JP2002011219A - Pachinko prize control method in game system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a lost or stolen pachinko prize from being brought again in a distribution passage of the pachinko prize by being forged, and to prevent a person trying to fraudulently cash the forged pachinko prize from performing the same act. SOLUTION: A card supply control base 10 is provided with a storage means for storing and holding a table on use permission/nonpermission of a delivered pachinko prize substitute card and a means for informing stopping of use of a use unpermitted pachinko prize substitute card to at least either one base of a wholesale base 10, a game parlor base 20 and a buying base 30 by specifying the use unpermitted pachinko prize substitute card by referring to this table.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a prize management system in a game system, and more particularly to a prize management in a game system using a prize substitute card such as a magnetic card or an IC card as a prize for a game machine such as a pachinko or pachislot machine. It is about the method.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a game arcade (hereinafter referred to as a game arcade base) that provides entertainment services such as pachinko parlors,
A lending ball or coin lending to a customer (hereinafter referred to as a player), the player uses the gaming machine using the lending ball or the like, and the game center provides the resulting winning ball or the like to the tobacco store. We exchanged for prizes such as sweets. Also, unlike such practical prizes, they receive specific prizes (hereinafter referred to as recirculating prizes) such as mechanical pencil cores and lighter stones, and bring them to the nearest purchase place (hereinafter referred to as the purchase base). As a result, some people purchase cash. However, such a prize such as the lead of a mechanical pencil has problems such as being bulky and not allowing the player to actually use the system to accurately return to the inside of the system. 9-13595
No. 7) proposes a freewheel-type prize using a magnetic card or an IC card.

FIG. 15 is a block diagram showing a four-point recirculation type gaming system disclosed in the above-mentioned publication. As shown in the drawing, the newly provided prize from the card supply management base 110 and the returned prize are transferred to the wholesale base 12.
0, and the wholesale base 120 wholesales the purchased prizes to a game center 130 such as a pachinko parlor. Playground base 13
0 exchanges a predetermined number of winning balls and winning coins obtained by the player 150 with the above-mentioned free-flow prize, and the player 150 can bring the prize to the purchase base 140 to be purchased. In addition, the purchase base 140 can sell the purchased prize to the wholesale base 120 in advance, and the prize purchased at the wholesale base 120 is purchased by the card supply management base 110. It was going to return to four bases.

[0004] Further, each base makes up for the shortage of prizes by placing an order with a higher rank base, that is, the wholesale base 120 places an order with the card supply management base 110, and the amusement arcade base 130 places a wholesale order. An order has been placed with the base 120. In addition, each site is equipped with a reader / writer for reading and writing the stored contents of the premium substitute card. Each time the vehicle passes through each site, its own site passing data is recorded, and the preceding site passing data is checked. And the card was properly distributed.

[0005]

However, in the past, no lost or stolen prizes were managed in the past, and these prizes were fraudulently forged and brought back to the purchase base to purchase them. I was messed up. In addition, a person who brings in such a fraudulent prize may repeat the same act at a plurality of purchase bases.
On the other hand, conventionally, information about a person who commits an illegal act is not notified to any other purchase bases or the like, and there has been a problem that an illegal act by the same person is repeated.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve such a problem, and a prize in a game system which can prevent a lost or stolen prize from being forged and brought back into a distribution channel of the prize. The purpose is to provide a management method. In addition, the present invention provides a gaming system that can prevent the same person from being dishonested again by recording the characteristics of a person who intends to buy fraudulent prizes illegally. It is another object to provide a premium management system.

[0007]

In order to achieve the above object, a prize management system in a game system according to the present invention is a prize management system in a game system in which two to four bases are returned. Is a storage means for storing and holding a table relating to permission / non-permission of use of the issued premium substitute card, and by referring to this table, specifies a premium substitute card whose use is not permitted, and specifies a wholesale base, a game center and Means for informing at least one of the purchase bases of the suspension of use of the prize substitute card whose use is not permitted.

Further, the present invention includes the following configuration as another embodiment. That is, at least one of the wholesale base, the game center base, and the purchase base receives the notification of the stoppage of the use of the premium substitute card from the card supply management, so that the information stored in the premium substitute card is held. Means for erasing a part or all of. The card supply management bases monitor the incoming and outgoing information notified from each base, and are lost or stolen from the distribution channel between the bases, disappear or are duplicated because they are forged. Means for specifying a prize substitute card to be used and setting the table to be prohibited from use.

