KR20020004435A - The dance game system using image cognition - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A dance game system using an image recognition manner is provided to minimize the shock applied to joints of a user as well as to maximize the motion of legs and arms, thus to increase the effect of excercise. CONSTITUTION: The dance game system is comprised of: a music output device for reading and outputting a piece of music selected among music saved therein; a touch guide device for instructing the touch action of a user toward a specific picture region among plural picture regions filmed by a CCD camera(12) in conforming to the selected music from the music output device; and a touch action monitoring device for monitoring the touch action within the instructed specific picture region by analyzing picture images filmed by the CCD camera.

Description

The dance game system using image cognition}

The present invention relates to a dance game system using image recognition, and more particularly, to a dance game system using image recognition to obtain a movement effect while expressing a rhythm by dynamically moving a body in accordance with music. It is about.

In particular, the present invention uses an image recognition to capture the movement of the game player with a CCD camera and analyze the image change in a predetermined area to determine whether the touch of the display by the game player is normally touched It is about a dance game system.

1999. 07. 13 The patent application No. 28144 relates to a dance game device and a footstep for a dance game that can express rhythmic feelings by using the whole body in accordance with music, and generate powerful and rhythmic feelings. The tread position instruction data is read from the tread position instruction data memory, and the tread position instruction contents are displayed on the monitor by the display control unit, and the tread position and brightness operation timing are instructed based on this.

When the player steps on the footboard of the floor by foot according to the display content of the monitor, it is detected by a cable switch and provided to the stepping motion monitoring unit, the deviation amount detection / accumulation unit calculates a score according to the time difference. Based on this, the evaluation is performed in the rhythm setting unit. Then, the next brightness position indication data is set according to the result.

However, the conventional dance game apparatus is to step on the floor of the floor by looking at the display content displayed on the monitor, so that not only the joints such as the knees of the player may be excessively generated, but also the floor of the floor body having the footboard. It is bulky and space-limited for installing a dance game device.

In particular, the floor has a disadvantage that the overall unit price of the dance game apparatus is increased because it must be provided with a plurality of switches that withstand and sensitively step on foot. In addition, the conventional dance game device is to be enjoyed around the bottom surface, that is, the footrest portion, so that most gamers enjoy playing the game by moving only the position of the foot with little hand movement.

An object of the present invention is to provide a dance game system using image recognition to minimize the impact on the joints of the game player while maximizing the movement of the hands and feet while doubling the movement effect.

In addition, the present invention provides a device that can reduce the production cost of the device by installing at least one CCD camera that can take the image of the game player without installing a separate floor main body, and analyzes the image of the game player in the game to proceed the game The purpose is to provide a dance game system using image recognition that can minimize the space occupied.

In addition, an object of the present invention is to provide a dance game system using image recognition that can multiply the interest of the game by changing the display content displayed on the monitor from a simple arrow to various shapes or colors.

1 is a block diagram illustrating a dance game system using image recognition according to the present invention.

2 is a diagram illustrating an example of an image as a reference stored in a reference video memory according to the present invention.

3 is an exemplary view showing an example of an image of the current point of time stored in a video memory according to the present invention.

4 is an exemplary view illustrating a deviation amount between the reference video and the current video according to the present invention.

FIG. 5 is an exemplary view showing a region for detecting a touch of a space set by a touch region memory setting unit in the present invention.

6 is a diagram illustrating a result of scoring the screen of FIG. 4 with the screen of FIG. 5.

7 is an exemplary view of a CRT for indicating a touch position in the present invention.

※ Explanation of code about main part of drawing ※

1: indicating unit 2: song name selection unit

3: performance data memory 4: speaker

5: Touch position indication data memory 6: Mark memory

7: display control unit 8: CRT

9: dance image memory 10: dance setting unit

11: rhythm setting unit 12: CCD camera

13: A / D converter 14: video memory

15: Deviation amount detection and integration unit 16: Reference video memory

17: touch area memory 18: touch area switching operation unit

19: touch area setting memory

The present invention for achieving the object as described above, the music output means for reading and outputting the music of one of the one or more stored music, and any of the shooting area by the CCD camera in accordance with the music of the music output means And a touch guide means for indicating a touch on an area and a space touch motion monitoring means for analyzing the image photographed by the CCD camera and monitoring a touch action in an arbitrary space indicated by the touch guide means. It is done.

