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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 10, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 30, 2011
Masato Okuaki, Minato-ku, JP;
Takashi Uchiyama, Minato-ku, JP;
Makoto Nakano, Minato-ku, JP;
Shogo Azuma, Minato-ku, JP;
Norifumi Kawai, Minato-ku, JP;
Masato Okuaki, Minato-ku, JP;
Takashi Uchiyama, Minato-ku, JP;
Makoto Nakano, Minato-ku, JP;
Shogo Azuma, Minato-ku, JP;
Norifumi Kawai, Minato-ku, JP;
KONAMI GAMING, INC., Las Vegas, NV (US);
Abstract
A ball lottery apparatus include a discharger adapted for discharging individually multiple lottery balls, a lottery field including multiple holes in which the discharged lottery balls can enter, a host controller for executing various controls, a retrieval mechanism adapted for retrieving the lottery balls. When a bingo game is played, the host controller can set the ball lottery apparatus to a normal mode in which an input time point at which each of the lottery balls discharged from the discharger is input to the lottery field depends on a predetermined rule, and to a dealer mode in which the input time point depends on human action.