JP2000089302A - Game equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make a player surely face toward the working position of an image fetching means at the image fetching means working time by installing the image fetching means of installing a light emitting means near the image fetching means and lighting the light emitting means just before starting the work of the image fetching means. SOLUTION: As for image-fetching photographing, etc., the position of a monitor 3 is different from the position of a camera lens for an image input unit 4 and the emission position of measured light in this game device. Then, in order to make a player rightly face toward the photographing direction of the camera etc., the timing of making the player face by means of a sound is imparted and simultaneously, LEDs 15 are lighted. At this time, an arrow showing the facing direction is displayed on the monitor 3. By lighting the LEDs 15 installed on both sides of the image input unit 4, the player can face to the appropriate position while facing the camera lens. Further, since the facing direction is displayed on the monitor 3, such the trouble that the player does not know the facing direction and is at a less is prevented.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a game apparatus having an image capturing means for capturing an image of a player by an operation such as shooting, and a display means for displaying information such as a game procedure and game contents.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a game device that inserts a title, a design, or the like into the background of a subject, which is a player who has photographed with a camera, and prints out the title is well known. In this type of game device, the direction of the monitor and the shooting direction are made to match by interposing a half mirror, so that the player can check the image printed on the monitor image.

[0003]

By the way, the present applicant has developed a game device which takes in a three-dimensional image and performs three-dimensional cutting on a work material from the image data, though it is not known yet. In addition, it is expected that game devices using three-dimensional image data may be developed into various types. When this three-dimensional image data is taken in, the XY directions can be taken by photographing means such as a camera.
In the Z direction, that is, in the depth direction, it is necessary to use a measuring means which scans with a measuring light beam such as a laser beam and is detected by the reflected light.

However, if such a measuring means is to measure through a half mirror, the amount of light such as a laser beam must be increased by an amount corresponding to a decrease in the amount of light by the half mirror, which causes various problems. Therefore,
The direction of the monitor must be different from the direction in which the image is taken by the image capturing means. For this reason, it is necessary to correctly turn the player who is playing while watching the monitor screen in the direction facing the image capturing means when capturing an image.

In view of the above circumstances, the present invention ensures that the player is directed to the working position of the image capturing means when working with the image capturing means, even if the working position of the image capturing means is different from the display position of the display means. It is an object of the present invention to provide a game device that can perform the game.

[0006]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention provides an image capturing means for capturing an image of a player by an operation such as shooting, a display means for displaying information such as a game procedure and a game content, A game device having voice means for notifying information such as a game procedure and game contents by voice, wherein a work position of the image capturing means and a display position of the display means are different, and a light emitting means is provided at or near the image capturing means. And the light emitting means is turned on immediately before the start of the work by the image capturing means.

[0007] The present invention is effective when the display of the image capturing means in the direction of the working position and the notification by the sound means are performed simultaneously with the lighting of the light emitting means.

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a front view showing an embodiment of a game device according to the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a plan view thereof. This game device cuts a three-dimensional image of a player's face into a work material W to be a key holder or the like. It is formed.

In FIGS. 1 and 2, reference numeral 1 denotes an apparatus main body of a game apparatus, and the apparatus main body 1 has a main window 2 having a transparent plate material such as a transparent glass plate fitted on an upper front side thereof.
A monitor 3 as a display unit and an image input unit 4 as an image capturing unit are arranged in parallel inside the main window 2. In addition, as shown in FIG.
The image is taken in with the player positioned at the position. For this reason, the direction in which the image input unit 4 performs photographing and the like is arranged so as to be orthogonal to the main window 2. The surfaces are slightly inclined so as to face the position A. The game machine is provided with main illuminators 16 and 17 as illuminating means such as fluorescent lamps on the left and right sides so as to illuminate the player at the position A.
The main illuminators 16 and 17 are located at substantially the same height level as the image input unit 4 and are symmetrical with respect to the position A.
The right main lighting fixture 17 is a work material storage unit 3 described later.
0 is located at the right end.