Further, the card supply management base calculates the number of prize replacement cards that are insufficient at the amusement arcade base based on the number of prize replacement cards whose use is not allowed, which is recorded in the table, and provides the wholesaler. A means is provided for automatically ordering the base to wholesale this shortage to the game center.
The prize replacement card returns only to three bases, which are a wholesale base, a game center base, and a purchase base. The purchase base has a means for taking a photograph of a face of a player who has brought in a prize substitution card for which use is prohibited at the table or collecting a fingerprint, and data on the photographed face or the collected fingerprint. To the card supply management base, and the card supply management base includes means for writing the notified data in a predetermined blacklist and notifying each base.

[0010] Therefore, according to the present invention, it is possible to easily prevent a lost or stolen prize from being forged and brought back into the distribution channel of the prize. In addition, since it is possible to record the characteristics of those who intend to purchase counterfeit premiums, by notifying the recorded information to other purchase bases, etc.,
Unauthorized arousal can be prevented beforehand.

[0011]

Next, one embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. In the following, an example in which the present invention is applied to a three-point recirculation type system instead of the conventional four-point recirculation type system will be described. The three-site recirculation system returns the refunded prize only to the three locations consisting of the wholesale location, the game center location, and the purchase location, and does not return it to the card supply management location. There are various advantages such as omission and delivery cost. Of course, the prize management system according to the present invention can also be applied to a conventional four-site recirculation system.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing one embodiment of the present invention. As shown in the figure, the configuration of the present system is the same as that of the above-mentioned conventional example, and
0, a wholesale base 20, a game center 30, and a purchase base 40. The player 50 can have the purchase base 40 purchase a prize replacement card exchanged at the game hall base 30. On the other hand, in the present embodiment, unlike the conventional example, the card supply management base 10 issues only a new prize, and the return prize returns only the three bases of the wholesale base 20, the game center 30 and the purchase base 40. As a result, it is possible to reduce the labor and cost for delivering a huge number of prizes to the card supply management base 10. Further, the card supply management base 10 manages all cards flowing to each base, and checks authenticity information, renewal information, and card location for checking whether or not a legitimate card is circulating at each base. The management of. Details will be described later.

Further, the card supply management base 10 can easily know the theft or loss of the prize that has occurred at each base by monitoring the incoming and outgoing information notified from each base. Alternatively, it can be known by reporting from each base. Therefore, by registering the occurrence of loss etc. in a table associated with the card serial number, when the card returns to the distribution channel after being forged or falsified, it is illegally purchased And so on can be easily prevented.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram for explaining data communication according to the present embodiment. In the present embodiment, data such as authentication information is transmitted collectively to each site and stored in a storage device at each site so that authentication can be determined for each site. Therefore, every time a new card is brought in, it is not necessary to inquire the card supply management base 10 one by one. In addition, by transmitting the result of the authenticity judgment to the card supply management base 10 in a lump during idle time after closing the store (nighttime batch processing), a large amount of data can be transmitted through a small number of communication lines, thereby reducing communication costs. Also. Note that the communication line may be a wired line or a wireless line such as a PHS. Also, when a prize is brought in from another game center (a base other than the game center 30), since the purchase base 40 is not notified of the authenticity information of the prize, card supply management is performed by real-time communication. An inquiry is made to the base 10 to determine authenticity. In that case, it is purchased according to the instruction from the card supply management base 10,
Or refuse to buy.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing details of the three-site recirculation type system shown in FIG. As shown in FIG. 1, the card supply management base 10 includes a management computer 11 and a delivery machine 12. The wholesale base 20 is a computer 2
1, a stocking machine 22, a stocking machine 23, and a receiving machine 24. The game center 30 includes a computer 31 and a storage machine 32.
And a dispensing machine 33. The purchase base 40 includes a counting machine 41, a camera 42, and a fingerprint sensor 43. The tallying machine 41 is a device for tallying premium substitute cards brought in by the player 50, and will be described later in detail.

The camera 42 takes a photograph of the face of a person who has brought an illegal card due to forgery or the like, and the taken image data is stored in the management computer 1 in the card supply management base 10.
1 is notified. The fingerprint sensor 43 is provided on a button, a touch panel, or the like that is pressed when a card is purchased.
Purchasers (especially those who bring counterfeit cards)
The fingerprint data of the user is collected and the information is stored in the management computer 1
Notify 1. The management computer 11 registers the acquired information in a predetermined blacklist, and notifies the other bases of the blacklist, so that the characteristics of the person who made the unauthorized purchase can be determined at each base (purchase base 40).
(Including other purchase bases). As a result, the administrator can easily take measures such as contacting the police when the same person comes or rejecting the purchase.

