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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 28, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2018
Omron Corporation, Kyoto, JP;
Takuma Ikeda, Aichi, JP;
Hiroyuki Onitsuka, Gifu, JP;
Takahiro Ono, Aichi, JP;
Masaaki Sumi, Gifu, JP;
Omron Corporation, Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
A game machine that can discriminate between two states of an occupied state and an unoccupied state includes a credit function. The game machine includes the credit function configured to determine presence or absence of a credit and a timer part configured to measure a lapse of time, and transitions to the occupied state in which a game is determined to be interrupted or the unoccupied state in which the game machine is determined to be idle according to a determination of the presence or absence of the credit in the credit function when the timer part measures a lapse of a first time.