A play operation section comprising a joystick 5, a decision button 6 and a cancel button 7 is provided in a portion of the lower portion of the main window 2 opposite to the position A, and a coin selector 8 is provided below the play operation portion. ing. When a predetermined coin is inserted into the coin selector 8, a game start signal is output to a game control unit (not shown). Further, an opening / closing window 10 for attaching and detaching a work material W to be described later is provided on the front of the game device main body 1 next to the coin selector 8, and a viewing window 11 is provided below the window. A transparent plate is fitted in the opening / closing window 10 and the viewing window 11, and the state of cutting of the work material W can be seen from the viewing window 11 as described later in detail. Reference numeral 9 denotes a detachable curtain rail arranged to surround the player.

As shown in FIG. 3, the image input unit 4 is provided with two cameras as photographing means and a measuring means for irradiating a laser beam and measuring the unevenness of the face from the reflected light. Reference numeral 13 denotes a camera lens that captures an image to be displayed on the monitor 3, reference numeral 13 denotes a camera lens that captures an image to be captured as image data, and reference numeral 14 denotes a measurement laser light irradiation unit. The image input unit 4 has camera lenses 13 and 14.
LEDs 15 as light emitting means are provided on both sides of the image input unit 4 at a position substantially at the same height as the above.

This game device has left and right main illuminators 16,
Reference numeral 17 is arranged so as to illuminate the player at the position A well. However, the position where the player stands is such that a person with a small face approaches the apparatus main body 1 and a person with a large face moves away, thereby trying to fit the contour of the face in a vertically long elliptical frame described later. Therefore, the player does not always stand at the position A, and moves slightly back and forth in the direction in which the apparatus main body 1 comes and comes apart. In addition, it cannot be said that there is no case where the player intentionally changes the standing position. As described above, when the position where the player stands is different from the position A, if the position is slightly away from the device main body 1, the main lighting device 1
There is no problem because the lighting by 6, 17 illuminates from the front of the face. However, when approaching the device from position A,
Lighting of the main lighting devices 16 and 17 tends to increase light from the side of the face. For this reason, the light in the central part of the face is weakened, and the accuracy of the measurement may be reduced.

For this reason, in this game device, as shown in FIG. 4, an auxiliary illuminator as a second illuminating means is provided near the image input unit 4 so as to illuminate the player's face from the front in the device main body 1. 18, for example, a fluorescent lamp is provided.
The auxiliary lighting device 18 of the present embodiment has a concave portion 19 large enough to allow the auxiliary lighting device 18 to be disposed in front of the installation position of the image input unit 4 in the apparatus main body 1, that is, on the player side.
And is arranged in the concave portion 19. The auxiliary lighting device 18 may be installed at any position as long as it can illuminate the player's face from the front, and may be supported by the image input unit 4.

The present game device captures three-dimensional data of a player's face, cuts a work material W based on the image data, and forms the shape of the player's face on the work material W. For this reason, a processing device 20 of NC control is installed in the apparatus main body 1 and the processing device 20
Supports a cutting portion having a cutting tool 21 on an XY table 22 and moves up and down by an elevator 23 supporting a workpiece W, thereby enabling three-dimensional machining. The elevator 23 also serves as a means for moving the work material W between the work material attaching / detaching portion having the opening / closing window 10 and the processing portion having the viewing window 11 below the work material attaching / detaching portion. Also,
As shown in FIG. 5, the elevator 23 is housed in a transparent tube 24 as shown in FIG. 5, and the tube 24 has a processing window 25 into which the cutting tool 21 enters.
With this configuration, since the work material W is cut in the pipe 24, the scattering of the chips can be reduced, and the opening of the processing window 25 is set to a necessary minimum to further enhance this effect. Further, a cleaner 26 is provided in the apparatus main body 1 for efficiently processing chips generated during processing, and a suction port of the cleaner 26 is connected to a lower portion of the pipe 24.

