Controller Speaker Voice Turn Notification for Shared Players
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing game systems fail to smoothly notify players of their turns when multiple players share a controller, leading to confusion and disrupted gameplay.
Innovation Solution
A game program and apparatus that uses a controller with a speaker to output voice messages, storing player designations and game situation data to create and transmit voice messages indicating whose turn it is, ensuring clear notification to the relevant player.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a controller is shared by multiple players, then device resource utilization is improved, but player identification and turn notification become unclear
Solution Approach 1:
The notification system is segmented into multiple output channels: voice messages for player identification, LED indicators for turn status, and display screen notifications. This segmentation allows each channel to convey specific information, ensuring that player identity and turn status are clearly communicated even when the controller is shared among multiple players.
Solution Approach 2:
The game apparatus acts as an intermediary between the controller and the players. It receives input from the controller, processes the player identification information, and generates appropriate notifications through voice messages, LED indicators, and display screens. This intermediary function ensures that the correct player is identified and notified of their turn, resolving the ambiguity caused by controller sharing.
2Reliability
If turn notification is provided through hand-held game apparatus, then player notification is achieved, but player identification becomes unclear when sharing controller
Solution Approach 1:
The notification system is divided into multiple independent channels: voice message output for player identification, LED indicator lights for turn status, and display screen notifications. This segmentation ensures that even if one notification channel is insufficient, other channels provide redundant information, maintaining reliable turn notification while clearly identifying the player whose turn it is.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces traditional mechanical notification methods (such as only visual display on hand-held apparatus) with acoustic field-based notification (voice messages through speakers). This substitution allows for more informative notifications that can clearly convey player identification and turn status, improving reliability in multi-player controller sharing scenarios.
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AI summary
A video game apparatus includes a CPU, and the CPU advances a game according to input data transmitted from a plurality of controllers. A plurality of players share each controller to utilize it in turn. Each player selects in advance a character as his or her own avatar. When a certain player's (Designation: Mr. or Ms. kk) turn has come, a voice message for urging the change like the following is output from the speaker of the controller: “Take places with Mr. or Ms. kk!” Similarly, when the next turn is a relevant player, and the player directly before finishes playing, a voice message for urging a preparation like the following is output: “Mr. or Ms. kk, prepare for your turn.”