KR20140016443A

KR20140016443A - Home gaming system with smart device

Info

Publication number: KR20140016443A
Application number: KR1020120076342A
Authority: KR
Inventors: 장욱
Original assignee: 장욱
Priority date: 2012-07-13
Filing date: 2012-07-13
Publication date: 2014-02-10

Abstract

The present invention relates to a smart device for configuring a home gaming environment, a design of a docking station based on said configuration, and a method of operation thereof. The present invention is provided to create a new market by expanding a smart device application area to a video game area by using a large display, and to revitalize a dying video game market through the smart device. The present invention realizes the home gaming environment by designing the smart device to include a display out, a controller connection technology, a docking technology and others, either solely or in combination with the docking station. The docking station is designed and operated to supplement situation problems such as phone calls or text message arrivals which can occur in the home gaming environment when solely using the smart device. A user uses a software market for software. The present invention has the effect of expanding the smart device application area to the video game area by using a large display. [Reference numerals] (110) Smart device; (120) Docking station; (AA) Various optional devices

Description

Home gaming system with smart device {Home gaming system with smart device}

The present invention relates to a home gaming system using a smart device, and more particularly, to a method for enabling a smart device to be used as a home gaming system by adding a design suitable for home gaming to a smart device that is becoming more powerful.

Smart devices are electronics that are not limited in functionality and that can be changed or extended in many ways through applications. Examples include Apple's i-phone and i-pad series and Samsung's Galaxy series.

Such a smart device can easily access a variety of information using a communication network such as 3G, LTE, WiFi, and can download the information to the storage medium of the device or upload the information of the device on the Internet.

In addition, by using the AP (integrated CPU and GPU, the unique central processing unit unique to the smart device) built in the device, it can run a variety of so-called apps or applications to provide users with satisfaction. Its built-in camera or accessories such as GPS and Bluetooth connectivity modules enable interactive experiences in a variety of environments.

The technology that connects the device with the display and the speaker enables the device to recognize the video, audio, and other input signals that the device processes and transmits through visual and audio, and to interact with them.

For example, Microsoft's Xbox360 connectivity module connects the main unit with various displays, allowing humans to recognize and interact with the signals they represent.

Such connection technologies include those using USB, optical audio, HDMI, Component, Composit, Audio out, Ethernet, Antenna in, PC in, Blue-tooth, Wifi, and Sharing.

Software market technologies, such as the App store and Google market, allow users to purchase and use the software they want through various payment methods.

Network technology enables gaming and the like through a communication network such as the Internet through the exchange of information.

The technologies that connect the controller to the device include wired and wireless connections, which allow the device to respond to user input.

USB host technology allows a variety of peripherals to interact with the host device that is the host of the host.

The present invention has been devised to propose a new home gaming paradigm using the above techniques. Smart devices are getting higher and higher, but there are no breakthroughs now, and they haven't expanded into the home gaming space yet. On the other hand, the present invention aims to reorganize the currently fragmented home gaming market and extend the direction of the smart device to the home gaming area by adding a design to a high performance smart device and operating it as a home gaming system.

In addition, the present invention provides a breakthrough direction for the smart device manufacturing industry that does not provide a special direction, thereby creating a market and combining the video gaming market, which is becoming dead, with the active smart device market to revitalize the video gaming market. For the purpose of

In order to apply a smart device to a home gaming system, in the design stage of the device, a display out (TY out, etc.) using the various display out technologies described above, a controller connection using a technology such as Blue-thooth, LTE, Wifi, etc. It should be possible to read and write to the used internet connection and network operation, and the expansion memory such as internal memory or SD card.

This design provides the hardware foundation for building a basic home gaming environment.

On the other hand, the software market is required to run the software. This market still operates an App store for Apple, a Google play market for Google, and a T store for SK telecom.However, the software provided here can display high resolution when the display is out. Since it is not optimized, only software that provides additional contents for the home system among the softwares currently available in the above markets by using a method such as 'download additional data for optimization to the home system' Provide an environment in which both smart devices and home systems can be integrated.

However, there is a problem that it is difficult to handle the contents of the contents that are getting higher and larger by the basic design change of the smart device and the inconvenience of the telephone or the text message exchange during the use of the contents is due to the characteristic of being integrated with the telephone function.

In order to solve this problem, the design of the docking station such as the Atrix lap dock of the motorola to compensate for the disadvantage.

By extending the range of smart devices to home gaming, new market potential is secured.

It is activated by combining the stagnant video game market with the currently active smart device market, and offers the possibility of developing new areas by applying the technology of the advanced video game market to the smart device area as it is.

It offers innovative possibilities for the development of stagnant smart devices.

A docked machine might be Motorola's Atrix, for example, and the model didn't have much reverberation, but it appears to be due to its universal form of laptop, adopting an unfamiliar OS called Ubuntu.

However, the docking machine of the present invention does not take the universal form of a laptop, so there is no problem even if a somewhat unfamiliar OS is employed, and it will also create demand for a user base who wants to use a smartphone as a gaming machine.

In addition, it will have a positive impact on the future of an OS optimized for large displays such as smart TVs, which are currently being produced by Apple TV and Google TV.

1 illustrates the basic contents that a smart device, which is the basis of the present invention, should have in order to implement a home gaming system.
Figure 2 illustrates the interaction between the docking station and the smart device required to implement a home gaming system optimized with a smart device.
Figure 3 shows the basic content that the docking station of the present invention should have.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings and the contents described in the drawings, but the present invention is not limited or limited to the embodiments.

1 illustrates the basic contents that a smart device, which is the basis of the present invention, should have in order to implement a home gaming system. A design of a smart device required for the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 1.

As shown in FIG. 1, in order to build a home gaming system as a smart device, a display out function, a controller connection function, an internet connection function, a network implementation function, a memory and a removable memory function, and a docking function must be built in the smart device body. .

The display out function transmits and expresses image information processed by the central processing unit of the smart device to various displays, regardless of the wireless method through a wired method or data sharing.

The controller can be connected regardless of the existing wireless remote sensor method or using a blue-tooth.

Internet connection and network implementation functions are available in all methods using communication devices such as modems, regardless of the 3G, 4G, LTE, or Wifi.

It requires internal memory with the capacity to manage contents except at least the capacity required for operating the system, and it is also possible to supplement it with a removable memory such as an SD card.

Finally, you need a docking feature.

The software basically connects to the software market, pays the bill, and downloads it to internal or removable memory to run.

Soft provides additional data for display on a large display in addition to data for display on a display mounted on a smart device, and a user may download additional data for a large display on the HDD of a docking station according to a selection. It can also be downloaded to internal memory or removable memory of the device body.

The data for display on the display of the smart device main body and the data for the home gaming system are composed, and the data for display on the large display is divided, and the data for each situation is driven and displayed on the display of each situation.

By using the display out function and the controller connection function of the smart device main body, a home gaming system using a large display can be built from the main body alone. In the event of a phone call or text message during the gaming system implementation, the user can choose whether or not to ignore the content during gaming.If not, the system can be Will automatically stop the game and display its contents. The user can resume the game after completing the call or text message.

However, in this case, the capacity shortage problem may occur due to the additional data for the large-capacity large display, and due to the characteristics of the smart device, frequent interruptions may occur due to the telephone function or the text messaging function. Inconvenience in dealing with telephone calls or text messages is caused.

The user who feels this inconvenience can solve the inconvenience through the docking station.

Figure 2 illustrates the interaction between the docking station and the smart device required to implement a home gaming system optimized with a smart device.

The docking junction 110 mounted on the smart device and the docking junction 120 mounted on the docking station are bonded to each other and share functions and information therebetween, and are connected to the docking station through a USB host technology. Can interact with

Figure 3 shows the basic content that the docking station of the present invention should have.

The docking station basically includes broadband modem and LAN connection, display out, storage media such as HDD or SSD, remote controller connection, and USB expansion function.

When docked, the smart device can share the above functions of the docking station, and when downloading the additional data for the large display of the software in the docked state, it can be downloaded to the HDD mounted in the docking station. do. The docking station's remote controller connection is wired / wireless, and additional USB expansion slots allow for expansion of devices such as USB controllers and USB keyboards.

The software can be downloaded from either the Internet connection of the smart device or via a broadband modem attached to the docking station.

The software differs only in the data to be expressed according to the display to be expressed. For example, save files such as game progress are shared, so when the user configures such an environment, the user moves and plays the game. You can take over the situation and play on your home gaming system. The opposite is also possible.

In a situation where a home gaming system is implemented by docking, it is possible to connect a phone and a text message receiving terminal through a USB expansion slot.

In this environment, when a user receives a phone call or a text message while implementing a home gaming system, the user can conveniently respond through a connected terminal. This is controlled by the operating system and application software.

110: docking junction installed in the smart device
120: docking junction installed in the docking station

Claims

On the way of home gaming system using smart device
In the design of the smart device main body, it is designed to enable display out, controller connection, internet connection, network operation, use of internal memory and removable memory, docking operation for interaction with the docking system, and use of the software market. Designing a home gaming system to be standalone and in conjunction with a docking station;
Connecting the controller to a large display such as a TV using the above technologies to drive data purchased from a software market;
For the above drive, the additional data for representation on the large display is separated from the data for driving on the smart device body, and the additional data is stored in the internal memory of the main body, the removable memory, or the storage medium of the docking station. Configuring both to be interlocked according to driving conditions;
In order to respond to the arrival of a phone or text message that may occur during the implementation of a home gaming system, ignore it or stop the situation when the contents arrive and display the contents so that the user can select and use the environment. Providing;
Making the software progress in a home gaming system environment and the software progress in a general portable environment of the smart device compatible with each other;
Design method of the smart device for home gaming comprising a control method for the home gaming situation and the portable situation of the smart device.

The method of claim 1,
Interworking with the smart device by designing a docking station to solve the problem of insufficient storage capacity of the main body storage media and the inconvenience of responding to phone, text message arrival situation, lack of expandability of peripheral devices, lack of ease of internet connection To implement an optimized home gaming environment;
In the design of the docking station, including a broadband modem and a LAN connection terminal, a display out terminal, a storage medium such as an HDD or SSD, a remote controller connection terminal, and a USB expansion function;
Sharing both functions by coupling the smart device and the docking station to each other;
The concept of a docking station constituting a home gaming system in conjunction with a smart device comprising a design and control method thereof.