JP2010082243A - Game parlor management system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a game parlor management system capable of appropriately calculating the number of so-called error balls, or a difference between the number of counted balls and the number of theoretically acquired balls in a system for managing a game parlor equipped with Pachinko game machines or the like. <P>SOLUTION: This game parlor management system 1 includes: a theoretical acquisition number calculation means 111 calculating the number of theoretically acquired balls; a counting means 51 counting the number of actually acquired balls; a counting error calculation means 52 calculating a counting error acquired by subtracting the number of actually acquired balls from the number of theoretically acquired balls for every counting; a history storage means 121 storing history information including counting record for every counting, capable of specifying the counting error; an error classification means 112 classifying the counting error for every counting into a positive-side first counting error and a negative-side second counting error by a comparison with a preset threshold; and a total error calculation means 113 calculating at least either one of the first total error, or the total of the first counting errors, and the second total error, or the total of the second counting error. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a game hall management system for managing a game hall in which pachinko gaming machines are installed.

  Conventionally, for example, in a game hall where a pachinko gaming machine (hereinafter referred to as a “game machine”) is installed, game media (hereinafter referred to as a “ball”) acquired by the player through the game are counted by a counter and prizes are exchanged. Yes. As a management system for a game hall, a game machine ID of a gaming machine that has acquired a ball to be counted is input at the time of counting, and a theoretically acquired ball and a counting ball that are the sum of a rented ball and a difference ball in that gaming machine. There is a system that matches. In this game hall management system, the difference between a theoretically obtained ball and a counting ball is monitored as an error ball, and it is going to be useful for game hall management (see Patent Documents 1 and 2).

  As an error ball monitoring method, for example, there are a method of monitoring error balls for each count, a method of monitoring error balls of the entire game hall, and the like. In the method of monitoring the error ball for each count, the error ball is calculated for each count, and the error ball is monitored by determining whether or not the error ball is within an allowable range (for example, patents). Reference 1). In the method of monitoring the error balls of the entire game hall, the theoretically obtained balls and count balls of the entire game hall are settled respectively, and the difference is calculated as the total error balls, and the total error balls are within the allowable range. The error ball is monitored by determining whether or not it is within the range (see, for example, Patent Document 2).

  As described above, the purpose of monitoring the error ball is roughly classified into the following two purposes. In other words, the purpose is to detect fraudulent counts including fraudulent balls that cannot be obtained by normal games, and the purpose is to detect aggregating abnormalities caused by wiring mistakes in a device that counts difference balls and lending balls.

  However, the conventional game hall management system has the following problems. In other words, in the method of monitoring the error ball for each count, an incorrect count cannot be detected such that the error ball for each count falls within the allowable range, and thus such incorrect count may be repeated. In the method of monitoring error balls in the entire amusement hall, if incorrect counting and counting abnormality occur simultaneously during the counting period of error balls, they are offset and error balls are within the allowable range even though incorrect counting and counting abnormality occur. May fit in.

JP 2003-181103 A JP 2008-73426 A

  The present invention has been made in view of the above-described conventional problems, and is a system for managing a game hall where pachinko machines and the like are installed, and is a difference between a counting ball and a theoretically acquired ball. An object of the present invention is to provide a management system for a game hall that can appropriately count so-called error balls.

The present invention provides a receiving means for receiving from the gaming machine side game information capable of calculating the theoretical number of games acquired by the player from the gaming machine side, and based on the game information received by the receiving means. A theoretical acquisition number calculating means for calculating the theoretical acquisition number; a counting means for counting the actual acquisition number which is the number of game media actually acquired by the player; and a counting error obtained by subtracting the actual acquisition number from the theoretical acquisition number. In a management system for a game hall comprising a counting error calculation means for calculating for each counting,
History storage means for storing history information including a count record for each count capable of specifying the counting error;
Error classification means for distinguishing the counting error for each counting into a first counting error on the positive side or a second counting error on the negative side by comparison with a preset threshold value;
A total error calculating means for calculating at least one of a first total error that is a sum of the first counting errors and a second total error that is a sum of the second counting errors;
An amusement park management system comprising: output means for outputting at least one of the first total error and the second total error (Claim 1).

  The game hall management system of the present invention includes the error classification means for classifying the counting error into the first error on the positive side or the second error on the negative side, and the counting error classified into the first error. And a total error calculating means for calculating at least one of the first total error that is a sum and the second total error that is a sum of the counting errors classified into the second error. Yes. If the counting error for each counting is classified into the first error or the second error in advance, the first total error or the second total error can be calculated efficiently, and the positive side belonging to the first error can be calculated. The sum of the measurement error and the negative measurement error belonging to the second error can prevent the two from being canceled out.

