TWI763155B - A game system with image synthesis display - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention is for at least one player of at least one player side to bet points for multiple betting zones within a betting time period to generate a betting point data respectively, and a real scene of a physical game result generating unit is captured by an image capturing unit A real-time image is obtained, and then an image recognition unit recognizes and analyzes the position of the real-time image to generate a position information. Therefore, an image synthesis processing unit can generate a position information according to the at least one scoring data, the real-time image and the position information. A virtual-real composite image is used to display the virtual-real composite image on a display screen of the at least one player terminal. Accordingly, the present invention can increase the presence of the at least one player terminal when playing and increase the credibility of the game.

Description

A game system with image synthesis display

The present invention relates to a game system, especially a game system with image synthesis display.

The game machine (system) does not need a dealer, there is no room for artificial cheating, the manufacturing and management costs are low, and it can be applied to a variety of games such as poker games, Sic Bo and roulette, etc. The cost of playing is also quite low, and It is suitable for stand-alone games and remote multiplayer games, so it is widely welcomed by players and industry players.

However, when the gaming machine does not use a physical game result generating unit, such as a physical playing card, a physical dice, or a physical roulette, etc., the player will not have a realistic gaming experience. In addition, the game result generation unit used by the game console is a virtual random number generator. Although it has been officially certified to increase its credibility, if the player does not have the expected result after playing for a long time, there will be doubts about whether the system is cheating. When players doubt whether the game is fair, the player's interest in playing will be greatly reduced.

Therefore, the automatic card dealing system as described in US Patent Publication No. US 9,744,437 retains the real poker face, in order to automatically process the dealing, collecting and shuffling of the cards through the system, therefore, there is no doubt of artificial cheating or system cheating. , is also quite present, which can greatly increase the credibility and attractiveness of the game.

Also, for players who play games remotely, they can only monitor the physical game result generating unit through a display screen that is separately set and broadcast live online. However, players who are playing games at a remote location should pay attention to the display screen of the online live broadcast display screen while operating the game console, so as to grasp the real-time betting information and game results, so as to satisfy the fun of participating on the spot. Therefore, a player playing a game at a remote location needs to be distracted while watching the display screen and the display screen of the game console, which is quite labor-intensive and easily causes the player to feel tired easily and reduces the game time.

The main purpose of the present invention is to disclose a game system with image composite display, which allows the player's display screen to display the virtual and real composite image, so that the player can watch the real-time image of the physical game result generating unit and simultaneously grasp the betting points. data, and increase the sense of presence and reduce the mental burden when playing.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a game system with image synthesis display, which includes a game processing unit, at least one player terminal, a physical game result generation unit, an image capture unit, an image recognition unit, and an image synthesis processing unit. unit with a bet points payout unit. The game processing unit controls the operation of a game for at least one player to play the game, and each player terminal has a display screen, the display screen displays a game screen of the game, and the game screen has a plurality of betting zones and a plurality of pairs According to the odds of multiple betting divisions, the at least one player side is respectively for the at least one player to play the game, and the at least one player can choose to bet points for the multiple betting divisions within a betting point time to generate a betting point respectively data, and the at least one player terminal respectively transmits the at least one betting data to the game processing unit, and the game processing unit notifies the physical game result generation unit, so that the physical game result generation unit can be used in each round of the game. After the betting time expires, a game result is generated according to a preset rule, and the physical game result generating unit transmits the game result to the game processing unit. In each round of the game, the betting payout unit pays out according to the betting data of the at least one player, the game result and the multiple odds.

The image capture unit captures a real scene of the physical game result generating unit to obtain a real-time image, and the image capture unit transmits the real-time image to the game processing unit, and the game processing unit transmits the real-time image to the image The identification unit allows the image identification unit to identify and analyze the position of the real-time image to generate a position information, and the game processing unit returns the position information to the game processing unit.

