JP2008021106A - Apparatus and method for processing information, and program - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress morbid dependence on pachinko or a pachinko slot game. <P>SOLUTION: A biological information recognition apparatus 21 judges that a face image which is a face image of an image photographed with a camera 38 and supplied from an image processing unit 39 is registered in a biological information DB in which face image of game-restricted persons are registered. Moreover, a game restriction information management apparatus 17 determines that game restriction information of the corresponding player is registered in a game restriction information DB 18 and that conditions registered in the game restriction information are satisfied, the game restriction information management apparatus 17 transmits information that the player presently visits a game saloon 1 while a game is restricted in the game restriction information to a cellular phone 15 carried by the player registered as a game-restricted person. This invention can be applied to a game restriction monitoring system. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus and method, and a program, and more particularly, to an information processing apparatus and method, and a program that can restrict a game by a game stand according to conditions.

  In recent years, the term pachinko / pachislot addiction has come to be heard. This is because the player himself understands that the game should be played with moderation, but he cannot suppress the urge to play the game on a game machine representing such things as pachinko and pachislot, By continuing the game, you will run out of your money, or you will be absent from work you have to engage in, resulting in problems in daily life. is there.

  Therefore, by specifying players using media such as membership cards and visitor cards, the amount of each player's game is counted individually, and the player is notified when the amount exceeds the specified amount. There has been proposed one that encourages players to play games (see Patent Document 1).

JP-A-10-127906

  However, in the configuration as described above, there is a possibility that a medium such as a membership card may not be used, and there is a case where the person cannot be specified. In addition, even if you do not waste money, you will continue to play for a long time because you will continue to play a lot on the game stand, resulting in problems in daily life. There was a thing that came.

  The present invention has been made in view of such a situation, and among the players who visit the game store, the pachinko / pachinko- It is intended to suppress the urge to play in pachislot addiction.

  An information processing apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention includes a face image accumulating unit that accumulates a face image of a registrant registered in advance, and a restriction that accumulates a restriction condition including at least a time zone for each of the registrants registered in advance. Similarity between the condition storage means, the acquisition means for acquiring the face image of the person to be verified, the face image of the person to be verified acquired by the acquisition means, and the face image of the registrant stored in the face image storage means It is determined whether or not the face image of the person to be collated is a face image of the registrant by comparing a matching unit for calculating and collating the degree of similarity as a comparison result of the matching unit with a predetermined threshold value. The similarity determination means, the restriction condition determination means for determining whether or not the restriction condition is satisfied, and the similarity determination means that the person to be collated is determined to be the registrant, and the restriction condition determination Meet the limit conditions by means If it is determined that the collation object person is a the registrant, and, and a transmitting means for transmitting information indicating that it meets the limiting condition.

  Image capturing means for capturing an image, face image extracting means for extracting the face image of the person to be collated from the image captured by the image capturing means, and feature amount extraction for extracting a feature amount from the face image of the person to be collated And the collation means uses the feature amount of the face image of the person to be collated acquired by the acquisition means and the face image of the registrant accumulated in the face image accumulation means. The face image of the person to be collated acquired by the obtaining unit and the face image of the registrant accumulated in the face image accumulating unit can be collated.

  The similarity determination based on payout instructing means for instructing payout of game media used in the game stand by accepting payment near the game stand, and the face image of the person to be collated acquired in the vicinity of the game stand When it is determined by the means that the person to be verified is the registrant and the restriction condition determination means determines that the restriction condition is satisfied, the receipt of the deposit is prohibited, and the game medium by the payout instruction means It is possible to further include a deposit acceptance prohibition notification means for notifying that the payout instruction is not issued.

  In the gaming machine, the collation target person is the registrant by the similarity determination means based on launching means for launching a game medium and the face image of the collation target person acquired in the vicinity of the gaming machine. And a firing prohibition notification means for notifying the launching means to prohibit the launch of the game medium when it is judged and the restriction condition judgment means judges that the restriction condition is satisfied. be able to.

  Based on the payout instruction means for instructing the payout of the game medium to be used on the game table, and the face image of the person to be verified acquired in the vicinity of the game table, the comparison target person is registered by the similarity determination means. A game medium to be paid out by the jackpot when it is determined by the operating condition determining means that the jackpot is being hit when the limit condition judging means determines that the limit condition is met. The payout control means for controlling the payout instructing means may be further included so as to instruct the payout.

  An information processing method according to an aspect of the present invention includes a face image accumulation step of accumulating a face image of a registrant registered in advance, and a restriction for accumulating a restriction condition including at least a time zone for each of the registrants registered in advance. A condition accumulation step, an acquisition step of acquiring a face image of the person to be collated, a face image of the person to be collated obtained by the process of the acquisition step, and a face of the registrant accumulated by the process of the face image accumulation step The face image of the person to be collated is the face image of the registrant by comparing the matching step for calculating and comparing the similarity with the image, and the similarity that is the matching result in the processing of the matching step and a predetermined threshold value. The degree of similarity determination step for determining whether or not the restriction target condition is satisfied, the restriction condition determination step for determining whether or not the restriction condition is satisfied, and the process of the similarity determination step allow the person to be collated to be registered. And it is determined that the restriction condition is satisfied by the process of the restriction condition determination step, the verification target person is the registrant and satisfies the restriction condition. A transmission step of transmitting the information to be indicated.

  A program according to one aspect of the present invention includes a face image accumulation step of accumulating a face image of a registrant registered in advance, and a restriction condition storage for accumulating a restriction condition including at least a time zone for each of the registrants registered in advance. A step of acquiring a face image of the person to be collated, a face image of the person to be collated obtained by the process of the obtaining step, and a face image of the registrant accumulated by the process of the face image accumulating step The face image of the person to be collated is the face image of the registrant by comparing the matching step for calculating and comparing the similarity and the similarity that is the matching result in the processing of the matching step with a predetermined threshold value. The similarity determination step for determining whether or not the restriction target determination step for determining whether or not the restriction condition is satisfied, and the person to be collated are the registrant by the processing of the similarity determination step. If it is determined that the restriction condition is satisfied by the process of the restriction condition determination step, it indicates that the person to be collated is the registrant and satisfies the restriction condition. Causing the computer to execute a process including a transmission step of transmitting information.

  In the information processing apparatus, method, and program according to one aspect of the present invention, face images of registrants registered in advance are accumulated, and a restriction condition including at least a time zone is accumulated for each registrant registered in advance. The face image of the person to be collated is acquired, the similarity between the acquired face image of the person to be collated and the accumulated face image of the registrant is calculated, collated, By comparing with a threshold value, it is determined whether or not the face image of the person to be collated is a face image of the registrant, whether or not the restriction condition is satisfied, and the person to be collated is the registrant. And when it is determined that the restriction condition is satisfied, information indicating that the person to be collated is the registrant and satisfies the restriction condition is transmitted.

  In the information processing apparatus of the present invention, the face image storage means for storing the face image of the registrant registered in advance is, for example, a biometric information DB, and includes at least a time zone for each registrant registered in advance. The restriction condition storage means for storing the restriction conditions is, for example, a game restriction information DB, and the acquisition means for acquiring the face image of the person to be collated is, for example, a face image acquisition unit, which is acquired by the acquisition means. The collation means for calculating and collating the similarity between the face image of the person to be collated and the face image of the registrant stored in the face image accumulating means is, for example, a similarity calculating unit, and the collating means Similarity determination means for determining whether or not the face image of the person to be collated is a face image of the registrant by comparing the similarity that is the collation result with a predetermined threshold is, for example, a similarity determination unit Whether or not the above restriction condition is satisfied The restriction condition determination means for determining is, for example, a game restriction person determination unit, wherein the similarity determination means determines that the person to be collated is the registrant, and the restriction condition determination means determines the restriction condition. When it is determined that the verification target is satisfied, the transmission unit that transmits information indicating that the verification target person is the registrant and satisfies the restriction condition is, for example, a mail generation / transmission unit.

  That is, the similarity determination unit calculates the similarity between the acquired face image of the person to be collated and the accumulated face image of the registrant, collates, and compares the similarity as a collation result with a predetermined threshold value. In this comparison, it is determined whether or not the face image of the person to be collated is the face image of the registrant, and the game limiter determination unit determines whether or not the limit condition is satisfied. When the similarity determination unit determines that the similarity is higher than a predetermined threshold, the person to be verified is a registrant, and the game limiter determination unit determines that the restriction condition is satisfied, mail The generation / transmission unit transmits information indicating that the person to be verified is the registrant and satisfies the restriction condition.

  As a result, the player registers the face image as a registrant in advance, and by registering the restriction conditions for playing the game, the registrant and the face image are compared as a verification target person by entering the store. And whether or not the verification target person is a registrant and whether or not the restriction condition is satisfied by comparing the current time with the current time. When the conditions are met, a restriction condition that restricts the game set by the visitor for the player who entered the store, for example, it is not the time zone where the game is restricted or exceeds the maximum amount allowed The person's mobile phone is notified.

  As a result, when the player visits the store, he / she sets the time zone and the maximum amount of money that can be played by the game stand, and the current time is within the set time zone, or Since it is possible to be aware that there is no, it is possible to forcibly disable the game if necessary, as well as raising the consciousness to suppress the urge to play on the game stand by itself It becomes possible to suppress pachinko / pachislot addiction.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to forcibly stop a game as necessary, while urging the user to suppress the urge to play a game on the game table.

  Embodiments of the present invention will be described below. Correspondences between the configuration requirements of the present invention and the embodiments described in the detailed description of the present invention are exemplified as follows. This description is to confirm that the embodiments supporting the present invention are described in the detailed description of the invention. Accordingly, although there are embodiments that are described in the detailed description of the invention but are not described here as embodiments corresponding to the constituent elements of the present invention, It does not mean that the embodiment does not correspond to the configuration requirements. Conversely, even if an embodiment is described here as corresponding to a configuration requirement, that means that the embodiment does not correspond to a configuration requirement other than the configuration requirement. It's not something to do.

  That is, an information processing apparatus according to one aspect of the present invention includes a face image storage unit (for example, the biometric information DB 22 in FIG. 10) that stores a pre-registered registrant's face image, and a pre-registered registrant. Limiting condition accumulation means for accumulating restriction conditions including at least a time zone (for example, the game restriction information DB 18 in FIG. 12) and acquisition means for acquiring a face image of the person to be collated (for example, the face image acquisition unit 221 in FIG. 10). ) And a collation unit (for example, FIG. 10) that calculates and collates the similarity between the face image of the person to be collated acquired by the acquisition unit and the face image of the registrant accumulated in the face image accumulation unit. The similarity calculating unit 232) and a similarity for determining whether or not the face image of the person to be collated is a face image of the registrant by comparing the similarity that is the collation result of the collation unit with a predetermined threshold value. Determination means (for example, similar to FIG. 10 Degree determination unit 233), restriction condition determination means for determining whether or not the restriction condition is satisfied (for example, the game limiter determination part 302 in FIG. 12), and the similarity determination means allow the person to be verified to be registered. When it is determined that the restriction condition is satisfied by the restriction condition determination means, the verification target person is the registrant and satisfies the restriction condition. Transmission means for transmitting information (for example, the mail generation / transmission unit 312 in FIG. 12).

  Image capturing means for capturing an image (for example, the camera 38, the entrance camera 40, or the in-store camera 41 in FIG. 1) and a face image extracting means for extracting the face image of the person to be collated from the image captured by the image capturing means. (For example, the face image extraction unit 202 in FIG. 9) and feature amount extraction means (for example, the feature amount extraction unit 231 in FIG. 10) for extracting a feature amount from the face image of the person to be collated. Means (for example, the similarity calculation unit 232 in FIG. 10) include the feature amounts of the face image of the person to be collated acquired by the acquisition unit and the face image of the registrant stored in the face image storage unit. The degree of similarity can be calculated by using the face image of the person to be collated acquired by the obtaining unit and the face image of the registrant stored in the face image accumulating unit.

  A payout instructing unit (for example, a payout unit 37c in FIG. 14) for instructing payout of a game medium to be used in the game stand by accepting the payment in the vicinity of the game stand, and the verification target person acquired near the game stand. Based on a face image, when the similarity determination unit determines that the person to be collated is the registrant and the limitation condition determination unit determines that the restriction condition is satisfied, accepts the deposit. A deposit acceptance prohibition notifying unit (for example, a deposit prohibition notifying unit 304 in FIG. 12) for prohibiting and not issuing an instruction to pay out game media by the payout unit may be further included.

  In the game table, the similarity determination unit determines whether the similarity is determined based on a launch unit that launches a game medium (for example, the launch unit 36b in FIG. 15) and a face image of the person to be collated acquired in the vicinity of the game table. Launch prohibition for notifying launching of the game medium by the launching means when it is determined that the person to be verified is the registrant and the restriction condition judging means judges that the restriction condition is satisfied Notification means (for example, the launch prohibition notification unit 307 in FIG. 12) can be further included.

  Based on the payout instructing means (for example, the payout unit 37c in FIG. 14) for instructing payout of the game medium used in the game table, and the face image of the person to be collated acquired in the vicinity of the game table, the similarity degree When it is determined by the determination means that the person to be collated is the registrant, and when it is determined by the restriction condition determination means that the restriction condition is satisfied, it is determined that the operation state determination means is a big hit At this time, a payout control means for controlling the payout instructing means (for example, the guaranteed ball payout control unit 306 in FIG. 12) may be further included so as to instruct payout of the game medium to be paid out by the jackpot. it can.

  An information processing method according to one aspect of the present invention includes a face image accumulation step (for example, step S55 in FIG. 19) for accumulating face images of registrants registered in advance, and at least a time for each registrant registered in advance. Restriction condition accumulation step for accumulating restriction conditions including bands (for example, step S37 in FIG. 19), acquisition step for acquiring the face image of the person to be verified (for example, step S122 in FIG. 23), and processing of the acquisition step A collation step (for example, step S125 in FIG. 23) for calculating and collating the degree of similarity between the face image of the person to be collated acquired by the above and the face image of the registrant accumulated by the processing of the face image accumulation step; , It is determined whether or not the face image of the person to be collated is a face image of the registrant by comparing the similarity as the collation result in the process of the collation step with a predetermined threshold value. The similarity determination step (for example, step S126 in FIG. 23), the restriction condition determination step (for example, step S145 in FIG. 23) for determining whether or not the restriction condition is satisfied, and the similarity determination step perform the process. When it is determined that the person to be verified is the registrant and the restriction condition determining step determines that the restriction condition is satisfied, the person to be verified is the registrant and the restriction A transmission step of transmitting information indicating that the condition is satisfied (for example, step S147 in FIG. 23).

  FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration of one embodiment of a game store game restriction monitoring system according to the present invention.

  The game stores 1-1 to 1-n are so-called pachinko stores, pachislot stores, or casino stores. These game stores 1-1 to 1-n are affiliated stores or member stores of the biometric information management center, the third party game store management center, and the game restriction information management center, and control a plurality of stores. It is a store that needs to be managed. The game stores 1-1 to 1-n are connected by a biological information management bus 6, a third party game store management bus 7, and a game restriction information management bus 11, and are represented by such buses and the Internet. Biological information, third-party game store management information, and game restriction information are exchanged with each other via the public communication line networks 8, 9, and 10. In the following description, when there is no particular need to distinguish each of the game stores 1-1 to 1-n, the game store 1 is simply referred to, and the other configurations are also referred to in the same manner.

  The biometric information management bus 6 mainly functions as a transmission path for distributing biometric information managed by the biometric information recognition device 21 of each game store 1. The third-party game store management bus 7 functions as a transmission path for distributing medium lending management information managed mainly by the medium lending management device 27 of each amusement store 1. Further, the game restriction information management bus 11 functions as a transmission path for distributing game restriction management information mainly managed by the game restriction information management device 17 of each game store 1.

  The biometric information management center 2 is a server used by a business operator who manages and operates the biometric information management center, and is a registered player DB 262 (hereinafter referred to as DB) 3 managed by a biometric information management database (hereinafter also referred to as DB). 11) is updated based on the unregistered player DB 261 (FIG. 11) generated by each gaming store 1, and the updated latest registered player DB 262 is updated to the biometric information recognition device 21 of each gaming store 1. And deliver.

  The third-party amusement store management center 4 is a server used by a business operator that manages and operates the third-party amusement store management center, and the medium lending management managed by the third-party amusement store management database (DB) 5 In addition to updating the information DB based on the information supplied from each game store 1, the updated latest medium lending management information is distributed to the medium lending management device 27 of each game store 1.

  The game restriction information management center 12 is a server used by a business operator that manages and operates the game restriction information management center. Each game restriction information management database (DB) 13 manages a DB including game restriction management information. The updated latest game restriction information DB 13 is distributed to the game restriction information management device 17 of each game shop 1 while being updated based on the information supplied from the game shop 1. Here, the game restriction information is information for the player to restrict the game on the game table by himself / herself, the time zone for restricting the game on the player's own game table, the game upper limit amount, and himself / herself. This includes information such as the number of the mobile phone possessed by.

  The biometric information recognition apparatus 21 includes image processing units 39-1 to 39 based on images captured by the cameras 38-1 to 38-m, the entrance cameras 40-1 to 40-p, and the in-store cameras 41-1 to 41-q. Based on the face image information extracted by − (m + p + q) and supplied via the biometric information bus 31, the face image registered in the biometric information database 22 is collated. The registered player's visit to the mobile terminal 20 is notified or displayed on the display unit 23 such as a CRT (Cathode Ray Tube) or LCD (Liquid Crystal Display). When the game restriction information is registered by operating the game restriction information registration terminal 16 with respect to the game restriction information management device 17, the biometric information recognition device 21 accesses the biometric information management database 3 and registers it. A face image is registered in the unregistered player DB 261 as an unregistered person in the player DB 262.

  The game store management device 24 is a so-called hall computer, and monitors the operations of the game machines 36-1 to 36-m via the game store management information bus 30. The game store management device 24 determines a predetermined amount according to the monitoring status such as information on the payout of the game table 36 or the payout of medals, the call information of the players on the game tables 36-1 to 36-m, or the occurrence of an error. The execution result is executed, and the execution result is displayed on the display unit 25 such as a CRT or LCD. The game shop management device 24 is supplied with information from the settlement machine 33, the lending machine 34, the counter 35, the game machines 36-1 to 36-m, and the game machine peripheral terminals 37-1 to 37-m. Are managed by the gaming machine management database 26 in association with identification information (for example, gaming machine number) for identifying each. Also, the game store management device 24 controls the launch unit 36b (FIG. 15) of the game medium (game ball) of the game table 36 based on the game restriction information from the game restriction information management device 17 to launch the game medium. The game restriction information management device 17 is supplied with information on the operation state such as the number of remaining rounds of jackpot when the state is controlled to be incapable or cannot be fired.

  The medium lending management device 27 manages the medium lending management information using the medium lending management database 29 based on the information from the payment machine 33, the lending machine 34, and the gaming machine peripheral terminal 37, and also the medium lending management. When the medium lending management information registered in the database 29 is updated, the updated information is sent to the third party amusement store management center 4 via the third party amusement store management bus 7 and the public communication line network 9. Further, the medium lending management device 27 acquires the medium lending management information supplied by the third party amusement store management center 4 via the third party amusement store management bus 7 and the public communication line network 9, and manages the medium lending management. Store in the database 29. Further, the medium lending management device 27 prohibits the payment to the gaming machine peripheral terminal 37 based on the request from the gaming restriction information management device 17, and the gaming machine peripheral terminal 37 instructs the gaming machine 36 to lend gaming media. In accordance with the number of remaining rounds of the jackpot when the game media launching unit 36b in the gaming table 36 is set in a state incapable of launching, the game media to be paid out at the jackpot is paid out. The gaming table peripheral terminal 37 is controlled to instruct the table 36.

  The lending machine 34 lends a number of game media according to the amount when the player accepts a predetermined amount by cash or a prepaid card when playing on the gaming table 36. At this time, the lending machine 34 supplies information on the number of lent gaming media to the medium lending management device 27 together with information such as the accepted cash and the remaining number of prepaid cards. Thereby, the medium lending management device 27 registers information such as the accepted cash and the remaining number of prepaid cards in the medium lending management information database 29.

  The checkout machine 33 sells prepaid cards with a frequency for borrowing a ball. At this time, the checkout machine 33 supplies the frequency of the prepaid card sold and the amount paid to the medium lending management device 27. Further, the settlement vending machine 33 settles and pays out the cash based on the remaining number of prepaid cards or the like. At this time, the checkout machine 33 supplies the remaining number of prepaid cards and the amount of cash refunded to the medium lending management device 27.

  The counter 35 counts the number of game media acquired by the player playing on the game table 36, and outputs the counting result as a magnetic card or a receipt.

  The game machines 36-1 to 36-m execute a game when a predetermined operation is performed by the player, and pay out a game ball or a medal according to a so-called jackpot.

  The gaming machine peripheral terminals 37-1 to 37-m are so-called inter-machines provided corresponding to the gaming machines 36-1 to 36-m, and issue a payout instruction to the gaming machine 36. The game stand 36 lends game media according to the contents. Further, the gaming machine peripheral terminal 37 acquires biological information such as a face image of the player who plays the gaming machine 36 and transmits it to the biological information recognition device 21 together with the gaming machine identification information (game machine number). FIG. 1 shows an example in which cameras 38-1 to 38-m that acquire a player's face image are provided as a function of acquiring biometric information.

  For example, as shown in FIG. 2, the cameras 38-1 to 38-m are arranged below the table display lamps 61-1 to 61-4 provided on the respective upper sides of the game tables 36-1 to 36-4. As shown in FIG. 3, a face image may be taken so that the player can take an image within the reading range δ. Can be used.

  Further, as shown in FIG. 4, the cameras 38-1 to 38-m are provided with convex portions 71-1 to 71-4 on the gaming machine peripheral terminals 37-1 to 37-4, as shown in FIG. As described above, it may be provided so that a player's face image can be captured within the reading range θ.

  Further, for example, as shown in FIG. 6, the cameras 38-1 to 38-m may be provided at the center of the game table 36 (on the board surface of the game table 36) to take an image. That is, by installing the camera 36 in the installation unit 81 of FIG. 6, the player is imaged within the reading range φ as shown in FIG.

  The entrance cameras 40-1 to 40-p and the in-store cameras 41-1 to 41-q are installed at entrances and predetermined places in the store of the amusement store 1, and imaged units 39- (m + 1) to 39- (m + p + q).

  The entrance cameras 40-1 to 40-p and the in-store cameras 41-1 to 41-q are set as shown in FIG. 8, for example. FIG. 8 shows an installation example of the entrance cameras 40-1 to 40-p and the in-store cameras 41-1 to 41-q in the game store 1.

  That is, in FIG. 8, entrances 112-1 to 112-3 are provided, and the entrance cameras 40-1 to 40-3 image players who enter the store from each entrance and exit 112. Further, the in-store cameras 41-1 to 41-10 are set at positions at which both surfaces of the island facilities 111-1 to 111-5 can be imaged in a row. The island facilities 111 are provided with game machines 36 on both sides, that is, so as to sandwich the island facilities 111 in the vertical direction in the figure. Since the camera 38, the entrance camera 40, and the in-store camera 41 all have a pan / tilt / zoom function, the in-store cameras 41-1 to 41-10 are arranged as shown in FIG. All players who play at 36 can take an image with any of the in-store cameras 41-1 to 41-10.

  Furthermore, the in-store camera 41-a is provided in front of the lending machine 34, the in-store camera 41-b is provided in front of the checkout machine 33, and the in-store camera 41-c is the counter of the counter 35. It is provided in front, and a player who uses the rental machine 34, the checkout machine 33, and the counter 35 can be imaged.

  That is, as shown in FIG. 8, in the game store 1, a player who visits the store, a player who plays on the game stand 36, and a player who uses the lending machine 34, the checkout machine 33, and the counter 35. The camera 38, the entrance camera 40, and the in-store camera 41 are installed so that almost all of the actions that the player is supposed to take in the gaming store 1 can be monitored.

  Next, a configuration example of the image processing unit 39 will be described with reference to FIG.

  The image acquisition unit 201 acquires an image captured by the camera 38 (or the entrance camera 40 or the in-store camera 41) and supplies it to the face image extraction unit 202. The face image extraction unit 202 extracts a rectangular image composed of a face image from the image supplied from the image acquisition unit 201 using a pattern such as the arrangement of the parts constituting the face, and supplies the rectangular image to the transmission unit 203. The transmission unit 203 transmits the face image to the biometric information recognition device 21.

  Next, a configuration example of the biological information recognition device 21 will be described with reference to FIG.

  The face image acquisition unit 221 acquires the face image supplied from the image processing unit 39 and supplies it to the collation unit 222. The collation unit 222 collates the face image acquired by the face image acquisition unit 221 with the face image of a registered player registered in advance as a game-restricted player in the biometric information DB 22, and determines the candidate with the highest similarity. If the face image is equal to or greater than the threshold value, a signal indicating that the registered player has been detected is supplied to the registrant detection information notification unit 228 and the communication unit 224.

  More specifically, the feature amount extraction unit 231 of the matching unit 222 extracts a feature amount for identifying a face image, and supplies the feature amount together with the face image to the similarity calculation unit 232. The similarity calculation unit 232 extracts feature values of face images of registered registered players (including face images registered as game limiters) and is supplied from the feature value extraction unit 231. Using the feature amount, the similarity with the face images of all registered players registered in the biometric information DB 22 is obtained, and the face image supplied from the face image acquisition unit 221 and the similarity are the top three. The face image up to the position is supplied to the similarity determination unit 233. More specifically, the similarity calculation unit 232, for example, based on various facial feature amounts such as the ratio between the distance between the eyes, the distance from the chin to the forehead, and the length from the chin to the nose, Each difference sum, average ratio, or ratio sum is obtained as the similarity.

  The similarity determination unit 233 compares the similarity between the face image with the first similarity supplied from the similarity calculation unit 232 and a predetermined threshold value, and is ranked first based on the comparison result. When the registered face image is similar to the face image supplied from the face image acquisition unit 221 (in the case of similarity indicating that the similarity is higher as the degree of similarity is higher than a predetermined threshold) In the case of similarity indicating lower similarity, the similarity is lower than a predetermined threshold value), and a signal indicating that a registered player has been detected together with the face registration number of the face image Is supplied to the registrant detection information notification unit 228 and the communication unit 224. In addition, the similarity determination unit 233 compares the similarity between the face image ranked first and a predetermined threshold value, and the registered face image ranked first is compared with the face image acquisition unit 221 based on the comparison result. When the face image supplied is not similar, the face image supplied from the face image acquisition unit 221 is supplied to the unregistered player database registration unit 223.

  The unregistered player database registration unit 223 registers the face image that has been supplied as being unregistered by the matching unit 222 in the unregistered player DB 261 of the biometric information management database 3.

  The registrant detection information notification unit 228 generates registrant detection information together with the face registration number of the detected face image when a signal indicating that the registrant player has been detected is supplied from the verification unit 222. And transmitted to the game restriction information management device 17.

  Based on the registration request from the game restriction information management device 17, the game restrictor registration unit 227 registers the face image of the game restrictor in the biometric information DB 22 and causes the unregistered player DB 261 in the biometric information management DB 3 to register it. sign up. More specifically, the game limiter registration unit 227 includes a feature amount extraction unit 241, a similarity calculation unit 242, a similarity determination unit 243, an in-store registration unit 244, and a center registration unit 245.

  The feature amount extraction unit 241 determines whether or not the feature amount can be extracted from the face image of the game restrictor transmitted along with the registration request. The similarity calculation unit 242 is basically the same as the similarity calculation unit 232. When the feature amount can be extracted by the feature amount extraction unit 241, the feature of the face image registered in the biometric information DB 22 is used. In addition to extracting the amount, the feature amount supplied from the feature amount extraction unit 241 is used to obtain the similarity to the face images of all registered players registered in the biometric information DB 22, and the game restriction information The face image supplied from the management device 17 and the face image having the highest n-th similarity are supplied to the similarity determination unit 243. Note that n can be freely set according to the number of face images that can be displayed on the display unit 23.

