1. \u201cDigital-Reality\u201d is a real-life human interfacing with the computer generated three dimensional environment in which real-life human interacts with a sensory-immersing simulated environment that contains real-life experiences which interactively responds to and is controlled by the behavior of the real-life humans that give them more control over how the information is viewed, while \u201cVirtual Reality\u201d is an artificial environment created with computer hardware and software where a user wearing special gloves, earphones, goggles andor full-body wiring to feeding sensory input to the user, the devices also monitor the user’s actions to \u201center\u201d and \u201cnavigate\u201d the \u201c3-D world\u201d portrayed as graphic images and change viewpoint and interact with object in that world as if \u201cinside\u201d that world. For example: two physical players (reality) playing computer chess (digital) in a three dimensional environment (digital) which provides the visual rendition of the location, say an indoor hotel location in Paris.
2. An \u201capparatus\u201d or digital medium for data carrier, wherein game or activity levels, physical and intelligence (the \u201cprofile\u201d) information of the player (the \u201cphysical object\u201d) has been recorded beforehand, wherein additionally recorded thereon is an analyzing and correcting module aimed at monitoring the physical object’s actions (the \u201cactions\u201d) and comparing them with the corresponding aspects of an individual Olympic, national international or World record profile of physical object’s personality and matrix of interactivity model thereof, determining, just for the given particular physical object, the key points of the game which determine selecting some actions or other by the physical object so as to set a further course of the game, and generating instructions for writing physical object’s actions and state of game at said key points of the activity.
3. An \u201capparatus\u201d or digital medium as claimed in claim 2, wherein there is carried out a retrospective step-by-step analysis of physical object’s actions, that are determined physical object’s actions that would be optimal at said activity key points, and there are found the combinations of components of individual physical-intelligence profile of physical object’s personality and the physical object’s possibility of event reaction thereof, which combinations have been to a maximum extent responsive for a non-optimal choice made by the physical object.
4. A method as claimed in claim 2, of integrating the information that has been recorded beforehand by the physical object and processed for the next step in the activity based on the profile and actions of the physical object.
5. A method as claimed in claim 2, of integrating the information recorded, retrieved and accessed related to historical data of Olympic, national, international and world records profile in order to provide comparative information of the physical object in the apparatus claimed in claim 2.
6. A method as claimed in claim 2, of providing the information recorded, retrieved and accessed related to historical data of Olympic, national, international and world records profile in as a comparative information of the physical object in the apparatus claimed in claim 2.
7. A method as claimed in claim 3 carried out a retrospective step-by-step analysis of player’s (the \u201cphysical object\u201d) actions, there are determined physical object’s actions that would be optimal at said activity key points, and there are found the combinations of components of individual physical-intelligence profile of physical object’s personality and the physical object’s possibility of event reaction thereof, which combinations have been to a maximum extent responsive for a non-optimal choice made by the physical object.
8. An \u201capparatus\u201d or digital medium as claimed in claim 2, wherein in the case of a number of games and activities thereof are determined what combinations of interactivity models of individual physical and intelligence profile of player’s (the \u201cphysical object\u201d) personality and of matrix of activity \u201ctrigger-reaction\u201d (interactivity) thereof are inconsistent with successful individual’s activity in the sphere of human activities simulated by the game or activity that are immediately recorded and accessed by the physical object whereupon the appropriate conclusions and recommendations are presented as a next step in the activity.
9. A method as claimed in claim 8, in the apparatus in claim 2, of integrating the information games and activities thereof that are processed and determined what combinations of interactivity models of individual physical and intelligence profile of player’s (the \u201cphysical object\u201d) personality and of matrix of activity \u201ctrigger-reaction\u201d (interactivity) thereof are consistent or inconsistent with successful individual’s activity in the sphere of activities simulated by the game or activity that are immediately recorded and accessed by the physical object whereupon the appropriate conclusions and recommendations are presented as a next step in the activity.