When the game processing unit receives the at least one betting data, the game processing unit transmits the at least one betting data, the real-time image and the position information to the image synthesis processing unit, and the image synthesis processing unit according to the at least one A virtual-real composite image is generated based on the scoring data, the real-time image and the position information, and the image composite processing unit transmits the virtual-real composite image to the game processing unit, and the game processing unit respectively sends the virtual-real composite image to the at least one the player side, so that the display screen of the at least one player side respectively displays the virtual and real composite image.

Accordingly, the present invention can display the virtual-real composite image on the display screen of the at least one player terminal respectively, and the information of the virtual-real composite image includes the at least one betting data, the real-time image and the position information, and the real-time image is the The physical game result generates a real scene of the unit, and according to the location information, the value of the at least one betting point data can be correctly displayed and synthesized on the real-time image, so through the virtual-real synthetic image, the player can grasp the at least one betting point. The value of the data, and has the sense of presence of live play to meet the fun of on-site participation, and can reduce the mental burden when playing.

The detailed description and technical content of the present invention are described as follows in conjunction with the drawings:

Please refer to FIG. 1 , FIG. 2 and FIG. 3 , the present invention is a game system with image synthesis display, the game system includes a game processing unit 10 , at least one player terminal 20 , a physical game result generating unit 30 , and an image capture unit A retrieval unit 40 , an image recognition unit 50 , an image synthesis processing unit 60 and a betting payout unit 70 . The game processing unit 10 controls the operation of a game for at least one player to play the game. The physical game result generating unit 30 is shown in FIG. 3 . In one embodiment, a physical roulette wheel is used as an example for description.

Please refer to FIG. 1 , FIG. 2 and FIG. 4A , in one embodiment, each of the player terminals 20 is a game machine for the player to play, and each of the player terminals 20 has a display screen 21 . The screen 21 displays a game screen 22 of the game, and the game screen 22 displays a real-time image 41 captured by the image capturing unit 40 . The game screen 22 has a plural number of betting areas 221 and the odds 222 corresponding to the plural number of betting areas 221 (for the simplicity of the screen display, only part of the odds 222 are displayed). The at least one player terminal 20 is respectively used for the at least one player to play the game, and the at least one player can choose to bet points for the plurality of betting areas 221 within a betting point time to generate a betting point data respectively, in this embodiment , the betting data is displayed on the betting areas 221 in the form of images of at least one chip 223 . As shown in FIG. 2 , the at least one player terminal 20 has a game operation interface 23 respectively. The at least one game operation interface 23 is respectively used by the at least one player to operate to generate operation information. The at least one game operation interface 23 has A plurality of betting options 231 and at least one function operation option 232 for betting on the plurality of betting zones 221, the operation information includes a function control signal for controlling the operation of the game system and the betting data, the function control signal is determined by the The player operates the at least one function operation option 232, and the at least one player controls the operation of the game system by generating the function control signal, such as starting the game, exiting the game, watching the game description, etc.; and the betting points The data is generated by the player operating the multiple point betting option 231 . In practice, in an embodiment, the display screen 21 is a touch screen, and the betting area 221 to be bet can be switched by clicking and touching.

The at least one player terminal 20 transmits the at least one betting data to the game processing unit 10 respectively, and the game processing unit 10 notifies the physical game result generating unit 30, so that the physical game result generating unit 30 can perform a After the betting time of the round ends, a game result is generated according to a preset rule, and the physical game result generating unit 30 transmits the game result to the game processing unit 10, and the betting payout unit 70 is in the game. In each round, the payout is made according to the betting data of the at least one player, the game result and the multiple odds 222 .

