KR101577531B1 - Realistic ski simulator system - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a realistic ski simulator system that automatically recognizes a user's attitude through a ski device and interacts with a virtual reality (VR) content and generates a sensation effect corresponding to the virtual reality A display device for reproducing related video contents; A memory device for storing the ski-downhill-related image contents; A ski device including an attitude recognition means for recognizing a user's attitude; An actual feeling reproducing device installed in the ski device and including a wind generating device for generating wind according to the situation information of the ski slope related video contents, a lighting device for supplying illumination, and a vibration device for providing vibration; And a controller for controlling the display device to reproduce the ski-down-descending-relating image content in the memory device, and to control the real-feeling reproducing device (wind generating device, illumination device, And controlling the movement of the character in the image content (ski descending speed and degree of rotation) according to the user's attitude recognized through the attitude recognition means of the ski apparatus . Accordingly, the present invention provides similar effects (lighting effect, wind effect, vibration effect, and attitude control) when the user slides on the actual slope.

Description

Realistic ski simulator system [0002]

The present invention relates to a realistic ski simulator system, and more particularly, to a ski simulator system which automatically recognizes a user's attitude through a ski device, interacts with a ski virtual reality (VR) content, To a realistic ski simulator system.

Generally, a virtual reality technology is a system in which a ski simulator and a video object are combined based on an interface technology between a human and a computer to experience a sense of reality through a device and a system specially designed in a limited environment, as disclosed in Korean Patent Publication No. 10-2013- 0078839 (Ski Simulation Apparatus and Method) has been filed.

However, the conventional ski simulation apparatus as described above is designed to experience the skiing operation and posture on the simulator by the movement of the apparatus by the operation of the user such as right and left, up and down, and to perform visual synchronization through the image linked thereto. In such a conventional ski simulation apparatus, not only the sensation element felt while skiing in the outdoors is limited, but also the motion expression according to the center control of the weight, which is the basic operation of the ski, and the corresponding content interaction can not be achieved.

Korean Patent Laid-Open Publication No. 10-2013-0078839 (Ski simulation apparatus and method thereof)

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in order to solve the above-mentioned problems, and its object is to provide an image display apparatus and a display method therefor, which are capable of realizing environmental information (illumination (lightness and darkness) information, A ski simulator system capable of expressing on a simulator through a sensory reproduction apparatus and sensing a weight movement of a user for rotation during a slip, and controlling the speed and rotation of the character on the image content .

Specifically, the present invention provides a ski simulator, including a realistic reproduction apparatus including a lighting apparatus, a wind apparatus, and a vibration apparatus, a ski apparatus of a ski simulator including a ski boots equipped with a pressure sensor, and VR image contents linked with the ski simulator, Provided is a realistic content-based ski simulator system capable of feeling the feel of sliding on an actual outdoor slope indoors.

The present invention relates to a ski simulator system including a video content display device as an output device, a real feeling reproducing device, and a ski device equipped with a pressure sensor capable of detecting (measuring) the load on the left and right legs of a user, It is synchronized with the VR virtual space displayed through the window and provides the wind and vibration effect to the user and it is possible to control the descending speed and rotation degree by varying the load value (pressure value) of the left and right legs through the center movement of the body, It is a system to reproduce the effect of skiing. When the center of the body is viewed while viewing the VR virtual space or image, a load value (pressure value) of the user's left and right legs is obtained according to the center of gravity of the body, The speed and degree of rotation are determined, and the character's ski run is accomplished. At this time, wind effect is reproduced according to the running speed. In addition, an illumination device for extracting illuminance (lightness and darkness) according to weather or time in a VR virtual space or a video image, and for illuminating light corresponding to the extracted illuminance (lightness and darkness) A vibration effect can be obtained. Thus, the sensation type ski simulator system of the present invention can expect a sensation effect that slides on a ski slope outdoors while using a ski simulator in the room.

In order to achieve the above object, a realistic ski simulator system of the present invention includes: a display device for playing back ski slope-related image contents; A memory device for storing the ski-downhill-related image contents; A ski device including an attitude recognition means for recognizing a user's attitude; An actual feeling reproducing device installed in the ski device and including a wind generating device for generating wind according to the situation information of the ski slope related video contents, a lighting device for supplying illumination, and a vibration device for providing vibration; And a controller for controlling the display device to reproduce the ski-down-descending-relating image content in the memory device, and to control the real-feeling reproducing device (wind generating device, illumination device, And controlling the movement of the character in the image content according to the user's attitude recognized by the attitude recognition means of the ski apparatus (ski descending speed and degree of rotation). .