In the dance game system using the image recognition of the present invention, the music output means stores a song name selection unit for selecting one music from one or more songs in response to an instruction signal from the instruction unit, and one or more songs. And a performance data memory which reads out one piece of music and outputs it to a speaker according to the selection signal of the song name selection unit.

In the dance game system using the image recognition of the present invention, the touch guide means is a touch position indicating data for outputting a display signal for indicating the touch position determined by the rhythm from the performance data memory and the difficulty from the rhythm setting unit And a mark memory for outputting a touch display corresponding to a display signal of the touch position indication data memory, and a display control unit for controlling a touch display from the mark memory to be output to the CRT.

In particular, the touch guide means may indicate a touch timing, and the touch display in the touch guide means may be a color change of the touch display or a shape change of the touch display.

In the dance game system using the image recognition of the present invention, the spatial touch motion monitoring means includes a CCD camera for photographing the player, a reference video memory for storing the first screen photographed by the CCD camera as a reference screen, and A video memory for storing a screen as a current time taken by a CCD camera as a screen at the present time, a touch area memory for finding a touch area due to an image change by contrasting the screens of the reference video memory and the video memory; Touch area switching memory for storing the touch data of the reference touch area for the player's touch during the dance, and touch area switching to check whether the touch is compared in comparison with the touch area of the touch area memory and the touch area of the touch area setting memory. From an operation unit and an output of the touch area switching operation unit. And a deviation amount detection and integration unit for detecting a deviation amount of the touch of the game player and obtaining an integrated value of the deviation amount.

In the dance game system using the image recognition of the present invention, it is preferable that the CCD camera is installed in front of the player to photograph the movement of the player.

In the dance game system using the image recognition of the present invention, the CCD camera is preferably installed in front of and above the player, so as to shoot the movement of the player in three dimensions.

In the dance game system using the image recognition of the present invention, it is preferable to determine the dance game time and the difficulty of the dance in accordance with the deviation detection and integration value.

Hereinafter, a preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described in more detail with an exemplary drawing.

1 is a block diagram showing a dance game system using the image recognition according to the present invention, Figure 2 is a screen example showing an example of an image that is a reference stored in the reference video memory in the present invention, Figure 3 is a present invention Fig. 1 shows an example of a screen showing an example of the current image stored in the video memory.

FIG. 4 is an exemplary view showing a deviation amount between a reference video and a current video in the present invention, and FIG. 5 is an exemplary view showing an area for detecting a touch of a space set by a touch area memory setting unit in the present invention. to be. 6 is a diagram illustrating a result of scoring the screen of FIG. 4 with the screen of FIG. 5, and FIG. 7 is an exemplary diagram of a CRT for indicating a touch position in the present invention.

Referring to Figure 1, the dance game system of the present invention is a music output means for reading and outputting music of one of the one or more stored music, and any region of the shooting area by the CCD camera in accordance with the music of the music output means Touch guide means for instructing a touch to the space and the space touch motion monitoring means for analyzing the image taken by the CCD camera to monitor the touch operation in any space indicated by the touch guide means.

More specifically, the music output means includes a song name selection unit 2 for receiving one instruction signal from the instruction unit 1 and selecting one music of one or more songs, and storing one or more songs, It consists of a performance data memory 5 or the like which reads out one piece of music and outputs it to the speaker 4 according to the selection signal of 2), and outputs music required for a dance game.

Further, the touch guide means includes a touch position indicating data memory 5 for outputting a display signal for indicating a touch position determined by the rhythm from the performance data memory 3 and the difficulty from the rhythm setting unit 11, and a touch; A mark memory 6 for outputting a touch display corresponding to the display signal of the position indication data memory 5, a display control unit 7 for controlling the touch display from the mark memory 6 to be outputted to the CRT 8, and the like. And a touch display required for the dance game.

