JP2002259615A - Time-zone division betting system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent congestion at the closing time for purchasing a betting ticket, and to increase the recovering efficiency of blank tickets. SOLUTION: This system is provided with a betting ticket issuing machine equipped with a point computing means which divides a betting ticket purchase period into time zones, computes odds by the time zones, gives points corresponding to the time zone wherein a blank ticket thrown in when a purchase of a betting ticket is applied for has been bought, and computes an amount corresponding to the total amount of the points, a computing means which compares the amount computed by the point computing means with the amount needed to purchase the betting amount and computes a deficient amount in such a case, and a indicating means which indicates the deficient amount, a display means which displays odds sent out of a center, and a betting ticket handling office equipped with a refunding machine which refunds money for winning tickets according to the odds computed by the time zone and sent from the center.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a time zone divided voting system in a totalizer system, and more particularly to a service period which is preferential for early purchasers by dividing a time zone from the start of the release of a voting ticket to the deadline. About what you did.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a horse race, for example, a winning horse voting ticket (hereinafter referred to as a voting ticket) can be purchased at any time from the start of sale to the end of the sale. But the refunds for hit tickets are comparable, and there is no service based on early purchases.

[0003] A conventional totalizer system will be briefly described with reference to FIG.

S61. Juan can purchase a voting ticket by issuing a ticket.

S62. At the end of the race, the hits and hits of the voting tickets purchased are determined.

S63. A refund corresponding to the final odds will be refunded for the hit ticket. At this time, the hit ticket is collected by the payout machine and does not become garbage.

S64. However, Juan discards unsatisfied tickets (hereinafter referred to as “missing tickets”).

[0008]

As described above, in the current totalizer system, the time during which a voting ticket can be purchased can be purchased at any time from the start to the end of the sale, and even if it is bought early or late. In other words, no matter where you purchase, the refunds for hit tickets are the same.

[0009] In such a current system, a betting ticket purchaser attempts to purchase at a stage as close to the final odds as possible. In other words, it is considered that Juan's majority psychology appears when the voting ticket is purchased in the state near the final deadline, and the reliability of winning horse voting is increased.

[0010] When operated by this method, Juan floods the vending machine immediately before the end of the release of the betting ticket, so it is necessary to increase the number of vending machines installed in order to prevent service degradation. In order to prevent the prospective buyer from being unable to purchase, the number of the installations becomes very large, the capital investment becomes enormous, and Juan is troubled.

[0011] In addition, hitherto, the missing ticket has been garbage. Most of the garbage is not thrown away in a trash can, but is thrown away at stadiums and voting ticket offices, and cleaning requires extra capital investment and labor costs.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a time-segmented voting apparatus in which such problems are improved.

[0013]

The principle of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.

[0014] As shown in FIG. 1 (B), and the launch time of the voting ticket of a certain race and Ts, when the end time and T _0, divided this time period T ₀ ~Ts, for example, into four periods,
The first period Ts~T _3, T ₃ ~T ₂ of the second period, T ₂ ~T
₁ is the third period, and T _{1 to} T ₀ are the last period. And as shown in FIG. 1 (A), when the voting ticket to Juan in the first period was purchased was hit, pay a refund equivalent to the odds (of the first period odds) at time T _3, a vote that was purchased in the second period when the ticket has been hit, we pay a refund equivalent to the odds (referred to as a second period odds) at time T _2,
When the voting ticket purchased in the third period was hit, pay a refund equivalent to the odds (referred to as a third period odds) at time T _3, voting ticket purchased in the final period corresponds to the final odds when you hit Pay the refund.

If the betting ticket becomes a missing ticket, the point P ₃ is given to the betting ticket purchased during the initial period, the point P ₂ is given to the betting ticket purchased during the second period, the point P ₁ for voting ticket purchased during the period, the point P ₀ for voting ticket purchased in the final period, regardless of the amount of the voting ticket, be given to each one. However, this point is effective when used at the same time as the ticket purchase application card when you buy a voting ticket, the value of the point is a _{P 3> P 2> P 1} > P 0, depending on the total amount of points This can be used for part or all of the voting ticket purchase price.

For example, if P ₃ is 15 points (Pt), P ₂
12 points, 8 points to the P _1, the P ₀ and 5 points, when converted to the 1 yen per point, it is possible to buy one of 100 yen voting ticket at 10 voucher off on average.

The object of the present invention is to provide the following (1) and (2)
Can be achieved.

