JP4515727B2 - Amusement giveaway exchange system - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a prize exchange system for a game hall that performs prize exchange processing based on a count value counted by a counting device.

In pachinko halls, fraudulent acts such as deliberately malfunctioning the game medium counting device and illegally counting up the count value are prevalent. Such a fraudulent action causes the counting device to malfunction in a short time so as not to detect it, and a single count value becomes larger than in a normal case. In this case, if a ticket with an abnormally large count value is issued from the counting device, employees may be suspected during the gift exchange process, so the fraudster becomes a member of the pachinko hall and counts up illegally. A large count value is stored, or a normal count value counted up illegally is divided into a plurality of times and stored. In addition, when a general player who is not a member commits fraud, a receipt on which a relatively small count value that has been illegally counted is recorded in several batches and issued from the counting device, and the receipt is submitted to the prize exchange counter In this way, the prize is illegally obtained. For this reason, it is difficult to discover fraudulent acts, and the fact is that they are accepting fraudulent acts.
JP-A-10-146441 JP 2001-340628 A

  In Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 10-146441, game data of a customer having a magnetic card in which a member ID is recorded is stored in a management device, and when the customer counts with a counting device, the magnetic card A fraud detection method is disclosed in which a customer is identified, the number of possessions calculated from game data is compared with the count value of a counting device, and whether or not fraud is being performed is determined.

  However, in this detection method, all players are members, and all players are fraudulent unless it is assumed that all members play a game after performing member authentication at each terminal. Although the act cannot be monitored, non-member players also play games at actual game halls, and even if they are members, they may play without member authentication, so cheating There is a problem that a fraudulent act cannot be detected unless a person intentionally uses a membership card.

On the other hand, in JP 2001-340628 A, game data for each gaming machine is stored in a management device, and when a counting process is performed by a counting device, the machine number of the gaming machine is input to the counting device. There is disclosed a game medium counting system in which the number of possessed balls calculated from data is compared with a count value of a counting device, and ticketing processing is performed on the condition that the difference is within an allowable range.
However, the purpose of this system is to be able to count without calling a game hall employee, and it is assumed that all players must enter the machine number of their gaming machine. However, if the employee is not nearby, a fraudulent player enters the table number of a common gaming table into the counting device, and illegally enters the count value using a radio wave or other method. It is possible to issue a ticket.

In addition, if the player moves the game stand with his own ball, the system cannot force the receipt of tickets in this system, so the amusement hall must forcibly take the form of sales that “the game table cannot be moved with his own ball”. There are also problems such as.
The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and the purpose of the present invention is that employees do not always need to be monitored, and it is possible to reliably perform fraud monitoring of players regardless of the business form of the game hall. The object is to provide a prize exchange system for amusement halls.

The present invention is provided with a game medium counting device capable of outputting a count value of inserted game media and issuing a deposit ticket recording the count value and the ticket issue time, and personal information read from a customer specific medium Storage means for accumulating the count value output from the game medium counting device in the customer's account based on the above, reading the count value from the deposit ticket issued by the game medium counting device, and giving a prize according to the count value A POS terminal for exchange is provided, and when the count value of one storage processing by the game medium counting device exceeds an arbitrarily set upper limit value and when the count value is lower than the upper limit value, individual by the same customer when storage processing time was within arbitrarily set time intervals, and when the POS terminal summing a plurality of deposit ticket data, the ticketing time of each deposit ticket through which the When was within the interval of issuing times during deposit ticket summing is provided with a warning means for issuing a warning (claim 1).

The present invention provides a game medium counting device that outputs a count value of inserted game media, issues a deposit ticket that records the count value, and notifies a ticket issue time, and is based on personal information read from a customer-specific medium. Storage means for accumulating the count value output from the game medium counting device in the customer's account, reading the count value from the deposit ticket issued by the game medium counting device, and exchanging prizes according to the count value POS terminals to be provided, and when the count value of one storage process by the game medium counting device exceeds an arbitrarily set upper limit value and when the count value is lower than the upper limit value, individual storage by the same customer When the processing time is within an arbitrarily set time interval, and the ticket issuing time notified from the game medium counting device is stored corresponding to the deposit ticket, and the POS terminal In the case of summing the plurality of deposit ticket data, when ticketing time are stored corresponding to each deposit ticket was within the interval of issuing times during normal custody tickets summing alert warning Means are provided (claim 2).

