Play extension system and program for the same

Abstract

The present invention provides a play extension system enhancing a fun of a toy system by use of network. The play extension system is used by combination with the toy system in which a user can change the setting of parameters affecting motion control of a driving machine, for extending a playing method with the toy system. In the system, the setting information corresponding to the setting state of the parameters is received from a predetermined user terminal through a network, and estimation on the obtained setting information is created by referring to a database which stores the setting information and the information for estimating the setting state correspondingly. The created estimation is transmitted to a predetermined destination through the network.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0001] 1. Field of the Invention [0002] The present invention relates to a play extension system which is used by combination with a toy system capable of changing the setting of parameters affecting motion control of a driving machine by a user, thereby enhancing the fun of a play with the toy system. [0003] 2. Description of the Related Art [0004] In the toy system for remote-controlling a driving machine such as a vehicle and a vessel by using radio waves or infrared rays, there is some toy system in which a user can change the setting of a correspondence between an input operation to a remote-controlled transmission unit and a control amount of the driving machine moved according to the input operation. For example, as is well known, in a toy system capable of a user's remote-controlling a model car, the setting of a correspondence between ‘the user’s operation amount of a steering wheel (or lever) provided on the transmission unit and the actual stee...

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Benefits of technology

[0006] Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a play extension system capable of enhancing the fun of a toy system by using a network.

[0008] According to the play extension system, a user can receive an objective estimation on the setting state of parameters of the driving machine through the network. Accordingly, a user can change the set value of a parameter based on the obtained estimation, so as to improve the control characteristic of the driving machine, or so as to try the lower-estimated setting, and thereby, various playing ways can be created based on the information provided through the network. Therefore, a playing method of the toy system can be extended, hence to enhance the fun of the toy system.

[0012] The estimation transmission device may transmit to the user terminal, through the network, the information for presenting the sentences to a user as at least one part of the estimation information. In this way, a user can watch the estimation on the user terminal easily and understand the estimation at once because the estimation is expressed in sentences.

[0014] According to the play extension system described above, a user can enjoy the toy system virtually through a game displayed on the screen of the user terminal. Further, in a game, a user can perform the setting operation of the same type of parameter as a type of parameter settable in the toy system, which makes a user feel a relationship and a sense of togetherness of a play in the toy system and a game reproduced by the game of the toy system strongly. Therefore, a user's playing method of the toy system can be extended from the individual and local use only by the toy system to the wide use through a network.

[0015] A game may be executed on the play extension system, or on the user terminal. In the former case, the electronic information provided to the user terminal includes the data for displaying the state of the game on the user terminal, while in the latter case, the electronic information provided to the user terminal includes a program executable on the user terminal. The information specifying a user may be the user ID and the like. If a destination corresponding to a user is included in the information specifying a user, it is possible to specify the destination of a privilege easily.

Problems solved by technology

On the contrary, however, a user's trouble of finding out a proper setting for each parameter is also increased.

Therefore, if the system is provided with a lot of the settable parameters, a class of users is limited to such a personality that is not troubled by the above setting.

In the user's individual setting, even if a user finds a proper setting, it may prove to need improvement, or a user may lose interest in the play thereafter because of the above trouble, without making full use of the prepared setting change function, regardless of the existence of the worthy setting.

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