  Based on the first total error, it is possible to accurately determine whether or not a total abnormality has occurred in the game hall. Further, based on the second total error, it can be determined whether or not an illegal count has occurred. In particular, according to the second total error in which the influence of the total abnormality is suppressed, it is possible to accurately grasp the degree of necessity for dealing with fraudulent counts as a whole game hall.

  As described above, the game hall management system of the present invention is an excellent characteristic system that can appropriately count so-called error balls, which is the difference between a counting ball and a theoretically acquired ball.

The total error calculating means in the game hall management system of the present invention calculates the first total error and the second total error,
The output means outputs the second total error when the first total error is equal to or greater than a first threshold value and the second total error is equal to or less than a second threshold value; In other cases, it is preferable not to output the second total error.

  In this case, the second total error is output only when the first total error is equal to or greater than the first threshold value and the second total error is equal to or less than the second threshold value. Become so. Therefore, when the second total error is output, the first total error is not less than the first threshold value, and the second total error is not more than the second threshold value. Becomes obvious at a glance.

In addition, the counting record for each count can specify a gaming machine ID and a counting time for identifying the gaming machine from which the gaming media corresponding to the actual acquisition number is acquired,
Ranking means for creating a first error ranking that is a ranking of total error for each vehicle that is obtained by counting the first counting error for each gaming machine, and a second error ranking that is a ranking of the second counting error;
Preferably, the output means can output the first error ranking in association with the gaming machine ID, and can output the second error ranking in association with the counting time.

  In this case, it is possible to easily grasp the gaming machine in which the abnormal count is generated by the first error ranking, and it is possible to grasp the time zone in which the fraud count is high by the second error ranking. As the ranking, there are various rankings such as a ranking in descending order and a ranking in ascending order.

The count record for each count can identify reference data having a correlation with the number of used media, which is the number of game media used in the game,
A value obtained by multiplying the ratio of the total value of the counting error to the total value of the reference data specified by each count record excluding the target record that is a correction target count record by the reference data specified by the target record. A theoretical acquisition number correction means for calculating a corrected theoretical acquisition number subtracted from the theoretical acquisition number corresponding to the target record;
Preferably, the apparatus further comprises counting error correction means for calculating a correction counting error by subtracting the actual acquisition number corresponding to the target record from the correction theoretical acquisition number.
In this case, the illegal count can be detected with higher accuracy by utilizing the corrected count error corrected so as to eliminate the influence due to the total abnormality.

A determination unit configured to determine whether or not the correction count error calculated by the correction error calculation unit is equal to or greater than a predetermined value;
Preferably, the output means outputs the history information so that a determination result for each count record by the determination means can be identified.
In this case, the illegal count can be easily grasped based on the history information output by the output means.

The error classification means classifies the corrected count error determined by the determination means as not exceeding a predetermined value as a third count error,
The total error calculating means calculates a third total error which is a sum of the third counting errors;
Preferably, the output means outputs the third total error.
In this case, according to the third total error, it is possible to accurately grasp the degree of occurrence of illegal counts in the entire game arcade.

The embodiment of the present invention will be specifically described with reference to the following examples.
Example 1
In this example, the counting ball (actual acquisition number) which is the number of game media actually acquired by the player is obtained from the possession ball (theoretical acquisition number) which is the theoretical number of game media acquired by the game. It is an example regarding the management system 1 for game halls which can manage appropriately the error ball (counting error) deducted. The contents will be described with reference to FIGS.

  The game hall management system 1 (hereinafter referred to as management system 1) of this example is a system including a game machine 2, a counter 5 and a management device 10 installed in the game hall, as shown in FIG. In the management system 1, as shown in FIG. 1, a game machine 2, a ball collecting device (not shown), a repeater 4, to which a lending device 3 and the like are connected, a counter 5, and a management device 10 are connected to a communication network 40. ing. In this example, a CAN (Controller Area Network) is adopted as the communication network 40. As the communication network 40, various specifications such as LAN standards such as MOST and Ethernet (R) can be adopted instead of the CAN in this example.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the gaming machine 2 is a pachinko machine called a so-called seven machine. The gaming machine 2 performs a jackpot lottery according to the winning of the starting row 21 and generates a jackpot state according to the lottery result displayed on the display unit 25. In the gaming machine 2 of this example, a probable change state and a short time state in which a big hit is likely to occur are set.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the lending device 3 is a device that lends (dispenses) balls used for a game. The lending device 3 is installed in the space between the tables with other adjacent gaming machines 2 so as to correspond to each gaming machine 2 individually. The lending device 3 outputs a sales signal as a game signal every time a predetermined number of balls (25 balls equivalent to 100 yen) are rented for money.