  In order to prevent detection of an illegal act when counting a game medium, the game medium counting device is operated in a short time. At this time, if you issue a voucher with an illegal count value recorded, there is a possibility that it will be suspected at the time of gift exchange. They store balls and issue deposit tickets.

Therefore, in the invention of claim 1, when the count value of the single storage processing by the game medium counting device exceeds the arbitrarily set upper limit value and when it is below the upper limit value, When the storage processing time is within an arbitrarily set time interval and when the POS terminal processes a plurality of deposit ticket data, the issue time of each deposit ticket is within an arbitrarily set time interval If it is, the warning means issues a warning, so that it is possible to deal with illegal storage balls with a large count value and to deal with illegal deposit tickets with a normal count value.
Further, in the invention of claim 2, when the count value of the single storage processing by the game medium counting device exceeds an arbitrarily set upper limit value and when the count value is lower than the upper limit value, the individual by the same customer when storage processing time was within arbitrarily set time intervals, and when the POS terminal summing a plurality of deposit ticket data, the ticketing time stored in correspondence with each deposit tickets normal The warning means will issue a warning if it is within the ticketing time interval at the time of the banknote summing process, so that it is possible to deal with illegal storage balls with large count values and to prevent illegal storage balls with normal count values Can be dealt with.

Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 schematically shows the overall system. In FIG. 1, a pachinko hall is provided with a terminal device 2 corresponding to a gaming machine 1 such as a pachinko machine or a pachislot machine. This terminal 2 provides various services to members in a state in which a membership card (equivalent to a customer specific medium) issued in advance by a pachinko hall to a player is provided. In response to this, the operating status of the gaming machine 1 or the other gaming machine 1 in which the member is playing is displayed, or the current day or past gaming history of the member is displayed. In addition, each terminal 2 is provided with a game media lending function, and if the pachinko hall adopts a storage system, it is confirmed that the storage is present in the authentication state of the member data read from the member card. As a condition, the game machine 1 is instructed to pay out the game medium every predetermined number of units.

At the end of the island where the gaming machine 1 is installed, a counting device (a game medium counting device, corresponding to warning means) 3 is installed. That is, the ball counting device 3 is installed at the end of the island where the pachinko machine is installed, and the medal counting device 3 is installed at the end of the island where the pachislot machine is installed. Count the pachinko balls or medals that are. Here, the counting device 3 stores the counted gaming media when the membership card is inserted when the ticket issuing / storing button is operated in the state where counting of the gaming media is completed. In addition, for general players, a deposit ticket 4 in which the counted number of game media is recorded is issued. Therefore, the member can replay with the game medium stored when he / she visits the store again, and can exchange the game medium stored for a prize as desired. In addition, a general player can exchange the game medium obtained by submitting the deposit ticket 4 issued from the counting device 3 to a prize exchange counter for a desired prize.

  On the other hand, a POS terminal (corresponding to a warning means) 5 is installed in the gift exchange counter. The POS terminal 5 reads the count value from the deposit ticket 4 submitted by the player and performs a prize exchange process. The POS terminal 5 automatically calculates and displays the number of prizes desired by the player based on the count value. Calculate and display numbers. Further, in the reading state of the member card, the prize exchange process is performed within the range of the stored balls corresponding to the member.

The gaming machine 1, the terminal device 2 and the counting device 3, and the POS terminal 5 are connected to a management computer (corresponding to storage means) 6 through a store LAN.
The management computer 6 manages the operating history of each gaming machine 1 based on the gaming data from the gaming machine 1 and manages the gaming history of members. That is, when the game medium is stored by the counting device 3 with the member card inserted, the stored game medium is added to the number of stored balls corresponding to the member, and the card is inserted with the member card inserted. When the stored balls are paid out by each terminal 2, the number of stored balls paid out is subtracted from the number of stored balls corresponding to the member.

Here, the counting device 3 has a function of issuing and warning an illegal count, and various data for realizing such a function can be set.
FIG. 2 shows a storage ball warning setting. This storage ball warning setting is provided for setting fraud detection conditions for the counting device 3 and can be set according to the game medium (pachinko ball, medal) to be stored. In this case, the set number of balls (the number of medals) is the upper limit value to be checked.

FIG. 3 shows the upper limit of storage balls per time. This storage upper limit setting is provided in order to prevent an abnormally large count value from being stored by setting a storage upper limit value per time.
On the other hand, the POS terminal 5 has a function of finding and warning an unauthorized deposit ticket 4 and can set data for realizing such a function.

