 and "
The words ``Conceded 1 Old Man'' are displayed on a part of the display screen. Judge the opponent's power by looking at this and press the key such as m1.

Even if you include the sender's phone number, the transfer information is at most 20 bytes = 160 bits.
Even at the lowest line speed of 300 b/s, the move can be transferred within 1 second. Compared to this 7, the price of the communication line interface 8 is cheaper, and one call can be made anywhere in Japan (1
Transfer within 0 yen)-C゛too. Therefore, at the moment, each game costs 4,000 yen for Nagisa.

The cost of calls is only 1/2 of the cost of telephone calls and postal services.

If you are playing against a close opponent, the call charges will be cheaper in 1F'4EILTFm mode.
, assuming that one game on i-university takes one and a half hours and ends with 200 moves.
This is a range of about 30 sands per call.This is equivalent to the distance between Yokohama and Yokohama.

In addition to the above-mentioned input methods, each TIII can be used in various ways.

Finger I,゛Input the information "3, 13. Black" to -me, 1
How to do it manually one by one, and each I on the display screen 52.
ft IN 57 and conductive GoJ like 6 III
- On the switch 581-liquid crystal window 59, press the digits ji; It is also possible to set it to 1 so that a Go stone pattern or a white Go stone pattern is displayed. In this case, the rubber switch 58 is the input key X, Y.
g, 14 corresponds to the part that gives the target value "3, 13", and the liquid crystal window 59 corresponds to a part of the display screen S2.

In the case of games other than Kaiki, such as Shogi and Othello, the display method, that is, the number of game board occurrences vr51, the input key 4, and the decoder 54, are different, but it goes without saying that the problem can be solved by simply changing these three.

Therefore, if these parts have multiple functions and can be switched with a switch, one device can be used for multiple games such as shogi, othello, etc.'? ■! ,
It is also possible to use it as a child station device or a consonant station device.

(5) Description of Effects As explained above, the present invention has been attempted in terms of cost and effort.
'ii+, story games, such as ``l-Tb7 story shogi'' J11 will be realistic. In the future, the so-called (Ifj
11! Along with people, terminal equipment mainly based on personal computers has spread into every household.

It is so powerful that it opens up the possibility of ``home-based games'' and even induces the brokerage of ``Meishin I-'Fii, Shinto Game L''.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG.
A diagram of the connection with the public electromechanical gland showing q, t, and Mr. B.
Fig. 2 shows the circuit configuration of this device 1--Example block diagram, Fig. 3 shows an example of the basic +1 embodiment of the display circuit with a display screen.
''・1 diagram, Figure 4 is an actual MIi example J-1 of the transmitter/receiver circuit
Physical 4'! ir jh, , Figure 5 shows a part of the automatic dial circuit: A example (1). , and an enlarged view of a part of it.
Hl 0 machine, 4... Input key, 5... Display amount 1-11
．． 6. Transmission/reception circuit, 7. Automatic dial circuit, 8.
・5i, II 4H: H times #,! ! ink face, 9
-...1[''L story filler 10...Public'i11 Qi Tracing Network (or City 1 story review), 51...Game f+, + face I
, Cow 1 decoy path, 52・Display screen, 53 Control 1 "-1st eye" 11.54...Decoder, 55.56...Sweet boot, 57...tlli eye 11'・"F component, 58 Heart Electric rubber switch, 59-...LCD window, 61...Data block circuit, 62...', IL talk memory, 63...
...Register, 64...Shift register, 65...Verification circuit, 66.67.68...Switch, 7 Toten key, 72...■1゜6 old number "i memory, 73-...Switch , 74... control circuit, 75... readout circuit,
76 Counter, 77 Counter (for repeat dial), 78...Dial pulse sum 1: Main circuit, 7
9...Switch.

Claims (1)

[Claims] Input keys, display screen (;J display circuit, transmitting/receiving circuit,
An electronic game device consisting of an automatic dialing circuit, equipped with at least a communication line interface, connected to a public telecommunications line, configured with a 1.5 configuration, and capable of inputting two hands using the input keys. When there is an input, a display corresponding to the move is displayed on the display screen, and the automatic dialing circuit is activated, and the automatic dialing circuit is connected to the same type of electronic game device of the other party set in advance via the communication line interface. An electronic game device characterized in that f\51 is configured to be automatically transferred to B1 Kagiiso.