Please also refer to FIG. 1 , FIG. 3 and FIG. 4B , the image capturing unit 40 captures a real scene of the physical game result generating unit 30 to obtain the real-time image 41 and display it on the game screen 22 (as shown in FIG. 4A). The image capture unit 40 transmits the real-time image 41 to the game processing unit 10 , and the game processing unit 10 transmits the real-time image 41 to the image recognition unit 50 so that the image recognition unit 50 can recognize and analyze the real-time image 41 The location information is generated by the game processing unit 10 , and the game processing unit 10 returns the location information to the game processing unit 10 . After the game processing unit 10 receives the at least one betting data, the game processing unit 10 transmits the at least one betting data, the real-time image 41 and the position information to the image synthesis processing unit 60, and the image synthesis processing The unit 60 generates a virtual-real composite image 61 (as shown in FIG. 4B ) according to the at least one scoring data, the real-time image 41 and the position information. More specifically, the position of the real-time image 41 can be known from the position information, so the image synthesis processing unit 60 can superimpose the image of the at least one chip 223 corresponding to the at least one betting data on the real-time image 41 to generate the virtual-real composite image 61 . The virtual-real composite image 61 includes the real-time image 41 (the real scene of the physical game result generating unit 30 ) and the betting data of the at least one player, and the betting data of the at least one player is based on the at least one chip 223 The image form is displayed. In different embodiments, the betting point data of the at least one player is displayed in a manner of displaying a proportional betting amount 224, wherein the proportional betting amount 224 is the betting point statistics of the at least one player on the plural betting divisions 221, which is a The number of horizontal bars represents the quantity. In practice, the image of the at least one chip 223 only displays the betting information of one player, and the image of the proportional betting component 224 displays the betting information of all players. Players can bet the amount 224 according to the proportion. The way of expressing clearly knows the respective betting weights of the plural betting divisions 221, which is used as a reference for betting points. In addition, the image synthesis processing unit 60 transmits the virtual-real composite image 61 to the game processing unit 10, and the game processing unit 10 respectively transmits the virtual-real composite image 61 to the at least one player terminal 20, so that the at least one player terminal 20 can The display screen 21 displays the virtual and real composite images 61 respectively.

Please also refer to FIG. 5 , which is a schematic diagram of the game operation flow according to the first embodiment of the present invention. In this embodiment, it includes a process S5-1: the game starts, a process S5-2: the start of betting points, and a process S5 -3: Generate virtual and real composite image, process S5-3-1: composite image, process S5-3-2: not composite image, process S5-4, end of betting, process S5-5: generate game result and process S5- 6: Game payouts.

After the game starts in the process S5-1, the process goes to the process S5-2, and the at least one player can choose to bet the plural betting partitions 221 within the betting time to generate the betting data respectively, and then enter the process S5 -3, when the at least one player has generated the betting data, and the at least one player terminal 20 respectively transmits the betting data to the game processing unit 10, the process S5-3-1 is performed, and the image synthesis processing unit 60 will generate the virtual-real composite image 61 according to the at least one betting data, the real-time image 41 (as shown in FIG. 4A ) and the position information, and the virtual-real composite image 61 is displayed on the display screen 21 (game) of the player terminal 20 . screen 22), as shown in Figure 4B. The virtual-real composite image 61 displays the real-time image 41 of the physical game result generating unit 30 and the status of the at least one player betting on the plural betting areas 221 represented by the betting data (eg, the distribution of the chips 223 ). situation).

In addition, the real scene of the physical game result generating unit 30 includes plural frames 62 corresponding to the plural betting areas 221 (as shown in FIG. 4A ), so the real-time image 41 includes the plural frames 62 , so the image synthesis process The unit 60 can reproduce the real scene in the virtual-real composite image 61 (the plurality of frames 62 shown in FIG. 4B ), and display the scoring data in the plurality of frames 62 of the virtual-real composite image 61 . In an embodiment, the proportional bet amount 224 may be displayed as the chip 223 or displayed according to the bet percentage (as shown in FIG. 4B ). In another embodiment, during the scoring time, when the at least one scoring data changes, the image synthesis processing unit 60 will immediately update the virtual-real composite image 61 according to the latest at least one scoring data, and also That is to say, the plural frames 62 of the virtual-real composite image 61 display and keep displaying the latest scoring data.