  The similarity determination unit 243 is the same as the similarity determination unit 233, and compares the similarity with the face image having the first similarity supplied from the similarity calculation unit 242 with a predetermined threshold value. On the basis of the comparison result, if the registered face image that is ranked first is similar to the face image supplied from the game restriction information management device 17, it is already registered, so The n-th face image is displayed on the display unit 23, and the face registration number of the face image selected according to the operation content of the operation unit 225 is transmitted to the game restriction information management device 17. Also, the similarity determination unit 243 compares the similarity between the face image ranked first and a predetermined threshold, and the registered face image ranked first is registered as a game restrictor based on the comparison result. If the requested face image is not similar, the face image requested for registration is supplied to the in-store registration unit 244 and the center registration unit 245. In the above, an operation is performed to select a face image desired to be registered among the top n face images that are similar to the face image requested to be registered and are considered to be already registered face images. However, it is also possible to avoid duplicate registration by selecting the top face image that seems to be duplicated.

  The in-store registration unit 244 generates a face registration number corresponding to the face image, registers the game restrictor's face image in the biometric information DB 22 in association with the face registration number, and the center registration unit 243 performs the game restriction. The person's face image is registered in the unregistered player DB 261 of the biological information management DB 3.

  The operation unit 225 includes a button, a mouse, or a keyboard. For example, when game restriction information is registered, the operation unit 225 is operated when a duplicate face image has been registered, and supplies the operation result to the communication unit 224. To do. The communication unit 224 is configured by a modem or the like, and the face image of the game limiter detected when the signal indicating that the game limiter is detected from the collation unit 222 is received by the staff of the game store 1. Distributed to the mobile terminal 20.

  Here, for example, the similarity indicates a higher value as it is closer to the face image registered as a registered player as indicated by the ratio sum, and the similarity is a value higher than a predetermined threshold value. In this case, an example will be described in which it is determined that the face image of the registered player corresponding to the similarity is. However, for example, when the similarity is expressed as a difference sum in each feature amount between the captured face image and the face image registered as the registered player, the similarity determination unit 233 determines that the similarity is a threshold value. If it is smaller than that, the captured face image is regarded as a registered player's face image, or in the case of an average ratio or the like, it is greater than or equal to a predetermined value in the range of 0 to 1 and close to 1. If it is a value, it can be considered that they are the same person.

  When a new registered player database 262 (FIG. 11) is distributed from the biometric information management center 2, the database management unit 226 updates the biometric information DB 22 based on the new registered player database 262.

  Next, a configuration example of the biological information management center 2 will be described with reference to FIG.

  The biometric information management center 2 includes a DB distribution unit 251, a DB update unit 252, and a DB update determination unit 253. The registered player DB 262 stored in the biometric information management DB 3 is transferred to the unregistered player DB 261. Update based on. More specifically, the DB update determination unit 253 has a built-in RTC (Real Time Clock) 253a that generates time information. When a predetermined time elapses based on the built-in RTC 253a, the biological information management DB3 is accessed, and it is determined whether or not a new unregistered player is registered in the unregistered player DB 261.

  When a new unregistered person is registered in the unregistered player DB 261, the DB update determination unit 253 notifies the DB update unit 252 to that effect. The DB update unit 252 accesses the unregistered player DB 261, determines whether there is a registered unregistered player, and if there is a registered unregistered player, the registered player DB 262 , And the unregistered player is registered in the registered player DB 262 and updated. Further, when the registered player DB 262 is updated, the DB update unit 252 notifies the DB distribution unit 251 that it has been updated.

  When notified by the DB update unit 252 that the registered player DB 262 has been updated, the DB distribution unit 251 accesses the biometric information management DB 3 and reads the registered player DB 262 to recognize the biometric information of each gaming store 1. Delivered to the device 21.

  Next, a configuration example of the game restriction information management device 17 will be described with reference to FIG.

  The game restriction information receiving unit 311 receives the request for registration of the game restriction information including the face image of the game restrictor from the game restriction information registration terminal 16 and also sends the received game restriction information and the face image to the game restriction information. The data is supplied to the registration unit 310. The game restriction information here is a game time zone, a game upper limit amount, and an e-mail address of a mobile phone as a contact information for a game restrictor.

  The game restriction information registration unit 310 controls the in-store registration unit 310a based on the game restriction information registration request supplied from the game restriction information reception unit 311 and registers the game restriction information in the game restriction information DB 18. Then, the face image is supplied to the biometric information recognition apparatus 21 to request registration in the biometric information DB 22. Further, the game restriction information registration unit 310 controls the center registration unit 310b based on the game restriction information registration request supplied from the game restriction information reception unit 311 to register the game restriction information as unregistered game restriction information. To the unregistered game restriction information DB 361 (FIG. 13) of the game restriction information management database 13.

  When the information on the game restriction information DB 362 in the game restriction information management database 13 is distributed from the game restriction information management center 12, the game restriction information management unit 314 uses the game restriction information DB 362 that has been distributed. And the game restriction information registration unit 310 is notified that the game restriction information DB 18 has been updated.

  When the registrant detection information receiving unit 301 receives the registrant detection information when the registered registrant detection information indicating that the registered player registered is detected from the biometric information recognition device 21, the registrant detection information receiving unit 301 receives the registrant detection information. The face registration number of the registered face image included in the registration detection information is extracted and supplied to the game limiter determination unit 302.

  The game limiter determination unit 302 controls the person comparison unit 302a to check whether the face registration number included in the game limit information supplied from the registrant detection information reception unit 301 is included in the game limit information DB18. That is, it is determined whether or not the game is restricted.

  In addition, the game limiter determination unit 302 includes the face registration number included in the game limit information supplied from the registrant detection information reception unit 301 by the principal comparison unit 302a in the game limit information DB 18. Then, the time comparison unit 302b is controlled to determine whether or not it is a time zone in which the game restriction in the game restriction information is set based on the time information of the RTC 302c.

  Further, the game limiter determination unit 302 includes the face limit number included in the game limit information supplied from the registrant detection information reception unit 301 by the principal comparison unit 302a in the game limit information DB 18. , By controlling the money amount comparison unit 302d and inquiring and obtaining the medium lending management device 27 via the sales information transmitting / receiving unit 303, the sales information of the current game medium of the game limiter (which has been put into the lending) (Amount of money) is totaled, and based on the sales information (input amount) as a result of the summation, it is determined whether or not it is equal to or greater than the maximum allowable amount of money in the game restriction information.

  Then, the game limiter determination unit 302 satisfies the restriction condition for limiting the game when the game limit is necessary based on the determination results of the principal comparison unit 302a, the time comparison unit 302b, and the money amount comparison unit 302d. If it is, the game restriction instruction is supplied to the deposit prohibition notification unit 304, the launch prohibition notification unit 307, the communication unit 309, and the mail generation / transmission unit 312, and the display unit 19 displays that the game restriction is necessary. Let In addition, when it is determined that the game restriction is necessary, the game restrictor determination unit 302 issues an instruction to release the game restriction to the deposit prohibition release notification unit 305, the launch prohibition release notification unit 308, and the communication unit 309. And a message indicating that the game restriction has been released is displayed on the display unit 19.

  When there is a game restriction instruction from the game limiter determination unit 302, the payment prohibition notification unit 304 notifies the medium lending management device 27 to prohibit the payment to the corresponding game stand peripheral terminal 37.

  When there is an instruction to release the game restriction from the game limiter determination unit 302, the payment prohibition release notification unit 305 notifies the medium lending management device 27 to release the prohibition of the payment to the corresponding game stand peripheral terminal 37. .

  When a game restriction instruction is given by the game restrictor determination unit 302, the launch prohibition notification unit 307 notifies the game store management device 24 to prohibit the launch of the game medium by the launch unit 36b in the corresponding game stand 36.

  The launch prohibition release notification unit 308, when instructed by the game limiter determination unit 302 to release the game limit, releases the prohibition of the release of the game medium by the launch unit 36b in the corresponding game table 36. 24.

  When the guarantee ball payout control unit 306 is notified by the launch prohibition notification unit 307 that the launch of the game medium in the launch unit 36b of the game table 36 is prohibited, the game store management device 24, when it is currently a big hit, In accordance with the information on the remaining number of rounds supplied, the game medium lending management device 27 is notified to instruct the game stand 36 from the game stand peripheral terminal 37 to pay out the game medium that should be paid out by the jackpot. To do.

  Next, a configuration example of the game restriction information management center 12 will be described with reference to FIG.

  The game restriction information management center 12 includes a DB distribution unit 351, a DB update unit 352, and a DB update determination unit 353. The game restriction information DB 362 stored in the game restriction information management DB 13 is used as an unregistered game restriction. Update based on the information DB 361. More specifically, the DB update determination unit 353 has a built-in RTC (Real Time Clock) 353a that generates time information. When a predetermined time has elapsed based on the built-in RTC 353a, the game restriction information The management DB 13 is accessed to determine whether new unregistered game restriction information has been registered in the unregistered game restriction information DB 361.

  When the unregistered game restriction information is newly registered in the unregistered game restriction information DB 361, the DB update determination unit 353 notifies the DB update unit 352 to that effect. The DB update unit 352 accesses the unregistered game restriction information DB 361, determines whether or not there is registered unregistered game restriction information, and if there is unregistered game restriction information, the game restriction information DB 362 is stored. Read and register the unregistered game restriction information in the game restriction information DB 362 and update it. Further, when the game update information DB 362 is updated, the DB update unit 352 notifies the DB distribution unit 351 of the update.

  When the DB distribution unit 351 is notified by the DB update unit 352 that the game restriction information DB 362 has been updated, the DB distribution unit 351 accesses the game restriction information management DB 13, reads the game restriction information DB 362, and plays the game restrictions of each game store 1. The information is distributed to the information management device 17.

  Next, a configuration example of the medium lending management device 27 will be described with reference to FIG.

  The sales information request accepting unit 381 is requested by the gaming restriction information management unit 17 to input the amount of money within the designated time in the gaming machine peripheral terminal 37 of the gaming machine 36 in which the gaming restricted person is playing, that is, when sales information is requested. The game restriction information management device 17 reads out information on the amount of money that has been thrown in for the rental of the game medium by the deposit acceptance unit 37b of the game console peripheral terminal 37, which is stored in the sales information memory 382 by the sales information receiving unit 383. To supply.

  When receiving the deposit prohibition notification from the game restriction information management device 17, the deposit prohibition notification receiving unit 384 notifies the deposit prohibition instruction transmitting unit 385 to that effect. When notified that the deposit prohibition notification has been received, the deposit prohibition instruction transmission unit 385 supplies an instruction for prohibiting receipt of deposit by the deposit acceptance unit 37b to the gaming machine peripheral terminal 37. In response to this instruction, the control unit 37a of the gaming machine peripheral terminal 37 controls the deposit acceptance unit 37b to prohibit receipt of deposit.

  When receiving the deposit prohibition release notification from the game restriction information management device 17, the deposit prohibition release notification receiving unit 386 notifies the deposit prohibition release instruction transmitting unit 387 to that effect. When receiving the receipt of the receipt of the prohibition of deposit prohibition, the deposit prohibition release instruction transmitting unit 387 instructs the gaming machine peripheral terminal 37 to cancel the state in which the receipt of the deposit by the deposit acceptance unit 37b is prohibited. Supply. In response to this instruction, the control unit 37a of the gaming machine peripheral terminal 37 controls the deposit accepting unit 37b to make the deposit possible from the state where the accepting of the deposit is prohibited, and the game from the payout unit 37c according to the accepted amount. Make the medium available for lending.

  When receiving the guaranteed ball payout notification from the game restriction information management device 17, the guaranteed ball payout notification receiving unit 388 notifies the guaranteed ball payout instruction transmitting unit 389 to that effect. When the guarantee ball payout instruction transmission unit 389 is notified that the guarantee ball payout notification has been received, the guarantee ball payout instruction transmission unit 389 supplies a guarantee ball payout instruction to the gaming machine peripheral terminal 37. With this instruction, the control unit 37a of the game console peripheral terminal 37 causes the jackpot to be played when the game by the jackpot is continued by the launching unit 36b (FIG. 15) in the game table 36 when the game by the jackpot is continued. The payout unit 37c is controlled to pay out game media to be paid out for the number of remaining rounds. More specifically, the payout unit 37c instructs the game stand 36 to pay out game media, and the game stand 36 pays out game media in response to this.

  Next, with reference to FIG. 15, a configuration example of the game shop management device 24 will be described.

  When the launch prohibition notification receiving unit 401 receives the launch prohibition notification from the game restriction information management device 17, the launch prohibition notification receiving unit 401 notifies the round determining unit 402 accordingly. The round determination unit 402 determines the number of rounds based on the gaming state of the gaming table 36 that is instructed to prohibit launching, which is collected by the gaming table information collection unit 403, and supplies the determined round information to the round information transmission unit 404. Then, when the game restriction information management device 17 is transmitted, the launch prohibition instruction transmission unit 405 is instructed to prohibit the launch of the launch unit 36b of the gaming table 36 where the game restrictor is detected when the predetermined round is completed. To send. In response to this instruction, the control unit 36a of the gaming table 36 controls the launching unit 36b so that the game medium cannot be launched.

  Upon receiving the launch prohibition release notification from the game restriction information management device 17, the launch prohibition release notification receiving unit 406 notifies the launch prohibition release instruction transmitting unit 407 to that effect. When the firing prohibition release instruction transmitting unit 407 receives information indicating that the launch prohibition release notification has been received from the launch prohibition release notification receiving unit 406, the firing prohibition release instruction transmitting unit 407 issues an instruction to cancel the state in which the launching unit 36b is prohibited from firing. And transmitted to the game stand 36. In response to this instruction, the control unit 36a of the gaming table 36 controls the launching unit 36b to release the prohibited state in which the game medium cannot be launched.

  Next, a configuration example of the mobile terminal 20 will be described with reference to FIG.

  The communication unit 431 is configured by a modem or the like, and exchanges data with the biometric information recognition device 21 via a wireless communication network in the game store 1. Further, the communication unit 431 acquires information indicating that the registered player has visited the store based on the face image supplied from the image processing unit 39 distributed from the biological information recognition device 21, and the image processing unit 432. To supply.

