TWI615182B - Game system and its location identification and instant notification method - Google Patents

Description

Game system and its location identification and instant notification method

The invention relates to a game machine; in particular, to a game system and a method for position recognition and instant notification thereof.

In recent years, with the improvement of people's quality of life, people are paying more and more attention to leisure activities. Through leisure activities, they can release the pressure in life and enhance the emotional communication between people. With the vigorous development of the game industry, a variety of online games or stand-alone games have become important adjustments for people's leisure activities and life.

However, most of the game programs provided by the Arcade Machines on the market can only be connected to the stores where the game consoles are located, and cannot be played by other users who play other games with other players. .

In other words, the scores obtained by the user's game cannot be shared with other stores or players, and when the score exceeds the scores of other players, the joy of breaking through is not shared, and the player is easily lost.

In addition, with the popularity of mobile devices (tablets, smart phones) and the advent of the electronic information age, we can use mobile devices to connect to the wireless Internet for data processing, satellite navigation and map location query. Generally speaking, when we want to find a map location by mobile device, one of the methods is to install the mobile application (APP) of the electronic map search system in the mobile device. There are many applications on the electronic map in the market. Program, like using the electronic map provided by Google Serve Google Map for map search. The usage mode is: inputting the information of the store, the address, and the like to be searched in a search column, and after receiving the search keyword input by the user, the Google Map obtains the search result according to the input keyword, and returns the search result to the user. Mobile device interface for user reference.

The map search method is based on the user actively providing a data as a keyword for map search, and then comparing the data from the map database, extracting highly relevant data and giving feedback to the user for reference. This map search system It is passive to provide map information to users, and the map information provided is not necessarily the closest address and best search result, and it is a large and scattered data, which often needs to be borrowed. The user can manually set some search restriction conditions (county, city, township, industrial and commercial categories, etc.) so that the user can obtain the desired location information.

However, some shopkeepers of video games that are not well-known and rarely known to the general public are difficult to find the exact location in these electronic map search systems. Sometimes even a small alley is used to wipe the body. Over. Or, some stores are holding events. If the information is not enough, they can't know the sale information, and they miss the opportunity.

In view of this, the object of the present invention is to provide a game system and a method for location identification and instant notification, which can integrate scores obtained by game machines in various places, and can be used by players to instantly find scores and corresponding rankings, except In addition, the user's location and store location can be actively identified, and the information matching the identification result can be notified actively and immediately.

In order to achieve the above object, the game system and the method for position recognition and instant notification provided by the present invention comprise a server, a plurality of game machines, and a plurality of mobile devices. The server is connected to the Internet. The game machines are located in different stores and are used to generate corresponding scores according to the game results. The mobile devices are wirelessly connected to the network and are each used to receive the scores generated by each of the gaming machines and uploaded to the server via the Internet.

Thereby, after the server receives the score transmitted by one of the mobile devices, storing the received score and related data of the corresponding mobile device, and comparing the received scores according to the previously stored score, Each of the mobile devices is ranked according to the comparison result, and the mobile devices can connect to the server through the Internet to view the ranking result.

According to the above concept, each of the mobile devices includes a wireless network module and a positioning module, wherein the positioning module is configured to obtain location information of a location of the mobile device; the wireless network module and the positioning module Electrically connected and connected to the Internet via a wireless signal, and used to actively transmit the location information to the Internet; the server includes a network module, a database module, and a processor The network module is connected to the Internet and receives the location information from the Internet; the database module stores information of a plurality of stores; the processor and the database module and the network module a group of electrical connections for parsing location information received by the network module to obtain a location of the mobile device, and determining whether the location of the mobile device is within a predetermined distance of one of the stores, if The information of the nearest store is actively transmitted to the wireless network module of the mobile device through the Internet.

According to the above concept, the present invention further provides a method for location identification and instant notification of the foregoing gaming machine, comprising the following steps: A. The mobile device obtains the location information of the mobile device by using the positioning module, and then The wireless network module is connected to the Internet, and the location information of the mobile device is automatically transmitted; B. The server connects to the Internet through the network module, and obtains location information of the mobile device; C. The processor uses the location information of the mobile device to be compared with the location information of the store in the database. For analysis; D. after the location coordinates of the location information of the mobile device are close to a predetermined distance of the location coordinates of at least one store in the database, the processor then extracts the store information from the database module, and The network module is transmitted to the mobile device.

In this way, through the above design, the scores obtained by the game machines of each store can be integrated, and the players can instantly find the scores and corresponding rankings. In addition, it can also actively identify the user's location and store location, and proactively and immediately notify the information that meets the identification results.