Please refer to FIG. 1 and FIG. 4C together. In another embodiment, the present invention further includes a random odds generating unit 80 , and the random odds generating unit 80 makes the betting points in each round of the game. After the time expires, a random odds 81 is generated for each of the betting areas 221 according to a probability, and the random odds generating unit 80 transmits the random odds 81 to the game processing unit 10, and the game processing unit 10 notifies the At least one game screen 22 allows the random odds 81 to replace the odds 222 of the betting section 221, and the betting payout unit 70 is based on the at least one player's betting data, the game result, the complex odds 222 and This random odds 81 pays out. When the game processing unit 10 receives the random odds 81 , the image synthesis processing unit 60 generates another virtual-real composite image according to the real-time image 41 (as shown in FIG. 4A ), the location information and the random odds 81 61A, and similarly, the image synthesis processing unit 60 can reproduce the real scene in the other virtual-real composite image 61A, and display the random odds 81 in the plural boxes 62 of the other virtual-real composite image 61A. In actual implementation, the two virtual-real composite images 61 and 61A can be superimposed and displayed, that is, the random odds 81 and the betting data of the at least one player (such as the distribution of the at least one chip 223 ) can be displayed simultaneously. on a single screen (as shown in Figure 4C).

And when the at least one player does not generate the betting data, the process S5-3-2 is performed to save the computing time and performance of the image synthesis processing unit 60. In the process S5-3-1 or the process S5-3-2 After that, to enter the process S5-4, the point betting ends. After the process S5-4, the physical game result generating unit 30 will perform the process S5-5 to generate the game result. Finally, the process S5-6 is performed, and the betting payout unit 70 pays according to the betting data of the at least one player, the game result and the complex odds 222.

Please refer to FIG. 6 again, which is a schematic diagram of a game operation flow according to the second embodiment of the present invention, which includes a process S6-1: the game starts, a process S6-2: the start of the betting, and a process S6-3: the end of the betting , Process S6-4: generate virtual and real composite image, process S6-4-1: composite image, process S6-4-2: not composite image, process S6-5: generate game result and process S6-6: game payout. Compared with the first embodiment, in this embodiment, the image synthesis processing unit 60 generates the virtual-real composite image 61 only after the credit time expires, thereby reducing the computational burden of the image synthesis processing unit 60 .

Please refer to FIG. 1 and FIG. 4D together. Similarly, in the second embodiment, the random odds generating unit 80 may also be included, and the random odds generating unit 80 also generates the random odds 81 to Let the betting payout unit 70 pay according to the betting data of the at least one player, the game result, the complex odds 222 and the random odds 81 . And when the game processing unit 10 receives the at least one bet data or the random odds 81, the image synthesis processing unit 60 according to the real-time image 41 (as shown in FIG. 4A ), the location information, the at least one bet The sub-data and the random odds 81 are used to generate a virtual-real composite image 61B. That is to say, when there is no at least one betting data, but there is the random odds 81, the virtual-real composite image 61B will still be generated and displayed on the display screen 21 of the player terminal 20, as shown in FIG. 4D, through the display The random odds 81 achieve the effect of attracting the at least one player to play. In addition, similarly, the real scene of the physical game result generating unit 30 may include a plurality of frames 62 corresponding to the plurality of betting areas 221 , and the image synthesis processing unit 60 reproduces the real scene in the virtual-real synthetic image 61B, and in The random odds 81 are displayed in the plural frame 62 of the virtual-real composite image 61B, as shown in FIG. 4D .

In addition, in other different embodiments, please refer to FIG. 7 or FIG. 8 , when the physical game result generating unit 30 is an automatic card dealer 31 applied to the baccarat game (as shown in FIG. 7 ) , or when applied to an automatic dice-rolling device 32 of the Sic Bo game (as shown in FIG. 8 ), the real scene of the physical game result generating unit 30 will additionally include a pair of corresponding plural betting partitions 221 (as shown in FIG. 4A ) The physical betting table 33 of the virtual-real composite image 61C, 61D can reproduce the real scene, and the random odds 81 or the betting point is displayed on the physical betting table 33 of the virtual-real composite images 61C, 61D at the same time Data, such as displayed by the at least one chip 223 .

