KR101458190B1 - The billiards automation system - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a billiard room automating system for integrally managing charging and payment for orders and billiard games in each billiard room, each billiard room relating to advertisement output, users, advertisements, and events. For this purpose, provided is a billiard room automating system including multiple game control units by billiard table installed in each of at least one billiard table installed in a billiard room to count game time following the progress of a billiard game, calculate a game fee according to the count result, photograph game images, calculate and display scores through the real time processing and analysis of the images, paly tracking data, and calculate and suggest optimized shot advice information, multiple POS/management servers by billiard room installed at desk of each billiard room to input or set game-related information formed through each game control unit by billiard table, process charging, calculation, and payment for costs relating to orders and the progress of games, and control output by storing and managing at least one advertisement content to be exposed through each game control unit by billiard table, and a central management server connected to the POS/management servers by billiard room through a network to integrally manage information of each billiard room through the POS/management servers by POS/management servers room. Thus, each billiard room dotted around the country is able to be efficiently managed.

Description

The billiards automation system

The present invention relates to a billiard automation system, and more particularly, to a billiard automation system that automatically controls a game progressed by a billiard table in a billiard room, replaying a bill of a bill and a bill of a billet through a monitoring screen, The POS / management server in the billiard room can be communicatively connected to the central management server so that the POS / management server for each billiard place can provide the optimal game advice information through the position analysis, A billiard automation system that enables billing and settlement of billing and settlement costs of the game and order, and can manage the billiard room management, user management, advertisement management, event management and maintenance at each central management server will be.

Generally, a billiard game is a sports game that can be easily accessed without distinction between men and women, and various numbers and colors of balls can be used according to the type of game. Basically, a cue table and a billiard table must be installed for a game. In a conventional billiard room, a game board for displaying a game score of the billiard table is provided near the billiard table. The game board board is provided with a timer for counting and displaying a scoreboard and a game time just like an abacus .

In such a billiard game, a necessary number of balls according to the game type are placed on a flat billiard table, and a game participant sets the order of the game, and then the ball is hit by a cue ball to directly match another ball, In the course of such a game, when considering the points indicated on the rectangular billiard table, the angle at which the ball is positioned, the ball's rotational force, the ball's point of hit and the force control of the cue ball, It requires careful rotation of the brain based on the number of various cases and various experiences taking into account the repulsion due to the impact of the ball, the elasticity and the repulsive force of the cushion, and the like.

Therefore, a billiard game can be applied to various techniques at every game, so that the same technique and pattern need not be repeated every game but a careful batting technique considering the position and angle of the ball according to each situation.

However, in general, a game player is expected to hit the ball when he or she expects the ball to hit the ball when the ball is hit. However, when the ball game is being played, the ball is likely to hit the ball while the ball is forming an unpredictable trajectory In this case, the ball is rolled into the ball with a track that the game player does not know, so it is very difficult for the player who actually played the ball to draw the trajectory again in his head as to how the ball he hit was hit by the ball .

On the other hand, Korean Patent Laid-Open No. 10-2009-0115091 (published on November 4, 2009, hereinafter abbreviated as "Patent Document 1") discloses a billiard integrated service system using the Internet and a technique related to the billiard integrated service system .

According to Patent Document 1, an input unit for inputting and accepting basic information including item information of a billiard game and game start / end time information from a user, inputting and receiving billing information while the game is in progress, A control unit for receiving and storing game start / end time information, calculating and updating score information and average score information of the billiard game based on the other game information, and outputting member information and basic information A billiard table terminal having a main monitor for displaying the number information and the average score information and a billiard room management program for managing a billiard game played in the billiard table, and based on the game start / end time information output from the billiard table terminal It calculates and displays billing information for billiard game, and displays billing information, membership information, basic game information, batting information, score information And a pool hall management server for collectively managing the billiard game played in the billiard table by storing and outputting the average score information and providing it on an online basis. By combining the conventional offline billiard game with the online service by combining the conventional offline billiard service, And made it available online.

