Fairness evaluation system about judgment of referees and management of coaching staffs in a sports game via internet

• US 6,431,985 B1
• Filed: 02/06/2001
• Issued: 08/13/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Jae-Hwak Kim
• Original Assignee: Jae-Hwak Kim
• Inventors: Kim, Jae-Hwak
• Primary Examiner(s): Harrison, Jessica
• Assistant Examiner(s): HOTALING, JOHN M
• Application Number:
  US09/776,755
• Publication Number:
  US 20020086731A1
• Time in Patent Office: 553 Days
• Field of Search: 463/1, 463/42, 463/43, 707/14, 707/9
• US Class Current: 463/42
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2208/12 specially adapted for children
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/806 Video cameras
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/807 Photo cameras
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2225/20 with means for remote communication, e.g. internet or the like
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 24/0003 Analysing the course of a movement or motion sequences during an exercise or trainings sequence, e.g. swing for golf or tennis
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 71/0605 Decision makers and devices using detection means facilitating arbitration
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 71/0616 Means for conducting or scheduling competition, league, tournaments or rankings
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99939 Privileged access

Abstract

An evaluation system for the fairness about the judgment of referees and the management of coaching staffs in a sports game via internet and providing data thereof is provided, in which the data of the judgments of referees who control games and managements of coaching staffs are provided, scenes which are doubtful of the fairness are stored in an additional database to be transmitted in real time when information is requested from each terminal, game management records of the referees and the coaching staffs are continuously monitored, evaluation result values about the fairness and pertinency of the records are stored as data.

Claims

1. A fairness evaluation system about the judgment of referees and the management of coaching staffs in a sports game via internet in a broadcasting system, comprising:

a broadcasting media 200 having a broadcasting station server 210 for converting and transmitting data so that a live or recorded relay of a game situation through a broadcasting camera 220 from a game site can be watched through communication media such as the internet;

a terminal 100 having a web browser for showing the images through said broadcasting media 200 on a monitor through the internet;

a web server 300 for transmitting the sports game sent from said broadcasting media 200 to each of said terminal 100 and for managing and receiving various information;

a game regulation database 400 connected to said web server 300 for storing each game regulation according to event as data;

a referee/coaching staff database 500 for storing personal information and history of referees and coaching staffs involved in the game as data;

a situational judgment standard database 600 for storing data or images of judgment in special or apparent referential situations from previous games;

a fairness evaluation reference database 700 for storing fairness evaluating references about the referees and the coaching staffs of the game through said terminal 100;

a search database 900 for providing real time information on the basis on true pictures and graphic data if internet users want to know applied regulations; and

an advertisement database 800 for inserting advertisements during the game.

2. A fairness evaluation system about the judgment of referees and the management of coaching staffs in a sports game via internet according claim 1, wherein said terminal has:

a site terminal 110 of previously certified and registered experts for monitoring in the game site through said web server 300;

a registered terminal 120 of experts registered in said web server 300 for evaluating the fairness of the relayed images on a monitor through a computer in a location besides the game site; and

an unregistered terminal 130 of the common internet users connected with said web server 300 for evaluating the fairness.

3. A fairness evaluation method about the judgment of referees and the management of coaching staffs in a sports game via internet in a broadcasting system, comprising the steps of:

connecting each of evaluators to a web server 300 of the internet and selecting a game according to event;

if an identification (ID) and a password (PW) of each of evaluators is entered, inspecting in the web server 300 if each of the evaluators is the certified expert or a registered expert who is previously set up in the web server or a common internet user and certifying the evaluators according to evaluation rank;

receiving in the web server 300 evaluation points through an evaluation form previously given according to situation while broadcasting game images through broadcasting media including the internet;

temporarily storing in the web server 300 the evaluation points and continuously accumulating until the game is over; and

if the game is over, inspecting in the web server 300 if there is a violation against the evaluation standard of a fairness evaluation reference database 700, storing the evaluation points as data about pertinent person of the referee/coaching staff database 500, and then totaling the evaluation points to determine mean values used to convey evaluation results to the evaluators and others connected to the web server.

4. A fairness evaluation method about the judgment of referees and the management of coaching staffs in a sports game via internet according to claim 3, wherein said step of receiving in the web server 300 evaluation points comprises the step of real time transmitting the evaluation points to the evaluators according to situation while temporarily storing in the web server 300 the evaluation points.

5. A recording medium recording a computer-readable program in a broadcasting system for sports games via internet, the computer-readable program comprising the functions of:

converting data so that a live or recorded relay of a game situation through a broadcasting camera 220 from a game site can be watched through communication media such as the internet;

storing each game regulation according to event in a web server 300 connected to the internet as data;

storing personal information and history of referees and coaching staffs involved in the game as data;

storing data or images of judgment in special or apparent referential situations from previous games;

storing fairness evaluating references about the referees and the coaching staffs of the game through the terminal 100;

if internet users want to know applied regulations, providing real time information on the basis on true pictures and graphic data; and

inserting advertisements during the game through the web server 300.