A work material storage unit 30 is provided on the right side of the game apparatus body 1 in FIG. The work material storage unit 30 may be integrated with the game apparatus main body 1 or may be separate. The work material storage unit 30 stores a plurality of kinds of work materials W having different colors or shapes, in this example, four kinds of work materials W. The work material W is made of plastic which can be cut in a relatively short time. Etc. can be advantageously used. Further, four small rooms 31, 32, 33, 34 are formed on the upper side in front of the work material storage unit 30, and these small rooms 31, 32, 33, 3 are formed.
Reference numeral 4 indicates that the front side facing the player is covered with a transparent glass or the like. As shown in FIG. 6, in each of the small rooms 31, 32, 33, and 34, a sample of the work material W stored in the unit is placed. W can be easily selected. In addition, a lighting device (not shown) such as a lamp for illuminating the inside of the room is provided inside each of the rooms 31, 32, 33, and. In this example, in each of these small rooms 31, 3
Although samples of different types of work materials W are stored in 2, 33, and 34, one of the rooms may be used as an exhibition room for a completed sample. In addition, each of the small rooms 31, 32, 33, 34
A work takeout port 35 is provided at the lower part of the work piece, and the work material W selected by the player is discharged to the work takeout port 35.

Next, an operation mode of the game device having the above-described configuration will be described. First, the player stands in front of the device body 1 and inserts a predetermined coin into the coin selector 8.
Into the slot. This causes the device to start operating,
The monitor camera is activated to display the player's face on the monitor 3. At this time, as shown in FIG. 7, a vertically long elliptical reference frame 40 substantially along the contour of the face appears on the monitor 3, and the player's face is displayed in the reference frame 40. Furthermore, a reference frame 40 is provided on the side of the monitor image.
The display 41 of a good example in which the face fits in and the display 42 of the bad example in which the entire face does not fit in the reference frame 40 appear, and the player corrects the standing position so that the player sees his own display and becomes a good example. . At this time, the player whose face is small
Since a gap is generated between 0 and the contour of the face, the player approaches the apparatus main body 1, and conversely, a player with a large face moves away. However, when the player approaches from the position A, the main illuminators 16 and 17 illuminate from the side correspondingly, the light is weakened in the central part, and the accuracy of the measurement of unevenness is deteriorated. By doing so, the weakened central part can be illuminated.

Next, when the position where the player stands is corrected and the image of the face falls within the vertically long elliptical reference frame 40, when the enter button 6 is depressed, image capture and the like are performed. In this shooting or the like, the position of the monitor 3 of the present game apparatus is different from the position of the camera lens of the image capturing means and the position of emission of the measurement light. Therefore, in order to correctly direct the player to the photographing direction of the camera or the like, the timing to direct the player by sound is given, and at the same time, the LED 15 is turned on. Further, at this time, the monitor 3 displays an arrow pointing in a direction as shown in FIG.

By turning on the LEDs 15 provided on both sides of the image input unit 4 in this manner, the player can turn to the correct position facing the camera lens, and furthermore, the direction of the turn is displayed on the monitor 3. This also prevents the player from being puzzled without knowing the direction in which the player is facing.
Further, since the notification is made by voice, the player can head to the image input unit 4 at the same time as the image capturing operation. Immediately thereafter, work such as shooting is performed, and the monitor 3 at this point is darkened to prevent the player from turning to the monitor 3 again. When this photographing is completed, the face photographed by the camera for image data is displayed on the reference frame 40 of the monitor 3 as shown in FIG. 9, and the outline is adjusted from this image. This adjustment, etc.
The description is omitted because it is not the gist of the present invention. If the face photographed by the image data camera is the bad example 42 shown in FIG. 7, the photographing is repeated so as to become the good example 41.

