Virtual horseracing system

• US 6,860,806 B2
• Filed: 10/23/2001
• Issued: 03/01/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 10/23/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Teletech Europe BV (Poštová banka as)
• Original Assignee: Teletech Europe BV (Poštová banka as)
• Inventors: Ootake, Kazuo, Kojima, Akio
• Primary Examiner(s): Thai, Xuan M.
• Assistant Examiner(s): MENDOZA, ROBERT J
• Application Number:
  US09/983,215
• Publication Number:
  US 20030078087A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,225 Days
• Field of Search: 463 1- 9, 463 40- 42, 463/25, 700 90- 93
• US Class Current: 463/6
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/8005 Athletics
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/32 for games, toys, sports, or amusements
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3288 Betting, e.g. on live events, bookmaking

Abstract

An object of the present invention is to provide a user even at a place away from a racecourse with computer graphic horses having existing past data therein, and also with real time data, and thereby a hitting ratio of simulated finishing orders of racing horses is drastically improved.

The racing horses to start a horse race are expressed by means of computer graphics, the existing past data associated with the racing horses is retrieved into the computer graphic horses, and a virtual horse race is started on a display screen, so that a finishing order of the horse race can be predicted according to an action and a result of the virtual horse race.

Claims

1. A virtual horseracing system, comprising real racing horses, graphic racing horses that are substantially the same as and correspond to the real racing horses and are drawn by computer graphics, and a real racecourse, wherein the real racing horses and the graphic racing horses are displayed in real-time on a display screen as the real horserace takes place, wherein at least real time data on the real racing horses is retrieved into the corresponding graphic racing horses to predict a finishing order of the real horserace before the real horserace actually finishes.

2. A virtual horseracing system according to claim 1, wherein existing past data, each of which is weighted, relating to the real racing horses is retrieved into the graphic racing horses.

3. A virtual horseracing system according to claim 2, wherein data created by a user is retrieved into the graphic racing horses.

4. A virtual horseracing system according to claim 2, wherein the existing past data includes at least one or more items of data selected from a group consisting of earnings, race results, post positions, trainers, winning percentages, weights with which horses are saddled, ages, training results, workout results, types of horses and the like, each of which is weighted.

5. A virtual horseracing system according to claim 4, wherein

the real time data includes at least one or more items of data selected from a group consisting of wind direction, wind force, weather condition, racetrack condition and paddock information including training results, physical conditions, moods, cheers of attendants, changes of jockeys and the like, each of which is weighted.

6. A virtual horseracing system according to claim 1, wherein data created by a user is retrieved in to the graphic racing horses.

7. A virtual horseracing system according to claim 6, wherein the data created by a user includes at least one or more items of data selected from a group consisting of ages, sexes, types of horses, weights of horses, speed and stamina figures, forms, tempers, horses'"'"' aptitudes for a race distance, a track surface and a racecourse, trainers, colors of horses and the like, each of which is weighted.

8. A virtual horseracing system according to claim 7, comprising:

a host computer into which at least data on a plurality of horses to start a real horse race are inputted,

a graphic system which changes the horses to graphic horses,

a data server which stores the existing past data associated with the horses,

a data server which stores the real time data associated with the horses,

a data server which stores the data created by a user associated with the horses, and

a program which performs a horseracing contest, of which the performance comprising the steps of;

changing the horses to start the horse race to the graphic horses,

retrieving data from each of the servers, and giving the data to the graphic horses, wherein by starting the program, a virtual horse race is performed, and consequently the finishing order of the real horse race is simulated.

9. A virtual horseracing system according to claim 8, wherein

the real racing horses and the graphic racing horses are displayed on a display screen thereby displaying the simulated finishing order of the real horse race.

10. A virtual horse racing system according to claim 8,

wherein the simulated finishing order of the real horse race is displayed on a display screen as text information.

11. A virtual horse racing system according to claim 8, wherein the simulated finishing order of the real horse race is transferred as voice information.

12. A virtual horseracing system according to claim 8,

wherein the simulated finishing order or the simulated result is transferred to at least one of a mobile communication system and a system having a function of a communication terminal.

