KR101036298B1 - Real-time game system and service using bio-sensor and communication terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a real-time game system and a service method using a biosensor and a communication terminal, and a method of providing a game service according to the present invention includes receiving a first biometric signal of participants from a communication terminal corresponding to each participant, The method includes determining a task to be performed on a predetermined game based on the first bio-signal, transmitting the determined task to the communication terminal, receiving the second bio-signal of the participants from the communication terminal in real time, The achievement degree of the performance task is calculated for each of the participants and the win or loss of the predetermined game is determined based on the calculated achievement degree to generate interest and motivation and it is possible to perform continuous health management regardless of time and place, It is possible to provide a flexible healthcare service suited to physical changes and changes in circumstances.

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD [0001] The present invention relates to a real-time game system and a service method using a biosensor and a communication terminal,

1 is a view showing a real-time game system using a biosensor according to an embodiment of the present invention divided into a game participant side and a server side.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a real-time game system using a biosensor according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a diagram illustrating a real-time game server using a biosensor according to another embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a flowchart illustrating an entire data flow of a real-time game system using a biosensor according to an embodiment of the present invention.

5 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing a real time game service using a biosensor according to an embodiment of the present invention.

6 is a flowchart illustrating a method for relaying a real time game service using a biosensor according to another embodiment of the present invention.

The present invention relates to a real-time game system and method using a biosensor, and more particularly, to a game system and method in which game participants perform tasks based on bio-signals measured by participants, And methods.

Conventional diet programs and health care programs consist of a method in which the user voluntarily carries out diet adjustment and exercise and then inputs the results directly into a management program using a PC or the like or directly describes the results in a health care notebook. In this conventional method, the user carries out health management with his / her own will in accordance with the standard calorie amount or exercise amount calculated based on basic body indexes such as his / her key, weight and sex, It reflects itself in the program.

Therefore, dieting and health care depend entirely on the voluntary efforts of the users themselves, which do not give sustained incentives and stimuli, and as a result, they often lead to failure due to decreased interest. In addition, the conventional diet program or health care program does not pay attention to the process, but focuses only on the attainment of the target value set at the beginning, so that the user can not actively cope with physical changes or changes in conditions of the user, . In addition, even in the case of a diet program using a conventional measurement device, continuous measurement responsibility is difficult for the user because of continuous measurement, and it is troublesome to go to a place where the measurement device is located and perform measurement.

Disclosure of Invention Technical Problem [8] The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and it is an object of the present invention to provide an apparatus and a method for preventing a user from arbitrarily inputting a handwriting result, And to provide a real-time game system and a service method that overcome the problem of losing interests over time. Also, the problem of failing to reflect the physical ability and individual difference of the user in the conventional health care program is solved.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of providing a game service, the method including receiving a first bio-signal of a participant from a communication terminal corresponding to each participant, Determining an execution task for a predetermined game based on the received first bio-signal; Receiving the second bio-signal of the participants from the communication terminal in real time after transmitting the determined performance task to the communication terminal; Calculating a degree of achievement of the performance task for each of the participants based on the received second bio-signal; And determining the win or loss of the predetermined game based on the calculated degree of achievement.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for relaying a game service, the method comprising: receiving a first bio-signal of a participant measured from at least one of a plurality of bio-sensors and transmitting the received first bio- Receiving a task for performing a predetermined game from the server, and displaying the received task to the participant; Receiving the second bio-signal of the participant measured from at least one of the plurality of biosensors after displaying the performance task, and transmitting the second bio-signal to the server in real time; And receiving a result of a predetermined game from the server and displaying the received result to the participant.

The present invention also provides a computer-readable recording medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute the above-described invention.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a server of a game system, comprising: a communication unit for receiving a first bio-signal of a participant from a communication terminal corresponding to each participant; And a task determination unit for determining a task to be performed on a predetermined game based on the received first bio-signal, wherein the communication unit transmits the determined task to the communication terminal, A calculation unit for receiving a bio-signal in real time and calculating a degree of achievement of the performance task for each of the participants based on the received second bio-signal; And a winning combination determining unit determining a win or loss of the predetermined game based on the calculated degree of achievement.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a communication terminal of a game system, comprising: a communication unit for receiving a first biometric signal of a participant measured from at least one of a plurality of biosensors and transmitting the first biometric signal to a server; And a display unit for receiving a task to be performed by a predetermined game from the server and displaying the received task to the participant, wherein the communication unit displays, after displaying the task, And transmits the result of the second game to the server in real time, and receives a result of a predetermined game from the server, and the display unit displays the received result of the win / lose to the participant.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

1 is a view showing a real-time game system using a biosensor according to an embodiment of the present invention divided into a game participant side and a server side. The game system according to the present embodiment is largely divided into a game participant side including a plurality of biosensors 100A and 100B and a communication terminal 200 and a server side including a server 300. [

The biosensors 100A and 100B are devices that are attached to or held by game participants and measure the bio-signals of the participants. The communication terminal 200 receives the measured bio-signals and transmits them to the server, The server 300 is a device for analyzing the bio-signal and providing appropriate instructions and information to the participant. Each device will be described in detail later.

