KR100295201B1 - Location tracking relay broadcasting system - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a location tracking relay system. The position tracking relay system 10 of the present invention includes a position tracking signal transmitting unit 100 which transmits the position tracking data of the object by attaching to a moving object 20 in a situation suitable for relay broadcasting including a sporting event; A position tracking relay unit 200 for receiving and transmitting the position tracking data from the position tracking signal transmitter 100; A central processing unit (300) for receiving the position tracking data and the audience data for arithmetic processing, and transmitting the arithmetic processing data as picture, text, and voice data; And a receiving unit 410 for receiving pictures, texts, and voice data, an output unit 420 for outputting received data as pictures, texts, and voices, an input unit 430 for inputting the audience data, and the inputted audience data. An audience terminal (400) having a transmitter (440) for transmitting to the central processing unit (300); The situation executed by the object 20 is broadcasted through the audience terminal 400 based on the position tracking data, and the audience data is transmitted to the central processing unit 300.

Description

Position Tracking Broadcasting System

1 is a schematic diagram showing an example of applying the location tracking broadcast system according to the present invention to the location tracking broadcast of a baseball game.

2 is a block diagram showing an example of a location tracking relay system according to the present invention.

3 is a block diagram showing an example of a data transmission and reception system of a location tracking relay system according to the present invention.

4 is a block diagram illustrating an example of an audience terminal used in a system for positioning relay broadcasting according to the present invention.

* Explanation of symbols for main parts of the drawings

10: location tracking relay system 20: the object

100: location tracking signal transmitter 200: location tracking relay

300: central processing unit 400: the audience terminal

410: receiving unit 420: output unit

430: input unit 440: transmitter

500: relay station 600: external communication system

[Purpose of invention]

[Technical field to which the invention belongs and the prior art in that field]

[Technical Field]

The present invention relates to a position tracking relay system, and more particularly, to track the positions of moving objects such as athletes, referees, balls, and horses in various sports events, and converts the position tracking data into pictures, texts, and voice data. By sending to the terminal of the audience through wired / wireless communication, various sports events can be tracked in real time, while data input by the audience through the terminal can be collected by wired / wireless communication so that the audience can participate in the game and enjoy the game. It relates to a location tracking relay system.

[Background]

In general, the only way to watch sports such as baseball, soccer, horse racing, and racing is to go out to the stadium and watch TV or radio broadcasts or cable broadcasting. No way of listening to music has been developed.

If the position tracking data is transmitted to the terminal of the audience by wired / wireless communication to transmit various sports events, and to send and receive questions and answers between the main system and the audience, only the audience watching the stadium Indeed, an unlimited number of viewers in areas where TV or radio receivers are difficult to carry will be able to watch various sports events regardless of their location and play games about the content of the games.

[Technical problem to be achieved]

An object of the present invention is to track the location of all the objects necessary for watching a game, such as a player, referee, ball, horse racing, racing bicycle, camera in various sports such as football, baseball, volleyball, golf, racing, racing, and tracked By converting the location tracking data into picture, text and voice data and transmitting it to the terminal of the audience through wired / wireless communication, it is intended to provide a system capable of relaying location tracking to an unlimited number of viewers in real time or by recording.

In addition, an object of the present invention is to use a non-audible frequency band, such as A / M or F / M for position tracking relay broadcasting of various sports events, RDS (Radio Data System) or DARC (Data Radio Channel) which is a conventional radio text broadcasting This is to overcome the limitations and to make the radio more practical and to expand additional services of wired and wireless broadcasting.

In addition, it is an object of the present invention, not only to watch a variety of games in real time, but also to participate in the game about the contents of the game by allowing them to use in the leisure life of individuals.

[Configuration of Invention]

According to the present invention, a position tracking signal transmitter for attaching to a moving object in a situation suitable for relay broadcasting including a sporting event to transmit the position tracking data of the object; A position tracking relay unit for receiving and transmitting the position tracking data from the position tracking signal transmitter; A central processing unit which receives the position tracking data and the audience data and performs arithmetic processing, and transmits the arithmetic processing data as picture, text and voice data; And a receiving unit for receiving picture, text and voice data, an output unit for outputting the received data as picture, text, and voice, an input unit for inputting the audience data, and a transmitting unit for transmitting the input audience data to the central processing unit. It includes an audience terminal having a; A position tracking relay system is provided in which a situation executed by the object is broadcasted through the audience terminal based on the position tracking data and the audience data is transmitted to the central processing unit.

