KR101899663B1 - Braille chess set for blind person - Google Patents

Abstract

More particularly, the present invention relates to a chess set which can be easily enjoyed by the visually impaired. More specifically, the black chess part and the white chess part are staggered on the upper and lower surfaces of the chess board, respectively, And a chess insertion hole for passing through the upper surface and the lower surface of the chess plate is formed in each of the rudder portions. The chess insertion hole of the chess plate is configured such that a chess horse, It is about a set of braille chess for the visually impaired that enables the opponent to grasp the shape at the bottom of the chess board while placing the chess at the top of the board.

Description

Braille chess set for the visually impaired {Braille chess set for blind person}

More particularly, the present invention relates to a chess set which can be easily enjoyed by the visually impaired. More specifically, the black chess part and the white chess part are staggered on the upper and lower surfaces of the chess board, respectively, And a chess insertion hole for passing through the upper surface and the lower surface of the chess plate is formed in each of the rudder portions. The chess insertion hole of the chess plate is configured such that a chess horse, It is the field of Braille chess set for the visually impaired which enables the opponent to grasp the shape at the bottom of the chess board while keeping the chess at the top of the plate.

Generally, Chess is a game enjoyed by medieval European nobility, where two people play on a chess board consisting of 64 spaces, moving black and white stones (king, queen, bishop, knight, root, pawn) More than a billion people are playing chess games and their population is increasing.

In Korea, it is spreading as a game according to globalization, spreading as a brain sports, and it is being widely used not only as a fun but also as a game for strengthening concentration and developing brain. In addition, a chess set consisting of a chess board and a chess piece is manufactured as various materials such as wood, plastic, glass, and metal.

The following are representative prior art techniques for chess sets.

Korean Patent Laid-Open Publication No. 10-2015-0033035 relates to a chess tool and a method of manufacturing the chess tool. The chess piece and the chess top plate are made of a ceramic material having a glaze or a lacquered ceramic material. The chess piece and the chess top plate are made of ceramics, The material presented a chess tool with a one - sided appearance.

In addition, since the above-mentioned prior art has implemented / added a Korean image (image of Jeju Island), the chess tool of the present invention can be provided in a single tourist product and a hotel or a guesthouse, The utilization as interior accessories could be expected.

However, the chess tool according to the related art is somewhat difficult to use for a visually impaired person, and a continuous research and development is required to solve the problem.

Korean Patent Publication No. 10-2015-0033035 (Apr. Korean Patent Publication No. 10-2015-0033034 (Apr.

The present invention relates to a chess set for the visually impaired, which aims at improving the problems of the prior art. Conventionally, a person with visual impairment prepares two pairs of chess sets, In the chess board, the opponent proceeds in the way that the chess is put, and the assistant has the inconvenience that the chess plate of each chess plate should be equally set,

In other cases, such as Blindfold Chess, there was a disadvantage that a chess game had to chess while memorizing all the patterns of the chess,

In addition, the main object is to provide a solution to this problem because it is difficult for the visually handicapped to place the chess piece in the area of the black and white part of the chessboard and the part of the white part of the chessboard.

The present invention has been made to solve the above-

A chessboard having a black tachy part and a white tile part formed in a staggered arrangement on each of the upper and lower surfaces and having a chess insertion hole passing through upper and lower surfaces of the black tachy part and the white tachy part respectively; A chess piece inserted into the chess insertion hole of the chess plate and having a shape in which the upper part and the lower part are mutually symmetrical with respect to the middle part;

In the braille chess set for the visually impaired, the black and white tiles are formed on both sides of the chessboard, and chess insertion holes are formed in the rush portions of the chessboard through the upper and lower surfaces And a chess game in which the upper and lower parts are symmetrically inserted into the chess insertion hole can be played, so that while one of the players puts the chess at the upper part of the chess board, the other party can look at the lower part of the chess board Effect,

Since the visually handicapped person can play the game progress and the pattern recognition at the same time in one chess board, the assistant is not necessary, the effect that the chess game does not have to memorize all of the chess type,

In addition, since the chess horse can be placed by inserting the chess horse into the chess insertion hole of the chess board, the effect of enabling the blind person to easily place the chess horse in each of the black and white portions .

