181 results about "Car racing" patented technology

A system for providing on-line sport competition in real-time. A server computer executes game playing software which is connected via a network to a plurality of player client computers. Hardware accessories at the player's locating permit the entry of real-time playing data such as driving conditions in a race game, which are used by the game playing software executed on the server. The game playing software determines at predetermined intervals the relative performance of players playing a game, based on competition skill, which forms the basis for determining winners, and participants in future competitions. The performance information is sent to the client computers of players engaged in the game. The overall rank of each player is calculated after each competition to group players having similar skill levels and serves as entry criteria in future competitions.

The present invention relates to systems and methods for playing an instant ticket-based entertainment game combining elements of chance and player skill. In an embodiment of the present invention, a game player receives an electronic scratch-off instant ticket from a central server over a communications network (e.g., a mobile phone network). The instant ticket may provide an instant prize and may also provide entry into an inter-active multiplayer bonus game (e.g., a car racing game) by awarding the game player with at least one game attribute (e.g., car type, time in which to complete race) to be used during play of the bonus game. Scores are reported to the game server upon completion of the game and winners are determined by the game server based on game player rankings at various checkpoints throughout the bonus game. Another embodiment of the present invention may include a mystery promotion prize feature.

A freestanding collision obstacle is disclosed which is propelled away from a collision obstacle sensing apparatus by the force of a collision event that occurs when a moving object, for example a toy vehicle such as a racecar, collides with the collision obstacle. A collision obstacle sensing apparatus is disclosed which incorporates a collision obstacle and a collision obstacle sensor, the latter of which senses the presence or absence of the collision obstacle. The collision obstacle sensing apparatus is thus used to detect an event time as the time of a collision event. Use of a collision obstacle and a collision obstacle sensing apparatus in each lane at the finish line of a multilane raceway, with the moving objects individually confined to respective lanes of the raceway, enables electronic determination of the outcome of a race. Preferred embodiments are disclosed using optical and/or capacitance sensors.

A computer controlled toy car racing game that can be played by a plurality of players. If less than a maximum number of players is present at the beginning of a race, a computer controller operates the remaining race cars such that each race includes all of the race cars. The racing game includes numerous sensors positioned above the racing course that relay control commands to each of the race cars. If a race car is computer controlled or computer assisted, the control commands are created by the computer controller. If the race car is controlled by a player, the control commands include information from a throttle and steering wheel used by the player. Upon completion of a race, the computer controller controls each of the race cars to bring the race cars back to a point on the race course near the start/finish line.

The invention discloses a toy racing vehicle capable of being controlled by human body brain wave intensity. The toy racing vehicle comprises a brain wave cap A, a brain wave cap B and a toy racing vehicle body, the same design is adopted for the brain wave cap A and the brain wave cap B, the brain wave cap A and the brain wave cap B respectively comprises a power module, a brain wave detecting module and a Bluetooth sending module, and each brain wave detecting module comprises a brain wave chip, a forehead electrode and an ear clip electrode. The toy racing vehicle body takes a single chip microcomputer as a core and comprises a two-wheel-drive toy vehicle carrier, a number one Bluetooth receiving module, a number two Bluetooth receiving module, a power module, a motor drive module, a man-machine interaction module and functional keys. Starting, stopping, direction and speed of the toy racing vehicle body are controlled by collecting brain wave intensity in different attentions of a person, and brain wave idea confrontation games in the modes of double tug-of-war and single racing are developed. The toy racing vehicle has the functions of developing and training human body attention intensity and the like.

A model car racing simulator game which employs a unique, configurable guide blade and rails system which consist of a plurality of brush connections and rails to create a unique path for power and control data to individual toy vehicles so that they may change lanes and race in the same lane to more realistically emulate actual automotive racing. Modular power base units are described herein allowing a larger field of vehicles to race simultaneously. Such a field of vehicles ranges in size from 1 to 25 or more vehicles within this description and may include more depending upon rail and guide configuration implemented. The invention includes track segments as well as processing and display means which allow for lane changes, lap counting and timing, pit stops. The invention includes a control device which allows control of a subset of features including though not limited to vehicle steering, vehicle speed, braking, lights, brake lights.