Also, Korean Patent No. 10-1072509 (Registered on May 10, 2011; hereinafter referred to as "Patent Document 2") discloses a system for managing a membership-based billiard game and a technique thereof.

According to Patent Document 2, there are provided a video image pickup means provided above a billiard table, video display means connected to a communication line to display an image obtained by the video image pickup means in a predetermined frame, A client server having a game image database and a membership information database in which registered image data and registered member information are stored, and the client server is capable of real-time data transmission / reception with an operator main server for uploading and managing contents required on the Internet web The main server includes a client image storage DB for storing and managing images uploaded from the client server, a member information DB for storing, managing and sharing the member information registered in a plurality of client servers, City Internet Provide necessary video on the web A game image of a registered member is stored in a client server of a business operator operating a billiard room, including a standardized application provided for reproduction on a substitute mobile device, and a stored image is displayed so that a game image can be confirmed. A plurality of client servers and a main server of a business operator are synchronized to share membership information and a game image DB so that members can be provided with images on the web.

KR 10-2009-0115091 A 2009.11.04 Released KR 10-1072509 B1 Registered on October 10, 2011

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Accordingly, the present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a billiard- It provides optimum advice information for batting, and connects POS / management server for each billiard place to the central management server through the network to manage the billiard game in each billiard room, billing and payment of order related expenses, The management and maintenance of billiard room, user, advertisement, event can be integrated management by central management server. By efficiently managing each billiard room scattered throughout the country, it is possible to enhance the belonging feeling of users and improve service quality, And to provide a billiard automation system that can be designed.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a billiard game system comprising: a plurality of billiard tables provided in a billiard room, Calculating the game cost according to the game time count and the count result according to the progress of the billiard game on the billiard table, calculating and displaying the score through the shooting of the game image, analyzing and processing the real time image, It controls the exposure of the content and extracts and reproduces the tracking data of the ball and the ball by analyzing the images of the batted ball in the order of the progression or analyzes the position of the ball and the ball from the currently captured image according to the key input of the player, A large number of billiard games for calculating and displaying advice information And a game control unit installed in the desk of each billiard room and communicably connected to each billiard game control unit to input or set game related information through each billiard game control unit, And a POS / management server for each billiard place for storing and managing one or more advertisement contents to be exposed through the billiard game control unit and controlling the output thereof, and POS / And has one or more server for each billiard room and user management, advertisement management, event management and maintenance, and it is possible to manage a billiard and billiard management, billing and sales management, contract, License management, advertising subscription and exposure management, management of creatives, management of exposure results, distribution of advertising costs, and Billiard automation system, which includes a central management server for collectively managing billiards information distributed throughout the country through collection management, status monitoring and upgrade management, network monitoring and maintenance management, event execution and schedule management, event participants, to be.

In the billiard automation system according to the present invention, each billiard game control unit is provided in correspondence with the number of billiard balls to control the progress of each billiard game, Control and analyzing the captured images in real time, and extracting the tracking data of the ball and the ball in the sequence of the ball in order to reproduce the motion trajectory of each ball on the monitoring screen as an overlay image, A billiard game control terminal for analyzing a current bill and a position of a billiard ball, calculating optimal billiard advice information according to a position analysis result and displaying the information on a monitoring screen, Monitoring screen that can simultaneously output video A user interface unit for providing a key input signal generated according to a touch input of a game player to the game control terminal for the billiard game or for outputting a video image received from the game control terminal for billiard game to a monitoring screen, And an image capturing unit connected to the billiard game control terminal, capturing an image at an upper portion of the billiard table, and delivering the captured image to the billiard game control terminal.

Also, in the billiard game automation system according to the present invention, the billiard game control terminal recognizes only the billiard area from the images taken at each billiard table, and monitors whether or not the ball is captured by monitoring the cut image. The overlay image is generated by adjusting the interval so that all the tracking data except for the tracking data adjacent to the cushion of the billiard table are not duplicated among the extracted tracking data, A playback management unit for displaying the video as a monitoring screen or storing the video as a file, and calculating the optimum hit information by analyzing the current position of the ball and the ball by analyzing the image captured by the pool table at the request of the player, And an advice providing unit.

