RU2810195C1 - Device for playing hybrid sport games - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: sport devices.

SUBSTANCE: invention is related to devices intended for playing hybrid sport games, such as chess boxing, chess tennis, etc. A device for playing games in hybrid sports consisting of two sports disciplines, one of which is chess, comprises a means designed to display chess moves pronounced by players on an on-screen display installed at the game venue, and including a unit for receiving audio messages connected to a block for their decoding, connected to a screen display that provides reproduction of a chess move made by a player during a single combat in another sports discipline included in a hybrid sport. The unit for receiving audio messages comprises a certain number of microphones located at the place of the game, and the unit for receiving audio messages is connected to a unit for recognizing players uttering audio messages.

EFFECT: expanding the range of hybrid sports due to no need to use individual devices.

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Description

The invention relates to devices intended for playing games in hybrid sports, for example, chessboxing, tennis, etc.

Currently, all kinds of sports competitions, held in such hybrid sports that combine chess and some other chosen sport, have become quite widespread. Most often, boxing, tennis, and ping pong are used as the latter.

The disadvantage of all known hybrid sports lies in their general structure. It is based on an independent game of chess, which simply alternates with an independent game in another form. Thus, according to the rules of the World Chessboxing Organization, a fight consists of 11 rounds, and each round involves either a boxing competition or a game of chess. This reduces the entertainment value of the competition, since with a higher level of play in any form included in the hybrid sport, the overall result becomes quite predictable. In addition, the athlete is not tested for his ability to play chess under conditions of physical and mental stress inherent in another type of competition. But this is the main characteristic of an athlete, which interests most fans of hybrid sports. And the watchability of such fights is quite low due to the lack of an overall picture of the competition. This is explained by the lack of temporal integrity of the entire competition - each match in a hybrid sport is divided into two competitions and is held separately for each sport according to its own rules, associated only with its own time.

The disadvantages of known hybrid sports also include the lack of total time allotted for such competitions. For example, in Shahpong - a double event consisting of games of table tennis and blitz chess - first, as a rule, table tennis is played, and then chess blitz. It also reduces the interest of sports fans in watching them due to the often large differences in the duration of competitions in each sport. A person can play for several hours in one form and lose in a few minutes in another, namely chess.

In order to eliminate these shortcomings, patent RU 2796332 proposed a device for playing games in hybrid sports consisting of two sports disciplines, one of which is chess, which contains a means designed to indicate chess moves on an on-screen display installed at the game venue, pronounced by the players, and including a block for receiving audio messages connected to a block for decoding them, connected to an on-screen display that provides reproduction of a chess move spoken by a player during a single combat in another sports discipline included in a hybrid sport,

The disadvantage of this solution is the need for players to have during the game individual devices included in the above-mentioned means, but the presence of which is unacceptable for some sports, for example, boxing or wrestling. In these sports, the athlete must not wear various objects not provided for by the rules.

The objective of this invention is to eliminate this drawback, as well as to create a device that expands the range of hybrid sports.

The objectives are solved due to the fact that the device for playing games in hybrid sports consisting of two sports disciplines, one of which is chess, contains a means designed to display on a screen display installed at the game venue chess moves pronounced by the players, and including a unit for receiving audio messages connected to a unit for decoding them, connected to an on-screen display that provides reproduction of a chess move made by a player during a single combat in another sports discipline included in a hybrid sport, wherein the unit for receiving audio messages contains a certain number of microphones located in the carrying out the game, while the block for receiving sound messages is connected to the block for recognizing players pronouncing sound messages.

The technical result of the invention is that there is no need for players to have individual devices, which significantly expands the range of hybrid sports.

Other features and advantages of the present invention will be clear from the detailed description, as well as from the two claims.

This application is an additional (dependent) invention that has improved the main (pioneer) invention under patent RU 2796332.