  The lending device 3 includes a card reading unit including a money insertion slot 31 for inserting money as a money lending price, a touch panel type liquid crystal display unit 32 for displaying game information, and a card slit 33 for inserting a membership card or a counting card. A part (not shown) and a payout nozzle 35 for paying out balls.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the repeater 4 is connected to a gaming machine 2, a ball collection device (not shown) and a lending device 3, and relay processing (transmission / reception of information) between the gaming machine 2 including the lending device 3 and the management device 10. Is a device for executing The repeater 4 associates a game number (gaming machine ID) with the game signal output by each gaming machine 2 and the lending device 3 and sends it to the communication network 40, and also transmits communication information associated with the game number from the communication network 40. It is configured to capture.

The repeater 4 transmits the following game signals toward the communication network 40.
1) Out signal: A game signal output by a ball collecting device for collecting used balls. One pulse for every 10 recovered (used, driven) balls. Out (number of used media) is the number of out signals × 10 balls. If the gaming machine 2 can output an out signal, the ball collecting device can be omitted.
2) Safe signal: A game signal output from the gaming machine 2. One pulse for every 10 payout balls. Safe (number of payout media) is the number of safe signals × 10 balls. It is also possible to use a supply signal from the ball supply device as a safe signal.
3) Start signal: a game signal output from the gaming machine 2. One pulse per symbol change (actual operation, start processing) on the display unit 25 (combination) that fluctuates (operates) due to winning in the starting row 21 or winning in the starting port 21.
4) Jackpot signal: A game signal output from the gaming machine 2. A status signal that is output during a big hit.
5) Probability change signal: A game signal output from the gaming machine 2. A special game state signal that is output as a level during the occurrence of a probable change state or a short time state. A state signal indicating that the time-short state is being independently generated or that the probability variation state is being independently generated may be set as the special game state signal.
6) Sales signal: a game signal output by the lending device 3. One pulse for every 25 balls (100 yen worth) out of the game media rented to the player (hereinafter referred to as “lending balls”).

  As shown in FIG. 1, the management device 10 includes an output unit 15 including a liquid crystal display 150 and a printer (not shown), an apparatus body 10 that executes various arithmetic processes, an input unit 16 including a keyboard 160 and a mouse (not shown), It has. The apparatus main body 10 includes a control unit 11 including a CPU that executes arithmetic processing, a storage unit 12 including a hard disk drive (HDD), ROM, RAM, and the like, and a communication port (illustrated) that inputs and outputs various signals or information. (Transmission / reception unit 13 (I / O)). The management apparatus 10 of this example is connected to the communication network 40 via the transmission / reception unit 13, receives game signals output from the gaming machine 2 side via the transmission / reception unit 13, and holds information toward the counter 5. And so on.

  The management apparatus 10 can set setting information for managing error balls via the input unit 16 and transmits new setting information whose settings have been updated to the counter 5. The contents of the setting information will be described later.

The transmission / reception unit 13 functions as a receiving means 131 for receiving a gaming signal for each gaming machine 2, counting information by the counter 5, etc., and transmitting the ball information of the counting target gaming machine 2 to the counting machine 5. And a function as a transmission means 132.
Receiving means 131 receives game signals such as an out signal indicating that 10 balls have been used, a safe signal indicating that 10 balls have been paid out by a game, and a sales signal indicating that 25 balls have been rented out for 100 yen. Receiving is distinguished for each. Furthermore, the receiving means 131 receives from the counter 5 machine number information that can identify the machine number of the gaming machine 2 to be counted, and count information for each count. The counting information received from the counting machine 5 includes a machine number, a counting ball, an error ball (counting error), and the like of the gaming machine 2 to be counted.
When receiving the machine number information from the counter 5, the transmission unit 132 returns the ball information that can identify the ball stored in the ball storage unit 123 corresponding to the gaming machine 2.

  The output unit 15 has a function as an output unit 151 that outputs various types of information regarding error balls. The output unit 151 displays various information on the display screen of the liquid crystal display 150. The output means 151 can output a form as shown in FIGS.

  The storage unit 12 stores a history storage unit 121 that stores history information including a count record for each count that can identify an error ball, a setting storage unit 122 that stores various settings related to counting, and a ball possessed by each gaming machine 2. Holding ball storage means 123 for storing.

As shown in FIG. 2, the setting storage unit 122 is a unit that stores setting information for the allowable ball holding value, the normal count value, the determination target, and the total threshold value. This setting information is information input via the input unit 16.
1) Allowable ball tolerance: The allowable range of the difference (error ball) between the counting ball and the holding ball. An error is determined when the error ball is less than the allowable ball allowance.
2) Normal count value: A threshold value for a corrected error ball (corrected counting error) in which the influence of the total error that is the cause of the total error of holding balls is suppressed. A method for calculating the correction error ball will be described later.
3) Judgment target: Judging ball to be judged by comparison with the allowable ball allowance. As a determination target, one or both of a holding ball and a corrected holding ball (described later) can be selected. In this example, both the holding ball and the corrected holding ball are selected as determination targets.
4) Aggregation threshold: A threshold value for classifying error balls as positive error balls (first counting error) or minus error balls (second counting error). Error balls above the total threshold are classified as positive error balls, and error balls below the total threshold are classified as negative error balls.