1 is a plan view showing a braille chess set for the visually impaired according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention;
2 and 3 are side cross-sectional views showing a braille chess set for the visually impaired according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
4 is a side sectional view showing a case where a magnetic body is provided in a braille chess set for a visually impaired person according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 5 is a side sectional view showing a case where a tag sensor and a tag are provided in a braille chess set for a visually impaired person according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention. FIG.
6 is a flowchart of a voice guidance showing a case where a voice guidance function is added to a braille chess set for a visually impaired person according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

A black chalk part (11) and a white chalk part (12) are staggered and formed in a lattice pattern on an upper surface (10a) and a lower surface (10b), respectively, A chess plate 10 having a chess horse insertion hole 17 passing through the upper surface 10a and the lower surface 10b of the black rudder part 11 and the white rudder part 12, respectively; And a chess piece (20) inserted into the chess horse insertion hole (17) of the chess plate (10) and having an upper portion and a lower portion mutually symmetrical with respect to an intermediate portion, It is about a chess set.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will now be described more fully hereinafter with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which exemplary embodiments of the invention are shown.

First, a chess set according to the present invention comprises a chess plate 10 and two sets of chess pieces 20 as a general chess set, and the set of chess pieces 20 includes a plurality of chess pieces The word 20 is composed of one set. Hereinafter, unless otherwise stated in the detailed description based on the preferred embodiments of the present invention, the conventional chess set and chess rule may be substituted.

Specifically, the chess set according to the present invention includes a chess board 10 having a black rudder portion 11 and a white rudder rudder 12 formed on both sides macroscopically and a chess horse 20 having upper and lower portions mutually symmetrical do.

That is, the chessboard 10 has a black rudder part 11 and a white rudder part 12 staggered in a lattice shape on the upper surface 10a and the lower surface 10b, respectively, and the black rudder part 11 And a chess horse insertion hole 17 penetrating the upper surface 10a and the lower surface 10b of the white rudder part 12 are formed.

More specifically, the chess board 10 is formed by lattice-shaped staggering of a black rudder part 11 and a white rudder part 12 having a predetermined area on the upper surface 10a as shown in Fig. 1, 15 are formed so that the chess piece 20 can be placed on each of the black and white ridges 11, 12.

The lower surface 10b positioned symmetrically with the upper surface 10a of the chess plate 10 also has a black ridged portion 11 and a white ridged portion 12 having a certain area staggered in a lattice form And the black rudder part 11 and the white rudder part 12 formed on the lower surface 10b are symmetrical with the black rudder part 11 and the white rudder part 12 of the upper surface 10a of the chess plate 10, .

The step 13 is formed so that the black rudder part 11 and the white rudder part 12 of the upper face 10a and the lower face 10b of the chess plate 10 have different horizontal phases , And the black rudder portion 11 and the white rudder ridge portion 12 can be distinguished by touch.

That is, the black rudder part 11 may be configured such that the surface of the black rudder part 11 is positioned below the surface of the white rudder part 12 so as to have a lower horizontal phase than the white rudder part 12, The surface of the white rudder part 12 may be positioned in a horizontal phase higher than the surface of the black rudder part 11.

The chess horse insertion hole 17 is formed as a hole penetrating the upper surface 10a and the lower surface 10b of the chess plate 10. The chess horse insertion hole 17 is formed in the chess plate 10 of the chess plate 10, The insertion hole 17 penetrates from the black rudder portion 11 of the upper surface 10a of the chess plate 10 to the black rudder portion 11 of the lower surface 10b and is inserted into the black rudder portion 11 of the chess plate 10 The chess horse insertion hole 17 formed in the chess plate 12 passes through the white rudder part 12 of the lower surface 10b of the white rudder part 12 of the upper surface 10a of the chess plate 10. [

At this time, the chess horse insertion hole 17 is configured to have an inner diameter corresponding to the outer diameter of the middle portion of the following chess horse 20, and the following chess horse 20 is inserted into the chess horse insertion hole 17 .