Preferably, the position tracking relay broadcasting system of the present invention further comprises a relay broadcasting unit installed in close proximity to the object, the transmission and reception of the data between the terminal and the central processing unit located in close proximity to the object is the relay broadcasting unit Is relayed by

Preferably, the location tracking relay system of the present invention further includes an external communication system for relaying the transmission and reception of the data between the terminal and the central processing unit located at a distance to the target, and located at a distance from the target. The data transmission and reception between the terminal and the central processing unit is relayed by the external communication system.

Preferably, the central processing unit unit and the terminal, between the terminal and the relay broadcasting unit, between the central processing unit unit and the external communication system, and between the external communication system and the audience terminal using the inaudible frequency band. It is sent and received.

When the present invention is applied to the broadcast of sports events, the position tracking signal transmitting unit is mounted on the object necessary for watching sports events including athletes, referees, balls, horse racing, bicycles, cameras, the athletes and the The position tracking signal transmitter mounted on the referee may be mounted on an accessory including a necklace, an arm, a watch, and a belt, and the position tracking signal transmitter mounted on the ball may be installed inside the ball.

Hereinafter, a position tracking relay broadcasting system according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. The following embodiments are merely illustrative of the location tracking relay system according to the present invention, it should be understood that it does not limit the scope of the present invention.

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing an example of applying a location tracking relay system according to the present invention to a location tracking relay broadcast of a baseball game. FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an example of a location tracking relay system according to the present invention. 3 is a block diagram showing an example of a data transmission and reception system of the position tracking relay system according to the present invention, and FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing an example of an audience terminal used in the system for position relay broadcasting according to the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, the position tracking relay system 10 according to the present invention basically includes a position tracking signal transmitting unit 100, a position tracking relay unit 200, and a central processing unit 300. ), And the audience terminal 400.

The position tracking signal transmitting unit 100 transmits the position tracking signals of various objects 20 related to the game to be relayed by the position tracking relay system 10 according to the present invention, and transmits the object 20 to the central processing unit 300. It is for supplying the location tracking data of all the targets 20 necessary to observe the game, such as athletes, referees, balls, horses (horse racing), bicycles (wheels), cameras, etc. playing in the stadium (30) Mounted to transmit the location tracking data of these objects 20 by radio signals.

Position tracking signal transmission unit 100 is mounted on the athlete and the referee, for example, by forming a built-in accessories such as necklaces, arms, watches, belts can be attached to the athlete or the referee naturally, the ball in the production process Mount inside. The position tracking signal transmitting unit 100 is a component that only transmits the position tracking signal of the object 20 wirelessly. As an example, the position tracking signal transmitting unit 100 may be used as an R / F signal generator which is widely applied to a remote start of a vehicle. As a result, the position movement situation of the object 20 to which the position tracking signal transmitter 100 is mounted is continuously transmitted.

The position tracking data of the object 20 transmitted by the position tracking signal transmitting unit 100 may be provided to a plurality of position tracking relays 200 installed at a position to receive these position tracking data around the stadium 30. Is received by. The location tracking relay unit 200 wirelessly receives the location tracking data of the location tracking signal transmitting unit 100 and transmits the received data to the central processing unit 300 wirelessly or by wire.

The position tracking data of the position tracking signal transmitting unit 100 may be configured to be directly received by the central processing unit 300 without passing through the position tracking relay unit 200, but in this case, the reception state of the central processing unit 300 is provided. It is not desirable because it can be bad.

The central processing unit 300 receives various data necessary for the operation of the location tracking relay system 10 according to the present invention, that is, the object 20 received through the location tracking signal transmitter 100 and the location tracking relay 200. The position tracking data of the user and the audience data received from the audience terminal 400, arithmetic processing of various pictures, texts and voice signals required for watching and game of the game, and the processed data to the audience terminal 400 It is the main device to transmit.

The data processed by the central processing unit 300 may include all types of data necessary for relaying various games. For example, based on the position tracking data of the object 20, a relay screen of a two-dimensional or three-dimensional image, a picture or text caption of various records related to a game, various sound effects related to a game, and a relay voice of an announcer, etc. It can be formed from the data included.

Transmission of the position tracking data from the position tracking relay unit 200 to the central processing unit 300 may be wireless, but since the position tracking relay unit 200 and the central processing unit 300 are located at a short distance in the stadium. It is preferable to carry out by wire.