10‧‧‧Server

12‧‧‧Network Module

14‧‧‧Database Module

141‧‧‧Store database

142‧‧‧Map Database

16‧‧‧ Processor

21~23‧‧‧Game machine

211‧‧‧ screen

31~33‧‧‧Mobile devices

311‧‧‧Wireless network module

312‧‧‧ Positioning Module

Q‧‧‧2D barcode

1 is an architectural diagram of a game system according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention; FIG. 2 discloses that the gaming machine outputs a score in a two-dimensional barcode; FIG. 3 discloses that the mobile device is connected to the server to view the ranking result.

Figure 4 shows the mobile device displaying the store activity information.

Figure 5 is a block diagram showing the circuit of the mobile device and the server.

6 is a flow chart of the location recognition and instant notification method of the present invention.

Figure 7 is a schematic illustration of a predetermined distance of the above preferred embodiment of the present invention.

In order to more clearly illustrate the invention, the preferred embodiment is DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT As shown in FIG. 1, a game system according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention includes a server 10, a plurality of game machines 21-23, and a plurality of mobile devices 31-33. The server 10 is connected to the Internet and is used for storage, and has a built-in program for processing the stored digital information.

The game machines 21 to 23 are located in different stores. For example, the game machine 21 is located at a store in Taipei, and the game machine 22 is located at a store in Taichung, and the game machine 23 It is located at the C shop in Kaohsiung. The game machines 21 to 23 respectively store a game program for the player to play, and generate corresponding scores according to the game result of the player. In addition, referring to FIG. 2, in the embodiment, the game machine 21 includes a screen output device including a screen 211 and a processor (not shown) for using the game machine 21 as an example. The generated score is compiled into a two-dimensional barcode Q and output to the screen for display. In this embodiment, the two-dimensional barcode Q is exemplified by a Quick Response Code (QR Code), but the actual implementation may also be replaced by a two-dimensional barcode such as a Hanxin code or a PDF417 code, and In addition to the bar code, it can also be compiled into other output media (such as one-dimensional bar code or a specific garbled word group). In addition, in other implementations, the two-dimensional barcode Q may be output by printing using an additional printer (not shown).

The mobile devices 31~33 can be wirelessly connected to the network through a mobile network (such as 4G, 3G, GPRS, etc.) or a wireless network (such as WiFi). In addition, each mobile device 31~ 33 has a built-in program, and an account is registered with the program, and each of the mobile devices 31-33 includes a camera interpreting device composed of a lens and a processor (not shown) for taking photos or taking photos. After capturing the image of the two-dimensional barcode Q, the interpretation is reduced to the component number. Then, each of the mobile devices 31~33 executes the program and uploads the score to the server 10 via the Internet.

Of course, in actual implementation, in addition to using the score to compile into two In addition to the bar code, the wireless signal transmission method can also be used to achieve the above purpose, that is, each of the game machines 21 to 23 can be equipped with a wireless output device (not shown) to compile the generated score into a wireless device. The signals (such as Bluetooth, WiFi signal, etc.) are output, and each of the mobile devices 31-33 includes a wireless receiving device (not shown) that receives the wireless signals output by the gaming machines 21 to 23 and interprets the number of components.

Therefore, when the server 10 receives the score transmitted by one of the mobile device 31 accounts, the received score and the related data of the account of the corresponding mobile phone mobile device 31 are stored, and then the data is stored. The received scores are compared according to the previously stored scores, and the results are ranked according to the comparison results, and when the score exceeds other scores, the server sends a notification and transmits the notification to the Internet. The scores are exceeded by the mobile devices 32~33 to achieve the effect of instant notification, thereby achieving the purpose of attracting the player to play.

Then, as shown in FIG. 3, the mobile devices 31-33 can use the built-in program to connect to the server 10 via the Internet to view the ranking results. In addition, when the mobile devices 31 to 33 are connected to the server 10 via the Internet to view the ranking result, the scores of the rankings and the related data of the corresponding mobile devices 31 to 33 are displayed together (in this embodiment). In the middle of the corresponding account name), and the game machine 21~23 that generated the score and related information of the store.

Furthermore, the game machines 21 to 23 and the store (in the present embodiment, store A) which generate the highest scores display the size of the related data on the mobile devices 31 to 33, which is larger than other stores (in this embodiment) The size displayed on the mobile devices 31~33 for the store B, C, etc., so that the store with higher scores can achieve a better and more prominent publicity effect, so that the player can immediately notice the score when logging in. High store information, in turn, can stimulate the store to often organize activities to attract more players to play to create higher The purpose of the score.

It is worth mentioning that, through the above-mentioned architecture design, when the store wants to organize related game activities, please refer to Figure 4, the store can connect to the server 10 through the Internet to input an activity message (such as a store home) 1/2 PM 0200 holds a game challenge), the server 10 will transmit the activity message to the mobile devices 31~33 via the Internet to notify the player, in addition to reminding the player to go to the event, Promote the effect of the store.