10. An \u201capparatus\u201d or digital medium or method recording physical object’s behavioral strategy as a profile using cognitive simulated environment, comprising a data whereon there is recorded software for computer activities; means for physical object’s testing effected either explicitly for the physical object before beginning the activity, or in the course of the game, being unnoticed by the physical object when the tests are the activity components, aimed at determining individual physical and intelligence profile of the physical objects’s personality and matrix of interactivity model thereof; as means for generating instructions for the activity; means for monitoring physical object’s actions with respect to the activity or any digital objects in the environment and comparing said actions with the definite aspects of the individual physical-intelligence profile of the physical-intelligence personality and matrix interactivity model thereof; means for identifying personal qualities or combinations thereof yielding one result or another; and means for establishing appropriate messages regarding the physical object’s physical intelligence state and correcting the physical object’s behavioral strategy at key points of the activity or, against the physical object’s request, at any other activity instants and issuing appropriate messages to the physical object through digital images and characters (Kalpona) with or without interrupting the game or activity, using appropriate linguistic formulas and visual aids built-in for issuing messages, without interrupting the activity, to scenarios, topics, actions of characters, objects, graphic, audio and any other activity components, wherein an analyzing and correcting module is recorded on computer and said module being aimed at comparing and correlating the appropriate properties and parameters of individual physical-intelligence profile of physical object’s personality and matrix of interactivity model thereof with the digital images and characters (Kalpona) objects and components in order to create a character or a group of characters of the activity by imparting to said character or a group of characters the traits of individual physical-intelligence profile of physical object’s personality and matrix of interactivity model thereof, as well as those of the activity objects and processes, ways of its organization, representation and interaction of activity characters and objects, as well as means for activity realization comprising graphic, audio and other components thereof, are determined depending on physical object’s behavioral strategy displayed by the physical object with regard to characters or other objects of the behavioral strategy depending on properties and parameters of physical object’s physical-intelligence profile and matrix of interactivity model thereof, generating instructions for recording physical object’s actions and state of activity at both said key points of the activity and those arbitrarily selected by the physical object; the apparatus further comprises a storage means for recorded physical object’s actions, transition path and state of activity, while said means for identifying physical object’s personal qualities or combinations thereof yielding an appropriate result, is capable of identifying said qualities or combinations thereof at any instant arbitrarily selected by the physical object and at key points of the activity determined automatically by said analyzing and correcting module by comparing and correlating definite properties and parameters of an individual physical intelligence profile of physical object’s personality and matrix of interactivity model thereof with both the physical object’s actions regarding activity.
11. An \u201capparatus\u201d or digital medium as claimed in claim 10, wherein it is provided with a means for recording the physical object’s actions and the state of activity at any point of the activity selected by the physical object.
12. A method as claimed in claim 10, of integrating what it is provided with a means for recording the physical object’s actions and the state of activity at any point of the activity selected by the physical object.
13. An \u201capparatus\u201d or digital medium as claimed in claim 10 wherein the apparatus claimed in claim 2 can be attached to download and access all the information of the physical object including retrospective step-by-step analysis of the physical object as claimed in the claim 3.
14. A method as claimed in claim 13 the way the apparatus claimed in claim 2 can be attached to download and access all the information of the physical object including retrospective step-by-step analysis of the physical object as claimed in the claim 3.
15. The method of claim 9 the way the apparatus claimed in claim 8, wherein said analyzing and correcting module comprises means for generating new activity conditions not replicating the precedent ones for replaying an activity event or the game as a whole but with new physical and intelligence (the \u201cprofile\u201d) information guidelines based on actions.
16. The computer codes and logic of claim 15, wherein said analyzing and correcting module comprises means for determining those combinations of the components of individual physical and intelligent (the \u201cprofile\u201d) of the physical object’s personality and of matrix of interactivity model thereof which are inconsistent with successful individual’s activity in the sphere of activities simulated by the activity and actions thereof or immediately associated therewith.
17. An \u201capparatus\u201d or digital medium as claimed in claim 5 wherein the apparatus claimed in claim 2 attached or swiped for the information in order to enter or exit of the physical object in the activity area.
18. A method as claimed in claim 14 wherein the apparatus claimed in claim 2 attached or swiped for the physical object information for the entry or exit of in the activity area.
19. An \u201capparatus\u201d or digital medium as claimed in claim 5 wherein the apparatus claimed in claim 2 displayed visually as information to the physical object that is applicable for the activity in the activity area.
20. An \u201capparatus\u201d or digital medium as claimed in claim 5 wherein the apparatus claimed in claim 2 provides audio trigger or information as information to the physical object that is applicable for the activity in the activity area.
21. A method as claimed in claim 19 wherein the apparatus claimed in claim 2 display visual information to the physical object that is applicable for the activity in the activity area.
22. A method as claimed in claim 20 wherein the apparatus claimed in claim 2 provides audio trigger or information as information to the physical object that is applicable for the activity in the activity area.