FIG. 4 shows the deposit ticket total warning setting. This deposit ticket total warning setting is a setting for finding frauds in a deposit ticket when a plurality of deposit tickets 4 are read at a time.
Next, the operation of the above configuration will be described.
FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the operation of the counting device 3 (a pachinko ball counting device if the game medium is a pachinko ball, a medal counting device if the game medium is a medal) at the time of storage processing. In FIG. 5, the counting device 3 monitors whether counting has started (S101).

Now, when the game medium acquired by the player is inserted into the counting device 3, the counting device 3 starts counting (S101: YES) and displays the count value (S102).
When the counting is completed and the player presses the ticket issuing / storing button (S103: YES), it is determined whether a membership card is inserted (S104). At this time, if the player is a general player, the membership card is not used at the time of counting (S104: NO), so the deposit ticket 4 on which the count value is recorded is issued (S111).

  On the other hand, when the player is a member, since the member card is inserted into the counting device 3 at the time of counting (S104: YES), it is determined whether the counted value is equal to or less than the upper limit value (S105). This upper limit value is set by the island edge storage ball upper limit setting shown in FIG. 3, and can be considered to be abnormally large and more likely to be fraudulent than a normal average one-time count value. It is a count value. At this time, if the count value is less than or equal to the upper limit value, the possibility of fraud is low, but in order to ensure that fraud has not been performed, it is determined whether the accumulated ball value indicated by the accumulated ball information is a count value to be checked. (S106). The count value to be checked is set by the storage ball warning setting shown in FIG. 2, and is a normal average count value once, and a count value below this is a value that is not determined to be illegal. At this time, when the count value is a check target count value (S106: YES), it is determined that the stored ball processing is not within the set time from the previous check target storage processing time (S107). This set time is the time when it is determined that the time from the previous count to the current count is abnormally shorter than the normal average interval.

  As a result of executing the fraud confirmation as described above, if fraud is not recognized (S106: NO, S107: NO), the storage ball update process is executed (S108), and then the member count history is displayed. Register (S109). Thereby, in the management computer 6, the number of stored balls stored corresponding to the member is updated, and after that, replay is possible within the range of the number of stored balls.

By the way, when a member counts with the counting device 3, for example, if the counting device 3 is abnormally caused by a powerful radio wave transmitter and the counting operation of the game medium is illegally counted up, Is transmitted to the management computer 6 and the pachinko hall suffers a disadvantage.
Therefore, the counting device 3 checks whether fraud has been performed as described above when a storage operation is performed, and when the count value exceeds the upper limit (S105: NO), the fraudulent operation is performed. It is determined that there is a high possibility, and a warning notification is executed simultaneously with the management computer 6 (S110). Therefore, when the warning is notified by the counting device 3 or the management computer 6, the employee confirms whether or not an illegal storage ball is performed, and appropriately handles the illegal operation.

Further, as an illegal method, as described above, in addition to the illegality caused by a single storage ball, even if the count value is illegally counted up, it is possible to save the ball while suppressing the count value to a normal count value. There is a cheating that repeats in time.
Therefore, when the count value is the check target (S106: YES), the counting device 3 performs the storage process within the set time from the previous check target storage process time based on the member count history (S107). : YES), it is determined that there is a high possibility of fraud, and a warning notification is executed at the same time as the warning display is executed (S110). Therefore, even if the normal count value is continuously illegally stored, it is possible to detect the illegality and appropriately deal with it.

On the other hand, when a general player who is not a member performs an illegal act of storing the normal count value as described above in a short time, the depositing ticket 4 is issued from the counting device 3 in a short time instead of the stored ball, The plurality of deposit tickets 4 are submitted to the free gift exchange counter to obtain the free gift.
In such a case, since the counting device 3 cannot manage the counting history of general players, it cannot detect fraud.

Therefore, in the present embodiment, an unauthorized deposit ticket 4 issued from the counting device 3 is found at the POS terminal 5.
FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing the operation of the POS terminal 5. In FIG. 6, the POS terminal 5 monitors whether the deposit ticket 4 has been read (S201).
Now, when a player submits a plurality of deposit tickets 4 issued illegally from the counting device 3 to the free gift exchange counter, the employee in charge uses the POS terminal 5 to store the deposit tickets 4 in order to add the deposit tickets 4 together. Read continuously. Then, when the POS terminal 5 reads a plurality of deposit tickets 4 (S201: YES), the POS terminal 5 determines whether there are a plurality of deposit tickets 4 having a count value equal to or greater than a set value (S202). At this time, when there are a plurality of deposit tickets 4 having a count value equal to or greater than the set value (S202: YES), it is determined that fraud is likely to be performed, and it is determined whether the ticket issuing times are within the set time. (S204). This set time is set in the deposit ticket summation warning setting shown in FIG. 4 and is a time shorter than the interval of the ticket issuing time in the ordinary deposit ticket summing process. If the ticket issuing times are within the set time (S204: YES), it is determined that there is a high possibility of fraud, and a warning is displayed at the same time as the warning is displayed to the management computer 6 (S205). Then, a prize exchange process is performed (S206).