The biosensors 100A and 100B and the communication terminal 200 are devices carried by game participants, and various communication protocols can be applied to communication between the devices. For example, wired serial communication, short-range wireless communication such as Zigbee and Bluetooth can be utilized. The biosensors 100A and 100B may include a plurality of sensors according to an object to be measured and each of the sensors may include an internal communication device for communicating with the communication terminal 200, It can be implemented in various ways.

Since the communication terminal 200 and the server 300 are generally remote, it is desirable to utilize long distance wireless communication rather than wire communication for communication between the two devices. For example, CDMA, Wibro, HSDPA and the like are available. Also, the communication terminal 200 may be a mobile phone, a PDA, a wibro terminal, or the like. Of course, it is also possible to connect the communication terminal 200 with a PC by using a wired communication cable so as to communicate with the server 300, but the use of the communication terminal 200 will be limited by its use.

Meanwhile, the game referred to in the present embodiment is characterized by determining how much the game participants have accomplished the task given from the server 300 for a predetermined time period, and determining the win or loss of the participants, The type of game, the number of participants, the game method, and the like, if the game system of the present invention can be implemented. The participants of the game can be one person or more than two people. In constituting the opponent of the game, each participant may be a one-person game consisting of one person, or a plurality of participants may be a group participatory game in which one team is competing against another team . In the case of the group participation type game, the determination of the win / loss can be implemented by a method of summing the achievement rates of the members of the respective teams and comparing the total sum of the achievement rates. Further, the opponent of the game may be another participant as illustrated above, but it may be a virtual person in advance in the game system. In game time, a short time of about 30 minutes or about 1 hour is preferable for a running game, but a relatively long time of about one month is required for a diet game.

In the following embodiments, the following two commands are transmitted from the server 300 to the communication terminal 200. The first is the performance task and the second is the action instruction. The performance task means the ultimate achievement goal of the game in which the user participates, and the action instruction means a small unit task that separately instructs the progress of the game in order to achieve the performance task. For example, assuming that a user is participating in a marathon game, running 1Km or 5Km will be a challenge and running 200M faster than the leader among the other players in the run, It may be urged to do so, or it may be a behavioral instruction, such as running too slowly and instructing the participant to run more slowly if an abnormality is found in the body.

In the following embodiments, the biosensor 100 performs two measurements. The first measurement is to measure a physical condition and a physical ability of a game participant to give an appropriate performance task, Is used to calculate the degree of achievement of a task performed by measuring a bio-signal of a game participant that changes as the game participant performs the assigned task. Since the first measurement is a measurement for setting the ultimate goal of the participating game, it is generally preferable to measure once, and the second measurement is a measurement for calculating the achievement degree of the task to be performed. Or may be measured several times at predetermined time intervals. In addition, in transmitting the measured bio-signals, it is desirable to transmit real-time measurement results in order to transmit immediate measurement results due to characteristics of communication terminals capable of communicating with the server at all times. However, since the first measurement of the two measurements is for determining the task to be performed by the participating game, it may not be transmitted in real time.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a real-time game system using a biosensor according to an embodiment of the present invention.

1, the biosensor 100 may be implemented with one or more sensors for measuring a bio-signal of a game participant. The bio-sensor 100 may include one or more sensors for measuring a momentum sensor 110 (e.g., A heart rate monitor, a calorie meter, a heart rate monitor, etc.), a chronic disease sensor (not shown) (for example, blood glucose, blood pressure, pulse rate, heart rate, cholesterol level, A waist circumference meter, etc.). Such a biosensor is desirably configured as a measurement-only apparatus which can not be arbitrarily operated by the user for objective measurement. In addition, the biosensor 100 is preferably carried by the user or attached to the body at all times in order to continuously measure the bio-signal. However, depending on the type of the biosensor, it may be classified into a sensor requiring continuous measurement and a sensor requiring a one-time measurement. For example, a momentum sensor needs to be carried by the user at all times, but a chronic disease sensor or an obesity sensor would be sufficient to carry out periodic measurements without having to carry it all the time. The biosensor 100 includes a communication unit 120 for communicating with the communication terminal 200. The communication unit 120 preferably communicates through short-range wireless communication as described with reference to FIG.