(1) odds calculating means for dividing a voting ticket purchase period into a plurality of time zones and calculating odds for each time zone;
A center provided with a sending means for sending out the odds for each calculated time slot to a voting ticket sales office, and a time slot in which the outgoing voting ticket is purchased with respect to the outgoing voting ticket inserted at the time of application for voting ticket purchase. Point calculating means for calculating a point corresponding to the total amount of the points, and whether or not the amount calculated by the point calculating means matches the amount required for the betting ticket purchase And a calculating means for calculating the shortage when it is short, a voting ticket vending machine equipped with a notifying means for notifying the shortage, a display means for displaying odds sent from the center, A time slot division voting apparatus, comprising: a voting ticket handling office provided with a payout machine for paying out a hit ticket based on odds calculated for each time slot sent from a center.

(2) The time zone division voting apparatus according to the above (1), wherein the points are smaller for a betting ticket purchased in a time zone near the end of purchasing the betting ticket.

As a result, the following functions and effects can be obtained.

(1) In the case of early purchase, the refund may be higher than the final odds, so that early purchase is easily performed, congestion of voting ticket purchase is eased, and the number of voting ticket vending machines installed is reduced. it can. In addition, points are given to missing voting tickets, the amount corresponding to these points is calculated, and this amount can be used for part or all of the voting ticket purchase price, so the missing tickets are effective for purchasing voting tickets Since it can be used, it will not be collected after the end of the race, and the number of out-of-office tickets discarded by the user will be greatly reduced, not only to maintain the beauty of the surroundings such as the stadium, but also to greatly reduce the cleaning cost Can save money.

(2) Since the points are set to be smaller as the voting ticket is released closer to the end of the sale, the user purchases the voting ticket sooner, and the concentration of the voting ticket purchase immediately before the end is greatly eased. Therefore, it is not necessary to increase the number of voting ticket vending machines to reduce the concentration.

[0023]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS One embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 2 is a diagram illustrating the configuration of a center according to the present invention, FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating the configuration of a betting ticket vending machine according to the present invention, FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating the operation of the betting ticket vending machine according to the present invention, and FIG. It is a point operation | movement explanatory drawing of a missing ticket in a sale machine.

In the figure, 1 is a center, 2 is a CPU, 3 is a main memory, 4 is an input control unit, 5 is a display unit, 6 is a file, 7
Is a timer, 8 is a matching table by period, 11 is an odds calculating unit, 12 is a term output unit, 13 is an odds holding unit for the initial period, 1
4 is a second period odds holding unit, 15 is a third period odds holding unit, 16 is a last odds holding unit, 17 is an output control unit, 20
−0 to 20-n are voting ticket offices, 21 is a display device, 22
Is a hit ticket refund machine, 23 is a voting ticket vending machine, 31 is an application card insertion section, 32 is a missing ticket insertion section, 33 is a bill insertion section, 3
4 is a coin insertion unit, 35 is a timer, 36 is a time entry unit, 37 is a CPU, 38 is main memory, 39 is a display unit, 40
Is a file and 41 is a betting ticket.

The center 1 processes various data of a race held at a racetrack. For example, the center 1 creates odds for each race based on release data of a betting ticket transmitted from each betting ticket handling office, and To each betting ticket office, or to hold the initial period odds, the second period odds, the third period odds, and the final odds for each race, and send them to each betting ticket office immediately after the end of the race. It is. In order to perform such processing, the center 1 uses the CP
A data processing device having a U2, a main memory 3, an input control device 4, a display unit 5, a file 6, an output control unit 7, and the like is provided.

The CPU 2 calculates the odds of each race based on the release data of the voting ticket of each race, the initial period odds of each race, the odds of the second period, the odds of the third period,
The one that retains the last odds, creates a periodical collation table 8 indicating whether the release time of the voting ticket corresponds to any of the initial period to the final period according to the release time zone of the voting ticket, and sends out these. It is. For this reason, the odds calculation unit 11,
It has a term output unit 12, an initial period odds holding unit 13, a second period odds holding unit 14, a third period odds holding unit 15, a final odds holding unit 16, an output control unit 17, and the like.

The main memory 3 temporarily stores programs and data for the CPU 2 to perform calculations.

The input control unit 4 inputs release data for each race of betting tickets transmitted from the betting ticket handling offices 20-0 to 20-n for calculating odds, and inputs odds,
Period odds determination time T ₃ for each race necessary to determine odds for the second period, third period, and final odds.
Through T ₁ or in which or enter the time T ₀ near the deadline signal.

The display unit 5 instructs the operator to input data necessary for the arithmetic processing of the CPU 2 and displays the state of the arithmetic operation to the operator.

The file 6 holds programs and data necessary for the operation of the CPU 2 and holds initial to final odds for each race.