The posture recognizing means may further include a ski boots having a pressure sensor capable of recognizing the attitude of the user, and is configured to control the movement (operation) of the character in the image content according to the sensor value output from the pressure sensor .

Wherein the control device controls the skiing run speed of the character in the image content according to a different pressure difference between the user's two legs of the ski boots and the wind generating device adjusts the wind intensity corresponding to the ski run speed of the character .

Further, the control device acquires the illuminance (lightness and darkness) and the color information in the ski-downward descending-relating image content being reproduced in the display device, and outputs the illuminance (lightness and darkness) And the lighting device adjusts an amount of light emitted (irradiated) according to illuminance (shade) and color information of the ski-down-river-related image content transmitted from the control device.

In addition, the control device acquires ski slope information and ski slip velocity data in the ski-related descending-descending image content being reproduced in the display device, and transmits the acquired data to the vibrating device, And receives the ski slope information and the ski slip velocity data from the ski slope information and applies the vibration corresponding to the data to the ski device.

The ski boots according to the present invention are devices for controlling the movement of characters in image contents according to the attitude of the user. The ski boots have built-in pressure sensors capable of obtaining loads (pressures) applied to the two legs, And the pressure value obtained by being applied to both feet from the pressure sensor is transmitted to the control device.

The pressure sensor is, for example, a foot-shaped, grid-shaped pressure sensor. The pressure sensor is configured to independently detect each part (front (toe), rear (heel), outside, And the angle of the sliding movement and the sliding velocity are determined according to the pressure value obtained at each part of the foot.

Further, the present invention is further characterized in that an operation device for selecting, executing, and ending the ski slope descending-related image content desired by a user to be displayed in the menu of the display device is further comprised.

According to the present invention, similar effects (lighting effect, wind effect, vibration effect, and attitude control) are provided when a user slides on an actual slope.

That is, the present invention relates to a lighting apparatus, a wind generating apparatus, a vibration apparatus, and a display apparatus using a display apparatus used by a user in accordance with attribute information (lighting, wind, vibration, And the posture of the user himself / herself is controlled (including correction) by seeing the obtained posture, thereby increasing the immersion feeling and the sense of reality of the content.

1 is a configuration diagram of a sensation type ski simulator according to an embodiment of the present invention;
2 is a block diagram of a realistic ski simulator system according to an embodiment of the present invention;
3 is a design drawing of a pressure sensor capable of sensing movement of the center of gravity of the user,
4 is a diagram showing a monitoring program for monitoring image contents and environmental variables reproduced in a display device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings so that those skilled in the art can easily carry out the present invention. In the following detailed description of the preferred embodiments of the present invention, a detailed description of known functions and configurations incorporated herein will be omitted when it may make the subject matter of the present invention rather unclear. The same or similar reference numerals are used throughout the drawings for portions having similar functions and functions.

Also, to "include" an element means that it may include other elements, rather than excluding other elements, unless specifically stated otherwise.

1 and 2 are a block diagram and a block diagram of a sensory ski simulator system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to the drawings, a realistic ski simulator system of the present invention includes a memory device 108, a display device 101, a ski device 400, a real feeling reproduction device 200, and a control device 104.

The display device 101 reproduces the ski slope VR image content according to a control command of the control device 104. [

The memory device 108 stores not only the ski slope VR (Virtual Reality) image content, but also a program necessary for operating the entire system of the present invention. The memory device 108 also stores information about the user using the system of the present invention.

This image content includes illuminance and color information, the state of the slope and the speed of the ski, the altitude of the ski slope place (ski slope), the vibration, the wind speed / wind speed information, .

The ski device 400 includes a posture recognizing means for recognizing a posture of a user and has a shape and structure capable of reproducing an actual ski slope.

Specifically, the ski device 400 includes a plate 107, a guide member 402 formed on the plate 107, a roller (or a wheel) 401 that moves (guides) along the guide member, A direction changing member 403 fixed on the roller (or the wheel) 401 and a pressure sensor attached type ski boots (also referred to as ski boots in brief) 106 formed on the direction switching member 403 do.

The guide member 402 may be, for example, two in the transverse direction on the plate 107. Hereinafter, the guide member 402 located at one side (upper side in FIG. 1) of the plate 107 is referred to as a first guide member and relatively positioned at the other side (lower side in FIG. 1) of the plate 107 And the guide member 402 will be referred to as a second guide member.