23. An \u201capparatus\u201d or digital medium as claimed in claim 5 wherein the apparatus claimed in claim 2 provides security information as information to the physical object that is applicable for the activity in the activity area.
24. A method as claimed in claim 20 wherein the apparatus claimed in claim 2 wherein the apparatus claimed in claim 2 provides security information as information to the physical object that is applicable for the activity in the activity area.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A people mover such as a travelator, moving ramp, escalator or the like, comprising:
a plurality of pallets to carry and move people, the pallets being arranged one after the other to form an endless track that includes an upper track section and a lower track section, the people mover having an area of direction change of the pallets, in which a respective pallet is arranged to move between the upper track section and the lower track section;
a motor coupled to the pallet track to produce a driving force to move the pallets in a travel direction; and
a flywheel coupled to the motor and arranged to even out movement of the pallets in the travel direction with use of rotational energy of the flywheel.
2. The people mover according claim 1, further including a first power transmission by which the motor is coupled to the pallets, wherein the flywheel is coupled to the first power transmission and receives rotational energy from the motor, the flywheel being arranged to rotate when the pallets move and to even out the movement of the pallet track with said rotational energy.
3. The people mover according to claim 2, wherein the first power transmission includes a transmission chain, and the flywheel is substantially rigidly connected to the transmission chain.
4. The people mover according to claim 1, wherein the speed of rotation of the flywheel is over 200 rpm when the people mover is moving at a drive speed of 0.5-2 ms.
5. The people mover according to claim 1, wherein the mass of the flywheel is over 10 kg.
6. The people mover according to claim 1, wherein the mass of an individual pallet is less than 40 kg.
7. The people mover according to claim 1, wherein the inertia of the flywheel is over 0.5 kgm.
8. The people mover according to claim 1, wherein the flywheel is arranged to even out the movement of the pallet track with its rotational energy by conveying kinetic energy to the first power transmission during transfer of a pallet between the upper track and the lower track.
9. The people mover according to claim 1, wherein the rotational energy of the flywheel when the people mover is moving is substantially greater than a kinetic energy of an individual pallet.
10. The people mover according to claim 1, wherein the rotational energy of the flywheel is at least as great as a total kinetic energy of all the pallets when the people mover is moving.
11. The people mover according to claim 1, wherein the inertia of the flywheel is over 0.5 kgm2, the speed of rotation of the flywheel is over 200 rpm when the people mover is moving at a drive speed of 0.5-2 ms, and the mass of an individual pallet is less than 40 kg.
12. The people mover according to claim 1, wherein the flywheel is arranged at an end of the people mover where the pallets rise from the lower track to the upper track.
13. The people mover according to claim 1, wherein the motor is located at one end of the people mover and the flywheel is arranged at an end of the people mover that is opposite the end at which the motor is located.
14. The people mover according to claim 1, wherein the first power transmission includes a transmission chain and a diverting pulley that turns the direction of the transmission chain, and the flywheel is coupled to the diverting pulley.
15. The people mover according to claim 2, wherein the flywheel is coupled by a second power transmission to the first power transmission.
16. The people mover according to claim 15, wherein the first power transmission comprises a transmission chain and a first diverting pulley that guides the transmission chain, and the second power transmission comprises at least one of a belt and a second diverting pulley.
17. The people mover according to claim 15, wherein the people mover comprises two transmission chains connected to the pallets on opposite sides of the pallets, and a synchronization shaft that connects the two transmission chains for movement in synchronization, wherein power is transmitted via the synchronization shaft between the two transmission chains, and the synchronization shaft is coupled to the flywheel by the second power transmission which includes at least one of a belt, chain, diverting pulley and gear wheel.
18. The people mover according to claim 16, wherein the second transmission comprises a third diverting pulley coupled to the flywheel, the second diverting pulley of the second transmission is coupled to the first diverting pulley of the first transmission and the belt of the second transmission couples the second and third diverting pulleys whereby the flywheel is substantially rigidly coupled to the transmission chain via the second transmission.
19. The people mover according to claim 1, further including a handrail belt that forms a loop, wherein the flywheel is inside a projection of the loop formed by the handrail belt as viewed in a direction of the center of a bending of the loop.
20. The people mover according to claim 1, further including a handrail belt that forms a loop, wherein the flywheel is at least partly inside the loop formed by the handrail belt.
