Touch Panel Golf Game Input Mechanism for Swing Simulation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing game apparatuses fail to provide a realistic golfing experience due to the inability to mimic the precise swing motions required in actual golf, leading to a lack of immersion and engagement in golf games.
Innovation Solution
A game apparatus featuring a touch panel that allows players to perform slide inputs along predetermined paths to control a golf ball's movement, with determiners and processors that adjust the ball's trajectory based on the precision, speed, and smoothness of the touch inputs, simulating the backswing, downswing, and follow-through motions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If button operation timing is used to decide carry and impact position, then the operation is simple and easy to perform, but the realism of golf swing simulation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the mechanical button-pressing system with a touch panel sliding system. Instead of pressing buttons at specific timings, players perform sliding operations along predetermined paths on the touch panel. This substitution maintains operational simplicity while enabling more nuanced control over swing parameters through the continuous motion of the slide, thereby improving golf swing realism.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces dynamic control through sliding operations where the speed, position, and timing of the slide along the path directly influence swing parameters. Unlike static button presses, the sliding mechanism allows players to dynamically adjust their input during the operation, creating a more realistic and engaging golf swing simulation experience.
2Measurement precision
If multiple button operations are required for shot control, then the control precision can be achieved, but the operation complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple discrete button operations into a single continuous sliding operation. The slide operation simultaneously controls multiple aspects of the shot (power, direction, swing type) through its motion characteristics, eliminating the need for separate button presses for each parameter and reducing overall operation complexity while maintaining precision.
Solution Approach 2:
The sliding operation serves multiple functions: it determines shot power through slide distance, controls direction through slide path selection, and adjusts swing characteristics through slide speed and timing. This multi-functional approach replaces multiple specialized button operations with a single versatile input mechanism.
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AI summary
A game apparatus includes a CPU, and the CPU executes game processing of a golf game, and displays a guide path of a circle a part of which is erased in a hitting operation. When the player performs a sliding operation in a clockwise direction so as to trace the guide path, and then inverts the sliding operation in a counterclockwise direction, the player character performs a swing motion according thereto. As to each of backswing, downswing and follow-through, precision, a speed, smoothness of the sliding operation are determined, and in accordance with the results, the movement of a ball is controlled.