The direction switching member 403 is provided so as to be fixed to the left ski boots and the right ski boots, respectively, and two rollers (or wheels) 401 may be respectively formed in the direction switching members 403, One roller 401 is positioned below the front portion of the direction switching member 403 (corresponding to the toe portion of the person) and guided along the first guide member, and the other one roller 401 is guided along the first switching member 403) and is guided along the second guide member.

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In addition, a ski boots 106 is provided with a pressure sensor, which senses the load of the user's left and right legs and senses the user's weight shift. Thus, it is possible to measure which of the two legs of the user is subjected to a greater load. In the present invention, for example, when the load (pressure) of both legs is measured in the same manner, the running speed of the character in the image contents is increased. On the contrary, if the pressure of both legs is not measured equally, Can be implemented to be slow.

The real feeling reproducing apparatus 200 is provided to enable the user to feel the actual feeling of the ski, and includes a lighting device 102, a vibration device 105 and a wind generating device 103. Further, the real-feeling reproduction apparatus 200 may further include a back-sensing apparatus 100 that provides a sense of reversal.

When the user changes the pressure value of the ski boots 106 by operating the pressure sensor-attached ski boots 106 in the ski apparatus 400, the running speed is determined, and the changed value (or The running speed) is transmitted to the wind generating device 103. Then, the wind generating device 103 outputs wind of a predetermined intensity according to the changed value (or the running speed).

Specifically, when the user uniformly applies the pressure of both legs of the ski boots 106, the speed of the character in the displayed image contents is increased and the strong wind of the wind generating device 103 is generated. On the other hand, if the user gives different pressures of both legs of the ski boots 106, that is, if the pressures of both legs are not uniformly given, the character's running speed in the image content is slowed down, . The intensity of wind generated in the wind generator 103 is divided into several stages according to the magnitude of the rotational angle (or rotational direction) of the ski boots 106 or the load (pressure) difference value of both legs obtained through the pressure sensor Lt; / RTI >

The illuminating device 102 adjusts (illuminates) the amount of light emitted according to the illuminance (contrast) and the color information of the ski-downward descending-related image content.

The intensity (contrast) and color information of the ski-downward descending-related image content are obtained from the image content by the control device 104 or from the image content being reproduced on the display device 101. [

As an example, illumination of the brightness is illuminated from the illumination device 102 in accordance with brightness information (illumination information) of time information (day, night) and weather information (sunny, cloudy, etc.) The user then experiences a feeling of driving according to the weather and time.

The vibration device 105 applies vibration to the ski device 400 according to the state of the slope included in the ski-downgrade-related image content and the skiing descent rate.

The state (road state) information and the speed information of the slope in the ski slope-related image contents provide the corresponding vibration value data based on the previously acquired data.

As an example, if the slope in the ski descending image content is large or the ski slipping speed of the character is fast, the corresponding vibration value is acquired by the control device 104 and transmitted to the vibration device 105. [ Then, the user feels the vibration generated in actual sliding.

For example, in the present invention, if the descending speed of the character in the ski descending image contents is 0 to 10 km / s, the intensity of vibration is 1, if the descending speed of the character is 10 to 20 km / s, If the character has a descending speed of 20 to 30 km / s, the intensity of vibration may be set to 3, and if the character has a descending speed of 90 to 100 km / s, the intensity of vibration may be set to 10.

As described above, the control device 104 reproduces the ski-downward descent-related image content on the display device 101 and displays attribute (situation) information (e.g., illuminance and darkness) The lighting device 102, and the vibration device 105 in accordance with information (e.g., information, wind information, wind speed information, vibration information, etc.).

3 is a configuration diagram of a ski boots-attached pressure sensor capable of detecting movement of the user's center of gravity.

3, a pressure sensor mounted in the ski boots 106 senses a load (pressure) applied to the ski boots 106 and sends the sensed load (pressure) value to the control device 104 It plays a role.

Specifically, the pressure sensor is physically constructed as a shape 202 mounted in the ski boots 106 and is composed of a plurality of grids, receives an electric signal corresponding to the contact amount of each grid, measures a pressure value, ).

The foot-shaped grid-shaped pressure sensor 202 is constituted by a plurality of grids, and the pressure applied to the front portion (corresponding to the toe portion) of the foot, the back portion (corresponding to the heel portion), the inner or outer portion And the speed at the time of the ski slip and the slip rotational angle are controlled according to the measured pressure value. That is, the functions such as increasing or decreasing the ski descending speed or rotating the edge according to the pressure (load) value sensed by the pressure sensor are performed.