  The holding ball storage means 123 is a means for storing the holding balls for each gaming machine 2 as shown in FIG. The possessed ball storage unit 123 stores a retained ball for each gaming machine 2 calculated by a theoretical acquisition number calculating unit 111 described later of the management device 10. The holding balls stored in the holding ball storage unit 123 are reset every time the corresponding gaming machine 2 is counted.

As shown in FIG. 4, the history storage unit 121 is a unit that stores a count record for each count such as a counting ball, a holding ball, and an error ball. The count record stored by the history storage unit 121 for each count includes the following data.
1) Machine number: Machine number of the gaming machine 2 accepted at the time of counting (the machine number of the gaming machine 2 to be counted)
2) Counting time: Time when counting was performed (time when counting information was received from the counter 5)
3) Mochitama: Theoretical number of game media acquired by the gaming machine 2 specified by the game number (theoretical acquisition number)
4) Counting balls: The actual number of game media acquired by the gaming machine 2 specified by the game number (actual acquisition number)
5) Error balls: Number of game media obtained by subtracting counting balls from holding balls (counting error)
6) Error rate: Ratio of error balls to holding balls, that is, error balls ÷ holding balls.
7) Reference error rate: The average error rate in the reference record excluding the count record determined to be abnormal among other count records of the same machine number, that is, total error ball / total holding ball. Total error ball is the sum of error balls in the reference record. Total holding ball is the total of error balls in the reference record. For example, the counting No. The reference record when No. 1 is the target record is No. 1. 16, 221 367, 385, 410. Even if the counting records have the same machine number, the No. 339 is excluded from the reference record.
8) Corrected retained balls (number of corrected theoretical acquisitions): Retained balls that have been corrected in consideration of a total error of the retained balls due to troubles of the ball collecting device, that is, retained balls × (1−reference error rate).
9) Correction error ball (correction counting error): Error ball obtained by subtracting the counting ball from the corrected holding ball

  As shown in FIG. 1, the control unit 11 calculates a theoretically-acquired number calculating unit 111 that calculates a ball for each gaming machine 2, an error ball for each count as a positive plus error ball (first count error) or a negative side. Error classification means 112 for distinguishing as a minus error ball (second counting error), a total plus error ball (first total error) that is the sum of plus error balls, and a total minus error ball (second) that is the sum of minus error balls Total error calculation means 113 for calculating the total error), ranking means 114 for ranking display of various information relating to the error ball, theoretical acquisition number correction means 115 for correcting the holding ball and calculating a corrected holding ball (corrected theoretical acquisition number), A correction error calculating means 116 for calculating a correction error ball (correction counting error) is provided.

  The theoretical acquisition number calculating means 111 is a means for calculating the number of balls (theoretical acquisition number) for each gaming machine 2. The theoretical acquisition number calculation means 111 adds 25 balls each time a sales signal is received, adds 10 balls each time a safe signal is received, and subtracts 10 balls each time an out signal is received, thereby receiving a sales signal. From the total of the sales balls obtained by multiplying the number of times by 25 balls and the safe number obtained by multiplying the number of times of receiving the safe signal by 10 balls, the number of holding balls obtained by subtracting out the number of times of receiving the out signal by multiplying 10 balls is totaled. The ball thus calculated is stored in the ball storage unit 123. In addition, when receiving the machine number information from the counter 5, it is also possible to calculate the holding ball by the formula of sales balls + safe-out.

  The error classification means 112 is a means for distinguishing error balls for each count. The error classification means 112 sums up error balls based on the counting information received from the counter 5 as error error balls (first counting error) that are on the side exceeding the total threshold (FIG. 2). An error ball on the side that does not reach the threshold is distinguished as a negative error ball (second counting error).

  The total error calculation means 113 calculates a total plus error ball (first total error) that is the sum of plus error balls and a total minus error ball (second total error) that is the sum of minus error balls as shown in FIG. Means. In this example, the total plus error ball and the total minus error ball are calculated, but either one of them may be used instead.

Here, each game information of FIG. 5 including the total plus error ball and the total minus error ball will be described. Each game information in the figure is based on the game information in FIG.
1) Total balls: Total balls 2) Total balls: Total balls 3) Total error balls: Total error balls 4) Total plus error balls: Total plus error balls 5) Total minus error balls: Negative Total error balls 6) Corrected balls: Total corrected balls whose correction error is below the normal count value 7) Correction errors: Total correction error below the normal count value

  The ranking means 114 is a means for ranking display of various types of information related to error balls. According to the ranking means 114 of this example, rankings (FIGS. 8 and 9) regarding error balls can be generated. The contents of the rankings in FIGS. 8 and 9 will be described later.