The invention is illustrated by the accompanying drawings, in which:

fig. 1 is a top view of the game location;

fig. 2 shows a functional diagram of the device;

fig. 3 shows a diagram of the wireless connection of the device;

fig. 4 shows a connection diagram for a wireless communication module;

fig. 5 shows an algorithm for playing a game in a hybrid sport.

When describing the best embodiments of this invention, as well as for the purpose of convenience of its further consideration, all abbreviations in parentheses after one or more words will refer to their initial letters. At the same time, all terms used in the description are either generally accepted in the scientific and technical literature, or are used in official sources.

In fig. Figure 1 shows a top view of the venue for a chessbox game. It is made in the form of a ring platform (PR) 1, surrounded by three or four ropes 2, attached to corner posts (CP) 3. In the opposite corners of the ring, steps 4 are installed, designed to lift athletes to PR 1. Around the latter there is k (k= 1, 2, ...) screen displays (ED) 5, for example, brand TE-120-160x104e from the Distablo company. Each scoreboard has a built-in processor (VsP) connected to an internal Wi-Fi module connected via a wireless channel (BC) 6 with a chess move indicator (CISHH) located in a hollow housing (PC) 7. The screen dimensions of this screen display are 2500 × 1650 mm, which is quite enough to read the chess position from any place in PR 1. All ED 5 work synchronously, since they receive the same information from BC 6 from the SISH. The PC 7 is placed above the PR 1 in such a way that all audio (speech) messages from players (athletes) are received by the microphones included in the PC 7 with a signal-to-noise ratio sufficient for further reliable sound processing.

In fig. Figure 2 shows a functional diagram of the SISH, intended for displaying 5 chess moves made by the players on the k-th ED installed at the venue of the sports competition. This means includes an audio message receiving unit (BPZS) 8, which has a certain number m (m=1, 2, ...) microphones (Mk) 9 connected to analog-to-digital converters (ADC) 10 and located at the venue of the sports competition. The outputs of all ADCs 10 are connected to a speech intelligibility enhancement unit (SIU) 11, which improves the signal-to-noise ratio and speech quality even in very noisy environments such as those found during sports competitions. The operating principle of BPRR 11 is described in patent RU 2456701 “Increasing speech intelligibility using multiple microphones on multiple devices.” From this patent it follows that several pairs of Mk 9 and ADC 10 can be located outside of PC 7. In this case, these pairs can be connected to BPRR 11 via Bluetooth network devices, for example, via a Bluetooth Smart module of the BLE113 brand from Bluegiga Technologies. At a sufficiently high signal-to-noise ratio, for example, with a small number of viewers, BPRR 11 may be absent. The latter, in turn, is connected via a bit bus (BW) 12 to a speech signal decoding unit (BDRS) 13 into text. A detailed description of the BPZS 8 and BDRS 13 tools, as well as the principles of their operation, is set out in many works, for example, in the patent RU 2466468 “System and method for speech recognition”. These tools consist, in particular, of such nodes as a unit for analyzing and normalizing the frequency spectrum of a speech signal; a block for determining the presence of acoustic features and generating a sequence of symbols denoting groups of phonemes; block for decoding a sequence of characters into text; text storage device; block of acoustic features of phoneme groups; vocabulary module. From other sources describing the operation of BPZS 8 and BDRS 13, but at the software level, one can note the patents RU 2764675 and RU 2787130 under the general title “Remote control”, issued to the author of this invention. In some embodiments, the BPZS 8 can also be made in the form of a microphone array (MP), including a set of microphones arranged in a given configuration at the game venue. In the case where the microphones that make up the MP are omnidirectional, they receive sounds from all directions, i.e. The electrical signals from each microphone contain information about sounds coming from all directions. Combined processing of these signals in the MP microcontroller allows you to isolate sound coming from a given direction. A detailed description of MP can be found in patent RU 2369042 entitled “System and method for beamforming using a microphone array.” Currently, many types of MP are produced, designed for recognizing speech signals at high levels of acoustic noise. One of these MPs is produced by a Moscow company under the brand name MSB-102. When this MP is placed at a height of three meters above the sound source (the athlete’s head), a human movement area of about 6 m ² is provided. The speech signal decoding unit is connected via RS 14 to an acknowledgment signal generator (AFG) 15, and via a communication line (LC) 16 to the first inputs of logical elements (LE) 17, 18. These logical elements “AND” implement the conjunction function. The output of BPRR 11 is connected via the bit bus (RS) 12 also to the player recognition unit (BRI) 19, which provides audio information. A logical unit is received through LS 20 after recognizing the first player (PI), and through LS 21 - after recognizing the second player (VI). From the output of FSP 15, a logical unit is sent to the confirmation input (VxP) via LS 22 upon recognition of the confirmation word (SP) spoken by the PI or VI. At the same time, the joint ventures themselves should differ in their sound for each player. In the simplest version of the FSP 15, it includes a storage unit (UzH) of the sound fingerprint of the SP and a two-input comparison circuit (CC), which produces a logical unit when the SP arrives at its corresponding input in digital form. At the same time, the sound imprint of the SP is received from the UZH to the other input of the SS. From the output of LE 17 to the first information input (I&I) via LS 23, recognized audio information about the chess move of the PI, which is displayed on ED 5, is received. And from the output of LE 18 to the second information input (I&I) via LS 24, recognized audio information about the chess move is received. during the VI, which is displayed on ED 5. The sequence of processing data arriving at the inputs VxP, PiV, ViV is set by the internal control unit included in ED 5. At the same time, it first displays, for example, by flashing, the chess move that is first introduced to the PiV and ViV inputs, and then is finally indicated, for example, by stopping blinking after a logical unit appears at the input. While flashing, i.e. if the VxP is logical zero, data on the next move of ED 5 is not accepted.