In the billiard automation system according to the present invention, the user interface unit includes a game rule setting / display unit for inputting or setting the number of game participants related to the billiard game, A game time setting / display unit for setting start, stop, or end; a game time / cost display unit for displaying the counting time according to the progress of the game and the game cost calculated according to the counting result; And a monitoring screen display unit for displaying an optimal shot advice information. The display unit may include a current time display unit, a display unit for displaying the movement sign of the ball, At least one of display or event participation or SNS interworking function A function setting unit having one or more function keys for selecting functions, and an advertisement display unit for displaying advertisement contents or announcement information associated with at least one respective billiard indoor advertisement or a local advertisement or a central advertisement, And may further comprise the above.

In the billiard automation system according to the present invention, the central management server includes a billiard management server for managing a billiards room and billiards management, billing and sales management, contract and license management, a user management server for billiard user management, Advertisement management server for management of exposure, management of advertisement, management of exposure result, allocation and collection of advertisement expenses, maintenance monitoring and upgrade management, maintenance server for network monitoring and maintenance management, event execution and schedule management, An event participant, and an event management server for prize management.

According to the present invention, images of each hit of a game progressed by each billiard table in each billiard table in the billiard room can be photographed, and the motion trajectory of the bill and the billiard can be replayed as a monitoring screen through real- The game player is allowed to proceed to the billiard game while referring to the image analysis result of his bat, thereby helping the player improve the billiard skill.

In addition, according to the present invention, when a game player wishes to analyze the position of a current enemy ball and a water ball through image analysis, it is possible to receive optimal game advice information while giving a penalty to the game player by charging or applying a handicap So that it is possible to provide the game advice information so as not to be in conflict with the equality with other game players.

The present invention also relates to a billiard game control terminal connected to a POS / management server in a billiard room by a billiard game control terminal, and a POS / management server for each billiard room, Processing, settlement and settlement, and output and management of advertisements can be made through the game control terminal for each billiard game. POS / management server for each billiard room is connected to the central management server through a network, , User management, advertisement management, event management, and maintenance can be integrated. Therefore, through integrated management of billiard games at each billiard place scattered all over the country, it is possible to enhance the belonging feeling of game players and improve service quality, But also to billiards operators, And the content can be provided in real time, thereby providing an advertising revenue generating effect through advertisement.

1 is a block diagram schematically illustrating an overall configuration of a billiard automation system according to the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a process of generating an overlay screen for a ball motion trajectory performed by the playback management unit in the billiard automation system according to the present invention.
FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a process of generating hit advise information performed by an adviser in the billiard automation system according to the present invention.
4 is a diagram illustrating an embodiment of the user interface unit of FIG.
FIG. 5 is a reference view illustrating a state (b) in which a billiard game control terminal and a user interface unit of a billiard automation system according to the present invention are installed on a conventional game board a provided on the side of each billiard table.
FIG. 6 is a reference view illustrating a state in which the image radiographing unit of FIG. 1 is installed above a billiard table.
7 is a flowchart illustrating an event progress process performed by an event progress unit in a billiard automation system according to the present invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, the construction and overall operation of a billiard automation system according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

It is to be understood that the words or words used in the present specification and claims are not to be construed in a conventional or dictionary sense and that the inventor can properly define the concept of a term in order to describe its invention in the best possible way And should be construed in light of the meanings and concepts consistent with the technical idea of the present invention. Therefore, it should be understood that the embodiments described herein and the configurations shown in the drawings are only the most preferred embodiments of the present invention, and that various equivalents and modifications may be substituted for them at the time of the present application shall.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram schematically illustrating an overall configuration of a billiard room automation system according to the present invention. As illustrated in the drawing, a billiard automation system according to the present invention includes a plurality of billiard game control units 100a to 100m, A plurality of POS / management servers 200a to 200n for each billiards room, and a central management server 300. 1, m billiard game control units 100a-100m provided in one billiard room are connected to one POS / management server 200a per billiard place so as to be capable of wired or wireless communication, The POS / management server 200a-200n for each billiards room is connected to one central management server 300 through a wired network. However, this is merely an example implemented to explain the overall concept of the present invention, It will be appreciated that other numbers of pool tables may be provided and the present invention is not limited thereto.