13. A virtual horseracing system according to claim 6, comprising:

a host computer into which at least data on a plurality of horses to start a real horse race are inputted,

a graphic system which changes the horses to graphic horses,

a data server which stores the existing past data associated with the horses,

a data server which stores the real time data associated with the horses,

a data server which stores the data created by a user associated with the horses, and

a program which performs a horseracing contest, of which the performance comprising the steps of;

changing the horses to start the horse race to the graphic horses,

retrieving data from each of the servers, and giving the data to the graphic horses, whereby starting the program, a virtual horse race is performed, and consequently the finishing order of the real horse race is simulated.

14. A virtual horseracing system according to claim 13, wherein the real racing horses and the graphic racing horses are displayed on a display screen thereby displaying the simulated finishing order of the real horse race.

15. A virtual horse racing system according to claim 13,

wherein the simulated finishing order of the real horse race is displayed on a display screen as text information.

16. A virtual horse racing system according to claim 13,

wherein the simulated finishing order of the real horse race is transferred as voice information.

17. A virtual horseracing system according to claim 13, wherein

the data created by a user includes at least one or more items of data selected from a group consisting of ages, sexes, types of horses, weights of horses, speed and stamina figures, forms, tempers, horses'"'"' aptitudes for a race distance, a track surface and a racecourse, trainers, colors of horses and the like, each of which is weighted.

18. A virtual horseracing system according to claim 13, wherein

after the performance of the program, a simulated result that is different from an actual result of the real horse race is displayed,

wherein the simulated finishing order or the simulated result is transferred to at least one of a mobile communication system and a system having a function of a communication terminal.

19. A virtual horseracing system according to claim 6, wherein

the existing past data includes at least one or more items of data selected from a group consisting of earnings, race results post positions, trainers, winning percentages, weights with which horses are saddled, ages, training results, workout results, types of horses and the like, each of which is weighted.

20. A virtual horseracing system according to claim 6, comprising:

a host computer into which at least a plurality of horses to start a real horse race are inputted,

a graphic system which changes the horses to the graphic horses,

a data server which stores the existing past data associated with the horses,

a data server which stores the real time data associated with the horses,

a data server which stores the data created by a user associated with the horses, and

a program which performs a horseracing contest, of which the performance comprising the steps of;

changing the horses to start the horse race to the graphic horses,

retrieving data from each of the servers, and

giving the data to the graphic horses, wherein after the performance of the program, a simulated result by the program that is different from an actual result of the real horse race is displayed.

21. A virtual horse racing system according to claim 20,

wherein the real racing horses and the graphic racing horses are displayed on a display screen.

22. A virtual horse racing system according to claim 20,

wherein the simulated result different from the actual result of the real horse race is displayed on a display screen as text information.

23. A virtual horse racing system according to claim 20,

wherein the simulated result different from the actual result of the real horse race is transferred as voice data.

24. A virtual horseracing system according to claim 20,

wherein the simulated finishing order or the simulated result is transferred to at least one of a mobile communication system and a system having a function of a communication terminal.

25. A virtual horseracing system according to claim 1, wherein the real time data includes at least one or more items of data selected from a group consisting of wind direction, wind force, weather condition, racetrack condition and paddock information including training results, physical conditions, moods, cheers of attendants, changes of jockeys and the like, each of which is weighted.

26. A virtual horseracing system according to claim 25, further comprising:

a host computer into which at least data on a plurality of horses to start a real horse race are inputted,

a graphic system which changes the horses to graphic horses,

a data server which stores the existing past data associated with the horses,

a data server which stores the real time data associated with the horses,

a data server which stores the data created by a user associated with the horses, and

a program which performs a horseracing contest, of which the performance comprising the steps of;

changing the horses to start the horse race to the graphic horses,

retrieving data from each of the servers, and giving the data to the graphic horses, wherein by starting the program, a virtual horse race is performed, and consequently the finishing order of the real horse race is simulated.

27. A virtual horse racing system according to claim 26,

wherein the real racing horses and the graphic racing horses are displayed on a display screen.

28. A virtual horse racing system according to claim 26, wherein

after the performance of the program, a simulated result by the program that is different from an actual result of the real horse race is displayed.

29. A virtual horse racing system according to claim 28,

wherein the simulated result different from the result of the real horse race is transferred as voice data.

30. A virtual horseracing system according to claim 28,

wherein the simulated finishing order or the simulated result is transferred to at least one of a mobile communication system and a system having a function of a communication terminal.