The theoretical acquisition number correcting means 115 is a means for correcting the retained ball and calculating a corrected retained ball (corrected theoretical acquired number) as shown in FIG. First, the theoretical acquisition number correction means 115 first calculates the reference error rate = the total error ball / the total holding rate in the reference records excluding the count records determined to be abnormal in total among other count records of the same unit number. Calculate the ball. Then, a corrected holding ball which is a corrected ball in consideration of a counting error (counting abnormality) of the holding balls due to a trouble of the ball collecting device or the like by a calculation formula of holding ball × (1−reference error rate). calculate.
The correction error calculating means 116 is a means for calculating a correction error ball (corrected counting error) as shown in FIG.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the counter 5 is a device for counting the number of balls (game media) to be exchanged for prizes and obtaining the counting balls (actually acquired number). The counter 5 includes a ball throwing tray 501 for throwing balls, a counting means 51 for counting the thrown balls to obtain counting balls, a counting error calculating means 52 for calculating an error ball (counting error) for each count, Receipt issuing means 53 for issuing counting receipts on which counting balls are recorded, transmission / reception means 57 for transmitting / receiving various kinds of information to / from the management device 10, stand specifying means 54 for specifying the gaming machine 2 to be counted, counting An abnormality determination unit 55 that determines abnormality every time and an abnormality notification unit 56 that notifies abnormality are provided.

The counting means 51 is a means for obtaining a counting ball by counting the number of balls thrown into the ball throwing tray 501.
The counting error calculation unit 52 is a unit that calculates an error ball by subtracting the counting ball from the holding ball based on the holding ball information received from the management device 10.

  The table specifying means 54 is composed of a combination of a portable terminal (not shown) that is an infrared remote controller carried by an employee and a signal receiving unit 541 disposed in the main body of the counter 5. The portable terminal is an infrared remote controller capable of transmitting a remote control signal capable of specifying the machine number of the gaming machine 2 toward the main body of the counter 5. The portable terminal includes a numeric keypad (not shown). The portable terminal outputs a remote control signal that can identify the machine number input with the numeric keypad. The signal receiving unit 541 demodulates the remote control signal received through the infrared light receiving unit, and acquires the machine number input from the portable terminal.

  In addition, as a portable terminal, it replaces with the portable terminal of this example which can communicate with the counter 5 main body via infrared communication, and the terminal which communicates with the main body side via radio waves, such as RFID, may be sufficient as it. . Furthermore, instead of the table specifying means 54 of this example including a portable terminal, a table specifying means including a numeric key provided on the main body of the counter 5 may be used.

  The receipt issuing means 53 is a means for issuing a count receipt. The count receipt issued by the receipt issuing means 53 is a paper receipt on which numbers representing count balls are printed. The receipt issuing unit 53 includes an issue button 531 and a receipt issuing unit 532. The issue button 531 is a push button operated by a player or a game hall employee when requesting the issue of a counting receipt. The receipt issuing unit 532 issues a count receipt according to the operation of the issue button 531. The counting receipt can be exchanged for a prize equivalent to a counting ball by an exchange device such as a POS (not shown).

  The transmission / reception means 57 is means for transmitting / receiving various types of information to / from the management apparatus 10. Information to be transmitted from the counter 5 to the management device 10 includes machine number information that can identify the machine number (game machine ID) of the gaming machine 2 to be counted, and count information that can identify a counting ball, an error ball, and the like. There is. As information received from the management apparatus 10, there is a ball information that can specify a ball related to the counting-target gaming machine 2, a corrected ball or the like. In addition, in the counting machine 5, the possession ball decision flag is prescribed | regulated, and when the possession ball information is received, the possession ball decision flag is set to an ON state.

The abnormality determination means 55 is a means for executing abnormality determination for each count. The abnormality determining means 55 compares the error ball obtained by subtracting the counting ball from the holding ball with the allowable ball allowable value, and determines that the error ball is abnormal when the error ball is equal to or less than the allowable ball allowable value (FIG. 2).
The abnormality notification unit 56 is a unit that performs abnormality notification when the abnormality determination unit 55 determines that an abnormality has occurred. The abnormality notification means 56 performs abnormality notification by voice or the like.

  Next, the operation of the management apparatus 10 configured as described above and the operation of the counter 5 will be described using the flowcharts of FIGS. 6 and 7. FIG. 6 shows the flow of processing by the management apparatus 10. FIG. 7 shows the flow of processing by the counter 5.