A plurality of billiard game control units 100a to 100m are provided corresponding to one or more billiard tables (10 in Fig. 6) provided in one billiard room, and each POS / management server And 200a are illustrated in Fig. 1), and controls the input or setting and display of one or more game-related information for each billiard table set by the game player. Each of the billiard game control units 100a-100m interlocks with the POS / management server 200a for each billiard room to calculate the game time according to the progress of the billiard game on the billiard table and the count result, Calculates and displays scores through shooting and real-time image analysis and processing of game images, and controls exposure of one or more pieces of advertisement content received at POS / management server 200a per billiard room. In addition, each of the billiard game control units 100a to 100m analyzes the image of the batted ball in the progressed order, and calculates a game ball using the ball (the ball using the cue as a game) and one or more balls ) Or analyzes the positions of the ball and the ball from the currently photographed image according to the key input of the player, and calculates and displays the optimal ball hitting advice information.

Each of the billiard game control units 100a to 100m may include a billiard game control terminal 110, a user interface unit 120, and a video image pickup unit 130. In FIG. 1, only the detailed components included in one billiard game control unit 100a are illustrated, but other remaining billiard game control units 100b-100m may be configured in the same manner.

The billiard game control terminal 110 is provided in correspondence with the number of the billiard tables to control the game progress for each billiard game and controls the image shooting for each hit of the billiard game in real time in each billiard table, Analysis and processing are performed to extract the tracking data of the ball and the ball of the ball in the order of the progressed ball, and the motion trajectory of each ball is reproduced on the monitoring screen as an overlay image, or the current image Analyze the position of the ball and the ball and calculate the optimal ball alignment advice information according to the position analysis result and display it on the monitoring screen. Particularly, the billiard game control terminal 110 recognizes the order of the players by distinguishing the colors of balls according to one or more game-related information inputted or set through the user interface unit 120 to be described later, And to count and display the score by analyzing the color and movement of the ball from the image photographed through the camera 130. [

The billiard game control terminal 110 may include a playback management unit 111 and an advice provider 112.

 FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a process of generating an overlay screen for a ball motion trajectory performed by the playback management unit in the billiard automation system according to the present invention. The playback management unit 111 receives, from a pooled image, 2, it is checked whether or not the motion of the ball is captured as shown in FIG. 2 through monitoring of the cut image, and the motion of the ball is detected from the motion capture point of the first ball to the motion stop point of all the balls And an overlay image is generated by adjusting the interval so that all the tracking data except the tracking data adjacent to the cushion of the billiard table are not overlapped with each other, and displayed as a monitoring screen or stored as a file.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a process of generating hit advise information by an advice providing unit in a billiard automation system according to the present invention. The advise providing unit 112 includes an advise providing unit 112, As illustrated in FIG. 3, the position of the current enemy ball and the ball is analyzed, and the initial set handicap is analyzed to determine the optimal ball hitting advice information (for example, the direction of the ball, the position of the ball, Intensity or spin intensity) may be calculated and displayed on a monitoring screen. At this time, the advice provider 112 can calculate and provide hit information on the basis of the initial billiards score of each player set before the game, and the advice provider 112 can provide optimal game advice information , It is preferable to give the player a penalty selected from among charging or handicapping.

The user interface unit 120 is connected to the billiard game control terminal 110 and has a monitoring screen implemented as a touch screen so that both the touch input and the video output can be simultaneously performed to generate a key input signal generated according to the screen touch input of the player To the billiard game control terminal 110 or to the billiard game control terminal 110, on the monitoring screen implemented by the touch screen.