The position tracking data of the object 20 computed by the central processing unit 300 and the audience data input from the audience terminal 400 are transmitted to the audience terminal 400 by wireless communication. The audience terminal 400 is a terminal possessed by each audience participating in the positional relay broadcast by the system of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 4, the receiver 410 receives a picture, text, and voice data. ), An output unit 420 such as an LCD 420a or a speaker 420b for outputting the received data as a picture, text, and voice, an input unit 430 for inputting audience data, and an input audience data for transmitting the input audience data. The transmitter 440 is basically provided.

The audience terminal 400 may be held by an audience in a stadium or may be held by an outside audience. Since the audience in the market can watch the game directly, the terminal 400 is mainly used to check various game records and participate in the game. As the audience terminal 400, a form such as a widely used game pack may be generally used, and a personal computer may also be used.

When the terminal 400 is the terminal 400a possessed by the audience in the stadium 30, that is, when the terminal is located at a short distance from the object 20, the terminal 400 between the central processing unit 300 and the terminal 400. The data transmission and reception is provided in close proximity to the object 20, the relay broadcast unit 500 relays the position tracking data of the object 20 and the audience data of the terminal 400 between the central processing unit 300 and the terminal 400 It is preferable to make it through, in that it can facilitate the transmission and reception of data.

The relay broadcasting unit 500 is installed at a position where there is no obstacle between all the audiences in the stadium 30. In this case, the relay between the central processing unit 300 and the relay broadcasting unit 500 uses wired communication, and the terminal ( The location tracking relay between the 400 and the relay broadcasting unit 500 uses wireless communication. In particular, it is preferable to use an inaudible frequency band such as A / M or F / M frequency for wireless communication.

When the terminal 400 is a terminal 400b or 400c possessed by an outside audience, that is, when the terminal is not located at a short distance from the object 20, the central processing unit 300 and the terminal 400 are located. In order to transmit and receive data between the terminals, it is preferable to use an external communication system 600 such as an external communication company or a broadcaster that has a system and performs wired and wireless communication. That is, a relay system that transmits the data of the central processing unit 300 to the external communication system 600 such as a communication company by wire or wireless, and then transmits the data from the external communication system 600 to the over-the-counter terminal 400b. In particular, in the case of using an internet communication company as the external external communication system 600, the location tracking relay broadcasting according to the present invention can be performed globally.

In this case, the location tracking relay between the terminal 400 and the external communication system 600 uses a wire when the external communication system 600 provider is a wired communication company, and in the case of a wireless communication company, A / M or F / M. It is preferable to use an inaudible frequency band such as frequency. In addition, it is preferable to install a display board 700 in the stadium so that the audience in the field can watch the content of the game being relayed to the terminal 400.

According to the position tracking relay system 10 according to the present invention described above, as shown in FIG. 2, it is transmitted from the position tracking signal transmitting unit 100 mounted on all objects 20 moving for a game. The location tracking data is collected through the location tracking relay unit 200 and transmitted to the central processing unit 300 in the stadium, and the received location tracking data is a picture, text and voice necessary for relaying a game in the central processing unit 300. After the data is processed and synthesized, the broadcast voice data of the announcer to be provided to the audience, the data related to the game, etc. are synthesized, and the audience is communicated through the external communication system 600 such as the broadcasting station 500 in the stadium and the external communication company. Is sent to the terminal 400.

Therefore, the audience in the stadium as well as the audience in the field can be watched in real time through the terminal 400 in real time, and also in the central processing unit 300 various questions related to the game relayed (eg, The expected score of the race or the end of the race, etc.) or the game content related to the race can be sent together with the race situation, so that the audience can respond to the query or play the game through the terminal 400.

Audience data input by the audience to the terminal 400 is collected through the position tracking relay unit 200 and transmitted to the central processing unit 300 in real time, and the central processing unit 300 statistics of the response to the query and the game. Calculate the result of and send back to the terminal 400. In this case, the terminal 400b of the over-the-counter audience may send or receive data in real time through an external communication system 600 such as a communication company.

Referring to FIG. 3, the data transmission and reception system of the location tracking relay broadcasting system according to the present invention will be described in more detail. As shown in the drawing, pictures, texts, and voices processed by the program 310 of the central processing unit 300 are described. The data is transmitted to the relay broadcasting unit 500 and the external communication system 600.

The terminal 400a receiving the relay in the stadium receives data from the short range transmitter 510 included in the relay broadcast unit 500 and transmits the data to the parallel receiver 520 for each terminal 400a.