Please refer to FIG. 9 again, the present invention may further include a cloud server 90, a remote game machine 91 and a game hardware machine 92, wherein the remote game machine 91 includes the physical game result The generating unit 30 and the image capturing unit 40, and the game hardware machine 92 includes the game processing unit 10, the image recognition unit 50, the image synthesis processing unit 60 and the betting payout unit 70, and the game hardware The body machine 92 may further include the random odds generating unit 80 . The remote game machine 91 and the game hardware machine 92 are connected through the cloud server 90 , and the at least one player terminal 20 is connected to the game hardware machine 92 respectively. Accordingly, only one high-cost physical game result generating unit 30 can be provided for connection of multiple game hardware machines 92 located in different places, and for the at least one player terminal 20 to connect and play. Therefore, multiple people can play games in different places at the same time, and jointly participate in the game result generated by the same entity game result generating unit 30, which not only reduces the setting cost, but also has the entertainment effect of multiple people having fun together.

10: Game Processing Unit 20: Player side 21: Display screen 22: Game screen 221: Bet partition 222: Odds 223: Chips 224: Proportional bet weight 23: Game operation interface 231: Score option 232: Function operation options 30: Entity game result generation unit 31: Automatic licensing device 32: Automatic Dice Rolling Device 33: Physical betting desktop 40: Image capture unit 41: Live Image 50: Image recognition unit 60: Image synthesis processing unit 61, 61A, 61B, 61C, 61D: virtual and real composite images 62: Sash 70: Payout unit for betting points 80: Random Odds Generation Unit 81: Random Odds 90: Cloud server 91: Remote game console 92: Game hardware machine

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of the system of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a game machine on the player side of the present invention. FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of the entity game result generating unit of the present invention. 4A to 4D are schematic diagrams of game screens in which the present invention is applied to a roulette wheel. FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of a game operation flow according to the first embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of a game operation flow according to the second embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram of a virtual-real composite image of the present invention applied to baccarat. FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram of a virtual-real composite image applied to Sic Bo according to the present invention. FIG. 9 is a system block diagram of another embodiment of the present invention.

10: Game Processing Unit

20: Player side

30: Entity game result generation unit

40: Image capture unit

50: Image recognition unit

60: Image synthesis processing unit

70: Payout unit for betting points

80: Random Odds Generation Unit

Claims (14)