FIG. 4 illustrates an embodiment of the user interface unit of FIG. 1. The user interface unit 120 includes a game rule setting / display unit 121, a game arbitration setting / display unit 122, A game time / cost display unit 123 and a monitoring screen display unit 124. The user interface unit 120 may include a current time display unit 125, a function setting unit 126, (127a-127c). ≪ / RTI >

In addition, the user interface unit 120 may include a correction tool (not shown in the figure) that allows a user to correct an error of a score counted by the billiard game control terminal 110. [

The game rule setting / display unit 121 can display the input or setting of the number of game participants associated with the billiard game, the order of each game item, the initial billiard score per game item, and the set value and state thereof. , It is possible to display the input or setting of the handicap information to be given to each game player and the set value and the status. Such handicap information may be automatically given by reflecting the billiard score of the initially set player.

The game abilities setting / display unit 122 sets the start, stop or end of the game and displays the setting status.

The game time / cost display unit 123 displays the count time according to the progress of the game and the game cost calculated according to the count result.

The monitoring screen display unit 124 displays a water balloon, a movement locus image of the ball, or an optimal ball ball advice information on the ball. In the drawing, a monitoring screen is illustrated in which only the trajectory of the billiard table and the ball is cut out from the video signal photographed by the video shooting unit 130, and the trajectory of the ball motion is overlaid on each other without overlapping each other.

The current time display unit 125 displays the current time.

The function setting unit 126 may include one or more function keys that can select at least one function among display of the cue ball for the hit ball and the motion locus image of the ball, optimal hit ball advice information display, event participation, or SNS interaction function do.

The advertisement display units 127a-127c may be configured to display advertisement contents or announcement information related to one or more respective billiards room self-advertisements or a local advertisement or a central advertisement, A first advertisement display unit 127a for displaying contents, a second advertisement display unit 127b for displaying advertisement contents and / or announcement information related to local advertisement, a central advertisement server 127b for providing central advertisement And a third advertisement display unit 127c for displaying advertisement contents and / or announcement information related to the advertisement contents.

The billiard game control terminal 110 and the user interface unit 120 according to the present invention configured as described above may be installed in the existing game board (a) provided on the side of each billiard table as illustrated in FIG. 5 (b) Can be mounted.

FIG. 6 is a state in which the video radiographing portion of FIG. 1 is installed on the billiard table. The video radiographing portion 130 is composed of a camera installed at the upper center of each billiard table 10 as illustrated in FIG. 6, The control terminal 110 is connected to the billiard table 10 to capture an image at the center of the billiard table 10 and transmit the image to the billiard game control terminal 110.

A plurality of POS / management servers 200a-200n for each billiards room are installed at the desks of respective billiards places, and POS / management servers 200a-200n for each billiards room are provided for each billiard game control unit 100a -100m) so as to input or set game related information through a plurality of billiard game control units 100a-100m, billing and settlement of billing and billing related to the proceeding of the game and the order. The POS / management server 200a-200n for each billiard room stores and manages one or more advertisement contents to be exposed through each billiard game control unit 100a-100m, and controls the output thereof.

Each of the POS / management servers 200a-200n for each billiards room may include an event progress unit 210.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart illustrating an event progress process performed by the event progress unit in the billiard automation system according to the present invention. The event progress unit 210 includes an event management server 350 ), Announcement information indicating the progress of the event is simultaneously displayed through the advertisement display units 127a-127c of the game control units 100a-100m for each billiard table so that the player can select whether or not to participate in the event When an event participation selection by the game player is made, the game control unit for each billiard game group (for example, one of 100a-100m in which event participation is selected by the game player during a predetermined time or event time, Or two or more units) of the billiard game, The image capturing unit 130 of the billiard table to capture an event-performed image on the billiard table, confirm success of the task included in the event information through the captured image analysis, 350). The event progress unit 210 notifies the result of the event win on the monitoring screen installed in each of the billiard game control units 100a-100m so that the winning player can receive the goods in the billiard room. Here, the event-successful video refers to, for example, a ball (a ball and one or more ball) on a billiard table in a form designated by the central management server 300 within a specified event time, The hit action to be performed may be a photographed image.

