Universal Entertainment Corporation

Seta Corporation

Aruze Corporation

Nintendo Co., Ltd.

Minerva Corp.

Other

Nobuyuki Nonaka

Jun Fujimoto

Toshimi Koyama

Satoshi Nishiumi

Takao Nireki

Kazuo Koshima

Jituo Migita

Norio Kotera

Kazuo Okada

Masahiro Yamaguchi

Koji Nakagawa

Hiroshi Katsukura

Tomitsugu Itakura

The present invention is provides a novel electronic settlement technique which is capable of supplying a deposit so as to continue the play of a game after a deposit available in a game facility has been consumed. A negotiable-value providing device is transmits to a user terminal device a deposit supply demand message demanding supply of a premises deposit upon receipt of a transfer demand message. A user terminal device is transmits a transfer demand message to a management server upon receipt of the deposit supply demand message. Upon receipt of the deposit supply demand message, the management server is transmits to a financial institute system a transfer request message requesting a predetermined transfer of a predetermined amount of money from a user bank account. Upon receipt of a transfer completion message, a premises server is transmits a provision instructing message instructing provision of a negotiable-value to the negotiable-value providing device. The negotiable-value providing device having received the provision instructing message executes provision of the negotiable-value.

Settlement system

A server comprises an electronic data item receiving unit, an identification code receiving unit, an identification code storing unit, and an electronic data item transmitting unit. The electronic data item receiving unit receives an electronic data item. When a person exists within a predetermined range from an output terminal, the identification code receiving unit receives a first identification code concerning any one of the person and a device used by the person and a second identification code for identifying the output terminal. The identification code storing unit stores therein the first and second identification codes received by the identification code receiving unit, in association with each other. The electronic data item transmitting unit transmits the electronic data item received by the electronic data item receiving unit to a corresponding output terminal based on the first and second identification codes stored in the identification code storing unit.

Server, data output system, data output method, and output terminal

A data reader can read data regardless of the position of a radio IC tag. The data reader reads data at a separate position from a radio IC tag provided with a storage unit storing data and a communicating antenna for transmitting the data stored in the storage unit, and includes a reader/writer for generating a modulated signal by modulating a carrier wave and a plurality of antenna units for transmitting radio waves for a read for communicating data with a storage medium by radiating the modulated signal into the air. The reader/writer includes a phase adjustment circuit for changing the phase of a carrier wave.

Data reader and positioning system

The information processing system of the present application extracts data that satisfies both a predetermined relation condition characterized for each community regarding an object and a predetermined characteristic condition characterized for each community regarding an attribute of the object, from the decomposed text data that can identify the meaning, the decomposed text data obtained by decomposing text data based on individual person generated data generated by many individual persons who take part in and configure a main system, and extracts data that satisfies a particular condition indicating a predetermined particularity characterized for each community regarding the object so as to detect the predetermined particularity to make it available, thereby determining an individual person to be monitored and the contents of monitoring for controlling the monitoring.

Preference visualization system and censorship system

A gaming system includes: a reader configured to read chip identification information which identifies a chip used in a casino; a writer configured to write validity information, betting information, and information about whether the chip is received from a cashier or from a dealer into chip information based on the chip identification information; and a determination unit configured to determine the validity, the betting state, and the source based on the chip information, wherein the writer is configured to update the validity information from invalid to valid when the chip is handed from the cashier or the dealer to a player and vice versa, to update the betting information as being betted when the chip is placed on a betting area and vice versa.

Gaming system with casino chip tracking

An account adjusting system according to an embodiment of the invention comprises a game machine that pays an award corresponding to a kind of a prize of a game; and an account adjusting apparatus that adjusts an account for a user. The game machine has a paying section for determining an award corresponding to a kind of a prize of a game and a determining section for determining whether or not tax payment is required based on the award determined by the paying section, and when determining that tax payment is required, transmitting award information indicative of the award to the account adjusting apparatus. The account adjusting apparatus has a receiving section for receiving the award information; a tax payment amount calculating section for calculating a tax payment amount based on the award information; and a tax payment certificate providing section for producing an output to prepare a tax payment certificate based on the tax payment amount.

Account adjusting system

A financial transaction system includes: an ATM process substituting server connected to a backbone server that executes a user accounting process through a communication mechanism capable of concealing content of communication; and a transaction screen WEB server connected to the ATM process substituting server and capable of connecting to a user communication terminal. The transaction screen WEB server transmits, to the communication terminal, transaction screen data for the user to input transaction necessary information, receives, from the communication terminal, transaction necessary information data inputted in accordance with the transaction screen data, and transmits the transaction necessary information data to the ATM process substituting server. The ATM process substituting server transmits the transaction necessary information data to the backbone server and transmits a message requesting the user for a specified transaction process. The system provides quick, easy transactions without needing to input a second personal identification number or one time password.