Here, the touch guide means instructs the touch timing together. The touch display in the touch guide means may use an arrow as in the related art, but may be made of a color change of the touch display or a shape change of the touch display.

The spatial touch motion monitoring means includes a CCD camera 12 for photographing a game player, a reference video memory 16 for storing an initial screen photographed by the CCD camera 12 as a reference screen, and a CCD camera 12. A touch for finding a touch area due to an image change in contrast to the screen of the video memory 14 and the reference video memory 16 and the video memory 14 which store the screen as the current time-lapse screen as the time taken by An area memory 17, a touch area setting memory 19 in which data about a reference touch area for a player's touch during a dance is stored, and a touch area and a touch area setting memory 19 of the touch area memory 17; The touch area switching operation unit 18 which checks whether or not the touch is made in preparation for the touch area of the controller and the touch area switching operation unit 18 detects the deviation amount of the touch in the game of the player, and the deviation amount The deviation amount detection and the integration part 15 etc. which calculate | require the integrated value of are comprised.

Here, the CCD camera 12 is installed in front of the game player to shoot the game player's movements or respectively installed in front and above the game player to shoot the player's movements in three dimensions. Then, the dance game time and the difficulty of the dance are determined according to the deviation detection and integration value of the integration unit 15.

In the figure, reference numeral 9 denotes a dance image memory, 10 denotes a dance setting unit, and 13 denotes an A / D converter.

The operation of the dance game system according to the present invention configured as described above will be described.

When the instruction signal 1 is provided to the song name selection unit 2 by viewing the information output to the display unit 1, i.e., a screen (not shown) or other display device, the song name selection unit 2 selects one of a plurality of pieces of music. The selection signal for selection is supplied to the performance data memory 3 in which a plurality of pieces of music are stored.

The performance data memory 3 storing a plurality of pieces of music reads out one piece of music corresponding to the selection signal and outputs it to the speaker 4 while providing the rhythm of the piece of music to the touch position indicating data memory 5.

The touch position indication data memory 5 provided with the rhythm from the performance data memory 3 receives a signal for the difficulty from the rhythm setting unit 11 together with the rhythm, and the difficulty, time, position, etc. of the touch for the dance game. Is determined to provide information about the touch to the mark memory 6.

Since the mark provided with the output of the touch position indication data memory 5 is generated in the mark memory 6 and output to the display controller 7, the touch timing is applied to the CRT 8 as shown in FIG. 7 under the control of the display controller 7. A touch display for the player's touch indicating a is output. In this case, as the touch display, a simple arrow may be used as in the conventional dance game system, but without limitation, the touch display may be displayed as a color change or a shape change of the touch display. In addition, the touch signal for the player's touch is provided not only to the mark memory 6 but also to the deviation amount detection and integration unit 15.

Of course, the player's touch moment is achieved by monitoring the player's touch, i.e., whether the image changes according to the player's movement, as described below, within a predetermined time from the point of change of the color or shape of the touch display.

In this way, the video of the game player photographed by the CCD camera 12 is A / D converted by the A / D converter 13 while outputting music and a touch display to the speaker 4 and the CRT 8. 16 and video memory 14, respectively. Here, although the CCD camera 12 may be provided only in front of the player, the touch area may be varied by installing the CCD camera 12 so as to be photographed from the front and the upper side, that is, from various directions. Of course, it will be obvious that the touch display or the confirmation operation according to the touch display is also three-dimensionally performed.

As shown in FIG. 2, the video of the game player photographed by the CCD camera 12, the video of which the game player is not photographed, that is, the initial motion image, is stored in the reference video memory 16 as a reference screen. Then, as the time passes, the video of the player as shown in FIG. 3 is stored in the video memory 14. When the reference screen and the current screen stored in each of the memories 16 and 14 are applied to the touch area memory 17, the touch area memory 17 displays a screen of a portion where an image change has occurred as shown in FIG. 4. The touch area switching operation unit 18 is supplied.

Then, the touch area switching calculator 18 checks whether an image change is made in the corresponding touch area by comparing the touch area switching screen provided from the touch area setting memory 19 with the screen of FIG. 4 as shown in FIG. The same result as 6 is provided to the deviation amount detection and integration unit 15.