  The image processing unit 432 sends information indicating that the registered player has visited the store based on the face image supplied from the image processing unit 39 supplied from the communication unit 431 to the display unit 433 configured by an LCD or the like. An image to be displayed is generated and displayed on the display unit 433.

  Next, a configuration example of the game restriction information registration terminal 16 will be described with reference to FIG.

  The registration control unit 451 is a so-called microcomputer including a CPU, a RAM, a ROM, and the like, and controls the entire operation of the game restriction information registration terminal 16. When the operation unit 455 is operated and registration of game restriction information is instructed, the registration control unit 451 reads a format for registering game restriction information from the built-in format memory 451a and displays it on the display unit 453.

  Furthermore, when registering the game restriction information, the registration control unit 451 displays an image for prompting the acquisition of the face image on the display unit 453 because the format includes the acquisition of the face image. In response to this, for example, a player who wants to register game restriction information operates the operation unit 455, and the facial image is captured by the imaging unit 457 made of CCD (Charge Coupled Devices), CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor), or the like. Is acquired via the image acquisition unit 456, the registration control unit 451 registers the face image in the format. Further, the registration control unit 451 displays a screen for instructing the mobile phone communication unit 454 to connect the mobile phone 15 in order to obtain the mail address of the mobile phone possessed by the player who registers the game restriction information. To display. In response to this, when a player's mobile phone that registers game restriction information is connected, the registration control unit 451 acquires the mail address built in the mobile phone 15 via the mobile phone communication unit 454. , Register in the format.

  Then, the registration control unit 451 registers information, such as the above-described face image and e-mail address, in the game limit information format, and registers information that is the upper limit of the game time limit and input amount, and the transmission / reception unit 452. To the game restriction information management unit 17 and request to be registered in the game restriction information DB 18.

  Next, a configuration example of the mobile phone 15 will be described with reference to FIG.

  The control unit 471 is a so-called microcomputer including a CPU, a RAM, a ROM, and the like, and controls the entire operation of the mobile phone 15. The game restriction information registration terminal communication unit 474 is connected to the mobile phone communication unit 454 of the game restriction information registration terminal 16 described above, and is stored in the memory 479 when the mail address of the mobile phone 15 is registered as game restriction information. The information of the mail address being read is read and supplied to the game restriction information registration terminal 16.

  When a warning indicating that the game is restricted is transmitted from the game restriction information management device 17 based on the game restriction information, the warning information receiving unit 478 receives the warning information and supplies the warning information to the control unit 471. To do. By receiving this warning information, the player who has registered the game restriction information possessed by the mobile phone 15 can remember the game restriction information registered by himself and can restrain the game on the game stand 36. .

  Next, the registered player visit monitoring process will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

  In step S1, the entrance camera 40 determines whether or not the door of the entrance is opened based on the information of the image being captured or the signal from the door of the entrance and exit until the predetermined time elapses. Repeat the process.

  If it is determined in step S <b> 1 that the door is opened, in step S <b> 2, the entrance camera 40 captures an image of the installed range and supplies the captured image to the image processing unit 39. The image acquisition unit 201 of the image processing unit 39 acquires the supplied image and supplies it to the face image extraction unit 202.

  In step S <b> 3, the face image extraction unit 202 extracts a player's face image from the supplied image and supplies the extracted image to the transmission unit 203. More specifically, the face image extraction unit 202 extracts a face image from, for example, an arrangement of a characteristic part such as an eye or a nose, where the skin is exposed from the color of the captured image. To the transmission unit 203.

  In step S <b> 4, the transmission unit 203 transmits the face image supplied from the face image extraction unit 202 to the biological information recognition device 21. At this time, the transmission unit 203 adds information such as a camera ID for identifying each of the camera 38, the entrance camera 40, or the in-store camera 41 and information on the transmission time to the face image and transmits the information to the biometric information recognition apparatus 21. .

  In step S11, the face image acquisition unit 221 of the biological information recognition device 21 acquires a face image. In step S <b> 12, the face image acquisition unit 221 extracts any unprocessed one of the supplied face images and supplies the extracted unprocessed one to the feature amount extraction unit 231.

  In step S <b> 13, the feature amount extraction unit 231 of the matching unit 222 extracts a feature amount from the supplied face image, and supplies the feature amount together with the face image to the similarity calculation unit 232.

  In step S <b> 14, the similarity calculation unit 232, for the face image supplied from the feature amount extraction unit 231, the ratio of the eye-to-eye spacing, the length from the chin to the forehead, and the length from the chin to the nose, and the like. Using the various feature values of the face and the similar feature values in the face image registered in the registered player DB 262 registered in the biometric information DB 22, the difference sum, the average ratio, the ratio sum, etc. Is calculated as the similarity, the ranking of the similarity with the face image registered in the registered player DB 262 as the calculation result is obtained, and the top three of the face images registered in the registered player DB 262 are calculated. Information about the similarity to the face image is supplied to the similarity determination unit 233 together with the face image supplied from the feature amount extraction unit 231.

  In step S15, the similarity determination unit 233 determines whether the highest similarity is greater than a predetermined threshold based on the top three face images and similarity information supplied from the similarity calculation unit 232. Determine whether or not. That is, the similarity determination unit 233 is a registered player who is most similar (a registered game that is most similar to the facial image acquired by the facial image acquisition unit 221 among facial images registered in the biometric information DB 22). In this case, the similarity of the registered player having the highest similarity is compared with a predetermined threshold.

  Note that, as described above, the similarity between the face image of the registered player who is most similar to the captured face image is not necessarily the highest because of the definition of the similarity. And the threshold value may differ from those in this example.

  If it is determined in step S15 that the highest similarity is greater than the predetermined threshold, in step S16, the similarity determination unit 233 determines that the top third facial image supplied from the similarity calculation unit 232 is the top three. A notification screen indicating that the face image is a candidate for a registered player is displayed by controlling the display unit 23.

  In step S <b> 17, the communication unit 224 determines whether any of the candidate face images has been selected by operating the operation unit 225.

  In step S17, for example, when an operation for selecting one is performed, it is considered that the face image to be the first candidate has been selected, and in step S18, the communication unit 224 has the face image to be the first candidate selected. And the camera image imaged with the entrance camera 40 is transmitted to the portable terminal 20, and it notifies that the corresponding registered player came to the store.

  In step S31, the communication unit 431 determines whether or not the registered player has been notified of the store visit, and repeats the process until the notification is received. For example, when the registered player's visit is notified in step S31 by the process of step S18, the communication unit 431 notifies the registered player's visit sent from the biometric information recognition device 21 in step S32. , The face image of the registered player and the camera image captured by the entrance camera 40 transmitted together with the notification are supplied to the image processing unit 432. The image processing unit 432 processes information of the selected face image and the camera image captured by the entrance camera 40 into information in a format that can be displayed on the display unit 433, and displays the information on the display unit 433 in step S33. .

  By the above processing, the staff in the game store 1 can recognize the registered player's visit if the portable terminal 20 is possessed.

  In step S19, the face image acquisition unit 221 determines whether or not all of the supplied face images have been processed. If there is an unprocessed face image, the process returns to step S12. That is, the processes in steps S12 to S20 are repeated until the process is performed on all face images. If it is determined that the process has been completed for all face images, the process returns to step S11.

  On the other hand, if no candidate face image is selected in step S17, or based on the top three face images and similarity information supplied from the similarity calculation unit 232 in step S15. If the highest degree of similarity is not greater than a predetermined threshold value, that is, even if it is the most similar registered player's face image, the degree of similarity is less than the predetermined threshold value, in step S20, The similarity determination unit 233 supplies the face image supplied from the image processing unit 39 to the unregistered player database registration unit 223. The unregistered player database registration unit 223 accesses the biometric information management database 3 through the biometric management information bus 6 and the public communication line network 8 to register the supplied face image in the unregistered player DB 261.

  As a result of the above processing, it is assumed that the face image of the player who has visited the game store 1 is not registered in the biological information DB 22 by the biological information recognition device 21 from the facial image supplied from the image processing unit 39. The face image of the unregistered player is registered in the unregistered player DB 261 in the biological information management DB 3 managed by the biological information management center 2. In the above description, the case where a face image is captured by the entrance camera 40 has been described as an example. However, the same processing is performed for a face image captured by the camera 38 or the in-store camera 41 provided on the game table 36. Accordingly, the biometric information DB 22 and the biometric information management information DB 3 may be sequentially stored. By controlling in this way, face images of almost all the players who have visited the game store 1 are accumulated in the biometric information DB 22 and the biometric information management information DB 3.

  Next, the game restriction information registration process will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

  In step S41, the registration control unit 451 determines whether or not registration of the game restriction information is requested by operating the operation unit 455, and the process is repeated until registration is requested. In step S41, for example, when registration of game restriction information is requested, in step S42, the registration control unit 451 reads out the game restriction information registration format from the format memory 451a, and for example, as shown in screen A in FIG. It is displayed on the display unit 453 together with a screen for prompting input.

  In the screen A of FIG. 21, “Please enter necessary items” is displayed at the top of the screen, and there are sequentially the game time of the weekday, the start time column 501, and the end time column 502. Further, there is a game time on weekends and holidays, and a start time column 503 and an end time column 504 are provided below. Further, “game amount per day” is displayed below the end time column 504 of weekends and holidays game time, and an upper limit amount column 505 is provided therebelow. Below the upper limit amount column 505, a button 506 displaying "Next" is provided. This button 506 is operated when all of the start time column 501 to the upper limit amount column 505 are input.

  That is, by inputting the time into the start time column 501 and the end time column 502, the start time and end time of the time zone in which the game can be played on weekdays can be set. By inputting the time into the start time column 503 and the end time column 504, the start time and the end time of the playable time zone can be set. Furthermore, by inputting an amount in the upper limit amount column 505, a game possible upper limit amount can be set.

  In step S43, the registration control unit 451 determines whether or not the operation unit 455 has been operated to complete the input of necessary items in the game restriction information registration format, and the process is performed until it is determined that the input has been completed. Is repeated. When it is determined in step S43 that the necessary items (game restriction date and time limit and upper limit amount) have been input in the game restriction information registration format, that is, it is determined that the button 506 on the screen A in FIG. ,

  In step S44, the registration control unit 451 controls the display unit 453 to, for example, the mobile phone of the mobile phone 15 possessed by the player who desires to register the game restriction information as shown in the screen B of FIG. A screen that prompts connection to the communication unit 454 is displayed.

  In the screen B of FIG. 21, “Please connect a mobile phone” is displayed at the top, and an e-mail address display field 511 of the mobile phone 15 is provided below the screen B. The e-mail address read from the mobile phone 15 is displayed. Below that, “If you do not want to register your e-mail address, please press the next button” is displayed. Below that, when registration is desired, a button 513 indicating “Register” is displayed. Is provided. A button 512 labeled “RETURN” is operated when returning to the operation on the screen B. Further, a button 514 labeled “Next” is operated when the user wants to register an e-mail address, and when the user proceeds to the next screen after pressing the button 513 labeled “Register”, the e-mail address If the user does not wish to register, the operation is performed when proceeding to the next screen in a state where the button 513 labeled “Register” is not pressed.

  In step S45, the registration control unit 451 requests the mail address of the mobile phone 15 from the connected mobile phone 15 according to the operation content of the operation unit 455, reads the mail address in response to this request, It is displayed in the mail address display field 511 on the screen B in FIG. 21, and it is determined whether or not registration of the mail address is desired.

  More specifically, the control unit 471 of the mobile phone 15 controls the game restriction information registration terminal communication unit 474 to receive an inquiry from the game restriction information registration terminal 16 and read the mail address registered in the memory 479. And supplied to the game restriction information registration terminal 16.

  In step S45, for example, when it is determined that registration of an email address is desired, that is, when the button 513 on the screen B in FIG. 21 is pressed, in step S46, the registration control unit 451 performs cellular phone communication. The unit 454 is controlled to determine whether or not the mobile phone 15 is connected, and the process is repeated until it is determined that the mobile phone 15 is connected. In step S46, for example, when the player who registers the game restriction information connects the mobile phone 15 possessed by the player to the mobile phone communication unit 454, the process proceeds to step S47.

  In step S47, the registration control unit 451 acquires a mail address through the mobile phone communication unit 454, and in step S48, adds the mail address of the mobile phone 15 to the game restriction information registration format.

  On the other hand, if it is determined in step S45 that registration of the e-mail address is not desired, that is, if the button 513 on the screen B in FIG. 21 is not operated, the processing in steps S46 to S48 is skipped.

  In step S49, the registration control unit 451 determines whether or not the operation for proceeding to the next screen, that is, the button 514 on the screen B in FIG. 21 has been operated according to the operation content of the operation unit 455. If it is determined that the process has not been performed, the process returns to step S45. That is, unless the button 514 is operated, the processes in steps S45 to S49 are repeated. If it is determined in step S49 that the button 514 has been operated, that is, an operation to proceed to the next screen has been performed, the processing proceeds to step S50.

  In step S50, the registration control unit 451 controls the display unit 453 to display a screen that prompts the user to capture a face image registered together with the game restriction information, for example, as shown in the screen C in FIG.

  In the screen C of FIG. 21, “Please look at the camera and press the shooting button” is displayed at the top, and a captured image display field 531 captured by the imaging unit 457 is displayed below it. The player who wants to register the game restriction information can recognize in what state the face image is captured by looking at the captured image display field 531. In the captured image display field 531, the range imaged by the imaging unit 457 is displayed as a monitor screen until the operation unit 455 is operated and imaging by the imaging unit 457 is instructed, and the operation unit 455 is operated. When an image is picked up by the image pickup unit 457, a still image picked up at that moment is displayed. A button 532 displayed as “return” is displayed at the lower left of the captured image display column 531, and is operated when returning to the operation on the screen A. On the right side of the button 532, buttons 533 and 534 displayed as “shoot” and “next” from the left are displayed, and when imaging is performed, and imaging that is convincing for the player is completed. It is operated when proceeding to the next operation, for example.