The present invention provides a system and method for combining asymmetrical camera views from a front racing and a back facing camera. Resizing and quality enhancement techniques are used to bring both front and back camera to same quality. Further, a panoramic mode of from camera and back camera are utilized to create a uniform stitching

A venue transformation and construction method is disclosed that creates a tropical style swimming lagoon at an infield site of a race or activity circuit facility, the infield site being contained within a race or activity circuit perimeter. The transformation includes demolishing at least part of the infield site; excavating material from an area within the infield site; and forming a basin for a large water body having a surface area of at least 3,000 m2. Water containment walls are constructed on a first section and a sloped access area is formed on a second section of the basin for a beach. A barrier is included to control access to the beach. At least one additional recreational facility is constructed around the basin and a connection is provided that connects the outfield of the race or activity circuit with the infield site to allow transit of vehicles and/or people.

A system for indicating race position to spectators of a race, includes lights on the race participants that are configured to provide visual displays to the spectators indicating the position of the respective racer. The race participants also carry a receiver and a controller for receiving a signal indicating race position and selecting the appropriate visual display based on the received signal. The visual display can be a series of lights, such as linear arrays of LEDs, where the color, number, pattern and/or position of the lights indicates race position. The system can also be used to highlight selected racers of interest, for example in conjunction with information being relayed over the public address system of the racetrack.

The invention discloses a method and device for controlling moving of a virtual control object in augmented reality, and a terminal. The method comprises the following steps: generating a virtual moving area within a current image collection range of control equipment; generating the virtual control object within the virtual moving area; and in accordance with real moving of the control equipment,adjusting the position of a virtual control identifier in the virtual moving area, and guiding the virtual control object to implement virtual moving through the position of the virtual control identifier. According to the method, the device and the terminal provided by the invention, technical problems of related techniques that a provided rocker-based racing control mode under an AR scene is relatively complex and relatively poor in game experience can be solved.

An aerodynamic racing bicycle is provided. The racing bicycle may have a rear rim brake positioned below a drive portion of a chain and above a chain stay for reducing the aerodynamic drag on the bicycle.

An extruded track for racing small wooden or other material gravity propelled cars like those raced by the Cub Scouts, Awanas and other organizations. The extrusions has a continuous slot on the bottom which allows hex head bolts to be snugly held. This features allows attachments such as the stand starting gate, and other accessories to be easily attached and adjusted with out additional machining, therefore saving on manufacturing costs. The extrusion, also, has a cleared out area on the top of the track to allow extra clearance for weights attached to the bottom of the car. The end extrusion is specially designed to allow for braking of the cars.

A nanometer lithium iron phosphate power cell with super-high rate and super long cycle life and a manufacturing method thereof. Based on weight percentage, the manufacturing method comprises the following steps of: 1) controlling environmental humidity; 2) preparing a LFP premixing liquid; 3) carrying out sand milling; 4) carrying out high magnetic filtering; 5) filtering by a filter; 6) preparing a glue solution; 7) preparing a slurry; 8) coating carbon aluminium foil and pole shoe coating; 9) processing the pole shoe by a hot roller; 10) baking in vacuum; 11) examining. The processed and manufactured nanometer lithium iron phosphate cell provided by the invention has much more excellent internal resistance, cycle performance, high rate discharge performance and low temperature performance than cells manufactured by common technologies; the self-discharge rate of the cell provided by the invention is much lower than that of the cells manufactured by common technologies; the cycle life of the cell provided by the invention at high rate is increased from 2000 times to over 8000 times; and the properties of the cell provided by the invention can all meet requirements of cells for electric vehicles and racing cars.