The external communication system 600 such as a communication company has an announcer's A / M or F / M audible frequency band voiced by the announcer processed by the program 310 of the central processing unit 300 or its own program 610. The signal 620 and the data signal 630 of the A / M or F / M inaudible frequency band for the position tracking data are synthesized by the signal mixer 640, and the synthesized data is transmitted through the data transmitter 650 to the over-the-counter terminal 400b. The audience data of the terminal 400b, which is relayed and queried to 400c, is transmitted to the external communication system 600. In this case, the terminal 400c represents a terminal connected through the Internet.

An example of an audience terminal used in the location tracking relay system according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. As shown, the synthesized data from the short-range transmitter 510 of the relay broadcast unit 500 or the data transmitter 650 of the external communication system 600 is received by the receiver 410 and audible by the voice input / output filter unit 450. The voice signal 620 is separated and listened through the speaker 420b, which is one of the output units 420, and spoke through the microphone 430c, which is one of the input units, and the data filtering unit 460 and the encoder decoder microprocessor 470. The non-audible data signal 630 is distinguished and converted, and then displayed on the LCD display 420a, which is one of the output units 420. The receiver 410 is capable of both wireless reception 410a of radio waves and wired reception 410b by a telephone company's telephone network.

The input of the audience data for the query displayed on the output unit 420 may be performed by, for example, the keypad 430a of the input unit 430, and the audience data through wireless communication through the encoder decoder microprocessor 470 and the transmitter 440. In the most, it is transmitted in real time to the central processing unit 300 through the relay broadcast unit 500.

Outside the stadium, data transmitted from the audience terminal 400 is transmitted to the central processing unit 300 in real time through a wired or wireless communication network through an external communication system 600 such as a communication company. As such, the terminal 400 may report and listen to the location tracking relay in real time, and may answer the query.

On the other hand, the terminal 400 can be configured to connect the PC keyboard input device (430b), so that you can answer questions, e-mail, fax transmission, etc., and also for the home banking or payment of the input unit 430 One cash card input device 430d may be added. The cash card input device 430d may be used to pay a terminal fee, a book purchase fee, and the like. Reference numeral 480 denotes a memory unit of the terminal.

As a terminal 400b outside the stadium using an external communication system 600 such as a communication company, various communication terminals such as personal computers, pagers (wireless pagers), mobile phones (cellular phones, PCS phones), telephones, and the like can be used. There will be.

[Effects of the Invention]

According to the location tracking relay system according to the present invention as described above, while watching the location tracking data of the thing by wire or wireless broadcast and communication relay, infinite viewers can enjoy the game simultaneously with the live broadcast of the game. The expansion of additional services of the broadcast can expand the use area of the radio medium, and can form the basis of the realization of the interactive broadcast.

Claims (5)

Position tracking signal transmitting unit 100 for transmitting the position tracking data of the object by attaching to the moving object 20 in a situation suitable for relay broadcasting, including a sporting event, the position tracking signal from the position tracking signal transmitting unit 100 A location tracking unit 200 for receiving and transmitting data; A central processing unit 300 for receiving and processing the position tracking data and audience data, and transmitting the calculated data as pictures, texts, and voice data; and a receiving unit 410 for receiving pictures, texts, and voice data; An output unit 420 for outputting the received data as pictures, texts, and voices, an input unit 430 for inputting the audience data, and a transmitter 440 for transmitting the input audience data to the central processing unit 300. It includes an audience terminal 400 having a; Position tracking, characterized in that the situation executed by the object 20 is broadcasted through the audience terminal 400 based on the position tracking data and the audience data is transmitted to the central processing unit 300. Broadcasting system. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a relay broadcasting unit 500 installed in close proximity to the object 20, and between the terminal 400 and the central processing unit 300 located at a short distance from the object 20. Position relay relay system, characterized in that the transmission and reception of the data is relayed by the relay broadcast unit (500). The method of claim 1, further comprising an external communication system 600 for relaying the transmission and reception of the data between the terminal 400 and the central processing unit 300 located at a distance with respect to the object (20). Location tracking relay system. According to any one of claims 1 to 3, Between the central processing unit 300 and the terminal 400, between the terminal 400 and the relay broadcasting unit 500, and the central processing unit 300 Positioning relay broadcasting system, characterized in that the data is transmitted and received between the external communication system 600 and the external communication system 600 and the audience terminal 400 using an inaudible frequency band. According to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the position tracking signal transmitting unit 100, the object 20 necessary for watching sports events including athletes, referees, balls, horse racing, bicycles, cameras The position tracking signal transmission unit 100 is mounted on the player and the referee is mounted on an accessory including a necklace, a wrist, a watch, a belt, and the position tracking signal transmission unit 100 mounted on the ball. Position tracking relay system, characterized in that installed inside the ball.