SETTLEMENT SYSTEM FOR AMUSEMENT FACILITY AND SETTLEMENT CONTROL METHOD OF THE SAME

• Main Authors: MINODA HIDEAKI, YOSHIDA ATSUSHI, KITANO TOYOFUMI, KITAKAZE YUSUKE, INOUE YOSHIHISA, UEDA SATOSHI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 19.07.2024
• Subjects: AMUSEMENTS; CALCULATING; CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; COMPUTING; COUNTING; DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES; GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; HUMAN NECESSITIES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; PHYSICS; SPORTS; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTINGPURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; VIDEO GAMES

To provide a settlement system for an amusement facility that improves flexibility in settlement.SOLUTION: A settlement system executing settlement processing of causing a user to spend a monetary value in response to billing to the user occurring in a billing object apparatus such as a game machine 3 installed in an amusement facility comprises: a billing management unit 41 that is provided in the billing object apparatus and creates billing information for determining billing content in response to the billing to output the billing information; a reader 11 that is provided to correspond to the billing object apparatus, and reads settlement reference information held in a medium such as a card 4 possessed by the user in response to output of the billing information; and a transaction control unit 44 that determines an amount of monetary value spending corresponding to the billing information output from the billing management unit 41 according to setting information on correspondence relation between the billing content determined on the basis of the billing information and an amount of the monetary value for causing the user to spend. The settlement system executes the settlement processing so that the user spends the determined amount of the monetary value.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 3 【課題】決済の柔軟性を高めたアミューズメント施設向けの決済システムを提供する。【解決手段】アミューズメント施設に設置されたゲーム機３等の課金対象機器にて発生したユーザへの課金に対応して該ユーザに金銭的価値を消費させる決済処理を実行する決済システムは、課金対象機器に設けられ、課金に対応して、課金内容を判別するための課金情報を生成し出力する課金管理部４１と、課金対象機器に対応付けて設けられ、課金情報の出力に対応してユーザが所持するカード４等の媒体に保持された決済参照情報を読み取るリーダ１１と、課金情報に基づいて判別される課金内容とユーザに消費させるべき金銭的価値の量との対応関係の設定情報に従って、課金管理部４１から出力された課金情報に対応する金銭的価値の消費量を判別する取引制御部４４とを備え、判別された量の金銭的価値をユーザが消費するように決済処理を実行する。【選択図】図３