In fig. Figure 3 shows part of the functional diagram of the SISH with a built-in wireless communication module (WCM) 25, which ensures the transmission of relevant information through all four BC 6 to all ED 5. It can be seen that BC 6 includes all the functions of LS 22, LS 23 and LS 24.

In fig. Figure 4 shows an additional means in the form of a computing device (CU) 26, connected to ED 5 and used in the design of chess according to patent EA 010330 “Device for playing advanced chess and a method for its use,” designated in the description of the patent as a serving computer (OcC ), and having such means as a virtual playing field shaper (FVIP) 27, a virtual chess piece shaper (VChF) 28, a virtual chess clock shaper (VCHCH) 29 and a virtual display device shaper (VDUO) 30, intended, in particular, for displaying the final score of the competition on the generated graphic field. All these tools are implemented at the software or hardware level and can be built directly into ED 5. The control time T (T>0) on the virtual chess clock is set using graphic buttons displayed on ED 5 by means of the high-pressure counter 29. It can be noted that when moving pieces and pawns on the virtual playing field VU 26 has the same tools as those discussed in this patent. Only instead of a keyboard that produces text information about a chess move, SISH is used. In addition to moving virtual pieces, the CU 26 can also be assigned the function of controlling a virtual chess clock - its voice start and stop. As an example of the implementation of MBS 25, the figure shows its simplified block diagram. This module belongs to the AVM-200 family of modules developed by the Korean company Airlogic. Recommended applications for this module include all devices using wireless technology with the marketing name "Bluetooth". The module contains a power amplifier 31, a low-noise amplifier 32 and an antenna switch 33 connected through a bandpass filter (BPF) 34 to the antenna 35. The low-noise amplifier 32 is a controlled two-stage amplifier. The power amplifier 31 is made of three stages with analog control. Commands for all operations in this module are generated in the internal control unit (ICU) 36. The design features of the module include the presence of an external generator and a recording unit 37, designed to record all text information confirmed by FSP 15. Both elements are connected to the ICU 36, and The module itself is housed in a shielded housing.