  First, the flow of processing by the management apparatus 10 will be described. First, the management device 10 determines reception of an out signal (S101), reception of a safe signal (S103), and reception of a sales signal (S104). When an out signal is received (S101: YES), 10 holding balls are subtracted (S102). When a safe signal is received (S103: YES), 10 holding balls are added (S105), and when a sales signal is received (S104: YES), 25 holding balls are added (S105).

When the machine number information is received from the counter 5 (S106: YES), the machine record is the same among the record records in the history information shown in FIG. A reference record is extracted (S107), and a corrected ball is calculated (S108). Thereafter, the ball information that can identify the ball and the corrected ball is transmitted to the counter 5 (S109), and the ball is initialized (S110).
When counting information is received from the counter 5 (S111: YES), a counting record to be added to the history information is newly created (S112), and the history information is updated (S113).

  Next, the flow of processing by the counter 5 will be described. First, the counting machine 5 determines whether or not a ball has been thrown into the ball throwing tray 501, that is, whether or not a counting sensor (not shown) provided in the back of the ball throwing tray 501 has detected a ball (S <b> 201). When the insertion of a ball is detected (S201: YES), the number of inserted balls is added to the counting ball (S202). Then, the flag state of the holding ball determination flag is determined (S203). If the holding ball determination flag is in the off state (S203: YES), it is determined whether a machine number of the gaming machine 2, that is, a remote control signal that can identify the machine number from the portable terminal is received (S204). ). When the machine number is accepted (S204: YES), machine number information that can identify the machine number is transmitted to the management apparatus 10 (S205).

  Thereafter, it is determined whether or not to receive possession information from the management device 10 (S206). When the possessed ball information is received (S206: YES), the retained ball determination flag is set to the on state (S207). Further, it is determined whether or not the issue button 531 has been pressed (S208). When the issue button 531 is pressed (S208: YES), the counting ball is fixed (S209), and the holding ball determination flag is reset to zero (S210).

  Thereafter, an error ball obtained by subtracting the counting ball from the holding ball based on the holding ball information is obtained and compared with the allowable ball allowance (FIG. 2) (S211). If the error ball exceeds the allowable ball allowance (see FIG. 2) (S211: YES), the counting information is transmitted to the management apparatus 10 (S212), and the counting receipt issuing process P is executed. On the other hand, when the error ball is equal to or less than the allowable ball allowance (S211: NO), it is determined that there is an abnormality and abnormality notification is executed (S222). Note that the issue button 531 is pressed (S208) when the holding ball determination flag is 1 (S203: NO, S206: YES), while the issue button 531 is pressed when it is zero (S206: NO). Do not judge the operation. Therefore, the counting receipt issuance process P is allowed only when the possession determination flag is set to 1, that is, on condition that the possession information is received.

  Based on the history information of FIG. 4 which is the history of each count record including the game information aggregated by the above processing, the following determination can be made. The reference error rate in the figure is the average error rate of the reference record. If the corrected ball calculated based on the reference error rate is compared with the counting ball, it is possible to execute the abnormality determination in consideration of the aggregation abnormality that is the cause of the aggregation error of the holding ball in the corresponding machine number. Become. For example, in the conventional case, No. No. 284 is judged as abnormal. 339 was judged normal. However, no. In 284, since the difference between the error rate and the reference error rate is small, it can be determined that there is a high possibility that a total abnormality has occurred. Further, since the corrected error ball shows a normal value, it can be determined that the error is within the range due to the large number of balls. On the other hand, no. In 339, the difference between the error rate and the reference error rate is large, and the correction error is also below the ball allowance value.

  Note that there is a sufficient effect even in a configuration in which only the holding balls are determined as in the conventional case at the time of collation at the time of counting, and the corrected holding balls are calculated at the time of counting such as closing processing. This is because the fraud considered as a problem by the present plan is a fraud that may be repeated many times while the damage per one time is relatively small. A fraud with a large damage per time can be dealt with by conventional fraud determination.

  Further, according to the total plus error ball in FIG. 5, it is possible to grasp the existence of the gaming machine 2 having the total abnormality such as so-called out spillage in the out BOX. Moreover, according to the total minus error ball, it is possible to grasp the occurrence of fraud such as counting balls brought in from outside the game hall. In the management system 1 of this example, the plus error balls and the minus error balls are differentiated and aggregated, so that there is little possibility that they are offset.

  There are abnormalities such as out, safe, sales signal, etc. as a factor of the total abnormality. Of these, for safe and sales, the gaming machine 2 or the lending device 3 usually counts the number of balls paid out and outputs a signal. Therefore, only poor connection of the connector or abnormality in the counting circuit causes the aggregation abnormality. It is hard to become an error. On the other hand, for out, game out information is likely to cause a totaling abnormality because an out spill factor is added to these factors. Therefore, it is necessary to monitor the positive error ball in order to detect the total abnormality.