Therefore, the employee in charge determines whether fraud has been performed when a warning is displayed on the POS terminal 5, and if it is confirmed that fraud has been performed, the employee in charge is appropriately treated without exchanging premiums. deal with.
According to such an embodiment, in the counting device 3, if a count value larger than normal is stored, or even if the count value is continuously processed even if it is a normal count value, fraud is possible. Since it is warned that it is highly likely, it is possible to detect fraud using a storage ball by a member. Therefore, compared with the conventional example in which the fraud due to the stored ball cannot be found, the fraud due to the stored ball can be dealt with more reliably.

  Moreover, when a plurality of deposit tickets 4 are read in the POS terminal 5, a warning is issued even when the deposit tickets 4 with a larger count value than usual are issued continuously. It is possible to detect fraud at the time of ticketing by a player. Therefore, compared to the conventional example in which the fraud due to the ticket issued with a normal count value being issued in a short time cannot be found, the fraud due to the deposit voucher 4 issued illegally continuously is illegal. It is possible to deal with it reliably.

The present invention is not limited to the above embodiment, and can be modified or expanded as follows.
The storage means may be provided in the customer specifying medium.
When the counting device 3 issues a deposit ticket, the ticket issuing time is notified to the management computer 6, and when the prize is processed at the POS terminal 5, the fraud is detected based on the ticket issuing time stored in the management computer 6. It may be.

When the counting device 3 issues a deposit ticket, it notifies the management computer 6 that the ticket has been issued. The management computer 6 stores the received time as the ticket issuing time, and when the POS terminal 5 processes the prize, the management computer 6 The fraud may be discovered based on the ticketing time stored in the table.
In the counting device 3, one player may find fraud when a stored ball and a deposit ticket are issued in succession.

Schematic which shows the whole structure in one embodiment of this invention Illustration showing the storage ball warning setting Figure showing island edge storage limit setting per time Figure showing deposit ticket total warning setting Flow chart showing the operation of the counting device Flow chart showing operation of POS terminal

Explanation of symbols

1 is a gaming machine, 2 is a terminal device, 3 is a counting device (game medium counting device, warning means), 4 is a deposit ticket, 5 is a POS terminal (warning means), and 6 is a management computer (storage means). .

Claims (2)

A game medium counting device capable of outputting a count value of the inserted game media and issuing a deposit ticket recording the count value and the ticket issue time;
Storage means for storing a count value output from the game medium counting device in a customer's account based on personal information read from a customer-specific medium;
A POS terminal that reads a count value from a deposit ticket issued by the game medium counting device and exchanges prizes according to the count value;
When the count value of the one-time storage processing by the game medium counting device exceeds an arbitrarily set upper limit value and when the count value is lower than the upper limit value, individual storage processing times by the same customer are arbitrarily set When the POS terminal processes a plurality of deposit data, the ticket issuing time of each deposit ticket is within the interval of the ticket issuing time at the time of normal deposit ticket summation processing. A prize exchange system for amusement hall, comprising a warning means for issuing a warning when there is a game. A game medium counting device that outputs a count value of the inserted game media, issues a deposit ticket recording the count value, and notifies a ticketing time;
Storage means for storing a count value output from the game medium counting device in a customer's account based on personal information read from a customer-specific medium;
A POS terminal that reads a count value from a deposit ticket issued by the game medium counting device and exchanges prizes according to the count value;
When the count value of a single storage ball processing by the game medium counting device exceeds an arbitrarily set upper limit value and when the count value is lower than the upper limit value, individual storage processing times by the same customer are arbitrarily set And when the ticket issuing time notified from the game medium counting device is stored in correspondence with the deposit ticket and the POS terminal processes a plurality of deposit ticket data, An amusement hall characterized by having a warning means for issuing a warning when the ticketing time stored corresponding to each individual ticket is within the interval of the ticketing time in the ordinary depositing ticket addition process Gift exchange system.

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