As described above, the cards at each site are centrally managed by the card supply management site 10. That is, the computers (management computer 11, computers 21, 31 and tallying machine 41) installed at each site
Are connected to each other via a network, and authenticity information, receipt information, delivery information, purchase information, and withdrawal information are transmitted and received via the network, and these information are collectively managed by the card supply management base 10. . As a result, it is possible to easily manage the flow of the card, the flow of the payment, and the settlement status at each base, thereby easily realizing a three-base system. Further, cards distributed between the bases are transported by a normal distribution system, and the cards are carried by the player 50 from the game base 30 to the purchase base 40. The card brought into the purchase base 40 is manually set in the counting machine 41, and the card information is read and packed. The value of the purchased card is paid to the player 50 by hand. of course,
By installing an automatic cash dispenser, the purchase and payment of a card may be performed without human intervention.

Here, an outline of the operation of the present system will be described. FIG. 4 is a sequence diagram for explaining the operation of the gaming system according to FIG. First, upon receiving an order from the wholesale base 20, the management computer 11 in the card supply management base 10 stores and seals a predetermined number of cards purchased from the manufacturer in a packing box (not shown) by the unloading machine 12. Pack.

The prize substitute card is used as a prize instead of the above-mentioned mechanical pencil lead or the like, and its card format is as shown in FIG. Ticket type data indicating the frequency of 1,000, 2,000, 5,000, etc., the base code which is the code of the base that passed, the card serial number which is a serial number uniquely assigned to each card, and the purchase Activity indicating yes or no
Renewal information including inert data and predetermined numerical data (for example, numerical data appropriately changed at the wholesale base 20, data indicating the update date or time of the card information,
Any one of the number of recirculations indicating the number of recirculations at the three locations, or a combination thereof. As described above, the premium substitute card stores and holds renewal information including predetermined data, and the wholesale base 20 reads the renewal information of the returned premium substitute card based on the instruction of the card supply management base 10, and reads the renewal information. Rewrite the information to something different from the information that was given. Active / inactive data is
Normally, it is set to be inactive, and is activated by the payout machine 33 when the game is paid out normally at the game arcade base 30, and is inactivated again when the card is collected by the counting machine 41. That is, the information is for preventing the purchased card from being purchased again at the purchase base.
Further, the renewal information is information for checking whether or not the card has been returned normally, and it is also possible to know the discarding time of the card based on this information. In addition, the prize substitute card may be a card in which ticket type data is stored and held in advance, and a frequency corresponding to the ticket type data may be printed on the surface thereof, or the frequency is usually not printed,
The writing of the denomination data and the printing of the frequency may be performed at the time of issuing a ticket or the like.

At the same time as each base leaves the premium replacement card, the base notifies the management computer 11 in the card supply management base 10 of the authentication information shown in FIG. The authentication information is data used for determining the authenticity of the prize to be delivered, and includes ticket type data, base data, a card serial number, and active / inactive data. In the above description, information about all cards is notified from the card supply management base 10 to each base as authenticity information. Instead, only information on an unauthorized card that is previously grasped by the card supply management base 10 is used. May be notified to each site as authentication information. By doing so, the information amount of the authentication information notified to each site can be reduced, which is effective for shortening the communication time and reducing the communication cost.

The packing boxes received at the wholesale base 20 are:
The card information is read by the storage device 22. At this time, the authenticity is determined by comparing whether the authentication information received by the computer 21 in advance matches the card serial number read by the storage device 22. If they do not match, it means that the wrong packing box has been received, and the packing box is sent back to the card supply management base 10. When they match, the card information in the received packing box is notified to the card supply management base 10 as the receipt information (in this case, at least the card serial number may be notified). As a result, the card supply management base 10 can confirm that the packing box has arrived at the wholesale base 20 and can recognize that the card has moved to the wholesale base.

After that, at the wholesale base 20, the card opened from the packing box is sent to the unloading machine 23, and the unloading machine 23 writes the base passing data on the card, packs it again in the packing box, and ships it to the game center base 30. I do. At the same time as the delivery, the card serial number is transmitted to the card supply management base 10 as delivery information. The card supply management base 10 transmits the authentication information to the gaming base 30 based on the received delivery information.