  Furthermore, according to the management system 1 of this example, ranking information as shown in FIGS. 8 and 9 can be output. FIG. 8 is a diagram showing the first error ranking in descending order of the total error per unit (indicated as “+ error” in the figure) in which the plus error balls are tabulated for each gaming machine. FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating the second error ranking in descending order of negative error balls.

  According to FIG. 8 showing the first error ranking, it is possible to grasp a gaming machine having a high possibility of a total abnormality that is a factor of a total error of holding balls. The same effect can be obtained by descending ranking of the average error rate for each car number. Furthermore, according to the ascending order ranking of the average error rate for each car number, it is possible to grasp the total abnormality such as less safety. In generating the ranking related to the plus error ball, it is preferable to exclude the count record determined to be abnormal.

  According to FIG. 9 showing the second error ranking, it is possible to easily grasp a count that is likely to be an illegal count. If the counting time is displayed, it is possible to grasp the time zone when the unauthorized person visits the store. According to the figure, since the top ranking counts occur in the 17:00 range, there is a possibility that fraudulent counting can be efficiently prevented if an unauthorized person is warned with particular attention to the time. It is also possible to create a negative error ball ranking.

  In the game hall management system 1 configured as described above, an error ball, which is the difference between the holding ball and the counting ball, is calculated for each count. Also, the sum of plus error balls whose error balls for each count are equal to or greater than the total threshold value (zero in this example, see FIG. 2) is the total plus error ball, and the total of negative error balls that are less than the total threshold value. Aggregated as total minus error balls. As described above, according to the gaming hall management system 1 of the present example, the offset between the positive error ball mainly due to the total abnormality that is the cause of the total error of the holding ball and the negative error ball mainly due to the illegal count is offset. Can be avoided and managed individually.

  As described above, the game hall management system 1 of this example is a system for managing a game hall in which pachinko machines and the like are installed, and is a so-called error that is a difference between a counting ball and a theoretically acquired ball. It is an excellent system that can properly count balls.

  In this example, as shown in FIG. 5, a total plus error ball and a total minus error ball are output. Instead of this, either one of the total plus error ball and the total minus error ball may be selectively output. In this case, each threshold value or a common threshold value may be set for the total plus error ball and the total minus error ball. If the total plus error ball is greater than or equal to the threshold value and the total minus error ball is less than or equal to the threshold value, instead of the total error ball in the game information summary form including sales information, Alternatively, a total plus error ball and a total minus error ball may be output so that they can be compared with the total error ball. It should be noted that the total minus error ball that may be illegally counted is preferably output in preference to the total plus error ball (for example, only the total minus error ball is output as a selection formula).

  In addition, a so-called per-counter counting system in which a counting device is installed for each gaming machine 2 may be constructed similarly to the management system of this example. In this case, it is not necessary to receive the machine number at the time of counting in the counting system for each machine in which the counting device is installed for each gaming machine. That is, if the corrected ball is calculated by the lending device 3 or the like for each gaming machine 2 without creating the game data as shown in FIGS. 8 and 9, it is not necessary to store the machine number as shown in FIG.

  This example is an example in which a corrected ball is calculated when the machine number information is received so that the corrected ball and the counting ball can be collated at the time of counting. If it is only necessary to refer to the possession balls at the time of counting, it is also possible to update only the actual data such as the possession balls and the counting balls when the counting information is received, and to calculate the corrected possession balls etc. at the time of data aggregation.

In addition, as a method of accepting the machine number by the counter 5, various methods such as acceptance through an operation unit provided in the counter 5 or acceptance by reading a machine tag attached to a ball box or the like are adopted. obtain.
In this example, a holding ball is used as reference data for calculating a reference error rate. As reference data, counting balls, out, game time, or the like can be used instead of the holding balls. In this example, the corrected holding ball is calculated by an arithmetic expression of holding ball × (1−reference error rate). Instead of this, it is also possible to calculate a corrected possessed ball by an arithmetic expression obtained by developing this arithmetic expression, that is, “ball retention-reference data × reference error rate”.
As reference data for calculating the reference error rate, if the average ratio of error balls of the reference record for each gaming machine is shown, the target record or the count record determined to be abnormal may be included.

In this example, the total plus error ball and the total minus error ball are calculated, but instead of this, only the corrected holding ball may be calculated.
In this example, the count receipt is issued by the issuing process by the counter, but a storage medium such as an IC card may be issued instead of the count receipt. Further, a process of reading the player identification information (member ID, fingerprint, etc.) and associating the identification information with the counting ball may be the issuing process. That is, the issuing process is a process for associating predetermined identification information with a counting ball.

