JPH08280911A - Game machinery fitted with monitor camera - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To monitor the action of a customer related to the taking in and out of pinballs or paper money and to prevent the unjust action by theft by providing a monitor camera for preventing injustice in game machinery composed of a game stand using pinballs or the like of the others. CONSTITUTION: In game machinery, for example, a game stand using pinballs, a counter or a money exchanger, a monitor camera P preventing unjustice is provided in a pinball counter main body 1. The customer H of game machinery is always monitored by the camera P and the image thereof is monitored in a separate monitor room by an employee. A lens L is arranged to the monitor camera P and a motor M is connected thereto through a sensor S. By this constitution, the action of a customer is always monitored at every game machinery to prevent the unfair prectice of the customer. If necessary, video recording is also enabled to be made useful for the criminal investigation activity of the police in the future. Further, even if the lens L of the monitor camera P is hidden, an object is detected by the sensor S.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a gaming machine such as a pachinko ball / coin game machine, a counting machine, a money changer, and a ball / medal lending machine. More specifically, these gaming machines are equipped with a monitoring camera. The present invention relates to an amusement machine with an internal monitoring camera.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in order to prevent fraud in a game arcade, a surveillance camera for crime prevention is generally installed on a ceiling or an upper wall surface to be constantly monitored by employees. According to such a conventional method, it is impossible or difficult to directly monitor the behavior of the illicit person in the entire room or the illicit site depending on the installation location or the installation location of the surveillance camera.

[0003]

Since the crime prevention measures according to this conventional method cannot prevent fraud due to theft or the like, the problem of the present invention is to solve these problems. That is, the problem to be solved by the present invention is to prevent fraud such as theft of each device stand such as a gaming table, a counting machine, a money changer, a ball, a medal lending machine, etc. by pachinko balls, coins, etc. Where it is.

[0004]

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention provides a gaming table using pachinko balls, coins, etc.
It is a game machine such as a counting machine, a money changer, a ball / medal lending machine, etc., in which a fraud prevention surveillance camera is installed in the game machine to monitor the taking-in / out of balls / medals and banknotes, as well as theft. The present invention provides a gaming device with a monitoring camera, which prevents fraud in advance, and also provides a gaming device with a monitoring camera, in which a sensor is attached to the monitoring camera. That is, the means for solving the present invention is to prevent the illegal act of the user from occurring by installing the surveillance camera, which has been conventionally attached to the ceiling or the upper wall surface, in each gaming machine. .

[0005]

[Action]

(1) Gaming machines for pachinko balls, coins, etc., counting machines, currency exchange machines, ball and medal lending machines, etc. In addition to monitoring banknotes and withdrawal of banknotes, it is configured to prevent fraud due to theft etc., so that employees' activities and actions operating each amusement machine should be directly monitored by a monitoring camera. You can

(2) Since the surveillance camera is equipped with a sensor, it is possible to check the movement of the customer operating each game machine and the state of withdrawing / inserting bills (type and full amount of bills inserted). In addition to being able to do it, the sensor can detect everything even if any illegal action (such as the action of hiding the camera lens with a hand or an object) is performed.

[0007]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. 1 to 3 are schematic explanatory views showing a game machine with a surveillance camera of the present invention, FIG. 1 shows a case of a ball counter, FIG. 2 shows a case of a money changer, and FIG. The installed surveillance camera is shown.

First, regarding the ball counting machine of FIG. 1, a monitoring camera P is internally provided in the conventional ball counting main body 1 to constantly monitor the gaming machine user H, and the image thereof is displayed in a separate monitoring room by an employee. Are configured to be monitored. A conventional monitoring camera is used as the monitoring camera P, and the monitoring camera is as shown in FIG. Next, the money changer shown in FIG. 2 is constructed by incorporating the conventional monitoring camera shown in FIG. 3 in the conventional money changer main body 11.