  In step S51, the registration control unit 451 determines whether or not the operation unit 455 has been operated to instruct the operation of the imaging unit 457 to capture an image. In step S51, the player who wants to register the game restriction information is set in the captured image display field 531 in a state in which his / her face image captured by the imaging unit 457 can be captured. When imaging is instructed by operating 533, in step S52, the registration control unit 451 controls the imaging unit 457 to capture a face image and acquire the face image captured by the imaging unit 457. The part 456 acquires. The image acquisition unit 456 supplies the acquired face image to the registration control unit 451. As a result, the registration control unit 451 attaches the supplied face image to the game restriction information registration format and displays the supplied face image on the display unit 453. Note that the face image is used for recognition and is more easily recognized when a plurality of face images are registered. Therefore, the face image is not limited to one as in this example, and a predetermined number of face images are used. All of the face images may be captured and acquired.

  In step S <b> 53, the registration control unit 451 controls the transmission / reception unit 452 to transmit the game restriction information registration format to the game restriction information management device 17.

  In step S61, the game restriction information reception unit 311 of the game restriction information management device 17 determines whether or not a game restriction information registration format in which necessary items have been input has been transmitted, and game restriction information in which necessary items have been input. The process is repeated until it is determined that the registration format has been transmitted. In step S61, for example, when a game restriction information registration format is transmitted by the process of step S53, in step S62, the game restriction information receiving unit 311 uses the transmitted game restriction information registration format as a game restriction information registration unit. 310. The game restriction information registration unit 310 generates game restriction information based on the information of the game restriction information registration format, and displays the game restriction information on the display unit 19 as shown in the screen E of FIG.

  In the screen E of FIG. 21, “New registration” is displayed at the top, a face image display field 571 is provided on the left side, and a game enabling condition based on the game restriction information is recorded on the right side. . In the screen E of FIG. 21, “no restriction” is displayed as the start time and “15:00” is displayed as the end time in the item “weekday game time” from the top. As shown, the game is possible until 15:00 regardless of the start time, and the game is restricted in other time zones. Below that, “Unlimited” is displayed as the start time and “15:00” is displayed as the end time in the item “Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays game time”. As with the weekday game restriction, it is shown that a game is possible until 15:00 regardless of the start time, and that the game is restricted in other time zones. Below that, “¥ 20,000” is displayed in the item “Amount of game per day”, and the maximum amount of money that can be played is set at 20,000 yen. It has been shown that gaming at is limited.

  In step S63, the game restriction information registration unit 310 controls the in-store registration unit 310a to temporarily register game restriction information based on the game restriction information registration format in the game restriction information DB 18.

  In step S64, the in-store registration unit 310a of the game restriction information registration unit 310 extracts a face image from the information of the game restriction information registration format, and transmits the face image to the biometric information recognition device 21 in step S65. And request registration of the face image of the game restricted person.

  In step S81, the game restrictor registration unit 227 of the biometric information recognition device 21 determines whether or not registration of the face image of the game restrictor is requested from the game restriction information management device 17, and the face image of the game restrictor is determined. The process is repeated until it is determined that there is a registration. For example, when registration of a face image is requested by the process of step S65, the process proceeds to step S82.

  In step S <b> 82, the game limiter registration unit 227 acquires the transmitted face image together with a request from the game limit information management device 17.

  In step S83, the game restrictor registration unit 227 controls the feature amount extraction unit 241 to instruct to extract the feature amount from the acquired face image. In step S84, the game restrictor registration unit 227 determines whether or not the feature amount can be extracted by the feature amount extraction unit 241.

  In step S84, for example, when it is determined that the feature amount can be extracted from the face image,

  In step S85, the similarity calculation unit 242 uses each of the difference sums using the facial feature amount supplied from the feature amount extraction unit 241 and the similar feature amount in the face image registered in the biological information DB 22. The average ratio or the sum of the ratios is calculated as the similarity, and the ranking of the similarity with the face image registered in the biological information DB 22 as the calculation result is obtained, and among the face images registered in the biological information DB 22 Information about the top n face images and similarity information are supplied to the similarity determination unit 243 together with the face image supplied from the feature amount extraction unit 241.

  In step S86, the similarity determination unit 243 determines whether the highest similarity is greater than a predetermined threshold based on the top n face images and similarity information supplied from the similarity calculation unit 242. Determine whether or not.

  If it is determined in step S86 that the highest similarity is greater than the predetermined threshold, in step S87, the similarity determination unit 243 determines that the top n-th face image supplied from the similarity calculation unit 242 is the highest. A notification screen indicating that the face image is a candidate for a registered player is displayed by controlling the display unit 23.

  In step S88, the communication unit 224 determines whether any of the candidate face images has been selected by operating the operation unit 225.

  In step S88, for example, when an operation for selecting one is performed, the face image that is the first candidate has already been registered in the biometric information DB 22. Therefore, in step S89, the game limiter registration unit 227 Reads out the face registration number of the face image registered in the biometric information DB 22 in order to register as a game restrictor. For face images that may be registered in duplicate, the selection operation is omitted and the face registration number of the most similar face image is used as it is, so that duplicate registration can be prevented automatically. Anyway.

  In step S90, the game restrictor registration unit 227 notifies the game restrictor information management device 17 that the registration of the face image of the game restrictor has been completed (including information indicating that it has already been registered). At this time, the game restrictor registration unit 227 notifies the game restrictor information management device 17 of the face registration number of the newly registered face image or the face registration number of the registered face image.

  On the other hand, if it is determined in step S86 that the highest similarity is not greater than the predetermined threshold value, or if none is selected in step S88, in-store registration unit 244 determines that The face image is registered in the biological information DB 22 managed by the game store 1. The biometric information DB 22 registers face images, for example, as shown in FIG. In FIG. 22, a face registration number (face registration number), a first face image to a third face image are registered from the left. As described above, since the face images are used for recognition at the time of visiting the store, it is better that they exist in plural, and FIG. 22 shows an example in which three face images are registered. .

  In step S92, the center registration unit 245 registers the face image as the face image of the unregistered player in the unregistered player DB 261 of the biological information management DB 3 managed by the biological information management center 2.

  That is, the face image of the game restrictor is registered not only in the biometric information DB 22 of the biometric information recognition device 21 in each store of the game store 1 but also in the biometric information management DB 3 managed by the biometric information management center 2. Is done. Further, since registered face images are collated and processed so as not to be registered redundantly, it is possible to prevent unnecessary registration of face images in the biological information DB 22 and the biological information management DB 3.

  On the other hand, if it is determined in step S84 that the feature amount cannot be extracted, that is, it is not a face image suitable for registration of the face image, the game restrictor registration unit 227 performs registration in step S93. The game restriction information management device 17 is notified that the face image has a problem.

  In step S <b> 66, the game restriction information registration unit 310 determines whether a notification indicating that the face image has a registration problem has been transmitted from the biometric information recognition device 21.

  In step S66, for example, when a face image is registered by the process of step S90 and information of the registered face registration number is acquired, that is, a notification indicating that the face image has a problem in registration is transmitted. If not, in step S67, the in-store registration unit 310a officially registers the temporarily registered game restriction information in the game restriction information DB 18 as shown in FIG.

  In the example of FIG. 23, the game restriction information DB 18 includes, from the left, a management No. (management number) column, a face registration No (face registration number) column, a game available time zone column, a game possible upper limit amount column, and a mobile phone mail. It consists of an address field. In FIG. 23, 1 to 219 from the top are registered in the management number column. In the face registration number column, 3, 11, 15... 501 are registered from the top. The playable time zone is divided into weekdays and weekends and holidays, and the start time and end time are registered respectively. In FIG. 23, the start time of weekdays is “unlimited” and “14: 00 ”,“ no restriction ”...“ No restriction ”are registered, and the end time of the weekday is“ no restriction ”,“ 18:00 ”,“ 18:00 ”...“ 19:00 ” And the start time of weekends and holidays are registered as “no restriction” from the top, and the end times of weekends and holidays are “no restriction”, “no restriction”, “15:00”. : 0: ". Furthermore, “¥ 50,000”, “no limit”, “¥ 20,000”... “15,000” are registered from the top in the game upper limit amount column. Also, in the mobile phone mail address column, “aaa@xxx.yyy.zzz”, “bbb@xxx.yyy.zzz”, “no registration” ... “ccc@zz.yy.xx” are registered. Yes.

  In other words, in FIG. 23, the face image of the game restriction person with the management number 1 has a face registration number of 3 and there is no restriction on the playable time zone, but the playable upper limit amount is set to 50,000 yen. It is shown that “aaa@xxx.yyy.zzz” is set as the mail address. Further, the face image of the person with game restriction of management number 2 has a face registration number of 11, and the playable time zone is 14:00 to 18:00 on weekdays, and there are restrictions on weekends and holidays. It is shown that “bbb@xxx.yyy.zzz” is set as an e-mail address with no limit on the maximum amount of money that can be played.

  Furthermore, the face image of the person with game restriction of management number 3 has a face registration number of 15, and the playable time zone is up to 18:00 regardless of the start time on weekdays, Regardless of the start time, it is up to 15:00, and the playable upper limit amount is set to 20,000 yen, which indicates that no e-mail address is registered.

  In addition, the face image of the game restriction person with the management number 219 has the face registration number 501 and the playable time zone is 19:00 regardless of the start time regardless of weekdays, weekends and holidays. The maximum amount of money that can be played is set at 15,000 yen, indicating that the mail address is set as “ccc@zz.yy.xx”.

  Now, the description returns to the flowchart of FIG. In step S68, the center registration unit 310b supplies the temporarily registered game restriction information to the unregistered game restriction information registration unit 313. The unregistered game restriction information registration unit 313 registers the supplied game restriction information in the unregistered game restriction information DB 361 of the game restriction information management database 13 managed by the game restriction information management center 12.

  That is, the game limit information is not only registered in the game limit information DB 18 of the game limit information management device 17 at each store of the game store 1, but also the game limit information management database 13 managed by the game limit information management center 12. Also registered.

  In step S69, the game restriction information registration unit 310 controls the game restriction information reception unit 311 to notify the game restriction information registration terminal 16 that the game restriction information has been registered, and for example, screen F in FIG. A screen indicating the completion of registration as shown by is displayed on the display unit 19.

  In screen F of FIG. 21, “registration complete” is displayed at the top, a face image display field 581 is provided on the left side, and game restriction conditions based on the game restriction information are recorded on the right side. . In the screen F of FIG. 21, the item “Weekday game time” from the top is displayed as “Unlimited” as the start time and “15:00” as the end time, and the game on weekdays. As a restriction, it is shown that a game is possible until 15:00 regardless of the start time, and the game is restricted in other time zones. Below that, in the item “Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays game time”, the start time is “unlimited” and the end time is “15:00”. As with the weekday game restriction, it is shown that the game is possible until 15:00 regardless of the start time, and the game is restricted in other time zones. Below that, “¥ 20,000” is displayed in the item “game amount per day”, indicating that a limit of 20,000 yen is set as the maximum amount.

  On the other hand, when it is notified in step S66 that the feature amount cannot be extracted from the face image and there is a problem, in step S70, the game restriction information registration unit 310 controls the game restriction information reception unit 311 to play the game. The face information is requested to the restriction information registration terminal 16 again.

  In step S54, the registration control unit 451 of the game restriction information registration terminal 16 controls the transmission / reception unit 452, and determines whether or not a notification indicating the completion of registration has been transmitted from the game restriction information management device 17. In step S54, for example, when the registration completion of the game restriction information is notified by the process of step S69, the registration control unit 451 in step S55, based on the notification supplied from the transmission / reception unit 452, for example, FIG. A screen indicating the completion of registration as shown in the screen D of 21 is displayed, and the process is terminated.

  In the screen D of FIG. 21, “Registered with the following contents” is displayed at the top of the screen, and there are sequentially the game times of weekdays, a start time column 541 and an end time column 542. In the case of FIG. 21, “no restriction” is registered as the start time, “15:00” is registered as the end time, and the restriction on the start time is the weekday game time restriction. It is shown that the game is possible until 15:00, and the game is restricted in other time zones.

  Furthermore, there is a weekend, holiday, and game time, and a start time column 543 and an end time column 544 are provided. In the case of FIG. 21, “no restriction” is registered as the start time, and “ 15:00 ”is registered, and there is no restriction on the start time of the game time on Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays, the game can be played until 15:00, and the game is restricted at other times It is shown.

  Further, “game amount per day” is displayed below the end time column 544 of the game time on weekends and holidays, and an upper limit amount column 545 is provided therebelow. In the case of FIG. 21, “¥ 20,000” is registered as the upper limit amount that can be played, and it is shown that the game is restricted for 20,000 yen or more. Further, an e-mail address field 546 is displayed below the upper limit amount field 545, and in the case of FIG. 21, “aaa@xxx.yyy.zzz” is registered, and the game exceeds the game limit. In this case, a warning mail is sent to the address “aaa@xxx.yyy.zzz”.

  Further, a button 547 displayed as “END” is provided at the lower right of the screen D in FIG. 21 and is operated when the display of the screen D is ended.

  On the other hand, in step S54, for example, when a face image is requested again by the process of step S70, it is determined that registration completion has not been notified, and the process returns to step S50, and the face image acquisition process is repeated again. It is.

  Through the above processing, the game limit information is not only registered in the game limit information DB 18 of the game limit information management device 17 in each store of the game store 1, but also game limit information managed by the game limit information management center 12. Also registered in the management database 13. At this time, the face image of the game restrictor who desires to register the game restriction information is not only registered in the biometric information DB 22 of the biometric information recognition device 21 in each store of the game store 1, but also the biometric information management center 2 It is also registered in the biological information management DB 3 managed by. At this time, the face image is not registered redundantly in the biometric information 22, and only the face registration number is read as game restriction information as necessary, so the same face image is unnecessarily registered. Thus, the capacity of the biological information DB 22 and the biological information management DB 3 can be saved.

  That is, both the face image of the visitor of the game store 1 and the face image of the game restrictor are registered in the biometric information DB 22 and the biometric information management DB 3, but the registered game described with reference to FIG. If it is a premise that the store visit monitoring process is being implemented, basically, the store visitor's face image is likely to be already stored, so when game restriction information is registered, a new The face registration number of the registered face image is often read instead of registering the face image in the biometric information DB 22 and the biometric information management DB 3.

  Next, the game restriction monitoring process at the entrance will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

  In step S101, the entrance camera 40 determines whether or not the door of the entrance is opened based on information on the image being captured or a signal from the door of the entrance and exit until the predetermined time elapses. Repeat the process.

