US 7,607,975 B2Granted

Bet control method for race game

AssigneeSega Corporation

InventorsNaoyuki Sato, Kenji Uchida, Masanori Tsuchimoto, Masashi Sakamoto

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Abstract

When a racing form speculating a race is selected, a bet is automatically made on a speculated possible finish place. A racing form speculated information indication region K1 is provided on the right side of a speculation indication region H5. A speculation racing form indication region K2 is provided on the right side of the racing form speculated information indication region K1. A game player selects a racing form to be used as speculated information. When an all bets button K5 below a racing form release button K4, bets are made maximum 8 sets of horse number combinations speculated by the racing forms. The bet control method can permit game players to easily and quickly bet.

Claims8

Dependent claims

A bet control method executable on a game apparatus on which a simulated race is performed with a plurality of racing objects, on which a game player bets at a terminal connected to said game apparatus before starting the simulated race and the game player obtains a share based on a result of the race, the bet control method comprising the steps of:

(a) displaying on a monitor display of the terminal a set of first buttons configured to allow the game player to select various imitated racing forms each of which is configured to provide a set of recommendable buys different from one another for a race to start on said game apparatus;
(b) displaying one of said imitated racing forms on the monitor display in response to a selection operation to one of said first buttons so as to indicate the following items together on one page of the selected racing form:
(1) various information relating at least one of said racing objects selected by the game player for the imitated race to start;
(2) said set of recommendable buys with their odds prepared for the selected racing form, each of said recommendable buys displayed on the page including a finish place combination of a numerical symbol indicative of said one of the racing objects and another numerical symbol indicative of another of the racing objects;
and
(3) a second button configured to select, at one selection operation to the second button, all of the recommendable buys indicated on the page of the selected racing form;
(c) calculating, in response to the selection operation to said second button, a bet amount required to fix the selection of all of said recommendable buys indicated on the page of the selected racing form;
(d) judging whether or not the current credit is above the required amount calculated in step (c);
(e) when the current credit amount is short, displaying a command information for depositing an additional credit on the display;
(f) when the current credit amount is sufficient for the required bet amount calculated in step (c), fixing the buys selected by the gamer player and subtracting the amount from the current credit amount;
and
(g) starting said simulated race on the game apparatus after said betting has been completed.

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(a) displaying on a monitor display of the terminal a set of first buttons configured to allow game player to select various imitated racing forms each of which is configured to provide a set of recommendable buys different from one another for a race to start on said game apparatus;
(b) displaying on of said imitated racing forms on the monitor display in response to a selection operation to one of said set first buttons so as to indicate the following items together on one page of the selected racing form:
(1) various information relating at least one of said racing objects selected by the game player for the imitated race to start;
(2) said set of recommendable buys with their odds prepared for the selected racing form, each of said recommendable buys displayed on the page including a finish place combination of a numerical symbol indicative of said one of the racing objects and another numerical symbol indicative of another of the racing objects;
and
(3) a second button configured to select, at one selection operation to the second button, all of the recommendable buys indicated on the page of the selected racing form;
(4) an indication region including a set of third buttons at which the game player is allowed to set a target bet amount;
(c) allowing the game player to set a target bet amount at said indicating region;
(d) calculating, in response to the selection operation to said second button, a bet amount required to fix the selection of all of said recommendable buys indicated on said selected racing form;
(e) judging whether or not the current credit amount is above the bet amount calculated in step (d);
(f) when the current credit amount is short, displaying a command information for depositing an additional credit on the display,
(g) when the current credit amount is sufficient for the required bet amount calculated in step (c), fixing the buys selected by the game player and subtracting the betted amount from the current credit amount;
and
(h) starting said simulated race on the game apparatus after said bet amount is determined.