A game system with image synthesis display, comprising: a game processing unit, the game processing unit controls the operation of a game for at least one player to play the game; At least one player side, each player side has a display screen, the display screen displays a game screen of the game, the game screen has a plurality of betting divisions and a plurality of odds corresponding to the plurality of betting divisions, the at least one player side respectively for the at least one player to play the game, and the at least one player can choose to bet points for the plurality of betting zones within a betting point time to generate a betting point data respectively, and the at least one player end respectively the betting point data to the game processing unit; a physical game result generating unit, the game processing unit notifies the physical game result generating unit, so that the physical game result generating unit generates a game result according to a preset rule after the betting time of each round of the game ends , and the entity game result generating unit transmits the game result to the game processing unit; an image capture unit, the image capture unit captures a real scene of the physical game result generating unit to obtain a real-time image, and the image capture unit transmits the real-time image to the game processing unit; an image recognition unit, the game processing unit transmits the real-time image to the image recognition unit, so that the image recognition unit recognizes and analyzes the position of the real-time image to generate a position information, and the game processing unit returns the position information to the game processing unit; an image synthesis processing unit, when the game processing unit receives the at least one betting data, the game processing unit transmits the at least one betting data, the real-time image and the position information to the image synthesis processing unit, and the image The synthesis processing unit generates a virtual-real composite image according to the at least one scoring data, the real-time image and the position information, and the image synthesis processing unit transmits the virtual-real composite image to the game processing unit, and the game processing unit combines the virtual and real images The images are respectively transmitted to the at least one player terminal, so that the display screen of the at least one player terminal displays the virtual-real composite image; and A betting payout unit, which pays out in each round of the game according to the betting data of the at least one player, the game result and the multiple odds. The game system of claim 1, wherein the game system further comprises a cloud server, a remote game machine and a game hardware machine, wherein the remote game machine comprises the physical game result generating unit and The image capture unit, and the game hardware machine includes the game processing unit, the image recognition unit, the image synthesis processing unit and the betting payout unit, the remote game machine and the game hardware machine are Through the cloud server connection, the at least one player terminal is respectively connected to the game hardware machine. The game system of claim 2, wherein the game hardware machine further comprises a random odds generating unit. The game system according to claim 1, wherein when the at least one betting data changes during the betting time, the image synthesis processing unit updates the virtual-real composite image according to the latest at least one betting data in real time. The game system of claim 1, wherein the real scene includes a plurality of frames corresponding to the plurality of betting zones, the image synthesis processing unit reproduces the real scene in the virtual-real composite image, and the plurality of frames in the virtual-real composite image The betting information is displayed in the grid. The game system according to claim 5, wherein during the betting time, when the at least one betting data changes, the image synthesis processing unit instantly updates the virtual-real composite image according to the latest at least one betting data, and displaying the latest at least one betting data in the plural frames of the virtual-real composite image. The game system according to claim 6, wherein the game system further comprises a random odds generating unit, and the random odds generating unit, after the betting time of each round of the game ends, divides each bet A random odds are respectively generated according to a probability, and the random odds generating unit transmits the random odds to the game processing unit, and the game processing unit notifies the at least one game screen to let the random odds replace the odds in the betting area and the betting payout unit pays according to the betting data, the game result, the complex odds and the random odds of the at least one player; and, when the game processing unit receives the random odds , the image synthesis processing unit generates another virtual-real synthetic image according to the real-time image, the position information and the random odds. The game system of claim 7, wherein the image synthesis processing unit reproduces the real scene in the other virtual-real composite image, and displays the random odds in the plurality of frames of the other virtual-real composite image. The game system of claim 1, wherein the image synthesis processing unit generates the virtual-real synthetic image only after the betting time expires. The game system according to claim 9, further comprising a random odds generating unit, the random odds generating unit, after the betting time of each round of the game ends, for each betting area according to a The chance generates a random odds, and the random odds generation unit transmits the random odds to the game processing unit, the game processing unit notifies the at least one game screen to let the random odds replace the odds of the betting section, and The wagering payment unit pays out according to the wagering data of the at least one player, the game result, the multiple odds and the random odds. The game system of claim 10, wherein when the game processing unit receives the at least one betting data or the random odds, the image synthesis processing unit according to the real-time image, the location information, the at least one betting The data and the random odds are used to generate the virtual-real composite image. The game system of claim 11, wherein the real scene includes a plurality of frames corresponding to the plurality of betting zones, the image synthesis processing unit reproduces the real scene in the virtual-real composite image, and the plurality of frames in the virtual-real composite image The random odds are displayed in the grid. The game system of claim 11, wherein the real scene includes a pair of physical betting tabletops corresponding to the plurality of betting zones, the image synthesis processing unit reproduces the real scene in the virtual-real composite image, and the virtual-real composite image in the virtual-real composite image The random odds are displayed on the physical betting table. The game system according to claim 1, wherein the at least one player terminal respectively has a game operation interface, the at least one game operation interface is respectively operated by the at least one player to generate an operation information, and the at least one game operation interface is respectively It has a plurality of betting options and at least one function operation option for betting on the plurality of betting areas, the operation information includes a function control signal for controlling the operation of the game system and the betting data, and the function control signal is performed by the player. Generated by operating the at least one functional operation option, and the betting data is generated by the player operating the multiple betting options.

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