The packing box stored in the game center 30 is opened in the same manner as the wholesale base 20, and then the card information is read by the storage machine 32 and the computer 3
1 is transmitted to the card supply management base 10 as entry information. Thereafter, the premium substitute card is loaded into the payout machine 33 and paid out in response to a request from the player. At that time, the payout machine 33 compares the authenticity information received in advance with the information recorded on the card to determine the authenticity, and only the valid card is paid out to the player 50, which may cause forgery or the like. The defective card is stored in a predetermined storage unit (not shown). Data such as the serial number of the paid out card is transmitted to the card supply management base 10 by the computer 31 as payout information.

The player 50 can bring the acquired card to the purchase base 40 for purchase. The card brought to the purchase base 40 is a tallying machine 41
The ticket information is counted and authenticated, and the purchase information obtained as a result is collectively transmitted to the management computer 11 during an idle time such as after the store is closed (nighttime batch processing). The aggregated card is sold to the wholesale base 20 in advance, and the wholesale base 20 sends the purchased card to the receiving machine 24.
Then, the number of recirculations, the damage state of the card, and the like are checked, and if the card can be reused, the card is sent to the exit unit 23 for reuse. The number of circulations of each card is incremented by "1" before packing.

As described above, the prize substitute card according to the present embodiment flows back and forth between the wholesale base 20, the game center base 30, and the purchase base 40, and the card supply management base 10
Although the prize replacement card does not return, it is possible to accurately grasp the circulation state of the card based on various information (incoming information, outgoing information, payout information and purchase information) obtained at each base. it can.

Here, a method of managing lost or stolen premiums, which is a feature of the present invention, will be described. FIG. 7 is a table in which the use permission / non-permission information of the card stored in the computer in each site is recorded. As shown in the figure, information indicating permission / non-permission of use of the card is recorded in correspondence with the card serial number. For example, the serial number "00000000
"00001" and "0000000000003" cards are licensed and their serial numbers are "00000"
00000002 "is prohibited. This table is notified from the card supply management base 10 to the respective bases together with the above-mentioned authentication information, and use rejection is set for a lost or stolen card.

Therefore, even if the authenticity judgment is normally performed, it is prohibited to purchase a card for which use is prohibited in this table and to leave the card without an instruction from the card supply management base 10. In addition to registering unauthorized use in the table, if all or part of the authenticity information of the unauthorized card is erased, it will be surely authenticated, and future unauthorized use will be prevented. Can be blocked. Also, if a card with the same serial number is brought in many times at the purchase base 40, a forged card may be brought in. Or the authentication information may be deleted.

FIG. 8 is a block diagram for explaining a card use non-permission notification from the card supply management base 10 to each base. As shown in FIG.
Monitors whether the premium replacement card has been lost or stolen at each site by monitoring the incoming and outgoing information notified from each site. Alternatively, it is possible to know that the card has been lost or the like in response to a report from each site. As a result, upon recognizing the loss of the card, the card supply management base 10 immediately rejects the use of the card and returns the permission to use the base (all the bases of the wholesale base 20, the playground base 30, and the purchase base 40, or at least one of the bases). , And each site sets the card use prohibition in the table shown in FIG. Therefore, after the use-disapproval is set on the table, it is possible to prevent the card from being purchased or left.

Further, the card supply management base 10 can grasp the number of cards actually distributed to each base by referring to the use permission / non-permission table shown in FIG. In other words, the larger the number of unauthorized cards, the shorter the number of cards sold. Therefore, the card supply management base 10 issues the card to the wholesale base 20 to compensate for the shortage, Base 2
By giving an instruction to the game hall base 30 to leave from 0, it is possible to automatically order a prize.
This automatic ordering is performed by the management computer 11 in the card supply management base 10 to the computers in each base.

Next, details of each section will be described. FIG.
FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the retrieval machine 12. This is a function as an issuing machine that records information such as denomination data that cannot be written at other sites in the memory built into the premium replacement card and writes the initial values of other data to the card, and to the wholesale base A function of bundling and packing a plurality of cards when delivering the card;
And a function for determining the authenticity of the card based on the authenticity information received from the company. As shown in the figure,
The unloading machine 12 includes a card storage unit 12a, a transport unit 12b having a non-contact reader / writer 60, and a good card ejection unit 12
c, a defective card storage unit 12d, a packing unit 12e, a power supply unit 12g, a control circuit 12f, a control personal computer (hereinafter, referred to as a control PC) 12h, and an external interface (hereinafter, an external I / F). 12i). The unloading machine 23 in the wholesale base 20 has the same configuration.

