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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 16, 2009
Kazuo Okada, Koto-ku, JP;
Jun Fujimoto, Koto-ku, JP;
Takao Nireki, Koto-ku, JP;
Kunihiro Manabe, Koto-ku, JP;
Noritoshi Kukita, Koto-ku, JP;
Kazuo Okada, Koto-ku, JP;
Jun Fujimoto, Koto-ku, JP;
Takao Nireki, Koto-ku, JP;
Kunihiro Manabe, Koto-ku, JP;
Noritoshi Kukita, Koto-ku, JP;
UNIVERSAL ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A game system is provided which is capable of continuing a game without a player feeling inconvenience even in a case where a basic currency at hand is lost. This game system includes: a bill identifying apparatus for identifying bills of different currencies and an amount of the bills and then outputting data representing the identified result; a player tracking device which is integrated with each of gaming machines, for converting data outputted from the bill identifying apparatus to credit data for executing a game, based on an exchange rate; and an information card device which is integrated with the player tracking device, the information card device causing an information card to store data equivalent to an amount awarded to a player in accordance with a game result of the gaming machines and sending out the credit data for executing the game to the gaming machines, based on the data equivalent to the amount read from the information card.