The communication terminal 200 can control the biosensors 100 and display information on tasks and games to the participants. The communication terminal 200 periodically communicates with the server 300, maintains the game progress state from the server, and provides the game participant with action instructions on the game progress and current status information on the game opponent. The communication terminal 200 includes a display unit 210 and a communication unit 220.

The display unit 210 receives an execution task of a predetermined game from the server, and displays the received task to the participant. Also, the player receives the win or loss of the game calculated on the basis of the accomplishment of the task to be performed on the game, and displays it to the participant.

The communication unit 220 receives bio-signals of the game participants measured from at least one of the plurality of biosensors 100, transmits the bio-signals to the server 300, and receives a task for a predetermined game from the server. After receiving the performance task, the bio-sensor receives the bio-signal of the game participant according to the performance task from at least one of the plurality of biosensors 100, transmits the biometric signal to the server 300, and receives the game result from the server. 1, the communication terminal 200 communicates with the biosensor 100 and the server 300, so that the communication unit 220 of the communication terminal communicates with the local wireless communication device and the server 300 communicating with the biosensor 100, Lt; RTI ID = 0.0 > 300 < / RTI >

The server 300 includes a task determination unit 311, a calculation unit 312, a win / loss determination unit 313, and a communication unit 320.

The task determination unit 311 determines a task to be performed on a predetermined game based on the bio-signals of the participants received from the communication terminal corresponding to each of the participants. In addition, the task determination unit 311 analyzes the bio-signals of the game participants according to the task to be performed, and further provides an action instruction to be performed by the participants based on the analysis result. As described above, the action instruction is a message given to a game participant in accordance with the progress of the game at predetermined time intervals apart from the task to determine the win or loss of the game. In other words, it could be an indication of the intermediate goal to achieve the final goal, the performance task. These performance tasks and behavioral instructions may vary depending on the type of game participants have participated in.

For example, in a climbing game of a team, the sum of the momentum of the team members belonging to the same team is calculated and compared with the sum of the momentum of the opponent team, and then a message urging the player to take action is displayed. You will be able to display a message instructing you to help a team member who has a low achievement level. In the above example, climbing to a certain point will be the task to be undertaken, and a message to act or a message to help other team members will be the action instruction. In addition, the result of analyzing the bio-signals measured as described above and the achievement degree of the game participants can be stored in the server as personalized information, so that it can be used as a basic data in other games in the future.

The calculation unit 312 calculates the achievement degree of the performance task for each participant based on the bio-signals of the participants received from the communication terminal after the performance task is given to the game participants. The achievement index can be obtained by numerically measuring the measured biomedical signal and calculating the achievement level arithmetically in preparation for the task assigned at the beginning.

The win / loss decision unit 313 receives and compares the achievement degree calculated for each of the game participants from the calculation unit 312, and determines win or loss of the game. If the number of participants is two or less, only the win or loss may be determined, and if there are a plurality of participants, the ranking may be determined.

The communication unit 320 receives the bio-signal from the communication terminal 200 and inputs it to the task determination unit 311 and the calculation unit 312. If the received bio-signal is the first measurement result, it corresponds to the case where the task is not yet determined yet. Therefore, the bio-signal will be input to the task determination unit 311, In the case of a bio-signal, it will be input to the calculation unit 312 to calculate the degree of achievement according to the task to be performed. The communication between the communication unit 320 and the communication unit 220 of the communication terminal 200 is preferably performed by long-distance wireless communication as described with reference to FIG.

3 is a diagram illustrating a real-time game server using a biosensor according to another embodiment of the present invention. 3, the server 300 further includes an expert system 315, and the task determination unit 311 further includes a relative evaluation algorithm 314. [

The relative evaluation algorithm 314 reflects the differences in physical abilities of the participants in the bio-signal analysis. That is, through the relative evaluation algorithm 314, the task determination unit 311 determines the relative physical ability level of the participants based on the analysis result of the received bio-signal, and performs the task with the difficulty proportional to the determined relative physical ability level . This relative ability level determination can lead to conclusions based on the individual's physical ability and condition. For example, a fat elderly woman and a healthy young man will make a big difference in their ability to run. If these two people participate in the same game, an elderly woman who has relatively poor physical ability will lose the interest of the young man, and will soon lose interest in the game.