Subsequently, the deviation detection and integration unit 15 receiving the result as shown in FIG. 6 compares the touch signal from the touch position indication data memory 5 with the image change in the touch area originally indicated, that is, by the game player. Check that the touch is made, and integrate the corresponding value.

In this way, the accumulated value of the player's touch is accumulated while the music is continued, and after the music is finished, the value is provided to the touch position indication data memory 5 to continuously output music for the game or other difficulty having higher or lower difficulty. This is a factor for determining whether to output music repeatedly.

Of course, even if the music has been progressed for a predetermined time even before the end of one music, if the integrated value is detected below the predetermined value, the music and the touch display are no longer output under the control of the touch position indication data memory 5, so that the game cannot be played. It might be forced to stop.

According to the present invention, while minimizing the impact on the joints of the game player during the game using the dance game system, the movement effect can be doubled by maximizing the movement of the hands and feet.

In addition, the present invention provides a device that can reduce the production cost of the device by installing at least one CCD camera that can take the image of the game player without installing a separate floor main body, and analyzes the image of the game player in the game to proceed the game There is an advantage to minimize the space occupied.

In addition, the present invention also has the effect of doubling the interest of the game by changing the display content displayed on the monitor from a simple arrow to various shapes and colors.

Although the present invention has been described in detail only with respect to the described embodiments, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications and variations are possible within the spirit of the present invention, and such modifications and modifications belong to the appended claims.

Claims (10)

Music output means for reading and outputting one piece of music from one or more pieces of stored music; Touch guiding means for instructing a touch on an arbitrary area of the photographing area by the CCD camera in accordance with the music of the music output means; And Spatial touch motion monitoring means for analyzing the image photographed by the CCD camera to monitor the touch motion in any space indicated by the touch guidance means; Dance game system using the image recognition, characterized in that it comprises a. The method of claim 1, The music output means includes: a song name selection unit for selecting one piece of music from one or more pieces of music in response to an instruction signal from the indicating unit; Dance game system using the image recognition, characterized in that it comprises a performance data memory for reading the output to the speaker. The method of claim 1, The touch guidance means includes a touch position indication data memory for outputting a display signal for indicating a touch position determined by the rhythm from the performance data memory and the difficulty from the rhythm setting unit, and the display signal of the touch position indication data memory. And a display controller for controlling a touch memory from the mark memory to be output to the CRT. The method according to claim 1 or 3, The touch guide means is a dance game system using the image recognition, characterized in that to indicate the touch timing. The method according to claim 1 or 3, The touch display in the touch guide means is a dance game system using the image recognition, characterized in that the color change of the touch display. The method according to claim 1 or 3, The touch display in the touch guide means is a dance game system using the image recognition, characterized in that the shape change of the touch display. The method of claim 1, The spatial touch motion monitoring means includes a CCD camera for photographing a game player, a reference video memory for storing an initial screen photographed by the CCD camera as a reference screen, and a screen over time taken by the CCD camera. Video memory to be stored as a screen of the current point of view, a touch area memory for finding a touch area due to image change in contrast with the reference video memory and the screen of the video memory, and data about a reference touch area for a player's touch during a dance. A touch area setting memory storing the touch area setting memory, a touch area switching operation unit checking whether the touch area is compared with the touch area of the touch area memory and the touch area of the touch area setting memory, and the output of the touch area switching operation unit. Detects the amount of deviation of the touch during the game, Dance game system using the image sensor characterized in that it comprises side parts of the vehicle is detected to obtain the acid value and accumulated. The method of claim 7, wherein The CCD camera is installed in front of the player of the dance game system using the image recognition, characterized in that for shooting the movement of the player. The method of claim 7, wherein The CCD camera is installed in front of and above the player, respectively, the dance game system using the image recognition, characterized in that to shoot the movement of the player in three dimensions. The method of claim 7, wherein Dance game system using the image recognition, characterized in that the dance game time and the difficulty of the dance is determined according to the deviation amount detection and integration value.