21. The people mover according to claim 1, further comprising a handrail belt that forms a loop at an end of the people mover and a handrail casing inside the loop, wherein the flywheel is inside the handrail casing inside the loop.
22. The people mover according to claim 1, further including a support on which the flywheel rests, wherein the support is adapted to be supported on a frame of the people mover or on a floor of a building.
23. The people mover according to claim 18, wherein a transmission ratio between the flywheel and the first diverting pulley is such that the flywheel and first diverting pulley have different angular velocities.
24. The people mover according to claim 16, wherein the flywheel and the first diverting pulley are supported separately from each other.
25. The people mover according to claim 22, wherein the support is supported on the floor, and the support comprises support structures that are separate from a frame of the people mover for conducting forces away from the people mover.
26. The people mover according to claim 1, wherein the flywheel comprises a solid metal disk.
27. The people mover according to claim 1, wherein the flywheel is arranged at an end of the people mover, at which end there is no motor for producing a driving force needed to move the pallets.
28. The people mover according to claim 1, further comprising a braking device arranged to brake the flywheel separately from the first power transmission that moves the flywheel.
29. The people mover according to claim 1, further comprising a coupling arranged between the flywheel and the first power transmission that moves the flywheel that releases the otherwise rigid connection between the flywheel and the first power transmission such that the flywheel continues to rotate although the first power transmission ceases to transmit power or is in the process of ceasing to transmit power to move the pallets.
30. The people mover according to claim 1, wherein the pallets are arranged successively close to each other to form an essentially continuous conveying surface.
31. The people mover according to claim 1, wherein the flywheel comprises a solid object.
32. The people mover according to claim 1, wherein the flywheel has a constant inertia.
33. The people mover according to claim 1, wherein the flywheel is arranged to even out with its rotational energy movement in the travel direction of the pallet track by reducing pulsation caused by a change of direction of the pallets in an area of direction change.
34. A method for evening out movement in a travel direction of a pallet track of a people mover, such as a travelator, moving ramp, escalator or the like, in which a plurality of pallets for carrying and moving people, are arranged one after the other to form an endless track that comprises an upper track section and a lower track section, the people mover comprising an area of direction change of the pallets in which a respective pallet moves between the upper track section and the lower track section, and a motor for producing a driving force is arranged to move the pallets, the method comprising:
employing rotational energy of a flywheel to reduce pulsation caused by a change of direction of the pallets.
35. The method according to claim 34, including connecting the flywheel to a power transmission of the pallet track to reduce the pulsation.
36. The method according to claim 35, wherein the connecting step includes connecting the flywheel essentially rigidly to the power transmission of the pallet track to reduce the pulsation.
37. The method according to claim 34, wherein the employing step includes conveying the rotational energy of the flywheel to the power transmission when moving a pallet from the lower track to the upper track pulsation.
38. The method according to claim 34, wherein the employing step includes placing the flywheel at a first end of the people mover where the pallets rise from the lower track to the upper track, the first end being opposite to a second end at which the motor is arranged.
39. The method according to claim 35, wherein the connecting step includes connecting the flywheel to the power transmission of the pallet track at a non-driven end of the people mover.
40. A people mover such as a travelator, moving ramp, escalator or the like, comprising:
a first power transmission including a transmission chain;
a plurality of pallets connected to the transmission chain and arranged one after the other to form an endless track for carrying and moving people, the track having an upper track section, a lower track section, and an area of direction change of the pallets in which area a pallet is arranged to move between the upper track section and the lower track section, the pallets being arranged successively close to each other to form an essentially continuous conveying surface;
a movable diverting pulley that turns a direction of the transmission chain;
a rotating apparatus;
a unit movable in a horizontal direction for tensioning the transmission chain, wherein the movable unit includes tensioning wheels, and the movable diverting pulley moves along with the unit when the unit is moved;
a second power transmission including a second diverting pulley coupled to the first diverting pulley, a third diverting pulley coupled to the rotating apparatus and a belt coupling the second and third diverting pulleys, the second power transmission transmitting rotational movement between the rotating apparatus and the movable diverting pulley, wherein the rotating apparatus is supported in position in a manner allowing rotation, wherein the tensioning wheels are arranged to tension the tensioning belt, at least one tensioning wheel being spring-loaded to move towards the tensioning belt, wherein the tensioning wheels are arranged such that at least one of the tensioning wheels steers the tensioning belt to form an angle in the tensioning belt.