In addition, in this example, the possession ball is initialized on the condition of receiving the car number information, but other conditions such as reception of signals from employees' portable terminals, sales signals, etc. can be determined as customer changes. Any condition may be adopted.
Note that the configuration of the system can be changed so that various processes performed by the management apparatus 10 are executed by a lending apparatus, a relay apparatus, or the like.
Further, the gaming machine to be managed may be any gaming machine such as a pachislot machine, and the target gaming medium may be a gaming medium such as a medal.

  As described above, specific examples of the present invention have been described in detail. However, these specific examples merely disclose an example of a technique included in the scope of claims. Needless to say, the scope of the claims should not be construed as limited by the configuration, numerical values, or the like of the specific examples. The scope of the claims includes techniques obtained by variously modifying or changing the specific examples using known techniques, knowledge of those skilled in the art, and the like.

The block diagram which shows the functional structure of the management system for game halls in Example 1. FIG. FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram illustrating setting information stored in a setting storage unit in the first embodiment. Explanatory drawing which shows the possession ball for every game machine which the possession ball memory | storage means memorize | stores in Example 1. FIG. Explanatory drawing which shows the log | history information which a log | history memory | storage means in Example 1 memorize | stores. FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram illustrating counting and counting in the first embodiment. FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing processing of the management device in the first embodiment. FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing processing of the counter in the first embodiment. FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing a first error ranking in the first embodiment. FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing a second error ranking in the first embodiment.

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DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Management system for game halls 111 Theoretical acquisition number calculation means 112 Error classification means 113 Total error calculation means 114 Ranking means 115 Theoretical acquisition number correction means 116 Correction error calculation means 121 History storage means 122 Setting storage means 123 Mochitama storage means 131 Reception Means 132 Transmission means 2 Game machine 3 Lending device 4 Repeater 5 Counter (counting means)
51 Counting means 52 Counting error calculating means 53 Receipt issuing means 54 Stand specifying means 55 Abnormality determining means 56 Abnormality notifying means 57 Transmission / reception means

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Receiving means for receiving from the gaming machine side game information capable of calculating the theoretical number of games obtained by the player, which is the theoretical number of game media, and the theoretically acquired number based on the game information received by the receiving means. Calculation means for calculating the theoretical acquisition number to be calculated, counting means for counting the actual acquisition number that is the number of game media actually acquired by the player, and calculating a counting error by subtracting the actual acquisition number from the theoretical acquisition number for each count A management system for a game hall comprising a counting error calculating means for
History storage means for storing history information including a count record for each count capable of specifying the counting error;
Error classification means for distinguishing the counting error for each counting into a first counting error on the positive side or a second counting error on the negative side by comparison with a preset threshold value;
A total error calculating means for calculating at least one of a first total error that is a sum of the first counting errors and a second total error that is a sum of the second counting errors;
An amusement park management system, comprising: output means for outputting at least one of the first total error and the second total error. The total error calculating means calculates the first total error and the second total error;
The output means outputs the second total error when the first total error is equal to or greater than a first threshold value and the second total error is equal to or less than a second threshold value; 2. The game hall management system according to claim 1, wherein the game room management system is configured not to output the second total error in other cases. The count record for each count can specify a gaming machine ID and a counting time for identifying a gaming machine from which a gaming medium corresponding to the actual number of acquisitions has been acquired,
Ranking means for creating a first error ranking that is a ranking of total error for each vehicle that is obtained by counting the first counting error for each gaming machine, and a second error ranking that is a ranking of the second counting error;
The output means is configured to output the first error ranking in association with the gaming machine ID, and to output the second error ranking in association with the counting time. The management system for game halls according to 1 or 2. The count record for each count can identify reference data having a correlation with the number of used media, which is the number of game media used in the game,
A value obtained by multiplying the ratio of the total value of the counting error to the total value of the reference data specified by each count record excluding the target record that is a correction target count record by the reference data specified by the target record. A theoretical acquisition number correction means for calculating a corrected theoretical acquisition number subtracted from the theoretical acquisition number corresponding to the target record;
The counting error correction means for calculating a correction counting error by subtracting the actual acquisition number corresponding to the target record from the correction theory acquisition number, according to any one of claims 1 to 3. A management system for a described game hall. Determination means for determining whether or not the correction count error calculated by the correction error calculation means is a predetermined value or more;
5. The game hall management system according to claim 4, wherein the output unit is configured to output the history information so that a determination result for each count record by the determination unit can be identified. . The error classification means classifies the corrected count error determined not to be not less than a predetermined value by the determination means as a third count error;
The total error calculating means calculates a third total error which is a sum of the third counting errors;
6. The game hall management system according to claim 5, wherein the output means is configured to output the third total error.

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