The central management server 300 is communicably connected to the POS / management server 200a-200n for each billiards place individually installed in each billiard room through a network, and is provided with a billing service for each billiard room and user management, advertisement management, Billing and sales management, contract and license management, advertising subscription and exposure management, billing and billing management, billing and sales management, billing and sales management, It manages all the billiards information distributed throughout the country through management, exposure result management, distribution and collection management of advertisement expenses, status monitoring and upgrade management, network monitoring and maintenance management, event execution and schedule management, event participant and prize management .

The central management server 300 may include a billiard room management server 310, a subscriber management server 320, an advertisement management server 330, a maintenance server 340, and an event management server 350 .

The billiard room management server 310 manages the billiard room management and billiard management, billing and sales management, contracts, and licenses for the affiliated billiards room.

The subscriber management server 320 manages the store information of the billiard room registered as the merchant.

The advertisement management server 330 manages subscription and exposure management of advertisements, advertisement management, exposure result management, distribution and collection of advertisement expenses.

The maintenance server 340 manages status monitoring and upgrade management, network monitoring and maintenance.

The event management server 350 manages event execution and schedule management, event participants, and prize information. The event management server 350 simultaneously transmits event information including images of the tasks to be set to a plurality of POS / management servers 200a-200n for each billiard room through a network by setting predetermined time or event time. In addition, the event management server 350 selects an event participant game player for automatically receiving an event-performing video image received from one or more event-progressing unit 210 and paying an event-related commodity, To the event progress unit 210 of the POS / management server 200a-200n for each billiards room.

The operation of the billiard automation system of the present invention configured as described above and its operation and effect will be described below.

First, for example, when a billiard game is to be performed using any one of a plurality of billiard tables installed on the first billiard room (assuming, for example, the first billiard table), the game player uses the billiard game control unit 100a The game rule setting / display unit 121 provided in the interface unit 120 can input or set the number of game participants associated with the billiard game, the order of each player, and the initial billiard score per game.

At this time, values and states inputted or set by the game player are displayed through the corresponding display unit. If game start is set through the game type setting / display unit 122, the POS / management server 200a per billiard room and the billiard game control unit And the billing and billing of the game cost according to the progress of the billiard game while calculating and displaying the score through the shooting of the game image on the billiard table and the real time image analysis and processing through the video shooting unit 130, And order processing are controlled and information management is performed.

During the game, the billiard game control unit 100a transmits one or more self-advertisements, local advertisements, and central advertisement contents received from the POS / management server 200a for each billiards place through one or more advertisement displays 127a to 127c Respectively.

The game control unit 100a of the billiard game unit recognizes only the billiard area from the images of the balls in the order played through the playback management unit 111 and crops the watched game image, As shown in FIG. 2, it is checked whether or not the ball is captured, and the tracking data for the ball in which the motion is captured from the motion capture point of the first ball to the motion stop point of all the balls is extracted in real time. An overlay image is generated by adjusting the intervals so that all the tracking data except for the cushion of the billiard cushion are not overlapped with each other so that the motion trajectory of the ball can be reproduced in the overlay state through the monitoring screen display unit 124 of the user interface unit 120 This allows each player to control his or her hand, Movement Allows you to easily identify the movement trajectory for one or more enemy objects.

If the current game number of the game is requested by the user of the function setting unit 126 of the user interface unit 120 to provide the pitch information, the game control unit 100a of the billiard game unit 100a, The controller 110 analyzes the positions of the ball and ball from the image currently photographed through the advise providing unit 112 and reflects the billiards score of the player of the initially set current order (for example, (For example, the direction of the batted ball, the position of the batted ball, the strength of the required force at the time of batting, the spin intensity, etc.) suitable for the game player and calculates the optimum hit batting advice information 124), thereby allowing the game player of the order of the number to display the best game game Using the device information to conduct a game of billiards.

In addition, the advice provider 112 grasps the handicap (or handicap automatically given according to the billiard score) of the game player of the initial set order, and selects from the billing or the handicap application corresponding to the price providing the optimal game advice information By giving any one of the penalties to the game player, it is possible to proceed the billiard game under the condition that the game player who has been provided with the game advice information and the game player who is not provided are equal to each other.

