JPS63125280A - Game apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] This bulletin contains application data before electronic filing, so abstract data is not recorded.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial Application Field] The present invention relates to a game device, and in particular, recognizes an indicator attached to a part of a player's body using an imaging means, and measures the distance between this indicator and the imaging means. This relates to a game device that plays a game by calculating with an electronic arithmetic processing circuit.

[Conventional technology]

In conventional TV dame devices, the player operates a hand stick or the like or depresses a mad switch with his or her foot to perform dame.

In particular, in combat sports such as boxing, the timing of punches was simply input using push buttons, etc. [Problems to be solved by the invention] However, conventional TV5'-me parts do not allow input. The information that should be given is 'p! Even in the case of movements of the hands and feet of the L player, input had to be made by operating a controller such as a joystick. Particularly in martial arts games such as Vokurenzu, the player simply inputs the timing of the punch, and cannot freely input the direction and speed of the punch.

For this reason, there was a problem in that the player could not enjoy the atmosphere of actually fighting an opponent, and the player would quickly get bored with the game. When the player is a young child, it is difficult to operate the controller, and there is a problem that the player cannot enjoy the TV game as desired.

[Means for solving problems]

The present invention was devised in view of the above problems, and includes an imaging means for recognizing an index attached to a part of a player's body, and a system for converting the video signal output of the imaging means into a digital signal. A-D converter and this A-D
A 7-frame buffer T for storing the digital output of the converter, and a large ! The present invention is characterized in that it comprises a calculation processing means for calculating the distance between the index and the imaging means from the first position, and a television deme device which inputs the distance calculated by the calculation processing means.

[Effect]

The present invention configured as described above recognizes an index attached to a part of the player's body using an imaging means, converts the video signal output of the imaging means into a digital signal using an A-D converter, This digital signal is stored in a 7-frame buffer, and based on the size of the image of the index in the imaging means,
The game is played by calculating the distance between the image pickup means and the index using the arithmetic processing means and inputting this distance signal to the input side of the television deme device.

〔Example〕

An embodiment of the present invention will be described based on the drawings. Reference numeral 1 denotes a video camera that recognizes an indicator a attached to a part of the player's body.

The video camera 1 is one of the imaging means, and may be a video camera using an image pickup tube such as an ITV (industrial camera) or a vidicon tube, or a video camera using a solid-state image pickup device such as a C0D (charge-coupled device). be able to. Note that it is also possible to employ a gagetal camera using an optical RAM, but of course it is necessary to use an appropriate optical lens in either case. Reference numeral 2 denotes an input processing section which processes the video signal analog output from the video camera 1 and performs noise processing and the like.

Reference numeral 3 denotes a high-speed AD converter, which converts the output signal of the input processing section 2 into a digital signal. This high-speed A-D converter 3 is preferably an 8-bit image processing A-D converter. 4 is a frame buffer that stores the digital output of the high-speed A-D converter 3, and is 512 x 512 x 8 bits. An image memory IC can be used. When performing color image processing, the R-G-B output signals of the video camera 1 are processed through three input processing units 2, 2.2, high-speed A-D converters 3, 3.3, and a frame buffer. 41
It is preferable to process them independently at 414.

Reference numeral 5 denotes a calculation processing means that calculates the distance between the index a and the video camera 1 from the size of the image of the finger 11m on the video camera 1. That is, it is first necessary to recognize the player's index a and calculate the size of the image formed by the lens of the video camera 1.

a of index a! For this purpose, pattern matching, which compares input image data with preset reference pattern data, and color matching can be applied. Also,
If a monochrome ITV (industrial camera) is used as the video camera 1, and a color filter having substantially the same color as the index a is attached to the lens of the video camera 1, an extremely inexpensive recognition device can be provided.

Furthermore, when photographing the same index a with a lens having the same focal length, the size of the image of the index a produced by this lens becomes smaller as the distance of the index a from the lens increases. That is, if the correspondence between the size of the lens image and the distance is stored in the arithmetic processing means 5, the movement l! of the finger [a! The separation can be calculated. Furthermore, by detecting the travel time, it is possible to calculate the travel speed of the index a.

Reference numeral 6 denotes a television deme device, which stores a boxing deme program in this embodiment. The distance, direction, speed, etc. of the punch thrown by the player are inputted to the input side of the television deme device W16. If the R player attaches the index a to a part of his arm, the arithmetic processing means 5 can calculate the distance, direction, and speed of the punch. In particular, if the finger ffa is made into a sphere, it is possible to calculate the speed of the punch, etc., which is related to the shooting direction.

In this embodiment configured as described above, the indicator a is attached to a part of the player's arm, and when the player throws a punch toward the opponent displayed on the display 61 of the television dame device 6, the video camera 1 takes a picture of the player, and the arithmetic processing means 5 recognizes the index a and records the speed and direction of the player's punch.

By calculating the distance and outputting it to the TV DEME equipment W16, it is possible to enjoy the atmosphere as if performing martial arts according to a boxing game program.

In the present embodiment, a case has been described in which a boxing game is adopted as a TV game device, but the present invention is not limited to a martial arts game, and any TV game that uses the player's body movements as input information will suffice. Further, the television deme device 6 may be a single deme-dedicated device or a general personal computer, and the entire embodiment can be configured as one deme-dedicated device. Further, it is desirable that the arithmetic processing means 5 perform various digital processing in order to reliably extract features of the image, and
If the lens of the video camera 1 is a zoom lens, the size of the image changes due to changes in focal length, so it is necessary to compensate for this in the arithmetic processing means 5.

〔effect〕

The present invention configured as described above recognizes an index attached to a part of the player's body using an imaging means, converts the video signal output of the imaging means into a digital signal using an A-D converter, and converts the video signal output from the imaging means into a digital signal. The digital signal is stored in a 7-frame buffer T, and based on the size of the image of the index in the imaging means,
The distance between the imaging means and the index is calculated by the arithmetic processing means, and this distance signal is introduced into the input side of the television deme device to perform redame, so that it is not necessary to operate a controller such as a joystick. This has the effect that the movements of the player's limbs can be used directly as input information.

Particularly in martial arts games such as boxing, by attaching indicators to the player's arm, it is possible to directly input punch speed, direction, etc., giving the player the feeling of actually fighting the opponent. This has the outstanding effect of allowing even young children to enjoy TV Dayme since no controller is required.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram showing one embodiment of the present invention. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1...Video camera 2...Input processing unit 3...High speed A-D converter 4...Frame fist buffer 5...Arithmetic processing means 6...Television device

Claims (3)

[Claims] (1) An imaging means for recognizing an index attached to a part of the player's body, an A-D converter for converting the video signal output of the imaging means into a digital signal, and an A-D converter for converting the video signal output of the imaging means into a digital signal. a frame buffer for storing digital output; a calculation processing means connected to the frame buffer for calculating the distance between the index and the imaging means from the size of the image of the index in the imaging means; 1. A gaming device comprising a television game device that inputs a distance calculated by a calculation processing means. (2) The gaming device according to claim 1, wherein the imaging means includes a color filter having the same color as the index. (3) The game device according to claim 1, wherein the calculation means calculates a change in the distance between the index and the imaging means, and calculates the moving speed of the index.