The received card is temporarily stored in the card storage unit 12.
a, and then conveyed by the conveyance unit 12b.
At this time, the stored content is read out by the non-contact reader / writer 60, and if the conditions such as the number of recirculations are satisfied, the content is sent to the packing unit 12e via the good card discharging unit 12c and packed in the above-described packing box. On the other hand, when the number of recirculations is equal to or more than a predetermined value and the durable life of the card has passed, the card is sent to the defective card storage unit 12d. The transport unit 12b is driven and controlled by a control circuit 12f, and is driven by receiving power supply from a power supply unit 12g. The control circuit 12f is connected to the control PC 12h. The control PC 12h is connected to a communication line such as a LAN via an external I / F. Therefore, the control PC 12h is connected via this communication line.
, The card can be packed. The form of the communication line is not limited to LAN,
It may be connected to a telephone line via an AN, ISDN line, the Internet, or a modem, or may perform data communication with other devices by wireless. These forms are also applicable to other devices described later. The same applies. Further, as a cryptographic communication for enhancing network security, VPN (Virtual Private Neighbor)
work: virtual closed network, Nikkei Communication N
o. 295, June / July 1999, page 72, etc.) can naturally be considered, which has the effect of further improving security.

FIG. 10 is a block diagram showing the storage machine 22. This is an apparatus for reading card information of a prize that has been received and transferring the received information to the computer 21. As shown in the figure, the storage device 22 includes a non-contact reader / writer 22a, a control PC 22b, and an external I / F 22c. The non-contact reader / writer 22a is the control PC2
2b, and the control PC 22b is connected to the computer 21 via an external I / F. Therefore, the read card information is transmitted to the computer 21. The storage machine 32 has the same configuration.

FIG. 11 is a block diagram showing the receiving machine 24. As shown in the drawing, the receiving machine 24 includes a card storage unit 24a and a transport unit 24 having a non-contact reader / writer 60.
b, card stocker 24c, and defective card storage unit 24
d, control circuit 24e, power supply unit 24f, control PC2
4g and an external I / F 24h. The received card is temporarily stored in the card storage unit 24a, and then transferred by the transfer unit 24b. At that time, the stored content of the card is read by the non-contact reader / writer 60,
It is sent to the card stocker 24c or the defective card storage unit 24d according to the contents. The transport unit 24b is driven by the power from the power supply unit 24f applied under the control of the control circuit 24e, and the control circuit 24e is controlled by the control PC 24g.
Is controlled by The control PC 24g is connected to the external I / F2
4h, it is connected to a communication line. Further, the control circuit 24e controls the non-contact rewriter 60, and writes renewal information such as the number of recirculations on the card.

FIG. 12 is a block diagram showing the payout machine 33. This is a device for judging the authenticity of the premium substitute card received at the game center 30, writing data on the card at the game center 30, and paying out the card to the player. Further, it has a function of accumulating card information of the paid-out cards and transmitting the card supply management base 10 as payout information when the game center 30 closes. As shown in the drawing, the dispensing machine 33 includes a control PC 33a and an external I / F 33.
b, control circuit 33c, power supply unit 33d, panel 33e
, Dispenser 33f, and defective card storage unit 33g
, Good card ejection unit 33h, and non-contact reader / writer 60
And

The cards stored in the dispenser 33f are issued by the power of the power supply unit 33d applied under the control of the control circuit 33c. At this time, the content is confirmed by the non-contact reader / writer 60, and if the card is a bad card, it is stored in the bad card storing section 33g, and only good cards are discharged from the good card discharging section 33h. A display panel 33e composed of an LCD or the like is attached to the control circuit 33c, and the clerk can know information such as the type of the premium substitute card by looking at the display on the panel 33e. Therefore, the display of the panel 33e and the control PC3
A card is issued in response to the operation of 3a, and the issued card is passed to a player via a clerk. The control circuit 3
3c is connected to the control PC 33a.
Is connected to a communication line via an external I / F 33b.