  If it is determined in step S <b> 101 that the door is opened, the entrance camera 40 captures an image of the installed range in step S <b> 102 and supplies the captured image to the image processing unit 39. The image acquisition unit 201 of the image processing unit 39 acquires the supplied image and supplies it to the face image extraction unit 202.

  In step S <b> 103, the face image extraction unit 202 extracts a player's face image from the supplied image and supplies the extracted image to the transmission unit 203. More specifically, the face image extraction unit 202 extracts a face image from, for example, an arrangement of a characteristic part such as an eye or a nose, where the skin is exposed from the color of the captured image. To the transmission unit 203.

  In step S <b> 104, the transmission unit 203 transmits the face image supplied from the face image extraction unit 202 to the biological information recognition device 21. At this time, the transmission unit 203 adds information such as a camera ID for identifying each of the camera 38, the entrance camera 40, or the in-store camera 41 and information on the transmission time to the face image and transmits the information to the biometric information recognition apparatus 21. .

  In step S121, the face image acquisition unit 221 of the biological information recognition apparatus 21 determines whether or not the face image has been supplied from the image processing unit 39, and performs the processing until the face image is supplied. repeat. For example, when a face image is supplied from the image processing unit 39 in the process of step S104 in step S121, the face image acquisition unit 221 of the biological information recognition apparatus 21 acquires a face image in step S122. In step S <b> 123, the face image acquisition unit 221 extracts any unprocessed one of the supplied face images and supplies the extracted unprocessed one to the feature amount extraction unit 231.

  In step S124, the feature amount extraction unit 231 of the collation unit 222 extracts the feature amount from the supplied face image and supplies it to the similarity calculation unit 232 together with the face image.

  In step S125, the similarity calculation unit 232 determines the ratio of the eye-to-eye spacing, the length from the chin to the forehead, and the length from the chin to the nose for the face image supplied from the feature amount extraction unit 231. Using the various feature values of each face and the similar feature values in the face image registered in the registered player DB 262 of the biometric information DB 22, the difference sum, the average ratio, or the ratio sum as the similarity. The calculation is performed to obtain the ranking of the similarity with the face image registered in the registered player DB 262 as the calculation result, and the top face image and face of the face image registered in the registered player DB 262 of the biometric information DB 22 The registration number and similarity information are supplied to the similarity determination unit 233 together with the face image supplied from the feature amount extraction unit 231.

  In step S <b> 126, the similarity determination unit 233 determines whether the similarity between the uppermost face image supplied from the similarity calculation unit 232 and the similarity is greater than a predetermined threshold. That is, the similarity determination unit 233 is a registered player who is most similar (a registered game that is most similar to the facial image acquired by the facial image acquisition unit 221 among facial images registered in the biometric information DB 22). In this case, the similarity of the registered player having the highest similarity is compared with a predetermined threshold.

  Note that, as described above, the similarity between the face image of the registered player who is most similar to the captured face image is not necessarily the highest because of the definition of the similarity. And the threshold value may differ from those in this example.

  If it is determined in step S126 that the highest similarity is greater than a predetermined threshold value, in step S127, the similarity determination unit 233 includes the highest-order face image supplied from the similarity calculation unit 232, and The face registration number of the face image is also supplied to the registrant detection information notification unit 228. The registrant detection information notifying unit 228 causes the game restriction information management device 17 to transmit registrant detection information indicating that the corresponding person has visited the store together with the supplied face image and the face registration number. At this time, the similarity determination unit 233 controls the display unit 23 to display a screen indicating that the game limiter of the top face image supplied from the similarity calculation unit 232 has visited the store, Or you may make it transmit to the portable terminal 20 which the communication part 224 controls and the staff in the shop possesses.

  In step S141, the registrant detection information receiving unit 301 determines whether or not the registrant detection information has been transmitted from the biometric information recognition device 21, and repeats the process until it is transmitted. In step S141, for example, when registrant detection information is transmitted by the process of step S127, the registrant detection information reception unit 301 supplies the received registrant detection information to the game limiter determination unit 302 in step S142. To do. The game limiter determination unit 302 reads the face registration number from the registrant detection information, controls the person comparison unit 302a, searches the game limit information DB 18 for game limit information corresponding to the read face registration number, and reads it. Let it come out.

  In step S143, the person comparison unit 302a determines whether or not the player with the face registration number notified by the registrant detection information is a game restrictor, that is, whether or not there is game restriction information corresponding to the face registration number. It is determined whether or not the game restriction person is the person himself / herself based on whether or not. In step S143, the person comparison unit 302a determines that the player with the face registration number notified by the registrant detection information is a game restrictor, that is, if game restriction information corresponding to the face registration number exists, step S144. , The game limiter determination unit 302 reads the information of the game available time zone included in the corresponding game limit information, and controls the time comparison unit 302b to compare it with the date and time information generated by the RTC 302c. It is determined whether or not it is a time zone, that is, whether or not it is outside the game time limit.

  In step S145, for example, in the case of the game restriction person whose face registration number is 11 in the game restriction information DB 18 shown in FIG. 23, when the date and time generated by the RTC 302c is 19:00 on a weekday, the playable time Since it is not a time zone but a time zone in which the game is to be restricted and the game is outside the game restriction, in step S146, the game restriction person determination unit 302 displays on the display unit 19 that the game restriction person to be restricted is coming to the store. At the same time, the communication unit 309 is controlled to issue a notification to the portable terminal 20 possessed by a staff member in the game store 1.

  In step S 147, the game limiter determination unit 302 extracts the mail address information included in the game limit information of the game limiter to be game-restricted, and transmits a warning mail to the mail generation / transmission unit 312. To instruct. In response to this instruction, the mail generation / transmission unit 312 transmits, as a mail, warning information indicating that the store has been visited in a state corresponding to the game restriction information to the mobile phone 15 possessed by the game restriction person based on the supplied mail address. To do.

  In step S161, the warning information receiving unit 478 determines whether or not a mail including warning information has been transmitted, and repeats the processing until it is determined that the mail has been transmitted. In step S161, for example, when a mail including warning information is transmitted by the process of step S147, the warning information receiving unit 478 receives the mail including warning information and supplies the mail to the control unit 471 in step S162. .

  In step S <b> 163, the control unit 471 displays a mail including the supplied warning information on the display unit 473.

  If it is determined in step S126 that the degree of similarity with the uppermost face image is not greater than a predetermined threshold, it is assumed that there is no corresponding person, and the process of step S127 is skipped.

  In step S128, the face image acquisition unit 221 determines whether or not all supplied face images have been processed. If it is determined that all face images have not been processed, the process proceeds to step S128. Returning to S123, the processes in steps S123 to S128 are repeated until all the face images are processed. If it is determined in step S128 that all face images have been processed, the process returns to step S121, and the subsequent processing is repeated.

  Furthermore, when it is determined in step S145 that the game is not out of the game limit, the process returns to step S141.

  Through the above processing, the game restrictor who registered the game restriction information registers the e-mail address of the mobile phone 15 in the game restriction information when the game restriction person corresponds to the game restriction information when passing through the entrance 112 of the game store 1. If so, it is possible to receive an email consisting of warning information, so that even if the store is inadvertently visited, it is possible to suppress forgetting to play the game table 36. Further, even if the game is intentionally started or the mobile phone 15 is not owned, it is reported through the mobile terminal 20 that the player corresponding to the game restriction information has come to the store. By this, it becomes possible to provide a service that encourages the staff of the game store 1 to stop the game, and as a result, it is possible to increase the possibility that the game can be restricted under the conditions registered in the game restriction information. It becomes.

  Next, with reference to the flowcharts of FIGS. 25 and 26, the game restriction monitoring process on the game machine will be described.

  In step S201, the camera 38 determines whether or not a predetermined time has elapsed with a built-in clock (not shown), and repeats the process until the predetermined time has elapsed.

  If it is determined in step S201 that the predetermined time has elapsed, in step S202, the camera 38 captures an image of the installed range and supplies the captured image to the image processing unit 39. The image acquisition unit 201 of the image processing unit 39 acquires the supplied image and supplies it to the face image extraction unit 202.

  In step S203, the face image extraction unit 202 determines whether or not the player's face image can be extracted from the supplied image. If the face image cannot be extracted, the process returns to step S201. On the other hand, when it is determined in step S203 that a face image can be extracted, in step S204, the face image extraction unit 202 extracts the face image and supplies it to the transmission unit 203.

  In step S <b> 205, the transmission unit 203 transmits the face image supplied from the face image extraction unit 202 to the biological information recognition device 21. At this time, the transmission unit 203 adds information such as a camera ID for identifying each of the cameras 38 and information on transmission time to the face image and transmits the information to the biometric information recognition apparatus 21.

  In step S221, the face image acquisition unit 221 of the biological information recognition apparatus 21 determines whether or not the face image has been supplied from the image processing unit 39, and performs the processing until the face image is supplied. repeat. For example, when a face image is supplied from the image processing unit 39 in step S221, the face image acquisition unit 221 of the biological information recognition device 21 acquires a face image in step S222. In step S <b> 223, the face image acquisition unit 221 extracts any unprocessed one of the supplied face images and supplies the extracted unprocessed one to the feature amount extraction unit 231.

  In step S224, the feature amount extraction unit 231 of the matching unit 222 extracts the feature amount from the supplied face image and supplies the feature amount together with the face image to the similarity calculation unit 232.

  In step S225, the similarity calculation unit 232, for the face image supplied from the feature amount extraction unit 231, the ratio between the eye-to-eye spacing, the length from the chin to the forehead, the length from the chin to the nose, and the like. And using the same feature amount as the face image registered in the registered player DB 262 of the biometric information DB 22 as the difference, the average ratio, or the ratio sum as the similarity. The calculation is performed to obtain the rank of similarity with the face image registered in the registered player DB 262 of the biometric information DB 22 as the calculation result, and the top face image and face of the face image registered in the registered player DB 262 are calculated. The registration number and similarity information are supplied to the similarity determination unit 233 together with the face image supplied from the feature amount extraction unit 231.

  In step S226, the similarity determination unit 233 determines whether the similarity between the highest-level face image supplied from the similarity calculation unit 232 and the similarity is greater than a predetermined threshold.

  If it is determined in step S226 that the highest similarity is greater than a predetermined threshold value, in step S227, the similarity determination unit 233 includes the highest-order face image supplied from the similarity calculation unit 232, and The face registration number of the face image is also supplied to the registrant detection information notification unit 228. The registrant detection information notifying unit 228 combines the supplied face image and the face registration number, and displays registrant detection information indicating that the corresponding person is playing on the game table. 17 to transmit.

  In step S241 (FIG. 26), the registrant detection information receiving unit 301 determines whether or not the registrant detection information has been transmitted from the biological information recognition device 21, and repeats the process until it is transmitted. In step S241, for example, when registrant detection information is transmitted by the process of step S227, the registrant detection information reception unit 301 supplies the received registrant detection information to the game limiter determination unit 302 in step S242. To do. The game limiter determination unit 302 reads the face registration number from the registrant detection information, searches the game limit information DB 18 for game limit information corresponding to the read face registration number, and reads it.

  In step S243, the game limiter determination unit 302 determines whether or not the player with the face registration number notified by the registrant detection information is a game limiter, that is, there is game limit information corresponding to the face registration number. Determine whether or not. If it is determined in step S243 that there is game restriction information corresponding to the face registration number and the player with the face registration number notified by the registrant detection information is a game restrictor, in step S244, the game restrictor The determination unit 302 determines the gaming machine number that identifies the gaming machine 36 corresponding to the camera ID of the camera 38 that captured the face image, and controls the sales information transmission / reception unit 303 to correspond to the time zone in which the game restrictor played. The medium lending management device 27 is requested for sales information from the gaming machine peripheral terminal 37 of the gaming machine number to be played.

  In step S271, the sales information receiving unit 381 determines whether there is a request for sales information, and repeats the processing until it is determined that there is a request. In step S271, for example, when sales information is requested by the process of step S244, in step S272, the sales information reception unit 381 corresponds to the gaming machine 36 of the corresponding gaming machine number for which the sales information is requested. Sales information of the gaming machine peripheral terminal 37 is read from the sales information memory 382.

  The sales information receiving unit 383 stores the sales information supplied from the gaming machine peripheral terminal 37 in the sales information memory 382 together with the time zone information for each gaming machine peripheral terminal 37. Accordingly, sales information is stored in the sales information memory 382 for each of the gaming machine peripheral terminals 37.

  In step S273, the sales information reception unit 381 reads the sales information of the gaming machine peripheral terminal 37 corresponding to the gaming machine 36 of the corresponding gaming machine number requested from the sales information memory 382 read from the sales information memory 382. It transmits to the management apparatus 17.

  In step S245, when the sales information transmission / reception unit 303 acquires the sales information transmitted by the process of step S273, the sales information transmission / reception unit 303 supplies the sales information to the game limiter determination unit 302.

  In step S246, the game limiter determination unit 302 controls the time comparison unit 302b to read out information on the available game time zone included in the corresponding game limit information, and compares it with the date and time information generated by the RTC 302c. It is determined whether or not it is a game-enabled time zone, and the amount comparison unit 302d is controlled to read out information on the upper limit amount of game included in the corresponding game restriction information and acquired by the sales information transmission / reception unit 303 Compared to sales information, it is determined whether or not it is less than or equal to the upper limit of the game, and whether or not it is out of the game limit based on the available game time zone and the upper limit of the game

  In step S247, for example, in the case of a game restriction person whose face registration number is 15 in FIG. 23, when the date and time generated by the RTC 302c is 19:00 on weekdays, the game is not restricted but the game is restricted. Since it is a time zone to be played, it is determined that the game is outside the game limit. For example, when the sales information is 25,000 yen, the game upper limit is 20,000 yen. It is determined that the game is not restricted.

  As a result, in step S248, the game limiter determination unit 302 determines that the game limiter to be game-restricted is playing in the game table 36 having the game table number determined from the notified camera ID. Is displayed on the display unit 19, and the communication unit 309 is controlled to issue a notification to the portable terminal 20 possessed by a staff member in the amusement store 1. At this time, the release unit 302e stores the game restriction information (face registration number) of the game restrictor, the game machine number of the game machine 36 that is playing, and the time when the RTC 302c prohibition process is executed.