Therefore, even those who are not able to run well should have a high level of accomplishment when they perform enough exercise based on their physical ability. For this reason, the relative evaluation algorithm 314 reflects the difference in the physical ability of the participant in the bio-signal analysis, and plays a role of assigning different tasks to the game. For example, with this relative evaluation algorithm 314, if a large number of participants participate in a running game, it is possible to assign 10Km for a young man and 2Km for an elderly woman.

The expert system 315 provides health conditions interpreted by the health professional group based on the analyzed bio-signals. The group of health professionals may be specialized personnel such as doctors, nurses, nutritionists and athletic specialists, and it is necessary to build in advance the related health information and advice in the form of a computerized knowledge base in the expert system 315 desirable. In addition, the expert system 315 may provide personalized advice to the participants during the game process, or may provide a countermeasure in the event of a problem in the body of the participant. In this case, the expert system 315 searches the accumulated knowledge base, analyzes the bio signal of the measured participant, and provides appropriate advice to the participant based on the analysis result, or a medical prescription for the emergency measure.

For example, suppose that a patient with hypertension participated in a marathon or climbing game. Data measured in advance or in real time using a chronic disease sensor or an obesity sensor in the biosensor 100 for the hypertensive patient will be managed as personalized information of the server. In general, hypertension patients can become a fatal risk if their blood pressure increases due to excessive exercise. Therefore, in these hypertensive patients, it is necessary to adjust the exercise amount to the extent that the physical stability is guaranteed. Basically, such adjustment can be achieved by the relative evaluation algorithm 314 reflecting the physical capabilities of the participant's individual in the measured bio signal analysis, but in the event of an anomaly in the participant's body, Risk management will be possible.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating an entire data flow of a real-time game system using a biosensor according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In step S401, the biosensor 100 measures the first bio-signal of the game participant. This is the same as the role of the biosensor described in FIGS. 1 and 2 above.

The first bio-signal measured by the bio-sensor 100 is transmitted to the server 300 through the communication terminal 200 in step S402. Step S402 shows that the communication terminal 200 plays a role of a repeater for data transmission from the biosensor 100 to the server 300.

In step S403, the server 300 determines the task to be performed based on the received bio-signal, and transmits the task for the participating game from the server 300 to the communication terminal 200 in step S404. Steps S403 and S404 are the same as those of the server described with reference to FIG. 1 and FIG.

In step S405, the communication terminal 200 displays an execution task to the game participant, thereby inducing execution of the participant.

In step S406, the biosensor 100 measures the second bio-signal of the game participant according to the task to be performed, and transmits the second bio-signal measured in step S407 to the server 300 through the communication terminal 200. [ As described above, the transmission of the second living body signal is preferably performed in real time.

In step S408, the server 300 calculates the achievement degree of the performance task from the second bio-signal analysis result measured for a predetermined period of time, and determines the win or loss of the game based on the achievement degree.

In step S409, the result of the win / lose is transmitted to the communication terminal 200. In step S410, the communication terminal 200 displays the win / lose result to the game participant.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing a real-time game service using a biosensor according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The first bio-signal of the participants is received from the communication terminal in step S501, the task to be performed on the game is determined on the basis of the first bio-signal received in step S502, the task is transmitted to the communication terminal in step S503, And receives the second bio-signals of participants from the terminal in real time. In step S504, based on the second bio-signal, the degree of achievement of the task to be performed is calculated for each participant, and the win or loss of the game is determined based on the degree of achievement calculated in step S505. Since the respective steps are the same as those described with reference to FIG. 4, detailed description will be omitted.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart illustrating a method of relaying a real time game service using a biosensor according to another embodiment of the present invention, which shows a step occurring on the game participant side of FIG. 1.

In step S601, the first bio-signal of the game participant measured from at least one of the plurality of biosensors is received and transmitted to the server. In step S602, the task for the game is received from the server and displayed to the user. In step S603, the second biometric signal of the participant measured from at least one of the plurality of biosensors after displaying the task is received and transmitted to the server in real time. In step S604, the player receives a result of a predetermined game from the server and displays it to the participant. Since the respective steps are the same as those described with reference to FIG. 4, detailed description will be omitted.

The preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described above. It will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes in form and details may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims. Therefore, the disclosed embodiments should be considered in an illustrative rather than a restrictive sense. The scope of the present invention is defined by the appended claims rather than by the foregoing description, and all differences within the scope of equivalents thereof should be construed as being included in the present invention.