FIG. 13 is a block diagram showing the counting device 41. As shown in FIG.
a, external I / F 41b, control circuit 41c, power supply unit 41d, panel 41e, dispenser 41f, defective card discharge unit 41g, good card storage unit 41h, packing units 41i and 41j, and non-contact. And a reader / writer 60. The content of the card brought in by the player is read by the non-contact reader / writer 60, and sorted by ticket type by the dispenser 41f. If it is a good card, it is stored in the good card storage section 41h for each ticket type,
The defective card is discharged from the defective card discharge unit 41g.
The cards finally discharged from the defective card discharge section 41g and the good card storage section 41h are respectively packed in the packing section 41.
Packed for each ticket type by i, 41j. The dispenser 41f includes a power supply unit 41 applied by a control circuit 41c.
Driven by power from d. The control circuit 41c has a panel 41e for displaying various information.
The control circuit 41c is connected to the control PC 41a,
C41a is connected to the external I / F 41b.

FIG. 14 is a block diagram showing the non-contact reader / writer 60. As shown in the figure, the non-contact reader / writer 60 includes a CPU 60a, a security access module (hereinafter, referred to as SAM) 60b, a peripheral control unit 60c, an RF antenna unit 60d, and an SRAM 60.
e, a flash memory 60f, and an external I / F 60g. Information in the prize substitute card is read by an electromagnetic induction phenomenon caused by a radiation magnetic field or a proximity magnetic field radiated from the RF antenna unit 60d. The power supply to the RF antenna unit 60d is performed by the peripheral control unit 60c, and the read data is sent to the CPU 60a by the peripheral control unit 60c. The control program used at that time is stored in the flash memory 60f,
The read data is temporarily stored in the SRAM 60e.

The CPU 60a uses the SAM 60b to authenticate whether the card and the non-contact reader / writer 60 are mutually authentic. That is, a predetermined information command is stored and held in the SAM 60b, and by transmitting this information command to the card, a specific area in the card can be accessed. The SAM 60b also performs decoding of information read from the card. Therefore, by using a different SAM for each reader / writer, even if the reader / writer is stolen, only a part of the card information can be accessed by the reader / writer, and forgery of the card can be prevented.

In the above, a case has been described in which a magnetic card or an IC card (contact type or non-contact type) is used as a prize substitute card, but instead a storage medium such as an optical card, a magnetic disk, an optical disk, or an IC tag is used. May be used. In addition, if the card serial number is printed or stamped on the surface of the prize substitute card, even if the stored information has been lost, the serial number can be known. it can. Also, it is apparent that the premium management method according to the present invention can be applied to any system in which the card supply management base manages information of cards circulating in other bases, regardless of the three or four bases of the prize return route. It is. Further, the present invention is not limited to pachinko and pachislot, but can be applied to other similar games. Therefore, the lending used in the game is not limited to this, and coin lending or other lending may be used. It should be noted that the above-mentioned three-base type system may be improved so that the card can be returned to only two bases, that is, the game base and the purchase base. By returning the cards to only two locations, the number of cards used in the entire system can be reduced from that of a three-location type, in which case the renewal information is rewritten at the purchase location.

[0040]

As described above, according to the present invention, in the prize management system in a game system in which two to four bases are returned, the card supply management base stores a table regarding permission / non-permission of use of the issued prize substitute card. The storage means to be held and the prize substitute card which is not allowed to be used by referring to this table are specified, and at least one of the wholesale base, the game center base and the purchase base is determined.
Means for notifying use stoppage of the prize substitute card whose use is not permitted.

Therefore, according to the present invention, it is possible to easily prevent a lost or stolen prize from being forged and brought back into the distribution channel of the prize. In addition, since it is possible to record the characteristics of those who intend to purchase counterfeit premiums, by notifying the recorded information to other purchase bases, etc.,
Unauthorized arousal can be prevented beforehand.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram for explaining data transmission in the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing details of FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a sequence diagram illustrating an operation of the gaming system according to FIG. 1;

FIG. 5 is a table showing a card format.

FIG. 6 is a table showing authentication information.

FIG. 7 is a table showing a correspondence between a card serial number and card use permission / non-permission information.

FIG. 8 is a block diagram for explaining a card use non-permission notification by a card supply management base.

FIG. 9 is a block diagram showing a retrieval machine.

FIG. 10 is a block diagram showing a storage machine.

FIG. 11 is a block diagram showing a receiving machine.

FIG. 12 is a block diagram showing a payout machine.

FIG. 13 is a block diagram showing a counting machine.

FIG. 14 is a block diagram showing a non-contact reader / writer.

