TW202319097A - System for remote game machine - Google Patents

Abstract

The system for remote game machine provides an IP cam to monitor the game machine and a frame grabber to capture the screen frame of the game machine, and thus the remote players can watch and monitor the game in a real time so as to enhance their on site feeling and ensure the justice of the game they play.

Description

Remote Control Game Console System

The invention relates to a game system, in particular to a remote control game machine system.

Gaming is becoming an increasingly popular form of entertainment. The current leisure and entertainment such as gaming and online games have formed an important industry, often providing a huge output value of the game industry. Of particular importance to the gaming industry are electronic gaming terminals, which include reel slot machines, roulette machines, video poker machines, and video bingo machines. Since such gaming terminals are an important source of revenue for the gaming industry, casinos are constantly looking for new ways to increase the profitability of their gaming machines by adding features. This includes enhancing their entertainment value by providing more complex games, visual/audio displays, and user-friendly interfaces. It also includes better terminal security, player tracking data for marketing strategies, and more sophisticated financial and accounting reporting.

Since the known electronic game machines only provide one person to operate, each electronic game machine can only be used by one person at the same time, obviously its benefit is not high. Casinos can only place a limited number of machines due to the limitation of the venue area or the number of machines of the regulatory agency. Therefore, how to allow more players to play games simultaneously on-site or remotely under the limitation of the limited number of machines is an urgent problem for the gaming industry. In order to understand this problem, such as the Chinese Patent No. CN104813358A and No. CN105188865A, the main technology of which is to allow the player to accept the game machine (EGM) game in the mobile device, so as to continue the game on the mobile device.

As far as the gaming facilities in the casino are concerned, the conventional gaming equipment is shown in Figure 1. The gaming equipment 90 includes a gaming machine 91 (EGM/electronic gaming machine), and the gaming machine 91 is connected to an external casino. The server system 92 is connected to the network. The gaming machine 91 is equipped with a main board 911 and a processor 912 on the main board 911. The processor 912 on the main board 911 is mainly used for the operation of game software; There is an SMIB (Smart Interface Board) host 913 next to the machine 91. The SMIB host 913 communicates with the external casino server system 92 through the agreement of the machine accounting system SAS (Slot Accounting System), and uses The SAS protocol communicates with the processor 912, and the SAS communication protocol is defined by the Gaming Standards Association (GSA). Through SMIB (Smart Interface Board) and SAS (Slot Accounting System), more players can play games at the remote end and on site at the same time.

However, at present, when remote players play their remote games through their mobile devices or computers, they often lack a sense of presence, or have doubts about the fairness of the remote games they participate in. Therefore, gaming game operators urgently need to solve the problem of lack of presence or doubts about the fairness of the remote games they participate in.

In view of this, the present invention proposes a remote control game machine system, which allows remote players to play their remote games through their mobile devices or computers. In addition to increasing the sense of presence, it can also ensure the fairness of their participation in remote games sex.

In order to achieve the above purpose, according to the remote control game machine system of the present invention, a local SAS game server is connected to a cloud server through the network; The server connects and logs in to the local SAS game server to carry out its betting game. The local SAS game server connects and controls the plurality of local game machines and the plurality of remote game machines respectively through a smart interface board (SMIB). A remote game server connects and controls the multiple local game machines through a game board, and connects and controls the multiple remote game machines through an I/O control board. According to the present invention, each local game machine and remote game machine are provided with corresponding network cameras, so as to watch and monitor the on-site situation of each local game machine and remote game machine in real time. In addition, according to the present invention, each local game machine and remote game machine can also be provided with a corresponding image capture device, so as to watch and capture the screen scene of each local game machine and remote game machine in real time. .

Remote players can use their remote game terminals to watch and monitor the live conditions of each local game machine and remote game machine in real time through the network camera, so as to increase their sense of presence in the game and ensure The fairness of the game; also through the remote game terminal through the image capture device, it can watch and capture the screen scene of each local game machine and remote game machine in real time.

In order to make the above and other objects, features, and advantages of the present invention more apparent, the following specifically cites the embodiments of the present invention, together with the accompanying drawings, for a detailed description as follows.