When all the adjustments of the image data are completed, the player selects a work material W for engraving the shape of the face. Work material W
Are stored in the work storage unit 30, and the stored samples are stored in the small rooms 31, 32, 33, and 34, respectively.
Has been placed. Therefore, the player sees these samples and selects them. In this case, each small room 31-34
Only one of them is lit by lighting fixtures that illuminate the room,
In the other three, the lights in the room are turned off. In this example, by operating the joystick 5, the room where the lighting is turned on is switched. Therefore, for example, if the joystick 5 is operated in a state where the uppermost small room 31 is lit, as shown in FIG. 6, the second small room 32 from the top is lit and the uppermost small room 31 is turned on. The lights are turned off as in the two rooms below. By operating the joystick 5 in this manner, the small rooms in which the lighting is turned on are sequentially switched, and when the small room in which the favorite work material W is placed is turned on, if the enter button 6 is pressed, The work material W is discharged to the work outlet 35. In addition, each of the small rooms 31, 32, 33, and 34 is provided with out-of-stock lamps 31a, 32a, 33a, and 34a such as miniature lamps at the lower portion thereof, and the work material placed in the room is out of stock. , As shown in FIG. The room in which the out-of-stock lamps 31a, 32a, 33a, and 34a are turned on is controlled so that the interior lighting is not turned on even if this is selected.

Thus, when the player selects the work material W, the work material W is taken out from the work take-out port 35 and set in the apparatus main body 1. In this set, first, the opening / closing door 10 is opened, and a work material is mounted on a work material supporting portion (not shown) of the elevator 23. After the installation is completed, when the enter button 6 is pressed, the processing of the work material W is started.

The work material W is processed by the elevator descending and moving the work material W to a cutting position where the work material W can be seen through the viewing window 11, where the processing device 20 is operated. During this time, the player is prolonged by simply waiting, so that the state of the processing can be seen from the viewing window 11. Furthermore, it is indispensable to illuminate the room to be processed with lighting at this time.
Use of a flash lamp that continuously turns off the light can be used for more effective performance. Further, by operating the cleaner 26 in synchronization with the processing, the chips generated by the cutting fall by their own weight without being scattered in all directions by the pipe 24 and are sucked and cleaned by the cleaner 26.

When this processing is completed, the elevator 23 rises again, and the player takes out the workpiece W engraved with the face from the opening / closing door 10, and the entire operation is completed.
As described above, the image data is taken in, and the face of the player can be carved on the work material W from the data. In this case, even if the position of the monitor 3 is different from the position of the image input unit 4, the player can be directed to a correct position facing the camera lens by turning on the LED 15 at the time of capturing an image. , The player is directed to the image input unit 4 at the same time as the image capturing operation, because the player is not confused without knowing the direction in which the player is facing.

[0023]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, the player watching the display means can be directed to a position correctly facing the image capturing means when capturing the image.

According to the configuration of the second aspect, the player can be directed to the position correctly facing the image capturing means at the timing of capturing the image.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view showing an embodiment of a game device according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a plan view of the game device.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory front view showing the internal structure of the game device.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory side view showing an internal structure of the game device.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory cross-sectional view showing a processed portion in the embodiment of FIG. 1;

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram showing one aspect of a main part of the work material storage unit.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram showing one display example of a monitor in the game device of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a monitor display immediately before capturing an image in the game device of the present invention.

FIG. 9 is an explanatory diagram showing another display example of the monitor in the game device of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Main body 3 Monitor 4 Image input unit 5 Joystick 15 LED

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. An image capturing means for capturing an image of a player by an operation such as shooting, a display means for displaying information such as a game procedure or a game content, and a voice means for notifying information such as a game procedure or a game content by voice. A game device in which a work position of the image capturing means is different from a display position of the display means, wherein a light emitting means is provided at or near the image capturing means, and the light emitting means is used to start work by the image capturing means. A game device characterized by lighting immediately before. 2. The game device according to claim 1, wherein
A game apparatus, comprising: displaying a work position direction of the image capturing means by the display means and notifying by a voice means simultaneously with lighting of the light emitting means.