  In step S249, similarly to the process in step S147 described above, the game limiter determination unit 302 extracts the mail address information included in the game limit information of the game limiter to be game-restricted, and generates and transmits a mail. The unit 312 is instructed to send a warning mail. In response to this instruction, the mail generation / transmission unit 312 transmits, as a mail, warning information indicating that the store has been visited in a state corresponding to the game restriction information to the mobile phone 15 possessed by the game restriction person based on the supplied mail address. To do.

  In step S331, the warning information receiving unit 478 determines whether or not a mail including warning information has been transmitted, and the process is repeated until it is determined that the mail has been transmitted. In step S331, for example, when a mail including warning information is transmitted by the process of step S249, in step S332, the warning information receiving unit 478 receives the mail including warning information and supplies the mail to the control unit 471. .

  In step S333, the control unit 471 displays a mail including the supplied warning information on the display unit 473.

  Further, in step S250, the game limiter determination unit 302 supplies a signal indicating that there is a game limiter outside the game limit to the deposit prohibition notification unit 305. At this time, the game limiter determination unit 302 also supplies the information on the game table number of the corresponding game table 36 to the deposit prohibition notification unit 305. Based on this signal, the deposit prohibition notifying unit 305 notifies the medium lending management device 27 of the prohibition of depositing together with information on the corresponding game machine number.

  In step S291, the deposit prohibition notice receiving unit 384 of the medium lending management device 27 determines whether or not the prohibition of deposit is notified from the game restriction information management device 17, and performs the process until it is determined that the notification is received. repeat. In step S291, for example, if the deposit prohibition is notified by the process of step S250, the deposit prohibition notification receiving unit 384 receives the deposit prohibition notification in step S292 and notifies the deposit prohibition instruction transmitting unit 385 to that effect. Notice. The deposit prohibition instruction transmission unit 385 instructs the corresponding gaming machine peripheral terminal 37 to prohibit the depositing based on the gaming machine number indicating the corresponding gaming machine 36 supplied together with the deposit prohibition notice.

  In response to this instruction, the control unit 37a of the gaming machine peripheral terminal 37 controls the deposit unit 37b to prohibit the deposit.

  As a result of this processing, the game restrictor is unable to make a payment to the game console peripheral terminal 37, so that the game cannot be continued unless there is a game medium acquired by a big hit before that. As a result, it is possible to limit the game state in time and economically, and by suppressing the player's urge to play on the game table, the pachinko / pachislot addiction etc. are suppressed It is possible to make it.

  In step S <b> 251, the game limiter determination unit 302 supplies a signal indicating that there is a game limiter outside the game limit to the launch prohibition notification unit 307. At this time, the game limiter determination unit 302 also supplies information on the game table number of the corresponding game table 36 to the launch prohibition notification unit 307. Based on this signal, the launch prohibition notification unit 307 notifies the game store management device 24 of the prohibition of launch of the launch unit 36b of the game medium together with information on the corresponding game machine number.

  In step S351, the launch prohibition notification receiving unit 401 of the gaming store management device 24 determines whether or not the launch prohibition has been notified from the game restriction information management device 17, and the process is performed until it is determined that the notification has been received. repeat. In step S351, for example, when launch prohibition is notified by the process of step S251, in step S352, the launch prohibition notification receiving unit 401 receives the launch prohibition notification and notifies the round determination unit 402 to that effect. .

  In step S <b> 353, the round determination unit 402 acquires the number of rounds that are jackpot as the game table information in the corresponding game table 36 from the game table information collection unit 403. The game table information collection unit 403 acquires information on the operation state from the game table 36 and collects information on the operation state of each of the game tables 36. Therefore, the round determination unit 402 can acquire the number of rounds if the gaming machine 36 having a desired gaming machine number with respect to the gaming machine information collection unit 403 is in a jackpot game, for example. The round is a value indicating the number of times the opening that opens to a state where it can catch a game ball launched only during a big hit is opened when the game table 36 is a pachinko machine. Therefore, for example, when 16 rounds are guaranteed during the jackpot, and when 6 rounds are completed, payout of game media for 10 rounds is guaranteed.

  In step S353, the round determination unit 402 supplies the current round number information to the round information transmission unit 404 if it is a big hit based on the operating state of the gaming table acquired from the gaming table information collection unit 403. . The round information transmission unit 404 transmits information on the number of rounds supplied from the round determination unit 402 to the game restriction information management device 17. If the jackpot is not hit, the round determination unit 402 supplies the round information transmitter 404 with information indicating that the jackpot is not hit. Thereby, the round information transmission unit 404 transmits information indicating that the game is not a big hit to the game restriction information management device 17.

  In step S354, the round determination unit 402 determines whether or not the currently ongoing round has ended, and repeats the process until the round ends. When it is determined in step S354 that the round has ended, in step S355, the round determination unit 402 supplies the firing prohibition instruction transmission unit 405 that the round has ended. Based on this notification, the launch prohibition instruction transmission unit 405 supplies a signal indicating an instruction to prohibit the launch of the game medium to the corresponding game stand 36. Based on this signal, the control unit 36a of the game table 36 controls the launch unit 36b to prohibit the launch of the game medium and control it to a state in which the game is virtually impossible. If the round is not successful, it is considered that the round has been completed, so the gaming table 36 is immediately controlled to be in a firing prohibited state, and the remaining number of rounds is notified of zero.

By this processing, the game restrictor cannot continue the game even if there is a game medium that has been acquired by a jackpot or the like on the game table 36 before that. As a result, it is possible to suppress the urge to play the game table, and it is possible to limit the game state in terms of time and economy, which ultimately leads to suppression of pachinko / pachislot addiction, etc. .

  In step S252, the guaranteed ball payout control unit 306 receives information on the number of rounds from the game store management device 24, and in step S253, calculates the guaranteed number of payout game media based on the number of rounds. That is, if 16 rounds are guaranteed with 10 small hits as one round, and if the remaining number of rounds is X rounds, and Y game media are paid out per round, guaranteed ball payout control The unit 306 calculates (X × Y) as the guaranteed number of balls.

  In step S254, the guaranteed ball payout control unit 306 notifies the medium lending management device 27 to pay out the calculated number of guaranteed balls.

  In step S311, the guaranteed ball payout notification receiving unit 388 determines whether or not the game restriction information management device 17 notifies the payout of the guaranteed ball, and repeats the process until notified. In step S311, for example, when it is notified by the processing of step S254 that the guaranteed ball is paid out, in step S312, the guaranteed ball payout notification receiving unit 388 receives a signal indicating that the guaranteed ball has been paid out. The guaranteed ball payout instruction transmission unit 389 is supplied. Based on this signal, the guaranteed ball payout instruction transmission unit 389 instructs the corresponding game stand peripheral terminal 37 to pay out the calculated number of game media as a guaranteed ball.

  In response to this instruction, the control unit 37a of the game console peripheral terminal 37 controls the payout unit 37c to pay out the calculated number of game media as a guarantee ball.

  As a result of this processing, even if the game cannot be continued due to the prohibition of the launch of the game medium as described above, the game medium that will be paid out by the jackpot if the launch is prohibited at the time when the launch is prohibited. Will be paid out as a guaranteed ball, so the game restrictor will acquire the game medium that should have been obtained in the previous game even if the game is forcibly disabled based on the game limit information Even if the game is forcibly terminated, it is possible to prompt the player to stop the game without feeling bad.

  If it is determined in step S226 (FIG. 25) that the similarity with the highest-order face image is not greater than a predetermined threshold, it is determined that there is no corresponding person, and the process of step S227 is skipped.

  In step S228, the face image acquisition unit 221 determines whether or not all supplied face images have been processed. If it is determined that all face images have not been processed, the process proceeds to step S228. Returning to S223, the processes in steps S223 to S228 are repeated until all the face images are processed. If it is determined in step S228 that all face images have been processed, the process returns to step S221, and the subsequent processing is repeated.

  Also, in step S247 (FIG. 26), none of the games is outside the game limit, that is, when the game is possible and is within the upper limit amount, the processes of steps S247 to S254 are skipped, The process returns to step S241. Therefore, the processing of steps S291 and S292, the processing of steps S311 and S312, the processing of steps S331 to S333, and the processing of steps S351 to S355 are also skipped.

  By the above processing, it becomes possible to make it impossible to continue the game by the gaming table 36 in a state where it is necessary to limit the game based on the game limit information by the time zone and the upper limit amount. In addition, even if the game cannot be forcibly played, if a big win has occurred before that, the game medium to be paid out by the big win will be guaranteed, so that the game restrictor will not feel sick. It is possible to limit the game.

  Next, with reference to FIG. 27, the gaming prohibition release processing of the gaming table will be described. Note that the processing of steps S401 to S405 and steps S421 to S428 in the flowchart of FIG. 27 is the same as the processing of steps S201 to S205 and steps S221 to S228 described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. Shall be omitted.

  In step S441, the game controller determination unit 302 determines whether or not the registrant detection information reception unit 301 has received a registrant detection notification. If it is determined that the registration has been received, the game controller determination unit 302 controls the release unit 302e in step S442. Then, it is determined whether or not the face registration number in the registrant detection information matches the face registration number in the game restriction information when the game is prohibited. That is, since the canceling unit 302e stores the gaming machine number and the game restriction information when the game is prohibited in the process of step S248 described above, the face registration number newly notified as the registrant detection information and the memory are stored. The registered face registration number is compared to determine whether or not they match.

  If it is determined in step S442 that they match, the game restrictor who has restricted the game exists in front of the corresponding game table 36, so there is no need to cancel the game prohibition of the game table. Returns to step S441.

  On the other hand, if it is determined in step S442 that they do not match, it is not the game restrictor who has been prohibited from playing the game immediately before, but a different game restrictor who is continuing the game on the corresponding game table 36. Therefore, since it is necessary to separately execute a game restriction management process based on different game restriction information, in step S443, the game restrictor determination unit 302 gives a signal indicating that the game prohibition state is instructed. This is supplied to the firing prohibition release notification unit 308.

  Based on this signal, the launch prohibition release notification unit 308 notifies the game store management device 24 to cancel the launch prohibition of the gaming machine 36 having the corresponding gaming machine number.

  In step S461, the launch prohibition release notification receiving unit 406 of the gaming store management device 24 determines whether or not the launch prohibition release has been notified from the game restriction information management device 17, and until it is determined that the notification has been received. Repeat the process. In step S461, for example, when the release prohibition release is notified by the process of step S443, in step S462, the release prohibition release notification receiving unit 406 receives the release prohibition release notification and notifies the release prohibition release instruction. The transmission unit 407 is notified. The launch prohibition release instruction transmission unit 407 instructs the corresponding game stand 36 to release the launch prohibition based on the game stand number indicating the corresponding play stand 36 supplied together with the launch prohibition release notice.

  In response to this instruction, the control unit 36a of the gaming table 36 controls the launch unit 36b to release the prohibition of launch.

  As a result of this processing, a new game restrictor is in a state in which a game medium can be launched to the game table 36. Therefore, based on the new game restriction information, if the conditions for playing a game are in place, The game can be continued as it is.

  In step S444, the game limiter determination unit 302 supplies a signal indicating that the game prohibition state is to be canceled to the deposit prohibition cancellation notification unit 305.

  Based on this signal, the deposit prohibition cancellation notifying unit 305 notifies the medium lending management device 27 to cancel the prohibition of deposit of the gaming machine peripheral terminal 37 corresponding to the gaming machine 36 having the corresponding gaming machine number.

  In step S481, the deposit prohibition release notification receiving unit 386 of the medium lending management device 27 determines whether or not the deposit prohibition release has been notified from the game restriction information management device 17, and until it is determined that the notification has been received. Repeat the process. In step S481, for example, when the payment prohibition cancellation is notified by the process of step S444, in step S482, the payment prohibition cancellation notification receiving unit 386 receives the payment prohibition cancellation notification and also notifies the payment prohibition cancellation instruction. The transmission unit 387 is notified. The payment prohibition release instruction transmission unit 387 instructs the corresponding game machine peripheral terminal 37 to release the payment prohibition based on the gaming machine number indicating the corresponding gaming machine 36 supplied together with the payment prohibition release notice. .

  In response to this instruction, the control unit 37a of the gaming machine peripheral terminal 37 controls the deposit unit 37b to cancel the prohibition of deposit.

  As a result of this processing, a new game restricted person can deposit money to the gaming machine peripheral terminal 37. Therefore, if the game conditions are established based on the new game restriction information, The game can be continued.

  On the other hand, if it is determined in step S441 that there is no notification that the game limiter is playing a game, in step S445, the game limiter determination unit 302 controls the release unit 302e to set the game prohibited state. It is determined whether or not a predetermined time has passed. Since the canceling unit 302e stores the prohibition start time by the process of step S248, the canceling unit 302e determines whether or not a predetermined time has elapsed since the game prohibition state was set based on the time information generated by the RTC 302c.

  If it is determined in step S445 that the predetermined time has elapsed, that is, if the player determined as the game limiter is considered to have left the seat, the process proceeds to step S443.

  If the predetermined time has not elapsed in step S445, the process returns to step S441, and the processes in steps S441 and S445 are repeated until the predetermined time elapses.

  With the above processing, in the gaming table 36 controlled to prohibit the depositing or the launching, it is not necessary to prohibit the gaming by the gaming table 36 by changing or leaving the player. In this case, the prohibition state can be canceled without requiring the prohibition canceling operation by the staff.

  Next, the update process of the registered player DB 262 will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

  In step S501, the DB update determination unit 253 of the biometric information management center 2 inquires the RTC 253a to determine whether or not a predetermined time has elapsed, and repeats the process until the predetermined time has elapsed. For example, if it is determined in step S501 that a predetermined time has elapsed, in step S502, the DB update determination unit 253 accesses the unregistered player DB 261 in the biometric information management DB 3, and an unregistered player is newly added. It is determined whether or not it is registered, and the processes of steps S501 and S502 are repeated until it is determined that a new unregistered player is registered.