In addition, the player may also like to meet other players to go to a store at a specific time, for example, the player can type a message in the program of his mobile device 31 (such as 1/2 PM 0100 A) The store sees it and transmits it to the server 10 via the Internet, and other players connect to the server 10 with their mobile devices 32-33, and can view the message to know that they want to go to the game at that time. The message, in turn, increases the convenience of the player, and can greatly increase the player's willingness to play.

In addition, as shown in FIG. 5 , the mobile device 31 further includes a wireless network module 311 and a positioning module 312 . The wireless network module 311 is electrically connected to the positioning module 312 . The wireless network module 311 is connected to the Internet through a wireless signal, and can communicate with sending and receiving messages. The positioning module 312 is configured to obtain location information of a location of the mobile device 31. The positioning module 312 can perform fixed-point positioning according to the satellite signal surrounding the earth to obtain the location information of the mobile device 31.

The server 10 includes a network module 12, a database module 14 and a processor 16 for connecting to the Internet and receiving the mobile device from the Internet. 31 location information uploaded by the location. The database module 14 further includes a store database 141 and a map database 142 for storing information such as location coordinates, evaluations, advertisements, and events of the plurality of stores. The map database 142 is borrowed The corresponding electronic map data is constructed from satellite imagery, aerial imagery and other map data sources. The processor 16 is electrically coupled to the network module 12 and the database module 14 for parsing the location information received by the network module 12 to obtain location information of the mobile device 31. And determining whether the location of the mobile device 31 is within a predetermined distance of one of the stores, and if so, actively transmitting the information of the approaching store, the surrounding geographic information, and the electronic map to the network through the Internet The wireless network module 311 of the mobile device 31. The processor 16 applies a Global Positioning System (GPS) and a Geographic Information System (GIS) to further analyze the environment, terrain, and the like of the location information, and constructs the action. The user of the device has a clear and unambiguous electronic map for navigating the user to a store that meets the predetermined distance. The predetermined distance is 1 km, and the selected system of the distance is derived from the natural frequency of walking and the pace of walking. The destination within 1 km is easy for the average person to reach, and not because of the distance. The restrictions make people's willingness to go lower, and conversely, destinations beyond 1 km will make people's willingness to go down. The predetermined distance is a preferred distance of the preferred embodiment, and other distances may be further set in other applications, without limitation.

Through the above design, and referring to the method shown in FIG. 5, the effect of position recognition and instant notification can be achieved, and the method has the following steps: the mobile device 31 and the satellite signal surrounding the earth orbit by the positioning module 312 Satellite positioning is performed to obtain location information of the location of the mobile device 31. Then, the wireless network module 311 is connected to the Internet, and actively uploads the location information of the mobile device 31 to the Internet. After the server 10 connects to the Internet via the network module 12, the server 10 receives the action. Location information uploaded by device 31.

The processor 16 of the server 10 then parses the location information and locates the map database 142, and then compares the latitude and longitude coordinates provided by the location information with the locations of the plurality of stores in the store database 141. The analysis is made and it is judged whether the location of the mobile device 31 is within a predetermined distance (i.e., 1 km) from the location of the store in the store database 141. If so, the processor 16 then extracts at least one of the corresponding store information and constructs an electronic map to be provided to the mobile device 31. Then, the server 10 actively transmits the matching store through the network module 12. The information and the electronic map are given to the mobile device 31.

In order to more clearly explain the method for position recognition and instant notification of the game system of the present invention, the definition is within the predetermined distance, please refer to FIG. 3, which has a store A, a store B, and a store C. The dotted line portion represents an area centered on the mobile device 31 and divided by the predetermined distance, wherein the store A is located outside the area, and the store B and the store C are located in the area, such that After the server receives the location information uploaded by the mobile device, the processor 16 can determine that the store B and the store C meet the conditions within the predetermined distance, and the store A does not meet, so The server 10 will only actively transmit the information of the store B and the store C to the mobile device.

In summary, it can be known that the game system of the present invention and the method for location identification and instant notification can not only integrate the scores of the game machines 21~23 of each store, so that the players can instantly find the scores and corresponding rankings. It can also be used as a platform for the store and the players to communicate, thus enhancing the store's activities and the willingness of the players to play. In addition, the method for location identification and instant notification provided by the present invention does not require any user to set any search condition, and only needs to carry any mobile device with wireless Internet access function, and the active location identification and instant notification of the present invention The system can actively identify the location of the mobile device, and actively provide information, advertisements, and activities of the store. Information and electronic maps are available to users for reference.