FIG. 4 and FIG. 5 show a conventional ball counter used in a game machine equipped with a surveillance camera of the present invention. That is, the ball counting machine body 1 and the counting machine body 2 are
The balls 3 are arranged by means of a hopper 4 which is provided above the counter main body 2 and which can receive the balls 3 which are magnetic materials and can be temporarily detained, and a plurality of rows of passages 5 which are continuously provided below the hopper 4. The counting unit 6 to be passed, the electromagnetic shutter 8 provided in the vicinity of the ball discharging port 7 at the lower part of the counting unit 6 and the hopper 4, and the detection unit 9 for detecting each ball 3 passing through the passage 5 of each row of the counting unit 6. And a calculation display section 10 for displaying the total number of balls 3 passing through the counting unit 6 based on the signal from the detection section 9. The counter main body 2 has a rectangular parallelepiped shape and has a display panel 11 on the upper surface thereof, which constitutes a part of the arithmetic display unit 10, and has the other portion opened to mount the hopper 4. Further, a power switch 12 and a power cord (not shown) are attached to the back surface of the counter body 2, and the ball 3 after counting is mounted on the lower surface thereof.
There is a chute (not shown) for receiving the ball, and a pipe or the like is connected to this chute to transfer the balls 3 to a predetermined place. The hopper 4 has a pyramid shape and side plates 4
a has a gentle inclination, the bottom is opened to form the ball discharge port 7 as described above, and the received balls 3 are collected in the ball discharge port 7 and dropped into the counting unit 6. This hopper 4
The capacity of, for example, 3 balls that customers put out on the pachinko machine
Set it to the maximum capacity of 1 or more. The counting unit 6 has a side wall bar 14 which is long and slanted from the partition plate 13 side at the base end to the front end side to serve as a side wall.
And short shaped bottom wall bars 15 serving as bottom walls are alternately arranged, and one ball 3 is formed by the side wall bars 14, 14 and the bottom wall bar 15.
The passages 5 that can pass through are formed in 12 rows one after another. The height of these passages 5 gradually narrows from the base end side toward the tip end side, and only one ball 3 can pass through in the vicinity of the tip end outlet 16 for guiding this. A top plate 17 is stretched on the tip of the upper surface of the side wall bar 14.
The electromagnet shutter 8 is made by winding a copper wire around an iron core, and the mounting position thereof is the ball discharge port 7 of the hopper 4.
It is the bottom of the counting unit 6 located immediately below. In addition,
The mounting position of the electromagnet shutter 8 is not limited to the above-mentioned position, and may be the periphery of the ball discharge port 7 or the periphery of the counting unit 6 located upstream of the detection unit 9. Further, in this embodiment, since the passages 5 of the counting unit 6 have 12 rows, the electromagnet shutter 8 has the passages 5 of 12 rows.
The condition is that all the balls 3 passing through are sucked and the flow of the balls 3 is stopped. The detection unit 9 is
A lamp 19 and an optical sensor 20 for receiving light from the lamp 19 are attached to each of the passages 5 of the counting unit 6, that is, at the tip outlets 18 for 12 rows. The optical sensor 20 takes out a pulse signal each time the light from the lamp 19 is blocked by the ball 3 emitted from the tip exit 18,
The pulse signal is transmitted to the calculation display unit 10.
The calculation display unit 10 adds the pulse signals extracted from the light from the lamp 19 provided for each passage 5 each time the optical sensor 20 is blocked by the ball 3 emitted from the tip exit 18, and further adds the pulse signals for each passage 5. The total number of balls 3 is calculated by adding the numbers. The total amount of balls 3 after this calculation is immediately calculated.
It is designed to be displayed on the display panel 11, which is one of the constituent elements of 10.