A pair of tomb areas 16 capable of inserting dead chess pieces 20 in the order of chess can be set on the front and rear sides or both sides of the chess plate 10, A plurality of other chess horse insertion holes 18 to which the horses 20 can be inserted can be formed. That is, the pair of grave areas 16 may be formed on the front side and the rear side of the chess board 10, or on any one of the one side and the other side, And a plurality of chess horse insertion holes 18 into which the chess pieces 20 of the opponent side can be inserted can be formed.

The chess plate 10 having the above configuration is configured such that the lower portion of the chess piece 20 is exposed downwardly on the lower face 10b of the chess plate 10 so that the lower face 10b of the chess plate 10 The present invention is characterized in that a cradle 19 for forming a predetermined height at the floor is further mounted on a predetermined portion of the outer circumference of the chess plate 10 as shown in FIG. 2 Configuration can be performed.

At this time, the cradle 19 may be formed in various forms according to the judgment of a person skilled in the art. Preferably, the cradle plate 10 is arranged so that games of both sides alternate with each other, The side plate of the holder 19 is formed only on one side of the holder 19.

The chess piece 20 is inserted into and inserted into the chess piece insertion hole 17 of the chess plate 10, and the upper and lower portions are mutually symmetrical with respect to an intermediate portion. In comparison, the configuration of the chess horse 20 is vertically symmetrical with respect to the lower portion of the conventional chess horse so that the upper chess horse 21 and the lower chess horse 22 can be distinguished.

That is, the chess piece 20 having the above-described configuration is configured such that the upper and lower portions are symmetrical, and the middle portion, which is a symmetric reference, is fitted in the chess horse insertion hole 17 of the chess plate 10. [

The upper chess piece 21 is positioned in the upper space of the chess plate 10 and the lower chess piece 22 is positioned in the upper chess piece 20 in a state where the middle part is inserted into the chess piece insertion hole 17 And is located in the lower space of the chess board 10. [

More specifically, one of the chess players places the upper chess piece 21 positioned in the upper space of the chess plate 10 among the chess pieces 20 inserted into the chess piece insertion hole 17 of the chess plate 10 The opponent waiting for the next turn can touch the lower chess horse 22 positioned in the lower space of the chess board 10 among the chess horse 20 and feel his / her turn You can wait for a while and figure out the shape.

In order to increase the fitting force between the chess horse insertion hole 17 and the chess horse 20 of the chess plate 10, the present invention is applied to the inner periphery of the chess horse insertion hole 17 or the outer periphery of the chess horse 20 It is also possible to adopt a configuration in which a hermetic member such as an O-ring is further provided on at least one part or a configuration in which a magnetic body is provided in at least one part of the chess plate 10 or the chess piece 20.

That is, when a magnetic body is provided on at least one part of the chess plate 10 or the chess piece 20 as described above, the chess plate 10 has the first magnetic force lines forming the magnetic force lines in the chess- The chess piece 20 further includes a second magnetic body 31 at an intermediate portion of the chess piece 20 for applying a force to the first magnetic body 30 of the chess plate 10 Configuration can be performed.

The first magnetic body 30 may have a configuration in which a magnetic body such as a permanent magnet is inserted into the entire portion of the chess plate 10 in a plate form, And a single permanent magnet may be inserted in each case.

The second magnetic body 31 is provided on the chess piece 20 so that mutual attractive force can be applied to the first magnetic body 30 so that the second magnetic body 31 can be inserted in the middle portion of the chess piece 20, (20) is attached to the outer periphery of the intermediate portion.