The following disclosure provides many different embodiments, or examples, for implementing different features of the disclosure. Specific examples of components and configurations are described below to simplify the present disclosure. Of course, such components and configurations are examples only and are not intended to be limiting. Additionally, the present disclosure may repeat reference numerals and/or letters in various instances. This repetition is for simplicity and clarity and does not in itself represent a relationship between the various embodiments and/or configurations discussed.

Please refer to Fig. 2, the remote control game machine system of the present invention mainly includes a cloud server 10, a local SAS game server 20, a remote game server 30, a plurality of local game machines 22 and a plurality of remote game machines 33, A plurality of network cameras 24, 34 and image capture devices 25, 35 are arranged next to each local game machine 22 and remote game machine 33, and a plurality of remote game terminals 40.

According to an embodiment of the remote control game machine system of the present invention, a local SAS game server 20 is connected to a cloud server 10 through the network; The server 10 connects and logs in to the local SAS game server 20 to carry out its betting game. The remote game terminal 40 can be a mobile communication device, such as a mobile phone or a tablet computer, or a notebook computer or a desktop computer. The local SAS game server 20 is connected to and controls the plurality of local game machines 22 and the plurality of remote game machines 33 through a smart interface board (SMIB) 21 respectively. The smart interface board SMIB (Smart Interface Board) communicates with the external casino server system through the machine SAS accounting system (Slot Accounting System) protocol. Through SMIB (Smart Interface Board) and SAS (Slot Accounting System), more players can play games at the remote end and on site at the same time.

A remote game server 30 connects and controls the plurality of local game machines 22 through a game board 31, and connects and controls the plurality of remote game machines 33 through an I/O control board 32. The remote game server 30 is connected to the local SAS game server 20 through the network, so that it can also communicate with the external casino server system through the SAS accounting system (Slot Accounting System) protocol. Through SMIB (Smart Interface Board) and SAS Accounting System (Slot Accounting System) on the machine, more players can play games at the remote end and on site at the same time.

According to the present invention, each local game machine 22 and remote game machine 33 are provided with corresponding network cameras 24, 34, so as to watch and monitor the scene of each local game machine 22 and remote game machine 33 in real time. Condition. In addition, according to the present invention, each local game machine 22 and remote game machine 33 can also be provided with corresponding image capture devices 25, 35, so that each local game machine 22 and game machine 33 can be viewed and captured in real time. The screen scene of game machine 33 in a different place.

Remote players can use their remote game terminal 40 to watch and monitor the live situation of each local game machine 22 and remote game machine 33 in real time through the network cameras 24 and 34, so as to increase their participation in the game Real-time sense, and ensure the fairness of the game; also through its remote game terminal 40 through the image capture device 25, 35 of each local game machine 22 and remote game machine 33, real-time viewing and image capture The on-screen situation of each local game machine 22 and remote game machine 33.

According to another embodiment of the remote control game machine system of the present invention, please continue to refer to FIG. 2 , the remote control game machine system of the present invention further includes a table game server (TG group Server) 50 and the local SAS game server 20 connected through the network; the table game server (TG group Server) 50 can be respectively connected to an answering device of a table game, such as roulette 51, baccarat 52 and sic bo 53. Each roulette 51, baccarat 52 and sic bo 53 etc. will be provided with a network camera 54 next to the table game answering device, so that remote players can use their remote game terminals 40 through the network camera 54 Timely watch and monitor the on-site situation of the table game answering devices such as roulette 51, baccarat 52 and sic bo 53, so as to increase the sense of presence in the game and ensure the fairness of the game. It should be noted that the table game server (TG group Server) 50 is not limited to be connected to the roulette 51, baccarat 52 and sic bo 53; any answering device for table games belongs to the table machine of the present invention scope.