In addition, the above description is only for the preferred embodiment of the present invention, and equivalent changes to the scope of the present invention and the scope of the patent application are intended to be included in the scope of the present invention.

10‧‧‧Server

21~23‧‧‧Game machine

31~33‧‧‧Mobile devices

Claims (11)

A game system includes: a server connected to the Internet; a plurality of game machines, which are located in different stores and used to generate corresponding scores according to the game result; a plurality of mobile devices, wirelessly connected to the network And separately for receiving the scores generated by each of the gaming machines, and uploading to the server through the Internet; thereby, when the server receives the score transmitted by one of the mobile devices, the storage receives the And the corresponding information of the corresponding mobile device, and comparing the received scores according to the previously stored scores, and ranking the mobile devices according to the comparison results, and the mobile devices can be accessed through the Internet The router connects to the server to view the ranking result; wherein, after the server receives the score transmitted by one of the mobile devices, when the score exceeds other scores, the server sends a notification and sends a notification through the Internet. The notification is transmitted to the mobile device whose score is exceeded. A game system includes: a server connected to the Internet; a plurality of game machines, which are located in different stores and used to generate corresponding scores according to the game result; a plurality of mobile devices, wirelessly connected to the network And each is used to receive the scores generated by each of the gaming machines, and uploaded to the server through the Internet; Thereby, after the server receives the score transmitted by one of the mobile devices, storing the received score and related data of the corresponding mobile device, and comparing the received scores according to the previously stored score, And ranking the mobile devices according to the comparison result, and the mobile devices can connect to the server through the Internet to view the ranking result; wherein the mobile devices connect to the server through the Internet When viewing the ranking results, the scores of each ranking, the corresponding information of the corresponding mobile device, and the related information of the game machine and the store where the score is generated are displayed together; wherein the game machine and the store where the highest score is generated are The size of the related data displayed on the mobile device is greater than the size displayed by other stores on the mobile device. The game system of claim 1 or 2, wherein each of the mobile devices generates a message and transmits the message to the server via the Internet, and the mobile device can connect to the server via the Internet to view the message. The game system of claim 1 or 2, wherein the store can connect to the server via the Internet to input an activity message, and the server transmits the activity message through the Internet. Device. The game system of claim 1 or 2, wherein the game machine comprises a compiling output device for compiling the generated score into an output medium and outputting; each of the mobile devices includes a camera interpreting device for After capturing the image of the output medium and interpreting the component number, each mobile device uploads the score to the server through the Internet. The game system of claim 5, wherein the output medium is a Quick Response Code (QR Code). The game system of claim 1 or 2, wherein the gaming machine includes a wireless output device for compiling the generated score into a wireless signal and outputting the mobile device; each of the mobile devices includes a wireless receiving device for receiving After the wireless signal output by the gaming machine and the number of components are interpreted, each mobile device uploads the score to the server through the Internet. The game system of claim 1 or 2, wherein each of the mobile devices includes a wireless network module and a positioning module, wherein the positioning module is configured to obtain location information of a location of the mobile device; The network module is electrically connected to the positioning module, and is connected to the Internet through a wireless signal, and is used to actively transmit the location information to the Internet; the server includes a network module, a database module and a processor, the network module is connected to the Internet, and receives the location information from the Internet; the database module stores information of a plurality of stores; the processor and the The database module and the network module are electrically connected to analyze the location information received by the network module to obtain the location of the mobile device, and determine whether the location of the mobile device is close to the store. One of them is within a predetermined distance, and if so, the information of the nearest store is actively transmitted to the wireless network module of the mobile device via the Internet. The game system of claim 8, wherein the processor of the server applies a Global Positioning System (GPS) and a Geographic Information System (GIS) to analyze the location information of the mobile device. And integrating one of the perimeters of the mobile device For information, the processor constructs an electronic map by using the location information, the geographic information, and the database module, and provides the electronic map to the mobile device. The game system of claim 9, wherein the database module further has a store database and a map database, wherein the store database stores information such as location coordinates, evaluations, advertisements, and activities of the store; The library is an electronic map database built by satellite imagery, aerial imagery and other map data sources. The map database can provide resources for the server to construct an electronic map. A method for location recognition and instant notification of a game system as claimed in claim 8 has the following steps: A. the mobile device obtains location information of the mobile device by using the positioning module, and then uses the wireless network The road module is connected to the Internet and automatically transmits the location information of the mobile device; B. The server connects to the Internet through the network module, and obtains the location information of the mobile device; C. The processor Comparing the location information of the mobile device with the location information of the store in the database; D. after the location coordinates of the location information of the mobile device are close to a predetermined distance of the location coordinates of at least one store in the database The processor then extracts the store information from the database module and transmits the store information to the mobile device via the network module.