Run Recording With Environmental Time Adjustment for Fair Virtual Races
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Solution Overview
Problem
Virtual marathon races lack a sense of unity and fairness due to participants running at different times and locations, leading to inconsistencies in running environments that affect race results.
Innovation Solution
A run recording device and system that adjusts running times based on environment information to correct differences in running load, using position and environment acquirers to calculate adjusted running times and rankings among participants.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If participants run at different dates and times in a virtual marathon race, then each participant can participate conveniently at their own time, but the race lacks a sense of unity and simultaneity
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates a virtual copy of the marathon race experience by recording and transmitting visual information of the race course and participants. Each participant's run is captured and integrated into a unified virtual race environment, maintaining the sense of simultaneity and unity while allowing individual participants to run at different times and locations.
2Adaptability or versatility
If participants run in different running environments, then each participant experiences their local conditions, but differences in running load affect the fairness of race results
Solution Approach 1:
The system adjusts race results by applying environmental correction parameters. It measures environmental conditions (temperature, humidity, altitude, wind speed) for each participant and calculates correction values based on these parameters. The adjusted running times compensate for environmental differences, ensuring fair comparison across diverse running conditions.
3Device complexity
If running information is calculated based on position information alone, then the calculation is simple and quick, but it does not account for environmental variations affecting running load
Solution Approach 1:
The system integrates multiple data acquisition functions into a unified processing framework. It simultaneously collects position information, environmental data (temperature, humidity, altitude, wind), and participant information, then processes all these inputs through a single adjustment algorithm to produce corrected running times that account for both movement and environmental factors.
Data Source
AI summary
A position acquirer acquires position information of a runner running with a certain time set to the starting point of a running time. An environment acquirer acquires environment information indicating running environment of the runner. An information storage unit stores acquired position information together with information on the acquisition date and time. An adjustment unit adjusts, based on the environment information, a running time or distance calculated with the position information such as to correct a difference in the running load due to running environment that may occur between the runner and another runner running with the same certain time set to the starting point of a running time. An output unit displays a result of comparison between the adjusted running time or distance and adjusted running time or distance of another runner running with the same certain time set to the starting point of a running time.