The odds calculator 11 calculates the odds calculator 20-
The odds of each race are calculated based on the betting ticket release data for each race transmitted from 0 to 20-n.

The time limit output unit 12 determines the period odds determination times T _{3 to} T ₁ and time T _{0 for} each race, as shown in FIG.
The nearby deadline signal is notified to the initial period odds holding unit 13, the second period odds holding unit 14, the third period odds holding unit 15, the last odds holding unit 16, and the like.

The initial period odds holding unit 13 holds the odds at the time T ₃ shown in FIG. 1B, that is, the initial period odds, and outputs the time T output from the time limit output unit 12.
_{When the value 3} and the time output from the timer 7 match, the odds transmitted from the odds calculator 11 are held. The odds during the initial period are given a date and a race number, and are stored in the file 6.

In the second period, the odds holding unit 14 operates as shown in FIG.
Hold the odds of the time T ₂ , that is, the odds of the second period, and output the time T output from the time limit output unit 12.
_{When 2} and the time output from timer 7 match,
It holds the odds transmitted from the odds calculator 11. The odds of the second period are given a date and a race number, and are stored in the file 6.

In the third period, the odds holding unit 15 is connected to the odds holding unit 15 shown in FIG.
Hold the odds of the time T ₁ , that is, the odds of the third period, and output the time T ₁ output from the time limit output unit 12.
_{When 1} matches the time output from timer 7,
It holds the odds transmitted from the odds calculator 11. The odds of the third period are given a date and a race name, and are stored in the file 6.

The last odds holding section 16 holds the last odds shown in FIG. 1 (B). When the deadline signal accompanying the start of the racehorse transmitted from the time limit output section 12 is sent out, the odds holding section 16 holds the odds. The odds transmitted from the calculation unit 11 are held. The final odds are given a date and a race number, and are stored in the file 6. Since the odds between the deadline and the scheduled start time are almost equal, the time T ₀ shown in FIG. 1B, that is, the scheduled start time T _0.
May be held and stored as final odds.

The output control unit 17 reads the initial period odds, the second period odds, the third period odds, and the final odds held in the file 6 immediately after the deadline signal is transmitted, and processes them for voting ticket handling. 20-20 to 20-n. The betting ticket handling office holds this in a file and checks it when paying out the hit ticket.

The voting ticket offices 20-0 to 20-n release voting tickets or refund hit tickets, and the voting ticket offices 20-0 to 20-n have the same configuration. Therefore, the betting ticket handling office 20-0 will be representatively described.

A display device 21 is provided at the betting ticket handling office 20-0.
A voting ticket refund machine 22, a voting ticket vending machine 23 and the like are provided. Usually, a plurality of these are installed instead of one.

The display device 21 displays the odds of each race, and can print the odds according to Juan's request.

The betting ticket refund machine 22 is used to pay back a hit voting ticket when the fan inserts the hit voting ticket. It is determined that the inserted voting ticket is a hit ticket by referring to the hit ticket identification table for the date, race number, type, voting number, etc., and a refund is made. At this time, according to the present invention, as described later, based on the date printed on the betting ticket, the race number, and the purchase time, whether the ticket was purchased during the initial period, the one purchased during the second period, the third
A refund based on any of the initial period odds, the second period odds, the third period odds, and the final odds is determined in accordance with whether the purchase was made during the period or the first period. Done.

In the betting ticket vending machine 23, Juan fills in an application card and purchases a betting ticket. At this time, in the present invention, as will be described later, by using the missing ticket, points are given according to the period of purchase of the missing ticket, this point is converted into a monetary amount and used for the voting ticket purchase amount. Is what you can do.

As shown in FIG. 3, the voting ticket vending machine 23 includes an application card input unit 31, a missing ticket input unit 32, and a bill input unit 3.
3, a coin insertion unit 34, a timer 35, a purchase time entry unit 36, a CPU 37, a main memory 38, a display unit 39, and the like.

In order for Juan to purchase a voting ticket, the application card input section 31 executes the race name, identification (win, win, frame number streak, horse number streak, wide, etc.), number, and amount of the betting ticket to be purchased. And so on.

The missed ticket input unit 32 is used by Juan to insert a missed ticket when purchasing a voting ticket.

The bill insertion section 33 is for inserting a bill used by Juan when purchasing a voting ticket.

The coin insertion section 34 is for inserting coins used by Juan when purchasing a voting ticket.

The time entry section 36 is for entering the release time of the released voting ticket in addition to the conventional voting data such as date, race number, identification and number. FIG.
(B) shows an example of the voting ticket released. This voting ticket 40
On the fourth day of the 2000 ABC Racecourse (June 2
This indicates that the player has purchased 1,000 yen of the winning voting ticket of the 9th horse in the sixth race on the 4th) and that the purchase time was 11:40.