To sum up, the remote control game machine system of the present invention uses its network camera and image capture device to enable remote players to watch and monitor their games in real time when playing their remote games through their mobile devices or computers. Betting games can not only increase the sense of presence, but also ensure the fairness of participating in remote games. In addition, using the traditional method of accounting for game machines requires manual meter reading and accounting, and manpower needs to be allocated at the operating site; and the present invention combines the SAS management system dedicated to international casinos to connect and manage game machines, and automatically records complete Accounting, manual processing is no longer required.

Although the present invention has been disclosed by the foregoing embodiments, it is not intended to limit the present invention. Anyone with ordinary knowledge in the technical field of the present invention can make various changes and modifications without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. . Therefore, the scope of protection of the present invention should be defined by the scope of the appended patent application.

10: Cloud server 20:Local SAS Game Server 21:Smart Interface Board (SMIB) 22: Local Game Console 24: Webcam 25: Image grabber 30: Remote game server 31: Game board 32:I/O control board 33: Off-site game console 34: Webcam 35: Image grabber 40: Remote game terminal 50: Game desktop server 51: Roulette 52: Baccarat 53: Sic Bo 54: Webcam 90: Gaming equipment 91:Gaming machine 92:Casino Servo System 911: Motherboard 912: Processor 913: SMIB host

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of conventional gaming equipment. FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of the structure of the remote control game machine system of the present invention.

10: Cloud server

20:Local SAS game server

22: Local Game Console

24: Webcam

25: Image grabber

30: Remote game server

33: Off-site game console

34: Webcam

35: Image grabber

40: Remote game terminal

Claims (8)

A remote control game machine system, comprising: a cloud server; a local SAS game server connected to the cloud server through a network, and the local SAS game servers are respectively connected through a smart interface board (SMIB) and control the plurality of local game machines and the plurality of remote game machines; a remote game server is connected with the local SAS game server through the network, and the remote game server is connected and controlled by a game console board The local game machine is connected to and controlled by an I/O control board; at least one remote game terminal is connected to and logged into the local SAS game server through the cloud server to be used in the game Betting games are played on a plurality of local game machines and a plurality of remote game machines; and each of the local game machines and remote game machines is equipped with a corresponding network camera so that the remote game terminal can be viewed in real time And monitor the on-site situation of each local game machine and remote game machine. Such as the remote control game machine system of claim 1, wherein each local game machine and remote game machine are also provided with corresponding image capture devices, so as to watch and capture images in real time for each local game machine and remote game machine The screen scene of the game machine. As for the remote control game machine system of claim 1, it also includes a game table server (TG group Server) connected to the local SAS game server through the network, and the game table server is connected to a table For games, another network camera will be set up next to the table game, so that remote players can watch and monitor the live situation of the table game in real time through the network camera through their remote game terminals. A remote control game machine system, comprising: a cloud server; a local SAS game server connected to the cloud server through a network, the local SAS game server is respectively connected to and controls the plurality of local game machines and A plurality of remote game machines; a remote game server connected to the local SAS game server through the network, and the remote game server is connected to and controls the multiple local game machines and the multiple remote game machines; The terminal game terminal is connected to and logged into the local SAS game server through the cloud server, so as to play betting games on the plurality of local game machines and the plurality of remote game machines; and each of the local game machines and the remote game Corresponding network cameras are installed next to the game machines, so that the remote game terminal can watch and monitor the on-site situation of each local game machine and remote game machine in real time. Such as the remote control game machine system of claim 4, wherein the local SAS game server is connected to and controls the plurality of local game machines and the plurality of remote game machines through a smart interface board (SMIB). Such as the remote control game machine system of claim 4, wherein the remote game server is connected and controlled by a game console board, and the plurality of local game machines is connected and controlled by an I/O control board. game console. Such as the remote control game machine system of claim 4, wherein each local game machine and remote game machine are also provided with corresponding image capture devices, so as to watch and capture images in real time for each local game machine and remote game machine The screen scene of the game machine. Such as the remote control game machine system of claim 4, it also includes a game table server (TG group Server) connected to the local SAS game server through the network, and the game table server is connected to a table Game answering device, another network camera will be set next to the table game answering device, so that remote players can watch and monitor the scene of the table game in real time through the network camera through their remote game terminals .

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