Meanwhile, the central management server 300 manages billing and billing management, billing and sales management, billing and billing management through the billiard room management server 310, the subscriber management server 320, the advertisement management server 330 and the maintenance server 340 And license management, subscription and exposure management of advertisements, management of creatives, management of exposure results, distribution and collection management of advertising costs, status monitoring and upgrade management, network monitoring and maintenance management, event execution and schedule management The event management server 350 sends the event information to the POS / management server 200a-200n for each billiards room simultaneously through the network, if the preset specific time or event progress time for the event arrives do.

Therefore, when the event information is received from the event management server 350 of the central management server 300 during the billiard game, the POS / management server 200a for each billiards room receives event information through the event progress unit 210 , Advertisement information indicating the progress of the event is simultaneously displayed through the advertisement display units 127a-127c of the billiard game control units 100a-100m so that each player can select whether to participate in the event.

At this time, if the event participation selection by the game player using the first billiard table is made, the POS / management server 200a for each billiards room, through the event progress unit 210, The billing of the billiard game to the billiard game control unit 100a is temporarily suspended and the video shooting unit 130 of the billiard game control unit is controlled to shoot the event performing video on the billiard table, The event management server 350 confirms the success or failure of the task included in the event information and transmits the event-successful image to the event management server 350.

Accordingly, the event management server 350 of the central management server 300 automatically draws an event execution success image received from one or more event processing units 210, receives an order for an event, and selects an event participating game player , And transmits the selection and payment results to the event progress unit 210 of the POS / management server 200a for each billiard place.

In this way, the event progress unit 210 of the POS / management server 200a for each billiards room notifies the result of the event win on the monitoring screen installed in each billiard game control unit 100a, To be received.

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed exemplary embodiments, but, on the contrary, Modification is possible. Accordingly, the spirit of the present invention should be understood only in accordance with the following claims, and all equivalents or equivalent variations thereof are included in the scope of the present invention.

100a-100m: Game control unit by billiard
110: Billiard game control terminal 111: Playback management unit
112: Advise providing unit 120: User interface unit
121: Game rule setting / display unit 122: Game setting / display unit
123: game time / cost display unit 124: monitoring screen display unit
125: current time display unit 126: function setting unit
127a-127c: Ad display unit 130:
200a-200n: POS / management server for each billiards room 210:
300: central management server 310: billiard management server
320: Subscriber management server 330: Ad management server
340: Maintenance server 350: Event management server