The first magnetic body 30 and the second magnetic body 31 may be made of permanent magnets, and only one of the first and second magnetic bodies 30 and 31 may be made of a permanent magnet. The other magnetic body may be made of a metal material .

Braille is formed on at least one of the chessboard 10 and the chess piece 20 so that a blind person can see the area of the chessboard 10 (the black chess piece 11 and the white chess piece 12) The shape of the horses 20 can be easily grasped, and a known Braille rule can be applied to the specific configuration thereof.

In addition, the present invention facilitates the position of the chess piece 20 placed on the chessboard 10 and the shape of the chess piece 20 placed on each of the black chess piece 11 and the white chess piece 12 of the chess plate 10 So that the guidance sound can be output.

That is, according to the present invention, a tag sensor 40 is provided in each of the plurality of chess horse insertion holes 17 of the chess plate 10, and each of the plurality of chess pieces 20 is provided with the chess horse insertion hole 17, And a tag 41 interlocked with the tag sensor 40 provided in the tag 40.

In this case, the tag 41 provided in each of the chess pieces 20 is provided with unique identification information for distinguishing the respective chess pieces 20, The tag sensor 40 can be configured to recognize the tag 41 of the chess piece 20 fitted in each chess piece insertion hole 17 and to distinguish the chess piece 20 placed on the other part.

The management unit may further include a plurality of black ridges 11 corresponding to the game area 15 of the chess board 10 and a plurality of black ridges 11 corresponding to the game area 15 of the chess board 10. [ A map is provided to allow each of the areas of the plurality of white colored ridges 12 to be included in the area of each of the plurality of black colored ridges 11 and the plurality of white ridges 12 When the chess piece 20 is inserted into the chess piece insertion hole 17 of each region by interlocking with the tag sensor 40 provided therein, the unique identification information of the tag 41 provided on the chess piece 20 inserted is recognized And the movement status of the chess pieces 20 can be grasped.

The management unit is connected to the alarm unit 50 provided at a predetermined portion of the chess plate 10 or the cradle 19 to detect the movement of the chess piece 20 and the type of the dead chess piece 20, Information such as a position before the movement of the horse 20 or a position after the movement of the chess horse 20 can be outputted to the visually impaired person by voice.

Hereinafter, a method of outputting the progress of the chess game by voice using the tag sensor 40 and the tag 41 will be described in detail with reference to FIG.

At first, the game players on both sides place the chess pieces 20 in the chess piece insertion holes 17 of the chess board 10, respectively, so that all the chess pieces 20 are positioned at the starting point.

At this time, the information on the type and position of each chess horse 20 recognized through the plurality of tag sensors 40 is collected in the management unit, and the management unit acquires information about the game start with the alarm unit 50 And outputs the voice guidance related to the start of the game in the alarm unit 50.

While the game player grasps the shape of the upper chess piece 21 of the chess piece 20 protruding into the upper space of the chess plate 10 as a tactile sense, And grasps the shape of the lower chess horse 22 of the protruded chess horse 20 and waits for his turn.

Then, when a game player moves one of the chess pieces 20 to another part of the chess piece, the tag sensor 40 provided in the chess piece insertion hole 17 before movement generates the chess piece loss information, And the tag sensor 40 provided in the chess horse insertion hole 18 after the movement generates the chess horse obtainment information and transfers it to the management section.

At this time, the management unit, which has received the chess end loss information and the chess end result information, changes the location movement information of the chess horse 20 on the map and transmits the movement information of the chess horse 20 to the alarm unit 50 And outputs the movement information of the chess horse 20 by voice in the alarm unit 50. In addition, when the moving path of the moving chess horse 20 is out of the rules of the chess, the management section generates the wrong chess horse motion information by using the chess rule information pre-installed in the management section, (50) to output the motion information of the wrong chess horse (20) by voice in the alarm unit (50).

