JPH06253A - Mah-jong point counting method - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To enable four players holding points to be respectively counted automatically to suit the progress of a mah-jong game by detecting the weight of a chip with a weight measurement unit mounted on a box for housing chips, and calculating the points on the basis of the weight of the chip. CONSTITUTION:Each of chip boxes 1, 2, 3 and 4 are fitted with pressure sensors 5, 6, 7 and 8 for measuring the weight of chips 9. Furthermore, the sensors 5, 6, 7 and 8 transmit pressure signals corresponding to the weight of the chips 9, to a central processing unit 10. This unit 10 processes the pressure signals, upon receipt from the sensors 5, 6, 7 and 8, thereby counting each player's holding points. Thereafter, the results of the counting are shown on display devices 11, 12, 13 and 14. According to this construction, a player can easily grasp his/her own holding points as well as an opponent's holding points.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a mahjong score counting system for automatically counting the score of each game player in mahjong.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Mahjong, which uses fingertips and changes in game contents, has recently been attracting attention as one that both plays a role of preventing aging and recreation of elderly people. There is a setting of Mahjong tiles as an operation that needs to be performed even though it is not a game itself in Mahjong, but since this setting is relatively troublesome, automatic setting by automatic machines has become popular recently. Although this automatic machine is generally used for business because it is expensive, it is very useful for elderly people who are becoming difficult to perform various operations to perform mahjong.

On the other hand, even though it is an important matter for the progress of the game, the points of each person who is playing the game are counted and verbalized by each person even in the situation where such an automatic machine is widespread. However, there is no device that automatically counts your points.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in consideration of such a situation, and in a mahjong game, the score of each of the four game players is automatically counted according to the progress of the game. An object is to provide a device.

[0005]

In order to solve the above problems, in the present application, "the weight of a score bar is detected by a weight measuring device attached to a box for storing the score bar, and the weight is determined by the weight of the score bar. The present invention provides a mahjong score counting system characterized by calculating scores.

[0006]

[Operation] In the mahjong score counting system of the present invention having the above-mentioned configuration, the weight of each game player's score bar is measured to count the number of each score bar to calculate the score.

[0007]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a conceptual diagram for explaining the mahjong score counting method of the present invention, in which 1, 2, 3, and 4 are score bar boxes,
5, 6, 7, and 8 are pressure sensors for measuring the weight of the score bar, 9 is a score bar, and 10 is a central processing unit that calculates the weight of the score bar measured by the pressure sensor as a score.
Reference numerals 11, 12, 13, and 14 denote display devices including LEDs for displaying the points held by each game player.

Each pressure sensor 5, 6, 7, 8 sends a pressure signal corresponding to the weight of the point bar to the central processing unit 10, and the central processing unit 10 processes the pressure signal sent from each pressure sensor. The score of each game player is counted and the result is displayed on the display device 11, 12, 13, 14.

The pressure signals from the pressure sensors 5, 6, 7 and 8 are preferably arranged to be digitized by an A / D converter and sent to the central processing unit 10 in order to remove an error.

Although the weight of each point bar box is measured and converted into points and displayed, it is also possible to display this display only when necessary.

Further, by providing a function for checking the total score of all the game players and issuing an alarm when the total score is abnormal, the loss of the score bar can be easily known, With the score bar box empty,
By adding the function of setting the display of the display device to 0 point, the reliability of the point display becomes high.

FIG. 2 shows an embodiment in which the present invention is applied to a mahjong table. This mahjong table is a normal automatic machine to which the mahjong score counting system of the present invention is applied, and pressure sensors 5, 6, which measure the weight of the score bars in each of the score bar boxes 1, 2, 3 and 4. 7 and 8 are attached, the pressure signals are sent to the central processing unit 10 attached to the mahjong table, and the resulting points are provided to the game players 11, 12, 13 and 14 are displayed.

3 to 5 show the correspondence between the score bar and the pressure sensor. There are four types of score bars used in mahjong: 10,000-point bar, 5,000-point bar, 1,000-point bar and hundred-point bar, and usually 2 g.

FIG. 3 shows a first example (a).
As shown in, for example, a 10,000-point bar is 100 g, a 5,000-point bar is 50 g, a thousand-point bar is 10 g, and a hundred-point bar is 1 g. )
As shown in, one sensor is provided for each score bar box.
By doing so, the total weight of the score bar × 100 becomes the score. The pressure sensor used here has a maximum weighing capacity of 1200 g, an accuracy of ± 0.01 g / 1 g, and an accuracy of ± 3 g / 30.
Use about 0 g.

A second example is shown in FIG. 4, in which four types of score bars are arranged, for example, as shown in (a), a first group consisting of 10,000 score bars and 5,000 score bars, and 1,000 score bars. Divide into 2 groups of 2 groups consisting of rods and 100-point rods, 10000-point rods in the 1st group are 2g, 5000-point rods are 1g, 1000-point rods in the 2nd group are 10g The point bar is set to 1 g, and the weight of the point bar in each group is proportional to the point, and two sensors corresponding to the group are provided in each point bar box as shown in (b).

The pressure sensor used here has a resolution of 1 g, a maximum weighing amount of 16 g, and an accuracy of ± 0.00 for the first group.
5g / 1g, ± 0.8g / 16g or so is used, the maximum weight for the second group is 140g, and accuracy is ± 0.01g /
Use 1g, ± 1.4g / 140g. In the case of this example, there are two pressure sensors for detecting the weight for each score bar box, and the game player needs to divide the score bar into two groups and store them in the score bar box. The weight ratio and the accuracy of the pressure sensor can be made smaller than in the case of the first example.

FIG. 5 shows a third example, in which the weight of the score bar is the same as that of all types 2g as shown in (a) and each score bar box as shown in (b). Are equipped with four pressure sensors. In the case of this example, there are four pressure sensors for detecting the weight for each score bar box, and the game player needs to classify the score bar for each type and store them in the score bar box. It is possible to use the conventional one as it is. Also, each pressure sensor used here is
Maximum weighing 80g, Accuracy ± 0.02g / 1g, ± 1.6g /
Use about 80 g.

In addition to this, if the shape, thickness, length, etc. of the point bar, the electrical property or the magnetic property are variously changed, the coin sorting mechanism used in the vending machine or the like can be used as a point bar. It can be applied to counting.

[0019]

As is apparent from the above description, the mahjong score counting system of the present invention is the one in which the sensor, the central processing unit and the display device are simply attached to the score bar box of the existing mahjong table. It can be easily implemented by making simple modifications to the Mahjong table. Further, the mahjong score counting system of the present invention is excellent in structural, economical and immediacy because it measures the weight of a score bar and converts it into a score.
And since the opponent's score and his own score can be easily grasped, the enjoyment of the game is doubled.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a conceptual diagram for explaining a mahjong score counting method of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram of an embodiment in which the present invention is applied to a mahjong table.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of a first example.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram of a second example.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram of a third example.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1-4 point bar box 5-8 pressure sensor 9 point bar 10 central processing unit 11-14 display device

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A mahjong score counting system characterized in that the weight of a score bar is detected by a weight measuring device attached to a box for storing the score bar, and the score is calculated from the weight of the score bar. 2. The mahjong score counting system according to claim 1, wherein the weight of the score bar is different for each type of score bar.