  In step S502, for example, when a new unregistered player is registered by the process of step S56, the DB update determination unit 253 updates the registered player DB 262 with respect to the DB update unit 252 in step S503. Notify you that you are ready to start In response to this, the DB update unit 252 accesses the unregistered player DB 261, reads all the face image information of the unregistered player, and accesses the registered player DB 262 to read out the unregistered player. Are additionally registered in the registered player DB 262 and updated. Further, the DB update unit 252 notifies the DB distribution unit 251 that the registered player DB 262 has been updated. When the update of the registered player DB 262 is completed, the registered unregistered player is deleted from the unregistered player DB 261.

  In step S504, the DB distribution unit 251 accesses and reads the newly updated registered player DB 262 of the biometric information management DB 3, and reads the registered player DB 262 read to the database management unit 226 of the biometric information recognition device 21. To deliver.

  In step S521, the database management unit 226 determines whether or not a new registered player DB 262 updated from the biometric information management center 2 has been distributed, and repeats the process until it is distributed.

  In step S521, for example, when the newly updated registered player DB 262 is distributed from the DB distribution unit 251 of the biological information management center 2 by the processing in step S504, the database management unit 226 distributes in step S522. In addition to acquiring the registered player DB 262, the biometric information DB 22 is updated based on the information of the registered player DB 262. More specifically, the database management unit 226 copies and overwrites the newly distributed information of the registered player DB 262 in the biometric information DB 22.

  Through the above processing, when one of the game stores 1-1 to 1-n is registered in the unregistered player DB 261 as an unregistered player, the game store 1 is additionally registered in the registered player DB 262. -1 to 1-n are registered in the biometric information DB 22 of any of the biometric information recognition devices 21 as a database. When the image is captured by the in-store camera 41 or the in-store camera 41, a store visit is reported as a game restrictor, or a game table 36 is informed that a game is started.

  Next, update processing of the game restriction information DB 362 will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

  In step S541, the DB update determination unit 353 of the game restriction information management center 12 inquires of the RTC 353a, determines whether or not a predetermined time has elapsed, and repeats the process until the predetermined time has elapsed. For example, if it is determined in step S541 that the predetermined time has elapsed, in step S542, the DB update determination unit 353 accesses the unregistered game restriction information DB 361 of the game restriction information management DB 13, and unregistered game restriction information. Is newly registered, and the processes of steps S541 and S542 are repeated until it is determined that new unregistered game restriction information is registered.

  In step S542, for example, when unregistered game restriction information is newly registered by the process of step S38, the DB update determination unit 353 in the step S543 sends the game restriction information DB 362 to the DB update unit 352. Notify that the update is ready. In response to this, the DB update unit 352 accesses the unregistered game restriction information DB 361, reads all the unregistered game restriction information, accesses the game restriction information DB 362, and plays the read unregistered game restriction information in the game. It is additionally registered in the restriction information DB 362 and updated. Furthermore, the DB update unit 352 notifies the DB distribution unit 351 that the game restriction information DB 362 has been updated. When the update of the game restriction information DB 362 is completed, the registered unregistered game restriction information is deleted from the unregistered game restriction information DB 361.

  In step S544, the DB distribution unit 351 accesses the newly updated game restriction information DB 362 of the game restriction information management DB 13 and reads it, and reads it to the game restriction information management unit 314 of the game restriction information management device 17. The game restriction information DB 362 is distributed.

  In step S561, the game restriction information management unit 314 determines whether or not a new game restriction information DB 362 updated from the game restriction information management center 12 has been distributed, and repeats the processing until it is distributed.

  In step S561, for example, when the updated game restriction information DB 362 is distributed from the DB distribution unit 351 of the game restriction information management center 12 by the process of step S544, the game restriction information management unit 314 is transmitted in step S562. Obtains the distributed game restriction information DB 362 and updates the game restriction information DB 18 based on the information of the game restriction information DB 362. More specifically, the game restriction information management unit 314 copies and overwrites the newly distributed information of the game restriction information DB 362 in the game restriction information DB 18.

  Through the above processing, when new game restriction information is registered in the unregistered game restriction information DB 361 as unregistered game restriction information in any of the game stores 1-1 to 1-n, it is additionally registered in the game restriction information DB 362. As a result, a database is registered in the game restriction information DB 18 of any of the game restriction information management devices 17 of the game stores 1-1 to 1-n. When an image is taken by the entrance camera 40 or the in-store camera 41, a visit to the store is reported as a game limiter, or a game table 36 is reported to start a game.

  According to the present invention, if a player who has become a pachinko / pachislot addict who cannot stop playing, wants to limit his / her game and wants to cure his / her own pachinko / pachislot addiction, The restriction information can be registered, and the game can be forcibly restricted based on the game restriction information. In addition, when the game ends, if it is a big hit, it will be possible to guarantee and pay out the game medium to be paid out by the big win, so that the player will feel more unpleasant than necessary It is possible to limit only the game. Furthermore, it is possible to restrict the game at affiliated stores only by registering the game restriction information at one amusement store 1, so that the same applies not only at a specific amusement store 1 but also at any affiliated store. The game can be suppressed under the above conditions, and it is possible to effectively limit the game of the player who has become dependent on pachinko / pachislot.

  Incidentally, the series of monitoring processes described above can be executed by hardware, but can also be executed by software. When a series of processing is executed by software, a program constituting the software may execute various functions by installing a computer incorporated in dedicated hardware or various programs. For example, it is installed from a recording medium in a general-purpose personal computer or the like.

  FIG. 30 shows a configuration example of a general-purpose personal computer. This personal computer incorporates a CPU (Central Processing Unit) 1001. An input / output interface 1005 is connected to the CPU 1001 via the bus 1004. A ROM (Read Only Memory) 1002 and a RAM (Random Access Memory) 1003 are connected to the bus 1004.

  The input / output interface 1005 includes an input unit 1006 including an input device such as a keyboard and a mouse for a user to input an operation command, an output unit 1007 for outputting a processing operation screen and an image of a processing result to a display device, a program and various data. A storage unit 1008 including a hard disk drive for storing data, a LAN (Local Area Network) adapter, and the like, and a communication unit 1009 for performing communication processing via a network represented by the Internet are connected. Also, a magnetic disk (including a flexible disk), an optical disk (including a CD-ROM (Compact Disc-Read Only Memory), a DVD (Digital Versatile Disc)), a magneto-optical disk (including an MD (Mini Disc)), or a semiconductor A drive 1010 for reading / writing data from / to a removable medium 1011 such as a memory is connected.

  The CPU 1001 is read from a program stored in the ROM 1002 or a removable medium 1011 such as a magnetic disk, an optical disk, a magneto-optical disk, or a semiconductor memory, installed in the storage unit 1008, and loaded from the storage unit 1008 to the RAM 1003. Various processes are executed according to the program. The RAM 1003 also appropriately stores data necessary for the CPU 1001 to execute various processes.

  In this specification, the step of describing the program recorded on the recording medium is not limited to the processing performed in time series in the order described, but of course, it is not necessarily performed in time series. Or the process performed separately is included.

  Further, in this specification, the system represents the entire apparatus constituted by a plurality of apparatuses.

It is a figure which shows the structure of one Embodiment of the monitoring system to which this invention is applied. It is a figure which shows the example of installation of the camera of FIG. It is a figure which shows the example of installation of the camera of FIG. It is a figure which shows the example of installation of the camera of FIG. It is a figure which shows the example of installation of the camera of FIG. It is a figure which shows the example of installation of the camera of FIG. It is a figure which shows the example of installation of the camera of FIG. It is a figure which shows the example of installation of the entrance camera and shop camera of FIG. It is a figure explaining the structural example of the image processing unit of FIG. It is a figure explaining the structural example of the biometric information recognition apparatus of FIG. It is a figure explaining the structural example of the biometric information management center and biometric information management DB of FIG. It is a figure explaining the structural example of the game restriction information management apparatus of FIG. It is a figure explaining the structural example of the game restriction information management center of FIG. 1, and a game restriction information management DB. It is a figure explaining the structural example of the medium rental management apparatus of FIG. It is a figure explaining the structural example of the game shop management apparatus of FIG. It is a figure explaining the structural example of the portable terminal of FIG. It is a figure explaining the structural example of the game restriction information registration terminal of FIG. It is a figure explaining the structural example of the mobile telephone of FIG. It is a flowchart explaining a registrant visit monitoring process. It is a flowchart explaining game restriction information registration processing. It is a figure explaining the display screen in a game restriction information registration process. It is a figure explaining biometric information DB. It is a figure explaining game restriction information DB. It is a flowchart explaining the game restriction | limiting management process in an entrance. It is a flowchart explaining the game restriction | limiting management process in a game stand. It is a flowchart explaining the game restriction | limiting management process in a game stand. It is a flowchart explaining the game prohibition cancellation | release process in a game stand. It is a flowchart explaining a registration player DB update process. It is a flowchart explaining a game restriction person DB update process. And FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating a configuration example of a personal computer.

Explanation of symbols

1, 1-1 to 1-n amusement store 2 biometric information management center 3 biometric information management database 4 third party amusement store management center 5 third party amusement store management database 6 biometric information management bus 7 third party amusement store management bus 8, 9, 10 Public communication line network 11 Game restriction information management bus 12 Game restriction information management center 13 Game restriction information management database 15 Mobile phone 16 Game restriction information registration terminal 17 Game restriction information management apparatus 18 Game restriction information database 20 Mobile terminal DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 21 Biometric information recognition apparatus 22 Biometric information database 24 Game store management apparatus 26 Game stand management database 27 Medium lending management apparatus 29 Medium lending management database 30 Game shop management information bus 31 Biological information bus 33 Settlement machine 34 Lending machine 35 Counter 36, 36-1 thru | or 36-m game machine 37,37-1no 37-m game console peripheral terminal 38,38-1 to 38-m camera 39,39-1 to 39- (m + p + q) image processing unit 40,40-1 to 40-p entrance camera 41,41-1 to 41- q In-store camera

Claims (7)

Face image storage means for storing a pre-registered registrant's face image;
Limit condition storage means for storing a limit condition including at least a time zone for each pre-registered registrant,
Acquisition means for acquiring a face image of the person to be verified;
Collation means for calculating and collating the similarity between the face image of the person to be collated acquired by the acquisition means and the face image of the registrant accumulated in the face image accumulation means;
A similarity determination unit that determines whether or not the face image of the person to be collated is a face image of the registrant by comparing the similarity that is the collation result of the collation unit and a predetermined threshold;
Limiting condition determining means for determining whether or not the limiting condition is satisfied;
When the similarity determination unit determines that the verification target person is the registrant, and the limitation condition determination unit determines that the restriction condition is satisfied, the verification target person is the registrant. And an information processing apparatus including: transmission means for transmitting information indicating that the restriction condition is satisfied. An imaging means for capturing an image;
A face image extracting means for extracting the face image of the person to be collated from the image captured by the image capturing means;
Further comprising a feature amount extraction means for extracting a feature amount from the face image of the person to be collated,
The collating unit calculates a similarity using a feature amount between the face image of the person to be collated acquired by the acquiring unit and the face image of the registrant stored in the face image accumulating unit, and the acquiring unit The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the face image of the person to be collated acquired by the step is collated with the face image of the registrant stored in the face image storage unit. A payout instructing means for instructing payout of a game medium used in the game stand by accepting a deposit in the vicinity of the game stand;
Based on the face image of the person to be collated acquired in the vicinity of the game table, the similarity judging unit determines that the person to be collated is the registrant, and the restriction condition determining unit determines the restriction condition. The deposit acceptance prohibition notifying means for prohibiting the acceptance of the deposit and notifying that the instruction to pay out the game medium by the payout instructing means is not issued when it is determined that the payment is satisfied. Information processing device. In the game table, a launching means for launching a game medium;
Based on the face image of the person to be collated acquired in the vicinity of the game table, the similarity judging unit determines that the person to be collated is the registrant, and the restriction condition determining unit determines the restriction condition. 4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising: a firing prohibition notifying unit that notifies that the launching unit prohibits the launch of the game medium when it is determined to satisfy the condition. 5. Based on a face image of the person to be collated acquired in the vicinity of the game board, a payout instruction means for instructing payout of a game medium used on the game machine, and the person to be collated is registered by the similarity determination unit. A game medium to be paid out by the jackpot when it is determined by the operating condition determining means that the jackpot is being hit when the limit condition judging means determines that the limit condition is met. The information processing apparatus according to claim 4, further comprising: a payout control unit that controls the payout instructing unit so as to instruct the payout. A face image accumulating step for accumulating face images of registrants registered in advance;
Limit condition accumulation step for accumulating a limit condition including at least a time zone for each pre-registered registrant,
An acquisition step of acquiring a face image of the person to be verified;
A collation step of calculating and collating the similarity between the face image of the person to be collated acquired by the process of the acquisition step and the face image of the registrant accumulated by the process of the face image accumulation step;
A similarity determination step of determining whether or not the face image of the person to be verified is a registrant's face image by comparing the similarity that is the result of the verification in the process of the verification step with a predetermined threshold;
A limiting condition determining step for determining whether or not the limiting condition is satisfied;
When it is determined that the person to be verified is the registrant by the process of the similarity determination step and the restriction condition is determined to satisfy the restriction condition by the process of the restriction condition determination step, the person to be verified is registered. And a transmission step of transmitting information indicating that the restriction condition is satisfied. A face image accumulating step for accumulating face images of registrants registered in advance;
Limit condition accumulation step for accumulating a limit condition including at least a time zone for each pre-registered registrant,
An acquisition step of acquiring a face image of the person to be verified;
A collation step of calculating and collating the similarity between the face image of the person to be collated acquired by the process of the acquisition step and the face image of the registrant accumulated by the process of the face image accumulation step;
A similarity determination step of determining whether or not the face image of the person to be verified is a registrant's face image by comparing the similarity that is the result of the verification in the process of the verification step with a predetermined threshold;
A limiting condition determining step for determining whether or not the limiting condition is satisfied;
When it is determined that the person to be verified is the registrant by the process of the similarity determination step and the restriction condition is determined to satisfy the restriction condition by the process of the restriction condition determination step, the person to be verified is registered. A program that causes a computer to execute processing including: a transmission step of transmitting information indicating that the restriction condition is satisfied.

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