In order to overcome the problem of interest reduction and the inconvenience of momentum input and arbitrary handwriting input by the user, limitation of exercise place and time, which are dependent on voluntary efforts of the user in the conventional diet and health care program, The bio-signal of the user is measured objectively, and the measured bio-signal is transmitted to the server through the communication terminal in real time, thereby enabling continuous health management regardless of time and place. Based on the result of analysis of the user's bio- And provides a flexible health management service according to the change of the user's physical condition and situation, and introduces a game element that determines win / lose based on achievement task achievement, to provide. Also, the present invention provides a real-time game system and a service method in which interest and motivation are maintained by reflecting differences in physical capabilities of game participants in assigning tasks to users.

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The server receiving a first bio-signal of the participants from a communication terminal corresponding to each of the participants; Determining, by the server, a performance task that requires a different physical activity for each of the participants for a predetermined game based on the received first bio-signal; Receiving, in real time, a second bio-signal of the participants from the communication terminal after the server transmits the determined task to the communication terminal; The server calculating the degree of achievement of the performance task for each of the participants based on the received second bio-signal; And And the server determining the win or loss of the predetermined game based on the calculated degree of achievement, Wherein the determining of the performance task comprises: determining a relative physical ability level of the participants based on the analysis result of the first bio-signal, performing a different task for each of the participants so as to have a difficulty proportional to the determined relative physical ability level And determining whether the game service is available. delete The method according to claim 1, Further comprising transmitting, by the server, a behavior instruction requesting physical activity to be performed by the participants based on the analysis result of the second bio-signal. The method according to claim 1, Further comprising the step of the server transmitting to the communication terminal a health condition advice generated from an expert system based on an analysis result of at least one of the first biometrics signal and the second biometrics signal . A computer-readable recording medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute the method according to any one of claims 1, 3, and 4. Receiving a first bio-signal of a participant measured from at least one of the plurality of biosensors and transmitting the first bio-signal to the server; Receiving from the server a task to perform a different physical activity for each participant for a predetermined game from the server, and displaying the received task to the participant; Receiving the second bio-signal of the participant measured from at least one of the plurality of biosensors after the communication terminal displays the performance task, and transmitting the second bio-signal to the server in real time; And Receiving a result of a predetermined game outcome from the server and displaying the result to the participant; Wherein the performance task is differently assigned to each of the participants so as to have a degree of difficulty proportional to a relative physical ability level determined based on an analysis result of the first bio-signal. A computer-readable recording medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute the method of claim 6. A communication unit for receiving a first bio-signal of the participants from a communication terminal corresponding to each of the participants; And And a task determination unit for determining an execution task that requires a different physical activity for each of the participants for a predetermined game based on the received first bio-signal, Wherein the communication unit receives the second bio-signals of the participants from the communication terminal in real time after transmitting the determined task to the communication terminal, A calculation unit for calculating a degree of achievement of the performance task for each of the participants based on the received second bio-signal; And Further comprising a win / lose determination unit for deciding win or loss of the predetermined game based on the calculated degree of achievement, Wherein the task determination unit determines a relative physical ability level of the participants based on the analysis result of the first bio-signal, and determines a relative task performance for each of the participants so as to have a difficulty proportional to the determined relative physical capability level And an evaluation algorithm. delete A communication unit for receiving the first bio-signal of the participant measured from at least one of the plurality of bio-sensors and transmitting the first bio-signal to the server; And And a display unit for receiving an execution task requesting a different physical activity for each of the participants for the predetermined game from the server and displaying the received task to the participant, Wherein the communication unit receives the second bio-signal of the participant measured from at least one of the plurality of biosensors after displaying the performance task, transmits the second bio-signal to the server in real time, receives a result of a predetermined game from the server, Wherein the display unit displays the received win / lose result to the participant, Wherein the performance task is differently assigned to each of the participants so as to have a degree of difficulty proportional to a relative physical ability level determined based on an analysis result of the first bio-signal. A plurality of biosensors for measuring a bio signal of a participant; A communication terminal for receiving the first bio-signal of the participant measured from the biosensors and transmitting the first bio-signal to the server; And And a server for determining an execution task that requires a different physical activity for each of the participants for a predetermined game based on the first bio-signal received from the communication terminal, and transmitting the determined performance task to the communication terminal, The communication terminal receives the second bio-signal of the participant measured from the biosensors after receiving the performance task, and transmits the second bio-signal to the server, Wherein the communication terminal determines success or failure of the predetermined game based on achievement of the performance task calculated from the second bio-signal after receiving the second bio-signal, Wherein the performance task is differently assigned to each of the participants so as to have a degree of difficulty proportional to a relative physical ability level determined based on an analysis result of the first bio-signal.

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