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Method and apparatus for modifying gaming machines to provide supplemental or modified functionality

A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for enhancing a gaming device is disclosed. The gaming device has a plurality of legacy I / O devices for communicating I / O device signals to a legacy gaming device processor via a plurality of legacy communication paths. The apparatus comprises an interface module, communicatively coupled to at least one of the legacy I / O communication paths between the legacy I / O device and the legacy gaming device processor to monitor the I / O device signal; and a local processor, communicatively coupled to the interface module and to a remote processor, the local processor performing instructions comprising instructions for controlling the interface module, for receiving the monitored I / O signals, and for transmitting the monitored signal to the remote processor. The method comprises the steps of modifying at least one of the legacy communication paths to monitor at least one of the I / O device signals; and providing the I / O device signal on the monitored I / O device signals to a remote processor external to the gaming device. In one embodiment, the method further comprises the steps of interrupting at least one of the I / O device signals communicated on a legacy communication path; generating a substitute I / O device signal; and providing the substitute I / O device signal on the legacy communication path.
Owner:WESTERN GAMING PROPERTIES

Method and apparatus for controlling a coin hopper to operate with a secondary monetary exchange dispenser

A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for dispensing an cashout value to a user in amount of a first monetary exchange and an amount of a second monetary exchange is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of interrupting a first signal to the first device, wherein the first signal is a signal enabling the first device to dispense the first monetary exchange media; interrupting a second signal to the first device, wherein the second signal is a signal describing a number of first monetary exchange media units to be dispensed; computing a number of second monetary exchange units to be dispensed by the second device and a number of first monetary units to be dispensed by the first device, providing the interrupted first signal and the substituted second signal to the first monetary device, and providing the third signal to the second device. The apparatus comprises means for performing the above steps, and the article of manufacture comprises a storage device tangibly embodying instructions for performing the foregoing method steps.
Owner:WESTERN GAMING PROPERTIES

Coin discrimination apparatus and method

A coin discrimination apparatus and method is provided. Coins, preferably after cleaning, e.g. using a trommel, are singulated by a coin pickup assembly configured to reduce jamming. A coin rail assists in providing separation between coins as they travel past a sensor. The sensor provides an oscillating electromagnetic field generated on a single sensing core. The oscillating electromagnetic field is composed of one or more frequency components. The electromagnetic field interacts with a coin, and these interactions are monitored and used to classify the coin according to its physical properties. All frequency components of the magnetic field are phase-locked to a common reference frequency. The phase relationships between the various frequencies are fixed, and the interaction of each frequency component with the coin can be accurately determined without the need for complicated electrical filters. In one embodiment, a sensor having a core, preferably ferrite, which is curved, such as in a U-shape or in the shape of a section of a torus, and defining a gap, is provided with a wire winding for excitation and / or detection. The sensor can be used for simultaneously obtaining data relating to two or more parameters of a coin or other object, such as size and conductivity of the object. Two or more frequencies can be used to sense core and / or cladding properties. Objects recognized as acceptable coins, using the sensor data, are diverted by a controllable deflecting door, to tubes for delivery to acceptable coin bins.
Owner:COINSTAR LLC

Bill/coin processing system

A bill and coin processing system including a bill and coin processing apparatus having: an interface unit capable of exchanging information via a communication unit with the point-of-sales terminal machine; a money receiving unit receiving money by way of a price of a commercial product; a discriminating unit discriminating between at least denominations of the bills and coins received from the money receiving unit; a storing / discharging unit stored with the received bills and coins on the basis of a result of the discrimination made by the discriminating unit and capable of discharging the bills and coins by giving a discharge instruction to the bill and coin processing apparatus from the point-of-sales terminal machine; a money discharging unit discharging the bills and coins outside a machine, which have been discharged from the storing / discharging unit; and a control unit controlling the money discharging unit to discharge the bills and coins from the storing / discharging unit on the basis of a discharge instruction accepted by the interface unit and given to the bill and coin processing apparatus from the point-of-sales terminal machine.
Owner:GLORY KOGYO KK

Coin discrimination apparatus and method

A coin discrimination apparatus and method is provided. Coins, preferably after cleaning, e.g. using a trommel, are singulated by a coin pickup assembly configured to reduce jamming. A coin rail assists in providing separation between coins as they travel past a sensor. The sensor provides an oscillating electromagnetic field generated on a single sensing core. The oscillating electromagnetic field is composed of one or more frequency components. The electromagnetic field interacts with a coin, and these interactions are monitored and used to classify the coin according to its physical properties. All frequency components of the magnetic field are phase-locked to a common reference frequency. The phase relationships between the various frequencies are fixed, and the interaction of each frequency component with the coin can be accurately determined without the need for complicated electrical filters. In one embodiment, a sensor having a core, preferably ferrite, which is curved, such as in a U-shape or in the shape of a section of a torus, and defining a gap, is provided with a wire winding for excitation and/or detection. The sensor can be used for simultaneously obtaining data relating to two or more parameters of a coin or other object, such as size and conductivity of the object. Two or more frequencies can be used to sense core and/or cladding properties. Objects recognized as acceptable coins, using the sensor data, are diverted by a controllable deflecting door, to tubes for delivery to acceptable coin bins.
Owner:COINSTAR LLC

Cash dispensing method of financial self-service equipment

The invention discloses a cash dispensing method of financial self-service equipment, which realizes an inexact cash dispensation; in case that an automatic teller machine is failed in a cash dispensing total amount, a reference cash dispensing solution is provided to a user depending on an actual application situation, and the user, if the self-service equipment is failed to precisely dispense the cash, can select the reference cash dispensing solution to continue the transaction; in addition, other nearby self-service equipment satisfying the cash dispensing condition can be informed to the user to implement the transaction, so that the actual demand of the self-service equipment is satisfied, especially on an automatic foreign currency exchange, the self-service equipment can automatically exchange the foreign currency in accordance with the floating exchange rate. According to the cash dispensing method of the financial self-service equipment, an optimal cash dispensing solution can be provided within an allowable error range of the system; the method not only can inexactly dispense the cash within a certain error to improve the cash dispensing success ratio and bring convenience for the user, but also can minimize the error to realize optimization, so that the user is easy to accept the provided inexact cash dispensing reference solution; the method is practical, convenient and flexible to use.
Owner:GRG BAKING EQUIP CO LTD
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