Electronic betting system

Abstract

In order to provide a realistic sensation and high satisfaction in the aspect of user convenience, an electronic betting system has a satellite system includes an audio-visual unit for broadcasting a betting event live, and betting terminals, for betting on betting events, arranged opposite to the audio-visual unit, each betting terminal receiving betting event services and prediction information services, and making electronic payment of a customers' requirements for betting.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0001]1. Field of the Invention[0002]The present invention relates to an electronic betting system for betting events such as horse race, bicycle race, motorboat race, or auto race.[0003]2. Description of the Related Art[0004]Conventionally, as a betting system for a betting event such as horse race, bicycle race, motorboat race, or auto race, for example, a telephone betting system of Japan Racing Association (JRA) using phone lines has been known. In such a conventional betting system, based upon conditions of racehorses, racetracks, and the like on the day at the race grasped from a live broadcast video at home or at outside ticket sales booths, information grasped through racing papers or the like, the customers predict the race result. Then, the customers bet the horse according to the predicted results to JRA through the phone lines. For example, while being guided by audio guidance on the receiver of the phone, the customers operate the numeric keyp...

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Benefits of technology

[0018]According to the electronic betting system of the present invention, the customers can utilize the betting event services and the prediction information services fully via the betting terminals at hand to bets while watching a betting event broadcasted live on the audio-visual unit. Their requirement for the betting can be settled by electronic payment. Therefore, they can enjoy predicting the race result, and besides, the electronic betting system can provide high satisfaction in the aspect of user convenience.

Problems solved by technology

In the above-described conventional betting system, however, the information the customers can obtain at a betting time is limited to fragmentary information such as conditions of racehorses, racetracks, and the like obtained through the live broadcast video or prediction information obtained from, for example, racing papers.

It, therefore, is difficult to predict the race result based upon a fund of information from various perspectives.

As this result, there is concern about the lack of pleasure of predicting the race result.

Moreover, in the above-described conventional betting system, the operational procedure of the numeric keypad of the touch-tone is troublesome, and there is room for improvement therein.

However, there is a problem of a lack of a realistic sensation and satisfaction in the aspect of customer convenience.

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