Patent ID: 6155927
Filing Date: 2000-12-05
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
An electronic system for contests between professional competitors who are moving about in an actual environment, and amateur competitors located elsewhere and not in the actual location of the contest and moving about in the same environment in virtual reality, the system comprising:sensing means to determine positions of the professional competitors in the actual environment;a circuit server for storing all data relating to the actual environment including identification of the actual surroundings and of the professional competitors in the contest, outside conditions, such as weather conditions, a state of the actual environment, starting and finishing moments of the contest, and the positions of the professional competitors during the contest;at least one local server connected, on the one hand, to said circuit server by a first bi-directional communication links and, on the other hand, to at least one terminal associated with an amateur competitor by second bi-directional communication links, said local server receiving data from said circuit server and for transmitting, with or without processing, to said terminal connected thereto and for, on the other hand, receiving data sourced from the terminal and transmitting, with or without processing, to said circuit server;each terminal receiving and processing the data received from the local server to which it is connected and, on the other hand, processing the performance of the amateur competitor associated with the terminal in the course of the contest and transmitting the corresponding information to said local server.