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US 2009/0264197 A1Published application
Gaming machine and gaming management system
AssigneeAruze Corp.
InventorJun Fujimoto
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Abstract
A gaming machine includes a housing, which is playable by a plurality of players, that has a station provided for each individual player; an operation detection unit that detects an operation of a player present at each of the stations performing a bet operation through a bet image displayed on the image display unit; an image capturing unit, provided at the housing, that can capture images of a player present at each of the stations, and a determination unit that determines tampering or an error of a game by comparing image capturing information obtained by the image capturing unit with predetermined information.
Claims17
A gaming machine comprising:
- a housing, which is playable by a plurality of players, that includes a station provided to each player, respectively;
- an image display unit, which is provided at the housing, that displays a game image and a bet image corresponding to each of the stations;
- an image control unit that includes game image data for a game displayed on the image display unit and bet operation image data, and controls an image displayed on the image display unit;
- an operation detection unit which detects an operation of a player present at each of the stations performing a bet operation through a bet image displayed on the image display unit;
- an image capturing unit, provided at the housing, that can photograph a player present at each of the stations;
- and
- a determination unit that determines tampering or an error of a game by comparing a captured information obtained by the image capturing unit with predetermined information.
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A gaming machine comprising:
- a housing, which is playable by a plurality of players, that includes a station provided for each player, respectively;
- an image display unit, which is provided at the housing, that displays a game image and a bet image corresponding to each of the stations;
- an image control unit that includes a game image data for a game displayed on the image display unit and a bet operation image data, and controls an image displayed on the image display unit;
- an operation detection unit for detecting an operation of a player present at each of the stations performing a bet operation through a bet image displayed on the image display unit;
- an image capturing unit, provided at the housing, that can photograph a player present at each of the stations;
- a balance status monitoring unit that monitors a balance status of a gaming value in relation to an amount of a gaming value paid out to a player according to a game result compared with a gaming value paid for a game by way of a bet operation;
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- a determination unit that determines tampering or an error of a game by comparing a running state of a game based on at least a detection signal from the operation detection unit and an image capturing signal from the image capturing unit with a balance status that is monitored by the balance status monitoring unit.
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A gaming machine comprising:
- a housing, which is playable by a plurality of players, that includes a station provided to each player, respectively;
- an image display unit, which is provided at the housing, that displays a game image and a bet image corresponding to each of the stations;
- a game control unit that includes game image data for a game which is displayed on the image display unit and bet operation image data, controls an image displayed on the image display unit, and executes a game;
- an operation detection unit for detecting an operation of a player present at each of the stations performing a bet operation through a bet image displayed on the image display unit;
- an image capturing unit, provided at the housing, that can photograph a player present at each of the stations;
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- a determination unit that determines whether a bet operation information has been executed by a player present at a station of interest, based on a bet operation information for each of the stations obtained by the operation detection unit and an image capturing information for each of the stations obtained by the image capturing unit.
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A gaming machine, comprising:
- a housing, which is playable by a plurality of players, that includes a station provided for each of the players, respectively;
- an image display unit, which is provided at the housing, that displays a game image and a bet image corresponding to each of the stations;
- an image control unit that includes game image data for a game displayed on the image display unit and bet operation image data, and controls an image displayed on the image display unit;
- an operation detection unit which detects an operation of a player present at each of the stations performing a bet operation through a bet image displayed on the image display unit;
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- an image capturing unit, provided at the housing, that can photograph a player present at each of the stations,
- wherein the image capturing unit is fixed to be integrated to the housing.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.