The CPU 37 reads the data entered in the application card, calculates the total amount of the betting ticket purchased by Juan, and checks the bills inserted from the bill insertion unit 33 and the coin insertion unit 34, the authenticity of coins, and the like. The amount is determined, the total amount of the inserted amount is calculated, the point total of the out-of-off ticket inserted from the out-of-offline input unit 32 and the amount thereof are converted, and the total amount of the betting ticket to be purchased is displayed on the display unit 39. To control the voting ticket vending machine 23, such as display processing of the total amount of loose tickets inserted from the loose ticket input unit 32 and display of the amount of inserted bills. It performs processing such as reading data from the file 40 and storing data sent from the center, for example, the periodical collation table 8 in the file 40.

The main memory 38 holds data necessary for the operation of the CPU 37 and secures a work area required for the operation of the CPU 37.

The display unit 39 displays the purchase amount of the voting ticket read from the application card filled in by Juan, displays the total amount of bills and coins, displays the amount corresponding to the total points of the missing ticket, Display the amount of money required by Juan to purchase the voting ticket on the application card,
A display necessary for purchasing a voting ticket, such as instructing a purchase operation, is performed.

Next, the operation of the betting ticket vending machine of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.
This will be described with reference to FIG.

When the voting ticket vending machine is powered on and put into an operating state, the center 1 starts the voting ticket vending ticket valid period (for example, 60 days after the end of the race).
The time T ₃ indicating the end of the initial period, the time T ₂ indicating the end of the second period, the time T ₁ indicating the end of the third period, and the like are transmitted, and the CPU 37 stores these in the file 40.

S1. In the voting ticket vending machine 23, an application card for purchasing a voting ticket from Juan is sent to an application card input section 31.
Wait until it is put in.

S2. When the application card is inserted, C
The PU 37 determines whether or not a missing ticket has been inserted into the missing ticket input unit 32.

S3. If a missing ticket has not been inserted into the missing ticket insertion unit 32, the CPU 37 determines whether or not money has been inserted into the bill insertion unit 33 or the coin insertion unit 34. If neither the missing ticket nor the money has been inserted, the process waits for a certain period of time. And if money has been inserted, CP
U37 determines the authenticity and the amount of the inserted money, and calculates the amount of the true money.

S4. By the way, in S2, if a missing ticket has been inserted, the CPU 37 performs the operation shown in FIG. 5 described later to calculate the points of the missing ticket.

S5. The CPU 37 converts the points of the lost ticket into a monetary amount based on a predetermined rate, for example, one point per yen.

S6. Then, the CPU 37 obtains the sum of the inserted money amount calculated in S3 and the converted amount based on the points converted in S5. Then, it is determined whether or not this sum matches the purchase amount of the voting ticket entered in the application card inserted in S1.

S7. If they do not match, the CPU 37 displays the shortage on the display unit 39 and requests the fan to input the shortage.

S8. If Juan sees this, he does not release the voting ticket unless he inserts the insufficient amount of money and ends.
At this time, the money and the loose ticket inserted so far are returned to Juan. However, if Juan inserts money, the S
Returning to step 6, it is determined whether or not the application amount matches.

S9. If the sum of the voting tickets and the sum of the voting tickets match, the ticket issuing process of the applied voting ticket is performed. Of course, this voting ticket includes a voting ticket 41 shown in FIG.
, The release time is recorded. In this way, the operation of issuing the betting ticket ends.

Next, a description will be given of the operation of calculating the point of a missing ticket in S4 with reference to FIG.

S11. The vacant ticket inserted into the vacant ticket input unit 32 has a voting ticket decoding unit (not shown) provided in the vacant ticket input unit 32, and the name of the racetrack to which the ticket has been issued,
Read signals such as date, time, race number, etc. are transmitted to the CPU 37, and the CPU 37 identifies them. Then, it is determined whether or not the ticket is within the validity period.

S12. Then, the CPU 37 refers to the periodical collation table 8 entered in the main memory 38 from the file 40, determines the period from the purchase time of the betting ticket based on the racetrack name, date, and race number, for example, the second period. Is determined.

S13. The CPU 37 is shown in FIG.
As mentioned above, the voting ticket purchase is P _ThreePoint, 2nd term
P between_TwoPoint, P in the third period₁Point, last
Period is P₀Points are given
Is recognized by the program.
Point P for ticket_TwoIs given.

S14_.The CPU 37 is responsible for
P_TwoIs added to the points of the other missing tickets, but one
Since the eyes have no other missing tickets, they are added to 0, and eventually 0 + P_Two
= P _TwoIs stored.