FIG. 15 is a block diagram showing a conventional example.

[Explanation of symbols]

10: card supply management base, 11: management computer,
12: Dispensing machine, 12a: Card storage unit, 12b: Non-contact reader / writer, 12c: Good card discharge unit, 12d: Bad card storage unit, 12e: Packing unit, 12f: Control circuit, 1
2g: Power supply unit, 12h: Control PC, 12i: External I /
F, 20: wholesale base, 21: computer, 22: storage machine, 22a: barcode reader, 22b: control PC, 2
2c: External I / F, 23: Outgoing machine, 24: Receiving machine, 24
a: card storage unit, 24b: transport unit, 24c: card stocker, 24d: defective card storage unit, 24e: control circuit, 24f: power supply unit, 24g: control PC, 24h: external I / F, 30: game center , 31 ... computer, 32
... Warehousing machine, 33 ... Dispensing machine, 33a ... Control PC, 33b ...
External I / F, 33c: control circuit, 33d: power supply unit, 33
e: panel, 33f: dispenser, 33g: defective card storage section, 33h: good card discharge section, 40: purchase base,
41: counting machine, 41a: control PC, 41b: external I /
F, 41c: control circuit, 41d: power supply unit, 41e: panel, 41f: dispenser, 41g: defective card discharge unit, 41h: good card storage unit, 41i, 41j: packing unit, 42: camera, 43: fingerprint sensor, 50 ... player,
60: Non-contact reader / writer, 60a: CPU, 60b:
SAM, 60c: peripheral control unit, 60d: RF antenna unit, 60e: SRAM, 60f: flash memory, 6
0g ... External I / F.

 ────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuing from the front page (72) Inventor Shuichi Takigawa 2-3-2 Shimomeguro, Meguro-ku, Tokyo F-term in Tamura Electric Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (Reference) 2C088 BA90 BB07 BB15 BB21 BB23 BB25 BB33 BB43 BC80 CA02 CA31

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A card supply management base for supplying a prize substitute card for storing and holding ticket type data indicating a predetermined amount; a prize substitute card purchased from the card supply management base; And a base for providing an entertainment service using a gaming machine, wherein the prize substitute card is purchased from the wholesale base, and a predetermined number of winning balls obtained by a player by using the gaming machine are obtained. A game arcade base exchanged for a premium substitute card, and a premium exchange card exchanged by the player are purchased and resold to the wholesale base according to ticket type data recorded on the premium substitute card. And a purchase base for recirculating the prize substitute card, and wherein the card supply management base is provided with the prize substitute card at the wholesale base. Managing the receipt information and exit information, the receipt information and payout information of the premium substitute card at the game center, and the purchase information and exit information of the premium substitute card at the purchase base; In the prize management system in the gaming system that returns to each of the bases, the card supply management base stores and holds a table relating to permission / disapproval of use of the issued prize substitute card, and refers to this table. By specifying the prize substitute card of which use is not permitted, the wholesale base, the game center, and at least one of the purchase bases are
Means for notifying the stoppage of use of the prize substitution card whose use is not permitted. 2. The system according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the wholesale base, the game hall base, and the purchase base receives a notification from the card supply management that the use of the premium substitute card has been stopped. A means for erasing part or all of the information stored and held in the gift substitute card. 3. The card supply management base according to claim 1, wherein the card supply management base monitors the incoming and outgoing information notified from each of the bases, so that the card supply management base is lost or stolen from a distribution route between the bases. A prize management system in a gaming system, comprising: means for identifying a prize substitute card that has been duplicated due to disappearance or forgery, and setting use permission in the table. 4. The card supply management base according to claim 1, wherein the card supply management base is based on the number of non-use-permitted premium substitute cards recorded in the table.
Means for calculating the number of prize replacement cards that are missing at the game center, and automatically ordering the wholesale base to wholesale the shortage to the game center. A prize management system in a gaming system. 5. The prize management system according to claim 1, wherein the prize substitution card returns only to three bases including the wholesale base, the game center base, and the purchase base. 6. The purchase base according to claim 1, wherein the purchase base takes a photograph of a face of a player who brings in a prize substitution card for which use is prohibited in the table or collects a fingerprint. Means for notifying the card supply management base of data relating to a photographed face photograph or a collected fingerprint to the card supply management base, wherein the card supply management base writes the notified data in a predetermined blacklist and sets each of the bases A prize management system in a gaming system, comprising: