JP6302224B2 - Amusement park management system - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a management system for a game arcade in which a counting error monitoring operation is performed in a business form permitting movement of medals and balls and a business form requiring declaration of the movement.

  In a conventional game hall, for example, as described in Patent Document 1, when counting game media (balls and medals), the theoretical number of balls that are calculated and stored on the management device side and the actual number of balls There is a case where an operation for monitoring whether or not the count value matches is performed. In addition, in order to perform such an operation accurately, it is necessary to accurately specify the number of balls actually owned by the player. It also states that employees are required to declare that when they move, and that the employee manually corrects the number of holding balls when the declaration of movement is made.

JP 2010-29520 A

  However, the obligations as described above are not always observed, and the fact is that there are not a few players who move with their own balls without making a declaration. In addition, there are many game centers where it is concerned that imposing the above obligations will give a bad impression to the player, and there are not a few actual game sites that monitor the count values without imposing the above obligations. Under such circumstances, it is difficult to specify the number of balls that the player actually has, and there is a problem that an error occurs between the number of balls and the count value at the time of counting. It was.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above-described circumstances, and its object is to provide a management system for a game hall that can identify the actual number of possession balls with high accuracy without imposing a burden on the player. Is to provide.

In the invention described in claim 1, a game can be executed by consuming game media lent in accordance with the payment of money, and a gaming machine is provided in which a game media is paid out when a prize is generated in the game. In the game hall management system in the game hall, calculation means capable of executing calculation processing for calculating for each gaming machine as the number of game media acquired by the player as the number of game media acquired, and calculated by the calculation means Acquired game medium number storage means for storing the number of acquired game media in association with the identification information of the gaming machine, and counting means for receiving the game medium acquired when the player finishes the game and executing a counting process When the counting means executes the counting process, the gaming machine specifying means for specifying the gaming machine from which the player has acquired the game medium, and the result of the counting process executed by the counting means are The number of game media counted is compared with the number of acquired game media stored in the acquired game media number storage means in association with the identification information of the game machine specified by the game machine specifying means. The collation result output means for outputting, the display means provided for each gaming machine and displaying the number of acquired game media calculated by the calculation means, and the number of acquired game media calculated by the calculation means Operating means that can be corrected by the operation of, and when the counting process by the counting means is executed, the calculating means subtracts the counted number of gaming media from the number of gaming media The calculation process is restarted as the number of acquired game media at that time, and when there is an operation by the operation means, the value corrected by the operation is calculated as the number of acquired game media at that time. Is configured to open, the display means, and displays the difference game medium count graph showing changes in difference in game medium speed and which is turned to the number of paid out game media in accordance with an operation by employees Displaying the number of executions of the counting process up to the present time, the number of acquired game media at the time when the past count process was executed, and the number of currently acquired game media according to the difference game medium number graph for a certain period of time. Features.

The invention described in claim 2 is characterized in that the gaming machine specifying means specifies the gaming machine that has acquired the gaming media based on identification information of the gaming machine input by an employee.

  According to the invention of claim 1, since the display means provided in each gaming machine displays the current number of acquired game media, the employee can actually display the number of game media possessed by the player and the display means. Compare the displayed number of acquired game media and confirm that there is no error when confirming that there is an error (check with the staff in the office whether or not fraudulent activity has been detected on the management system side) The number of game media possessed can be immediately corrected after confirming whether or not the player has moved or not. Therefore, even if it is the business form which permits the movement of a possessed game medium, the possibility that an error will occur when counting game media can be suppressed in advance.

Viewing means are the displayable number acquisition game media when the counting process in addition to the number of acquired game media currently has been performed, it is possible to grasp the winning game medium count Transition to date.

According to the invention of claim 2 , the gaming machine specifying means specifies the gaming machine that has acquired the gaming medium based on the identification information input by the employee. For this reason, if an error occurs during counting, for example, the employee can return to the gaming machine together with the player and confirm the number of acquired game media displayed together. Thereby, it becomes easy to specify the cause of the error, and at the same time, it can be a deterrent against fraudsters.

1 is an overall configuration diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention. Diagram showing data related to counting history information The figure which shows the game information displayed on the liquid crystal display part of a game information display apparatus Functional block diagram showing the configuration of the game information display device Functional block diagram showing the configuration of the counter Figure showing receipt Figure showing the machine number input screen Figure showing the counting start screen Figure showing the count completion screen

  Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 schematically shows the overall configuration of a game hall management system 1. A plurality of gaming machines 2 are installed in the gaming hall where the gaming hall management system 1 is provided. In the case of this embodiment, the gaming machine 2 is assumed to be a so-called slot machine. Each gaming machine 2 is provided with a rental unit 3 and a game information display device 4 (display means). The gaming machine 2, the rental unit 3, and the game information display device 4 are connected to the relay device 5, respectively. The game information display device 4 is installed above the corresponding gaming machine 2 and displays various game data based on a signal received by the relay device 5. The relay device 5 is connected to the management device 7 (calculation means, acquired game medium number storage means, gaming machine specifying means) via the LAN 6.

  The management device 7 is installed in, for example, an office in the amusement hall, and is connected to a monitor 7a and the like. The management device 7 manages the operating status of all the devices (the gaming machine 2, the lending unit 3, the game information display device 4, etc.) installed in the game hall. In the game hall, for example, several hundreds of game machines 2 including so-called pachinko machines are installed, and each game machine 2 is a management target of the management device 7. The counter 8 and the gift exchange terminal (hereinafter referred to as POS) 9 are connected to the management device 7 via the LAN 6.

  The counter 8 counts the inserted game media (medals and pachinko balls), issues a recording medium that records the count results, and transmits count information to the management device 7. In addition, the counting machine 8 receives information on the medal of the machine number (unit number) for the gaming machine 2 of the particular model number of the particular model from the management device 7 at the time of counting. The POS 9 reads the number of game media specified by the recording medium and performs a prize exchange process. Here, the possessed medals are medals acquired by the player by the game, and it is assumed that the player is allowed to move to another gaming machine 2 with the possessed medals or the possessed balls at the game hall. To do.

  As is well known, the gaming machine 2 includes a display window 21, a start lever 22, a stop button 23, a liquid crystal display unit 24, a medal slot 25, a BET button 26, a tray 27, and the like. The player can visually recognize the symbols drawn on the reel provided inside through the display window 21. When the player inserts a medal (game value) into the medal slot 25 or operates the BET button 26, a predetermined number of credit medals (game value) are bet (game value is consumed), and start in that state. When the lever 22 is operated (when the game start operation is performed), the internal lottery is executed and the symbol variation is started. When the stop button 23 is operated, a so-called pull-in control (a predetermined pull-in range) is performed. For example, up to 4 symbols are controlled on the active line and stopped and displayed), and reel fluctuation is stopped. Note that the gaming machine 2 is not limited to the one provided with the physical reel described above, but may be a type in which the display window 21 is configured by a liquid crystal display or the like, and a symbol is displayed and changed as an image. In that case, when the start lever 22 is operated, the change of the symbol displayed on the screen of the liquid crystal display is started, and when the stop button 23 is operated, the corresponding symbol is stopped and displayed.

  As is well known, such a gaming machine 2 is set with a bonus combination, a small combination, a replay combination, etc., and a stop button 23 is selected by the player in any state in which the combination is won in the internal lottery. When a symbol corresponding to the internal winning combination is stopped and displayed on the active line set in advance (when the symbols are aligned), a winning is generated. When a winning occurs, a transition to a payout of a corresponding number of medals (giving game value) or a jackpot state (bonus state) is performed.

  The gaming machine 2 outputs various game signals according to the execution of the game. Specifically, the gaming machine 2 receives an insertion signal indicating the number of gaming media inserted into the gaming machine 2, a payout signal indicating the number of gaming media paid out due to the occurrence of a winning, and that the game has started. A start signal indicating that, a jackpot signal (bonus signal) indicating that a jackpot state has occurred is output. The game information display device 4 and the management device 7 input and collect these game signals from the gaming machine 2 via the relay device 5 to collect and manage game information, specify the jackpot state, and generate an ART state. To identify. The game information display device 4 displays various game information for the player.

  The lending unit 3 includes an operation lamp 11 indicating an operating state, a money insertion slot 12 through which a player inserts a valuable value (for example, money), a medal payout opening 13 for paying out (lending out) medals, and the like. The lending unit 3 turns on the operation lamp 11 when a failure occurs, and notifies the employee of the occurrence of the failure. In addition, when the player inserts the valuable value into the money slot 12, the lending unit 3 pays out the number of medals corresponding to the inserted valuable value from the medal payout opening 13 to the gaming machine 2. Further, the lending unit 3 outputs a lending signal (sales signal) indicating the valuable value inserted into the money slot 12.

Based on the output signals from the gaming machine 2 and the lending unit 3, the management device 7 calculates the current number of medals according to the following calculation formula.
Current number of medals = number of rented medals + number of paid out medals−number of inserted medals−number of counted medals The calculated number of held medals is transmitted to the game information display device 4 as needed. For example, the number of rental medals = 500 (specified based on the sales signal), the number of paid-out medals = 3500 (specified based on the paid-out signal), the number of inserted medals = 3000 (specified based on the input signal), the number of counted medals When = 0 (specified based on the counting result from the counter 8), the current number of medals is 1000 (= 500 + 3500-3000-0). The relay device 5 may calculate the number of medals held and transmit the calculation result to the game information display device 4 and the management device 7. Alternatively, the game information display device 4 and the management device 7 may each calculate the number of medals possessed.

  The number of medals is corrected as the player moves the gaming machine 2 with the medals. That is, during the business, the employees who circulate in the store have the number of medals actually owned by the player (the number of medals held in the tray 27 or medal storage box of the gaming machine 2), It is visually confirmed whether or not the calculated medal number displayed on the game information display device 4 matches. Here, if the player moves the gaming machine 2 while holding a medal, an error occurs between the two.

  Accordingly, when the employee determines that the number of medals displayed on the game information display device 4 does not match the actual number of medals, the remote controller 10 (operation means) carried by the employee is attached to the gaming machine 2. It operates toward the light receiving unit 45 (see FIGS. 3 and 4) of the corresponding game information display device 4. With this operation, the current number of medals can be corrected to match the actual number of medals. For example, if a player who has acquired 1000 copies moves to another gaming machine 2 with the 1000 copies, the current number of medals will be 1000 in the calculation, but in actuality it will be 0. The employee corrects the calculated medal number to zero.

When the management device 7 performs an operation for correcting a medal with the remote controller 10, the management device 7 recalculates the medal number input from the remote controller 10 as the current medal number regardless of the above calculation result. Resume processing.
Moreover, whenever the management apparatus 7 receives a count result from the counter 8, it records the count history information shown in FIG. In FIG. 2, as the counting history information, a counter No., time (counting time), count value, medal number, error, machine number, employee (person in charge) ID are set. Each data is inputted at the time of reception, so that they are stored as a history.

  As shown in FIG. 3, the game information display device 4 switches the lamp unit 41, the liquid crystal display unit 42, a call button 43 for calling an employee, the type of game information displayed on the liquid crystal display unit 42, and the like. Switch button 44, and a light receiving unit 45 that receives (receives) a signal from the remote controller 10 carried and operated by the employee. The liquid crystal display unit 42 can display various game information in each area. In FIG. 3, an example of the screen display of the liquid crystal display unit 42 is shown, and the following game information is displayed in the respective areas of the liquid crystal display unit 42.

“Today's jackpot number”: the number of occurrences of the jackpot state today, and is displayed in the area M1.
“Number of hits on the previous day”: The number of occurrences of the jackpot state on the previous day, which is displayed in the area M2.
“Number of big hits the day before last”: The number of occurrences of the big hit state the day before the last day, and is displayed in the area M3.
“Historical number of big hits”: The number of occurrences of the highest number of big hits, which is displayed in the area M4.
“Number of start of jackpot”: The number of starts of jackpot is displayed in the area M5.
“Today's cumulative start count”: The cumulative count of today's start count, which is displayed in the area M6.
“Difference medal number graph”: a graph showing a transition of “payout number” − “insertion number”, and is displayed in the area M7.
“Big jackpot start number graph”: The number of start times of the jackpot for the latest 10 times, which is displayed in the area M8.
“Number of counts up to now, number of medals at the time of past counting, number of medals at present”: History information regarding the number of counts and medals, and displayed in the area M7 in accordance with the difference medal number graph.

  FIG. 3 exemplifies that the history information regarding the medal held in the area M7 is one count, 723 at the time of the previous count, and 256 at the present time. These pieces of information may be displayed for a certain period of time when the remote controller 10 is operated by an employee. In addition, by operating the switching button 44, the difference medal number graph in the area M7 and the history information regarding the medal are switched and displayed for the past 10 days.

  FIG. 4 is a functional block diagram showing an electrical configuration of the game information display device 4. In the game information display device 4, a lamp unit 41, a liquid crystal display unit 42, a call button 43, a switching button 44, a light receiving unit 45, a touch panel 47, an I / F unit 48 and the like are connected to the control unit 46. The control unit 46 is configured by a microcomputer having a CPU, ROM, RAM, I / O, and the like, and controls the entire operation of the game information display device 4 based on a computer program stored in the ROM or the like. The touch panel 47 is formed on the screen of the liquid crystal display unit 42. The I / F unit 48 controls input / output of various game signals to / from the relay device 5.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the counter 8 includes a slide cover 8a that is slid between a closed position and an open position, a display function that displays various information such as counting results, and operation inputs from employees and players. Touch panel type liquid crystal display unit 34 having an input receiving function for receiving, status display unit 32 composed of LEDs for indicating the status of the counter 8, a count value and a two-dimensional code or bar code recording the count value are printed. The receipt issuing port 29 for issuing the received receipt 28 (see FIG. 6) and the employee IC card 30 (see FIG. 5) possessed by the employee are embedded in the employee IC card 30 in a state where they are deceived. An IC card reader 31 that reads a person-in-charge ID stored in the IC chip 30a is provided.

  The counting machine 8 performs the authentication operation of the employee when the employee puts the employee IC card 30 on the IC card reader 31, and the slide cover 8a is unlocked and slid to move into the input container ( When (not shown) is opened, it becomes possible to count. When an employee or a player inserts an acquired medal into an input container, the acquired medal is counted by a counting sensor. The counter 8 counts the inserted medals, and issues a receipt 28 in which the counting result is recorded. At the same time, the counting result is transmitted to the management device 7 together with various information such as the input machine number and the person in charge ID. To do. The slide cover 8a is manually opened by releasing the lock, and is automatically locked when the slide cover 8a is returned to the closed position.

  FIG. 5 shows the configuration of the counter 8 by functional blocks. The counter 8 is provided on the surface of the control unit 33 (counting unit, gaming machine specifying unit, collation result output unit) having a CPU 33a, ROM 33b, RAM 33c, and I / O 33d, a liquid crystal display unit 34, and the surface of the liquid crystal display unit 34. The touch panel 34a, a receipt issuing unit 35 for issuing a receipt 28 printed with a count value and the like from a receipt issuing port 29, an IC card reader 31, a status display unit 32, a cover locking unit 36 for automatically locking the slide cover 8a, and counting medals. The counting unit 37 includes an I / F unit 38 that transmits and receives various signals to and from the management device 7.

  As shown in FIG. 6, on the receipt 28, a game hall name 28a, an issue date 28b, a count result 28c, a prize exchange result 28d, a count error result 28e are printed, and a two-dimensional code 28f is printed. . In the two-dimensional code 28f, an issue date / time, a counter number, a count result, a count error result (normal / abnormal error number), a person-in-charge ID, a gaming machine number, and a type (unit price / type) are recorded.

Next, the operation of the above configuration will be described with reference to FIGS.
When the player counts an acquired medal (for example, a 20-yen medal), he gives the employee a medal storage box in which the medal is stored and requests the counting. A machine number (gaming machine identification information) is written on the medal storage box.

  The counter 8 displays a machine number input screen shown in FIG. 7 on the liquid crystal display 34 as an initial screen. On this machine number input screen, touch "OK" after entering the machine number. ”Message 51a, machine number input section 51b, numeric keypad 51c,“ OK ”button 51d, and“ clear ”button 51e. The employee inputs the machine number of the gaming machine 2 on which the player has won a medal by pressing the numeric key 51c, and then presses an “OK” button 51d. In the example illustrated in FIG. 7, a state in which the number 234 is input as the number is shown.

  When the counter 8 transmits the input machine number to the management apparatus 7, the management apparatus 7 stores information such as the type, model name, and number of medals stored in correspondence with the machine number input from the counter 8. Is output to the counter 8. As a result, the counter 8 displays a counting start screen including the received information on the 234th series, and shifts from a state where medals cannot be counted to a state where it is possible.

In the counting start screen shown in FIG. 8, a message 52a, “Counting start” button 52b, and “Cancel” button 52c are displayed, “The cover is unlocked. Please open the cover and insert the medal.” At the same time, the type display unit 52d, the model display unit 52e, and the medal display unit 52f are displayed based on the received information on the 234th series.
The employee confirms whether the medal type is right or wrong (it is a 20-yen medal) based on the type displayed on the type display unit 52d. Then, when the employee inserts the acquired medal into the counter 8 and presses the “count start” button 52b, the counter 8 executes the medal counting process accordingly, and when the counting is completed, The number of medals is verified and the result of verification (normal / abnormal) is displayed on the counting completion screen. When the “Cancel” button 52c is pressed, the information on the machine number is cleared.

  In the counting completion screen shown in FIG. 9, a message 53a, “Receipt issue button after confirmation”, “Receipt issue” button 53b, “Counting restart” button 53c, counting result display section 53d, a medal display part 53e, a counting error determination processing result display part 53f, and a machine number information display part 53g are displayed. In the count error determination process, it is determined whether or not the difference between the number of medals and the count value is within the allowable range. If the difference is within the allowable range, “normal count” is determined. Is displayed.

The counter 8 issues a receipt 28 in response to the operation of the “issue receipt” button 53b by the employee, transmits the issue information to the management device 7, and clears the machine number / issue information. When the “count restart” button 53c is pressed, the count process is re-executed.
The player can exchange the 20-yen medal acquired by performing the prize exchange process on the receipt 28 issued from the counter 8 at the POS 9 with a desired prize.

According to such an embodiment, the following effects can be produced.
Since the current number of medals is displayed on the game information display device 4, when the employee compares the number of medals with the number of medals actually owned by the player and determines that there is an error, After confirming that there is no fraudulent act, the medal can be immediately corrected by the remote controller 10. Therefore, even if it is a sales form which permits movement of possessed game media, such as a medal, the possibility that an error will occur when counting the game media can be suppressed in advance.
Since the game information display device 4 can display the number of medals at the time when the counting process is executed in addition to the current number of medals, the transition of the number of medals up to the present time can be grasped.

The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, and can be modified or expanded as follows. Moreover, you may combine a some modification.
You may make it display the correction log | history of the number of possessed medals on the game information display apparatus 4. FIG. Specifically, the corrected time, the number of medals before correction, the number of medals after correction, and the ID of the remote controller 10 may be displayed.

  When the number of medals of the player who is visually confirmed is smaller than the current number of medals displayed on the game information display device 4, the current number of medals is corrected and the player holds the medal. You may be made to input from the remote control 10 the moved information which shows having moved. When moved information is input, the management device 7 corrects the number of medals and records that it has been moved.

  When it is determined that the medal has been moved from another table number when inputting the table number with the counter 8, it may be possible to input movement presence information indicating that. Specifically, when the counting result is “abnormal count”, the employee asks the player “whether or not he / she moved with a medal” and responded that he / she moved. It is good to input information on movement. In this case, on the management device 7 side, “with movement” information is recorded together with the counting result.

The game information display device 4 may display the number of medals with the maximum number of medals when it is assumed that there is no count, together with the current number of medals.
That is, the maximum number of medals = the number of rented medals + the number of paid-out medals-the number of inserted medals, which is equal to the current number of medals when there is no count.

Although a slot machine is illustrated as the gaming machine 2 and a medal is illustrated as the gaming medium, it is not limited thereto. The present invention can also be applied to slot machines and pachinko gaming machines that use game balls as game media.
Although the slide cover 8a for preventing the charging is provided in the charging container of the counter 8, the slide cover 8a may not be provided.
Although it is premised on a business form that permits the movement of medals, it may be premised on a business form that requires a declaration when moving. However, even in that case, an error occurs between the number of medals held and the counted value due to omission of declaration.

  In the counting machine 8, the game machine 2 is specified by the employee manually entering the machine number, and an IC chip storing the machine number is attached to the medal storage box, and the machine number is obtained from the IC chip. A gaming machine specifying means may be configured by providing reading means in the counter 8.

  In the drawings, 1 is a management system for a game hall, 2 is a gaming machine, 4 is a game information display device (display means), 7 is a management device (calculation means, acquired game medium number storage means, game machine specifying means), 8 is A counter (counting means, gaming machine specifying means, collation result output means), 10 is a remote controller (operating means).

Claims (2)

In a management system for a game arcade in a game arcade where a game machine that allows a game to be executed by consuming game media lent in accordance with payment of money and a game machine is paid out when a prize is generated in the game is installed ,
A calculation means capable of executing a calculation process for calculating, for each gaming machine, the number of game media acquired by a player as the number of acquired game media;
Acquired game medium number storage means for storing the number of acquired game media calculated by the calculation means in association with identification information of the gaming machine;
Counting means for accepting game media acquired when the player finishes the game and executing counting processing;
A game machine specifying means for specifying a gaming machine from which the player has acquired the game medium when the counting means executes the counting process;
The acquisition stored in the acquired game medium number storage means in association with the number of counted game media indicated by the result of the counting process executed by the counting means and the identification information of the gaming machine specified by the gaming machine specifying means Collation result output means for collating the number of game media and outputting the collation result;
Display means provided corresponding to each gaming machine and displaying the number of acquired game media calculated by the calculation means;
Operating means capable of correcting the number of acquired game media calculated by the calculating means by an operation of an employee,
When the counting process is executed by the counting means, the calculation means restarts the calculation process with the value obtained by subtracting the number of counted game media from the number of acquired game media as the number of acquired game media at that time, and When there is an operation by the operation means, it is configured to restart the calculation process with the value corrected by the operation as the number of acquired game media at that time ,
The display means displays a difference game media number graph showing a transition of the difference between the number of game media paid out and the number of game media inserted, and count processing up to the present time according to an operation by an employee. A management for a game hall characterized in that the number of executions, the number of acquired game media at the time when past counting processing has been executed, and the current number of acquired game media are displayed for a predetermined time in accordance with the difference game media number graph. system. The gaming machine management system according to claim 1, wherein the gaming machine specifying means specifies the gaming machine that has acquired the gaming medium based on identification information of the gaming machine input by an employee .

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