6 to 8 show a conventional money changer used in the present invention, and 11 is the main body of the money changer. This money changer main body 11 is a storage main body 12, a money exchange unit 13 which is stored in the storage main body 12, is stored in the storage main body 12, and exchanges banknotes, and the banknotes and coins collected from the stand lending machine 14. And a safe deposit box 15 for storing and storing. The storage body 12 has a rectangular parallelepiped box shape and is made of steel plate or the like, and has an upper door 16 and a lower door 7. The upper door 16 is provided with a cancellation display lamp 18, a bill outage, an abnormality display lamp 19 such as a bill full, and a received amount display lamp 20, and a bill insertion slot 21 and a bill ejection slot 22 for taking out the exchanged bills. ing. The lower door 17 is opened and closed when the collected banknotes are taken out from the renter safe section 15, and therefore is normally locked. The currency exchange section 13 is a bill received from the above-mentioned bill insertion slot 21 (either a 5,000-yen bill or a 10,000-yen bill)
Bill identifying device 23 for identifying the
There is a payout unit 25 that has 24 and pays out bills of an amount corresponding to the amount of the identified bills, and these exchanged bills are paid out from the above-mentioned bill takeout port 22. The payout unit 25 has a bill storage unit 26 for currency exchange. Further, the currency exchange unit 13 is a control unit that controls the bill validator 23, the payout unit 25, the above-described stop display lamp 18, abnormality display lamp 19, accepted amount display lamp 20, and the like.
Have 27. The currency exchange unit 13 is not limited to only the function of exchanging bills into bills, and may have a function of exchanging bills into coins. In this case, coins are included in the safe deposit box unit 15 described later. The coins are transferred from the coin storage hopper 30 to the coin dispenser in the dispenser 25 by a conveyor or the like. The loaner safe section 15 has a coin storage hopper 30 that temporarily stores the coins inserted into the coin slot 28 at the upper part of the inter-lender 14, via the collection conhair 29. There is a supply conveyor 31 that supplies coins from the storage hopper 30 for change, and the extra coins are coin safes.
Stored in 32. Further, the lending safe section 15 has a bill storage unit 35 for storing the bills inserted into the bill insertion opening 33 at the bottom of the inter-lender 14, via the collection conveyor 34.

[0011]

INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY The present invention is a gaming machine such as a gaming table using pachinko balls, coins, coins, etc., a counting machine, a currency exchange machine, a coin medal lending machine, etc. However, since it is configured to monitor the insertion and withdrawal of balls, medals, and banknotes, prevent fraud due to theft and the like, and have a sensor attached to the monitoring camera, the user's Since the behavior and motion can be constantly monitored, and the surveillance camera can catch any illegal behavior by the customer, the conventional surveillance camera also has excellent functions and effects. Also,
If necessary, video recording will be possible, so it can be useful for crime prevention investigation activities by police etc. at a later date.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory schematic diagram showing a game machine with a surveillance camera of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory schematic diagram showing a gaming machine with a surveillance camera of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory schematic diagram of a surveillance camera of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory schematic view of a conventional ball counter used in the present invention.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory schematic diagram of a conventional ball counter used in the present invention.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory schematic diagram of a conventional money changer used in the present invention.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory schematic diagram of a conventional money changer used in the present invention.

FIG. 8 is an explanatory schematic diagram of a conventional money changer used in the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1, 1a, 1b Ball counter 3, a ball 4, b hopper 5 Passage 6, e Counting unit 7, c Ball discharge port 8 Electromagnetic shutter 9, f Detection section 10 Calculation display section 11 Currency exchange machine 12 Storage box 13 Currency exchange Department 14 Machine rental 15 Safe deposit box 25 Dispenser P Camera for monitoring H Game machine user A Bill insertion section B Bill extraction section S Sensor M Motor L Lens

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Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A gaming machine such as a gaming table for pachinko balls / coins, a counting machine, a currency exchange machine, a ball / medal lending machine, or the like,
A gaming machine with a surveillance camera, wherein a surveillance camera for fraud prevention is installed in the gaming machine to monitor the taking-in / out of balls, medals, and bills and to prevent fraud due to theft or the like. 2. The game machine with a surveillance camera according to claim 1, wherein a sensor is attached to the surveillance camera.