The operation of the device for playing games in hybrid sports is carried out in accordance with the algorithm diagram presented in Fig. 5. The practical implementation of this algorithm is carried out using standard software, as well as special programs (SP), which are stored in the internal memory of such tools as SISHH, ED 5, MBS 25. Work begins after performing step 38 to create a start signal, in as a result, a virtual chess clock is launched, generated by the FVSHCH 29 and displayed on ED 5. The start command can be created, for example, by means of a sound signal received and processed in the SISH from the competition judge. In the process of performing action 39, the player can compete in one of the following sports: boxing, tennis, golf, curling, billiards, shooting, archery, weightlifting, etc. Further operation of the algorithm depends on the rules associated primarily with end time of the competition. If, for example, in the process of performing action 39, the chess game ends first (“Yes” in condition 40) and there will be no continuation (“No” in condition 41), then action 42 is performed to determine the results of the entire competition. If before the end of the chess game the match in another sport is over (“Yes” in condition 43), then when the rule for ending the entire match is fulfilled (“No” in condition 41), action 42 is also performed to determine the results of the entire competition.

Let us now give a specific example illustrating the described invention. Let us assume that a chessboxing competition is held on PR 1 between the first player (PI) and the second player (VI) using the above-described device, made in the form of a SISH, located in PC 7. The image on all four (k=4) ED 5 consists of a chess field with virtual pieces and a field designed to display the current score in the box, which is periodically entered into ED 5 by the assistant referee. The control time T=10 minutes was set for both players on the virtual chess clock reflected on ED 5. Let us assume that the competition takes place according to the following rules. The match ends when one of the following situations occurs on the chessboard - checkmate, stalemate, three-time repetition of the position. After that, the winner is determined based on the current boxing score. And then, based on the total score in the two disciplines, the final result is displayed on ED 5. Before the game, a draw was held, as a result of which the PI received the white pieces. After the draw, the referee's whistle was blown to start the virtual chess clock and the player announced the designation of the first move e2 e4, after which he entered into a boxing match. The spoken words were received by BPZS 8 and after they were decoded in BDRS 13, they were digitally received at the first inputs of LE 17, 18. The spoken chess move was also transmitted via RS 12 to the input of BRI 19, in which the PI was recognized, as a result of which LS 20 a logical unit was received at the second input of LE 17 and a flashing chess position was displayed on all four ED 5. Since the position was formed without an error, the PI said the confirmation word “Yes” (for the VI, this word is “True”) and a logical unit appeared at the output of FSP 15, which, after arriving via LS 22 at the VxP, initiated fixation of the chess position in ED 5 and stopping its blinking. Subsequently, the implementation of action 39 to conduct a chessboxing competition was reduced to boxing between the players and the simultaneous game of chess by pronouncing chess moves by the players during the “fight”. On the 25th move, with the score in the box 4:5 in favor of the second player, the first player declared checkmate to him. After which the chess clock was stopped and at all ED 5, following the results of the competition in two disciplines, a draw was recorded with a total score of 1:1.

The invention can be used to create new sports, for example, chess billiards and chess wrestling, which require players to be able to play chess during combat in another sports discipline. An additional advantage of new sports is their temporal integrity.

Claims (2)

1. A device for playing games in hybrid sports consisting of two sports disciplines, one of which is chess, containing a means designed to display chess moves pronounced by players on an on-screen display installed at the game venue, and including a unit for receiving audio messages, connected to a decoding unit connected to an on-screen display that provides reproduction of a chess move spoken by a player during a single combat in another sports discipline included in a hybrid sport, characterized in that the unit for receiving audio messages contains a certain number of microphones located at the location of the game, in this case, the block for receiving sound messages is connected to the block for recognizing players who pronounce sound messages. 2. The device according to claim 1, characterized in that the audio message receiving unit is made in the form of a microphone array, including a set of microphones arranged in a given configuration at the location of the game.

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