Financial transaction system

A gaming system includes: an IC chip reader configured to read chip identification information which uniquely identifies a specific casino chip; journal data generation unit configured to generate journal data corresponding to a transaction of the chip operated during the reading, based on the chip identification information; a journal data DB configured to accumulate the journal data and capable of generating, based on accrual accounting, balance sheet data to be reflected onto a balance sheet in real time by using data indicating a financial condition and a profit-or-loss condition of a casino, based on the accumulated journal data; and a controller configured to control a process of a game and issue an instruction to a dealer based on the data read by the IC chip reader.

A wireless IC tag reader includes a receiving antenna, a transmitting antenna and a beam direction control unit. The receiving antenna has a maximum beam direction and a half-value angle. The transmitting antenna has a maximum beam direction and a half-value angle narrower than the half-value angle of the receiving antenna. The beam direction control unit changes the maximum beam direction of the transmitting antenna.

Wireless IC tag reader

An IP telephone system according to the present invention includes a plurality of communication devices T, Tallowed to mutually communicate through a network (IP network); a server for executing a connection starting process of communication between the communication devices, as well as for controlling communication data transmitted and received between the server and the communication devices during the communication between the communication devices; and a data transmission and reception controller for mutually switching, upon input of a predetermined command, a communication mode between a standard communication mode and a power-saving communication mode in a condition that communication connection is established between the communication devices upon execution of the connection starting process. The sound data is transmitted and received between the communication devices and the server in the standard communication mode. Transmission and reception between the communication devices and the server is stopped with respect to the sound data below a predetermined level while being continued with respect to the sound data beyond the predetermined level received in the power saving communication mode.

IP telephone system

An electronic settlement system which is similar to cash settlement and which is usable in a gaming parlor is provided. In the electronic settlement system, a mobile phone communicates with a ball lending machine using a contactless IC card to acquire a device ID from the ball lending machine, and transmits a payment request message including the device ID and a user ID to an electronic settlement server. The electronic settlement server notifies an in-store server of a transfer amount from a user account to a settlement provider account, and the in-store server stores the transfer amount as a deposit. In response to a payment request message from the mobile phone, the in-store server instructs the ball lending machine to provide gaming media corresponding to a gaming medium cost, adds an amount corresponding to the gaming medium cost to a consumed amount, and issues a transfer request to a receiving network so as to transfer the consumed amount from the settlement provider account to a gaming parlor operator account. Upon receiving a provision instruction message from the in-store server, the ball lending machine provides gaming media corresponding to the gaming medium cost.

Electronic settlement system, electronic settlement server, mobile communications terminal, and electronic settlement method

A sheet identifying device comprising a light-receiving section () for reading each pixel on a sheet which involves color information including a brightness, has a predetermined size, and is handled as one unit, a RAM () for storing image data constructed of read pixels, a pixel data increasing/decreasing section () for increasing/decreasing the number of pixels of the image data, and a judging section for judging authentication of the sheet on the basis of the increased/decreased image data.

Sheet identifying device

A radio IC tag reader comprises: a first variable frequency oscillation section for generating a signal having a frequency meeting a unit radio channel used for transmission/reception to/from a radio IC tag; transmission and reception sections for executing transmission/reception to/from the radio IC tag by using the signal; a second variable frequency oscillation section for changeably generating a signal of a frequency meeting a unit radio channel for measuring the strength of a received electric wave; a carrier sense executing section for measuring strength of a received electric wave in each of the unit radio channels by using the signal; and a main control section for controlling the first variable frequency oscillation section so as to generate a carrier signal having a frequency meeting the next unit radio channel used by the transmission and reception sections based on a result of measurement by the carrier sense executing section, upon passage of a continuous transmittable time after start of transmission/reception.

Radio IC tag reader, its controller, and radio IC tag reading system

A sheet identifying device includes a reader for reading a sheet in a plurality of pixels, a respective one of which includes color information having a brightness, a predetermined size of which is defined as one unit. The sheet identifying device also includes a storage section for storing image data made up of the plurality of pixels read by the reader. Further, the sheet identifying device includes an increasing/decreasing section that increases/decreases a number of pixels in the image data. In addition, the sheet identifying device includes a sheet identifying section that identifies an authentication of the sheet, based upon the image data having the number of pixels increased/decreased by the increasing/decreasing section. The sheet identifying device further includes a variable wavelength light-emitting section which is capable of irradiating a print area of the sheet with light beams having different wavelengths.

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Tokyo, Japan

Nobuyuki Nonaka