The invention provides an unmanned racing car steering clutch mechanism. The unmanned racing car steering clutch mechanism comprises a steering engine assembly, a clutch driving assembly, a wheel steering assembly and a fixed bottom plate. The wheel steering assembly comprises a steering column and a second gear, the steering column is rotationally arranged on the fixed bottom plate, and the second gear is fixedly arranged on the steering column; the clutch driving assembly comprises a clutch motor and a lead screw, and the clutch motor is fixedly arranged on the fixed bottom plate; and the steering engine assembly comprises a steering engine fixing frame and a steering engine, the bottom of the steering engine fixing frame is matched with the lead screw, and an output shaft of the steering engine is connected with a first gear so that the first gear can be engaged with or disengaged from the second gear. According to the invention, the technical problem that automatic steer-by-wire steering of the existing racing car is achieved by connecting a steering motor with a steering rod for rotation and then driving a tire by the steering rod to rotate, but the motor is powered off at themoment and the fact that a driver rotates a steering rod through a steering wheel can be influenced by the resistance of the motor when the steering mode is switched to a manned driving mode, and consequently steering is difficult is solved.

The Tempt Destiny interactive sports game method pertains to a method of playing an interactive sports game while observing or listening to a live or recorded broadcast sporting event. This invention embodies playing cards that describe the occurrences of the method of play and rules of the sporting event and commercial advertisements that are typically broadcast during the event. When a participant's card matches the play or occurrence during the broadcast sporting event, the participant claims the card and its point value. During a commercial break, participants can exchange cards from the card sets to alter their hand. The participant with the most points totaled from the cards claimed, wins the hand. The game method can be applied to football, baseball, car racing, etc. Since participants are not predicting the plays of the sporting event, no extensive knowledge of the sport is required to play.

A video game unit capable of simulating a real state of car racing includes a control console, on which there are provided a steering wheel, a plurality of control keys located on the steering wheel for controlling the acceleration or brake of a racing car built in a game played on the video game unit, an extended connector for communicating the control console with a host of the video game unit or a computer, and two fans located at two sides of the steering wheel. When an acceleration key is pushed, or when the steering wheel is turned, the fans are caused to produce airflows to simulate a real state of car racing.

The invention discloses a pure end-to-end deep reinforcement learning for training car racing game AI bot that uses only the velocity information extracted from screen for both training and testing phases without using any internal state from game environment, such as the car facing angle. The learned AI bot can play better than the average performance of human players. In addition, the reward function is designed to consist only the velocity value, and use Ape-X distributed training framework combined with a variant of Deep Q Network to solve the sparse training signal problem caused by the reward function of an original design. Moreover, limit learner rate method is designed that improves the training efficiency and training performance. The AI bot trained in this way can achieve performance beyond the average human level and reach a level close to professional players.

This invention relates to gravity-driven car racing, specifically an improved ramp, such as used in the popular Pinewood Derby race, which is cycloid shaped. The present invention eliminates excessive centripetal force and related problems such as car oscillation caused by prior art ramps which are curved too much or curved in the wrong places. The present invention comprises a ramp shaped as a section of a cycloid curve with the ramp bottom tangent to the horizontal coasting run. It can be shown mathematically that such a curve will produce the least possible centripetal force and associated friction increase in the car wheels as it accelerates toward the coasting run. The present invention causes a ramp to assume the cycloid shape by applying appropriate bending forces to the underside of the ramp. In a preferred embodiment, a hinged brace automatically applies the key bending force as the main support legs are lowered.

The invention discloses a non-supervised game platform charging system, relating to a game platform, a code scanning apparatus and charging and game data acquisition software. By taking a multi-freedom-degree race game platform as an example, the intelligent functions, such as no supervision, automatic charging and refund, and feedback of corresponding information to a user in a game interface are realized, and the brand-new operating mode of a multi-freedom-degree game platform charging system is achieved.

A bicycle shoe cleat includes a first slot defined through a front portion of the bicycle shoe cleat, and two second slots defined through a rear portion of the bicycle shoe cleat. Bolts extend the first and second slots, and are connected to the outsole of a racing bicycle shoe. A protrusion extends from one of two surfaces of the rear portion and has a convex and curved outer surface. A stepped portion is formed between the protrusion and the rear portion. Two bores are defined through the protrusion and the bicycle shoe cleat. Two fixing bolts extend through an engaging member and are connected to the two bores. The bicycle shoe cleat and the engaging member are installed to a racing bicycle shoe and can be clipped to clipless pedals of mounting bikes.