Patent ID: 9278279
Filing Date: 2016-03-08
CPC Classification: A63F,G07F

Claim Text:
1. A gaming machine comprising: a housing, which is playable by a plurality of players, that includes a plurality of stations provided to the players, respectively; an image capturing unit, provided at the housing, that photographs a player present at each of the stations to obtain captured information; a balance status monitoring unit that monitors a balance status of a gaming value, the balance status representing a relationship between an amount of a gaming value paid out to the player according to a game result and an amount of a gaming value paid for a game by way of the bet operation; and a determination unit that determines fraudulence or an error of a game by comparing a running state of a game which is obtained based on the captured information obtained by the image capturing unit with the balance status that is monitored by the balance status monitoring unit under a gaming environment where there is no observer.