In the present invention, as an example, when the total load of the right foot is higher than the left foot, it is rotated to the left, and when the total load of the left foot is higher than the right foot, The larger the difference in load, the smaller the radius of rotation. When you apply force to the inner or outer edge of the foot on the lattice, the velocity is lowered (giving an edge) and the velocity is higher if the pressure is evenly distributed over the grating. The velocity value and the rotation value thus changed are reflected in the characters in the ski image contents, and the speed and degree of rotation of the character are controlled according to the user's posture.

Thus, the present invention can control the movement (ski descending speed and degree of rotation) of the character in the ski content through fine control over the grating position under load (pressure).

FIG. 4 is a view illustrating a display device 101 according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, which is capable of visually monitoring environment information synchronized with a current image content.

The ski descent image content 303 allows the user to quickly or slowly move the character in the image content through the load (pressure) of the ski boots 106 in the ski device 400 so as to make a left turn or a right turn, It is possible to synchronize the motion and the characters in the video content.

At this time, the environment information window 301 according to the speed displays information such as the current speed, altitude, moving distance, vibration, wind speed, wind speed and the like in real time and using this information, Vibration and the like.

The user can acquire motion data at the ski slope 400 in the ski device 400 to check and compare the user's correct posture on the ski device 400 through the motion data window 302. [

In the system of the present invention, the user selects and executes through the operation devices 304 and 305 of the image contents to be displayed. Then, the corresponding image content in the control device (104) is reproduced through the display device (101).

The foregoing description is merely illustrative of the technical idea of the present invention, and various changes and modifications may be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the essential characteristics of the present invention. Therefore, the embodiments disclosed in the present invention are intended to illustrate rather than limit the scope of the present invention, and the scope of the technical idea of the present invention is not limited by these embodiments. The scope of protection of the present invention should be construed according to the following claims, and all technical ideas within the scope of equivalents should be construed as falling within the scope of the present invention.

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101: Display device
102: Lighting device
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105: Vibrating device
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108: memory device
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Claims (8)

A display device for reproducing the ski-downward-descending-related image content; A memory device for storing the ski-downhill-related image contents; A ski device including a posture recognition means for recognizing a posture of a user; An actual feeling reproducing device installed in the ski device and including a wind generating device for generating wind according to the situation information of the ski slope related video contents, an illuminating device for supplying illumination, and a vibration device for providing vibration; Wherein the control unit controls the real feeling reproduction apparatus according to the situation information of the ski-downhill-related image contents to be reproduced on the display apparatus, And controlling the movement of the character in the image content according to the user's attitude recognized through the image content,
Wherein the control device acquires ski slope information and ski slip velocity data in the ski-related downhill-related image content being reproduced in the display device, and transmits the acquired data to the vibration device, The ski slope information, and the ski slope velocity data, and applies a vibration corresponding to the data to the ski device. The method according to claim 1,
The posture recognizing means may further include a ski boots having a pressure sensor capable of recognizing the posture of the user,
And control the movement of the character in the image content according to the sensor value output from the pressure sensor. 3. The method of claim 2,
Wherein the control device controls the ski descending speed of the character in the image content according to a differential pressure difference between the user's two legs of the ski boots,
Wherein the wind generating device adjusts the intensity of the wind corresponding to the ski running speed of the character. 4. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 3,
Wherein the control device acquires roughness (lightness and darkness) and color information in the ski-downward descending-relating image content being reproduced in the display device, and outputs the roughness (lightness and darkness) And,
Wherein the illumination device adjusts the amount of light emitted (irradiated) according to illuminance (shading) and color information of the ski-downward descending-relating image content transmitted from the control device. delete 4. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 3,
The ski device is a device for controlling the movement of a character in image contents according to a posture of a user,
Characterized in that the ski boots are equipped with a pressure sensor capable of obtaining a load (pressure) applied to both legs, and the pressure value obtained by applying to both feet from the pressure sensor is transmitted to the control device Type ski simulator system. The method according to claim 6,
The pressure sensor is a foot-shaped, grid-shaped pressure sensor,
Wherein the grid type pressure sensor is configured to independently detect each part of the foot and the angle of the sliding rotation and the sliding speed are determined according to the pressure value obtained at each part of the foot. 4. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 3,
Further comprising an operation device for selecting, executing and terminating the ski-down-descending-descending image content desired by the user to be displayed on the menu of the display device.

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