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And a control unit for controlling the input or setting and display of one or more game related information for each billiard game set by the game player and controlling a game time count And calculating and displaying the score by capturing the game image and real-time image analysis and processing, and controlling exposure of at least one advertisement content received at the POS / management server, A billiard game control unit for calculating and displaying billiard advice information by extracting and reproducing tracking data of billiards and billiards or analyzing the positions of billiards and billiards from video images currently taken according to a key input of a game player unit;
The game control unit is connected to the billiard game control unit so as to be communicably connected to each billiard game control unit, and inputs or sets game related information through the billiard game control unit. A POS / management server for a plurality of billiards rooms for storing and managing one or more advertisement contents to be exposed through the game control unit for each billiard game and controlling the output thereof; And
And a plurality of POS / management servers connected to the POS / management server for each billiard room through a network, wherein each POS has a plurality of billiards rooms and at least one server for user management, advertisement management, event management and maintenance, Billing and sales management, contract and license management, advertising subscription and exposure management, advertising management, exposure result management, distribution and collection management of advertising costs, status monitoring and upgrade management, network monitoring and billing management through billing and billing A central management server that unifies and manages each billiard room information scattered throughout the country through maintenance management, event execution and schedule management, event participants, and prize management;
The central management server,
Billiards management server for billiards management and billiards management, billing and sales management, contract and license management;
A user management server for user management of the billiard room;
An advertisement management server for subscription and exposure management of advertisements, management of advertisements, management of exposure results, distribution of advertisement expenses, and collection management;
Maintenance server for status monitoring and upgrade management, network monitoring and maintenance management; And
An event management server for execution and schedule management of events, event participants and prize management,
Wherein the event management server simultaneously transmits event information including images of the task to be performed to the POS / management server for a plurality of billiards places through a network by setting a predetermined time or an event time,
The POS / management server receives event information from the event management server and simultaneously displays announcement information for notifying the progress of the event through the advertisement display unit of the game control unit for each billiard game, The billing of the billiard game for the game control unit is temporarily suspended for a predetermined time or event time, and the billing of the billiard game for the game control unit is suspended for a predetermined time or event time, And an event progress unit for transmitting a corresponding event execution success image to the event management server by checking the success of the task included in the event information through the image analysis, Characterized in that it comprises Mayor automation systems.
The billiard game control unit according to claim 1,
It controls the progress of the billiards game by controlling the progress of each billiard game, controlling the video shooting of each ball in the billiard game in real time and analyzing and processing the captured video in real time. The tracking data of the ball and the ball are extracted, and the movement trajectory of each ball is reproduced on the monitoring screen as an overlay image or the position of the ball and the ball is analyzed by analyzing the image currently captured according to the request of the game player, A billiard game control terminal for calculating batting advice information according to a result and displaying the information on a monitoring screen;
And a monitoring screen connected to the billiard game control terminal and capable of simultaneously performing a touch input and a video output to provide a key input signal generated according to a touch input of a player to the billiard game control terminal, A user interface unit for outputting a received image to a monitoring screen; And
And a video image pickup unit installed at a central upper portion of each billiard table and connected to the billiard game control terminal for capturing an image at an upper portion of the billiard table and delivering the image to the billiard game control terminal. system.
The billiard game control terminal according to claim 2,
It is possible to recognize only the billiard zone from the images taken by each billiard table and to cut out the ball image through the monitoring of the cut image to check whether or not the ball has captured the motion. And a reproduction management unit for generating an overlay image by displaying the monitoring data on a monitoring screen or storing the data in a file so that all the tracking data except the tracking data adjacent to the cushion of the billiard table are not overlapped, Wherein the billiard automation system comprises:
The billiard game control terminal according to claim 3,
And an advice providing unit for calculating the hit information by analyzing the position of the ball and the current ball by the image analysis from the image taken by the billiard table at the request of the game player, Automation system.
5. The information providing apparatus according to claim 4,
Wherein the billiard advice information is calculated and provided by dividing each bill according to the initial billiards score of each player set before the game.
5. The information providing apparatus according to claim 4,
And when the game advice information is provided, the game machine is provided with a penalty selected from a billing or a handicap application to the game player.
The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the user interface unit comprises:
A game rule setting / display unit for inputting or setting the number of game participants associated with the billiard game, the order number per game, the initial billiard score for each player, and displaying the value thereof;
A game abilities setting / display unit for setting the start and stop or end of the game;
A game time / cost display unit for displaying the counted time according to progress of the game and the game cost calculated according to the count result; And
And a monitoring screen display unit for displaying a moving ball trajectory image of the ball and the ball around the ball, or the ball ball advice information.
8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the user interface unit comprises:
A current time display unit;
A function setting unit having at least one function key capable of selecting at least one of a function of displaying a motion image of a ball and an enemy ball on the batted ball, a display of the batting advice information, an event participation, or an SNS interlocking function; And
An advertisement display unit displaying advertisement contents or announcement information associated with each of at least one billiard indoor advertisement or a local advertisement or a central advertisement; The billiard automation system further comprises at least one selected from the group consisting of:
The billiard game control terminal according to claim 7,
The player can recognize the order of the player by distinguishing the colors of balls according to one or more game related information inputted or set through the user interface unit, analyze colors and motions of balls from the images taken through the image shooting unit, Display,
The user interface unit,
And a correction tool capable of correcting an error of a score counted by the billiard game control terminal by a user.
delete delete The event management system according to claim 1,
The event participating game device according to claim 1, further comprising: an event participant game player for automatically receiving an event execution success image received from at least one of the event progressers, To the event progress section,
The event-
And informs the result of the event winning on a monitoring screen installed in the game control unit for each billiard game so that the winning player can receive the goods in the billiard room.

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