S15. The CPU 37 recognizes that the second missing ticket is in the missing ticket input unit 32, receives the data of the second missing ticket, and similarly determines as a result that the data is purchased in the third period. The point is P
_Since it is ₁ , (P ₂ + P ₁ ) is stored. In this way, when the point calculation operation is completed for all the missing tickets in the missing ticket input unit 32, the total point value Ps of the points of each missing ticket is obtained.

This point value Ps is converted into a monetary amount in S5 and used for purchasing a voting ticket.

In S6, even if there is a surplus in the converted amount, if the converted amount is less than the total amount of the missing tickets, the missing tickets are collected as they are and are not returned.

According to the present invention, the voting ticket release period is divided into a plurality of periods, and the odds to be changed in real time are used as the refund amount using the odds of the end time of each period. At the same time, preferential services for early tickets are added to early buyers. For a hit ticket, using the odds of the end time of each period as a refund may result in a higher refund than using the final odds, resulting in early purchase of voting tickets. Become.

In the above description, an example was described in which the release period was divided into four. However, the present invention is of course not limited to this, and the points exemplified for each period are not limited to this. Of course, it is not limited to conversion to 1 point = 1 yen.

In the case of starting in the morning, T _{1 is set} to 5 minutes before the start time (scheduled time) T ₀ , T _{2 is set} to 10 minutes before, and T ₃ is set to T _3.
The set 30 minutes before, in the case of 3:30 pm Hasso performed the main race of the day, the T ₁ to 20 minutes prior to T _0,
The T ₂ to 1 hour before, can be defined T ₃ 2 hours before, they are also merely one example, but is not limited thereto.

In the above description, an example is described in which a lost ticket is not returned even if there is a surplus in the converted amount, but the present invention can also return this.

In the above description, an example of a horse race has been described. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and can be applied to a bicycle race and other sports.

[0076]

According to the present invention, the following effects can be obtained.

(1) In the case of early purchase, refunds may be higher than the final odds, so that early purchase is facilitated, congestion of voting ticket purchase is eased, and the number of voting ticket vending machines installed is reduced. it can. In addition, points are given to missing voting tickets, the amount corresponding to these points is calculated, and this amount can be used for part or all of the voting ticket purchase price, so the missing tickets are effective for purchasing voting tickets Since it can be used, it will not be collected after the end of the race, and the number of out-of-office tickets discarded by the user will be greatly reduced, not only to maintain the beauty of the surroundings such as the stadium, but also to greatly reduce the cleaning cost Can save money.

(2) Since the points are set to be smaller as the voting ticket is released closer to the end of the sale, the user purchases the voting ticket sooner, and the concentration of the voting ticket purchase immediately before the end is greatly eased. Therefore, it is not necessary to increase the number of voting ticket vending machines to reduce the concentration.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating the principle of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram of a center in the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating the configuration of a betting ticket vending machine according to the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating the operation of the betting ticket vending machine according to the present invention.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram of a point calculation operation of a lost ticket of the betting ticket vending machine in the present invention.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory view of a conventional example.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Center 2 CPU 3 Main memory 4 Input control unit 5 Display unit 6 File 7 Timer 8 Periodical collation table 11 Odds calculation unit 12 Deadline output unit 13 Initial period odds holding unit 14 Second period odds holding unit 15 Third period odds holding Unit 16 Last odds holding unit 17 Output control unit 20-0 to 20-n Voting ticket handling unit 21 Display device 22 Hit ticket refund machine 23 Voting ticket vending machine

Claims (2)

[Claims] [Claim 1] The betting ticket purchase period is divided into a plurality of time zones,
A center equipped with an odds calculating means for calculating odds for each time zone, a sending means for sending out the calculated odds for each time zone to a voting ticket office, and a voting ticket inserted at the time of application for voting ticket purchase A point calculating means for calculating a point corresponding to a time slot in which the off-voting ticket is purchased, and converting an amount corresponding to a total amount of the points; an amount calculated by the point calculating means; Calculating means for comparing whether or not the amount required for voting ticket purchase is the same, and calculating the deficiency if the deficiency is insufficient; and a voting ticket vending machine having a notifying means for notifying the deficiency, Display means for displaying the odds sent from the center, and a voting ticket office equipped with a refund machine for paying out the hit ticket based on the odds calculated for each time zone sent from the center. did Time zone division voting scheme, wherein the door. 2. The time zone division voting method according to claim 1, wherein the points are smaller for a voting ticket purchased in a time zone near the end of the voting ticket purchase.