The tag sensor 40 is also provided in the chess horse insertion hole 18 formed in the grave region 16 to determine whether the dead chess horse 20 is inserted in the chess horse insertion hole 18 of the grave region 16 And the management unit generates information on the type of the dead chess horse 20 inserted into the chess horse insertion hole 18 of the grave area 16 and the last position and the death of the chess horse 20, It is also possible to output the voice as a voice in the voice communication unit 50.

Thereafter, when the game progresses continuously, the kind of dead chess horse 20 inserted in the chess horse insertion hole 18 of the grave area 16 is continuously grasped, and if the dead chess horse 20 is a king chess horse 20), the management unit determines whether or not the dead chess horse 20 is the kind of the chess horse 20 that is the king chess horse 20, the position before the chess horse 20 that has killed the king chess horse 20, Information on the position can be generated and output by the alarm unit 50 as a voice.

Then, when the game ends, the management unit generates information on the final winner, and transmits to the alarm unit 50 win information indicating that the game of one of the players of the black or white chess horse 20 has won, The unit 50 can terminate the game by outputting the winning information by voice.

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, It is possible to carry out various changes in the present invention.

10: chess plate 10a: upper surface
10b: lower surface 11: black tack part
12: white rudder part 13: step
15: game area 16: grave area
17: chess horse insert hole 18: chess horse insert hole
19: Cradle 20: Chess horse
21: upper chess horse 22: lower chess horse
30: first magnetic body 31: second magnetic body
40: tag sensor 41: tag
50: Alarm section

Claims (3)

A black rudder portion 11 and a white rudder rudder portion 12 are staggered in a lattice shape on each of the upper surface 10a and the lower surface 10b and the black rudder portion 11 and the white rudder portion 12 A chess plate 10 in which a chess horse insertion hole 17 penetrating the upper surface 10a and the lower surface 10b of the chess plate 10 is formed;
A chess piece 20 inserted into and inserted into the chess horse insertion hole 17 of the chess plate 10 and having a shape in which upper and lower portions are mutually symmetrical with respect to a predetermined intermediate portion;
A management unit interlocked with the tag sensor 40 provided in the chess horse insertion hole 17 of the chess plate 10; And
An alarm unit 50 for providing a chess game progress based on the recognized chess horse 20 based on the tag sensor 40,
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Wherein,
Based on a plurality of the black ridged portions 11 and a map indicating a game region corresponding to the plurality of white ridges 12 formed on the chessboard 10, The chess pieces 20 are inserted into the chess piece insertion holes 17 of the other portions 11 and a part of the other ones of the plurality of the white chess pieces 12, Recognizes the inserted chess horse 20 through interlocking between the sensor 40 and the tag 41 of the inserted chess horse 20,
The alarm unit (50)
And outputs the type and position information of the chess horse 20 by voice based on the recognition of the inserted chess horse 20, thereby providing the progress of the chess game,
In the tag 41, unique identification information for distinguishing the chess horse 20 is mounted,
The black rudder part 11 and the white rudder part 12 formed on the upper surface 10a and the lower surface 10b are separated from each other by tactile sensation based on a step formed to have different horizontal phases,
As the chess piece 20 is inserted into the chess piece insertion hole 17 formed on the upper surface 10a, a part of the lower portion of the chess piece 20, Through the upper surface 10a and through the lower surface 10b,
The chess horse insertion hole 17 is formed to have an inner diameter of a size corresponding to the outer diameter of the middle portion of the chess piece 20 so that a part of the lower portion of the chess piece 20 can be exposed through the lower surface 10b. What is organized
Braille chess set for the visually impaired.
The method according to claim 1,
The chess board (10)
Further comprising a first magnetic body (30) for forming magnetic force lines in the chess horse insertion hole (17)
The chess piece (20)
And a second magnetic body (31) for causing an attraction force to act on the first magnetic body (30) of the chess plate (10) at an intermediate portion thereof.
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