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A control method executable on a game apparatus on which a simulated race is performed with a plurality of racing objects, on which a game player bets for the simulated race at a terminal connected to said game apparatus before starting the simulated race and the game player obtains a share based on a result of the race, the control method comprising the steps of:

(a) displaying on a monitor display of the terminal a set of first buttons configured to allow the game player to select various imitated racing forms each of which is configured to provide a plurality of recommendable buys different from one another for a race to start on said game apparatus;
(b) displaying one of the imitated racing forms on the monitor display in response to a selection operation to one of said first buttons so as to indicate the following items on one page of the selected racing form:
(1) various information relating at least one of said racing objects selected by the game player for the imitated race to start;
(2) a table listing said plurality of recommendable buys with the respective odds thereto prepared for the selected race form, each of said recommendable buys listed on the table including a finish place combination of a numerical symbol indicative of said one of the racing objects and another numerical symbol indicative of another of the racing objects;
and
(3) a second button configured to select, at one selection operation to the second button, all of the recommendable buys listed on the table of the selected racing form;
(c) calculating, in response to the selection operation to said second button, a bet amount required to fix the selection of all of said recommendable buys listed on the table of said selected racing form;
(d) fixing the selected recommendable buys with respective bet amount thereto when the bet amount calculated in step (c) is within the current credit deposited by the game player;
and
(e) starting said simulated race on the game apparatus after the betting has been completed.

7 more elements

A control method executable on a game apparatus on which a simulated race is performed with a plurality of racing objects, on which a game player bets for the simulated race at a terminal connected to said game apparatus before starting the simulated race and the game player obtains a share, based on a result of the race, the control method comprising the steps of:

(a) displaying on a monitor display of the terminal a set of first buttons configured to allow the game player to select one or more of said various imitated racing forms each of which is configured to provide a plurality of recommendable buys different from one another for a race to start on said game apparatus;
displaying one of said imitated racing forms on the monitor display in response to a selection operation to one of said first buttons so as to indicate the following items on one page of the selected racing form:
(1) various information relating at least one of said racing objects selected by the game player for the imitated race to start;
(2) a table listing said plurality of recommendable buys with the respective odds there to of prepared for the selected racing form, each of said recommendable buys displayed on the page including a finish place combination of a numerical symbol indicative of said one of the racing objects and another numerical symbol indicative of another of the racing objects;
(3) a second button configured to select, at one selection operation to the second button, all of the recommended buys listed on the table of the selected racing form;
and
(4) an indication region including a set of third buttons at which the game player is allowed to set a target bet amount;
(d) calculating, in response to the selection operation to said second button, a bet amount required to fix the section of all of said recommendable buys listed on the table of said selected racing form;
(f) fixing the selected recommendable buys with the respective bet amounts thereto when the bet amount calculated in step (c) is within the current credit deposited by the game player;
and
(g) starting the simulation race on said game apparatus after the betting is completed.

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(a) displaying, at a satellite connected to said game apparatus, a set of first active indications configured to allow the game player to select various imitated racing forms each of which is configured to provide a plurality of recommendable buys different from one another for a race to start on said game apparatus;
(b) displaying, in response to a selection manipulation by the game player on one of said first active indications, one of the racing forms in correspondence to the selected first active indication so as to indicate the following items:
(1) a table listing of plural recommendable speculations, and odds thereto, of possible racing results for the race by the racing objects to start before starting the race on the game apparatus, wherein each of said plural recommendable speculations listed on the table is configured to include a finish place combination of a numerical symbol indicative of one of the racing objects selected by the game player and another numerical symbol indicative of another of the racing objects, wherein a minimum bet unit is set to the respective recommendable speculations;
and
(2) a second active indication configured to select, at one selection operation to the second active indication, all of said plural recommendable speculations listed on the table of the selected racing form;
(c) calculating, in response to the selection operation to said second active indication, a bet amount required to fix the selection of all of the recommendable speculations listed on the table of the selected racing form based on the number of the selected speculations and the minimum bet unit set to the respective selected speculations;
(d) fixing the selection of the speculations when the bet amount calculated in step (c) is within the current credit deposited by the game player;
(e) starting the race with the racing objects;
and
(f) paying out a share calculated for any selected speculation which the player has won, if any.

7 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 10/197,553Filed 18 Jul 2002 · continuation in part
Priority: JP 2001-22074819 Jul 2001
Published: US 2003/0054870 A120 Mar 2003
Granted: 27 Oct 2009
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

G07F 17/32
Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services: for games, toys, sports, or amusements
G06Q 50/34
Information and communication technology [ICT] specially adapted for implementation of business processes of specific business sectors, e.g.…:…
G07F 17/3211
Player-machine interfaces: display means
G07F 17/3288
Type of games: betting, e.g. on live events, bookmaking

Family

Application10/180,026Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 27 Jun 2002
US 2003/0054870 A1Pre-grant publication · published 20 Mar 2003
US 7,607,975 B2This patent

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