US 10,311,672 B2 · Gaming table system

Abstract

The progress of a game while a change in gaming media placed in a betting area of a gaming table is left uncollected is prevented. A gaming table system includes a gaming table including a betting area in which gaming media are placed and an antenna member configured to read a value of the gaming media placed in the betting area by wireless communication and a control unit configured to execute a scanning process of obtaining the total value of the gaming media in the betting area by controlling the antenna member. The control unit fixes a first bet amount by executing the scanning process at a timing to fix the bet and fixes a second bet amount by executing the scanning process again at a predetermined timing, and the control unit repeats the scanning process until these amounts become identical.

Claims10

Dependent claims

A gaming table system comprising:

a gaming table including betting areas in each of which a gaming medium betted by a player is placed, and an antenna member configured to read information of the gaming medium placed in each of the betting areas by wireless communication;
a control unit configured to execute a scanning process of obtaining, by controlling the antenna member, the information of the gaming medium in the betting areas;
and
a betting area specifying unit in which the betting areas are selectively presented and one of the betting areas is specifiable by a dealer, wherein,
when one of the betting areas is specified in the betting area specifying unit by the dealer, the control unit executes the scanning process for the specified betting area.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

16/110,498Filed 23 Aug 2018 · continuation

Priority

JP 2015-14079614 Jul 2015

Published

US 2018/0365930 A120 Dec 2018

Granted

4 Jun 2019

Term ends

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Classification11 codes

G07F 17/3244
For games, toys, sports, or amusements: payment aspects of a gaming system, e.g. payment schemes, setting payout ratio, bonus or consolation prizes
A63F 1/067
Card game appurtenances: tables or similar supporting structures
A63F 3/00157
Types of board games: casino or betting games
G07F 17/3209
Player-machine interfaces: input means, e.g. buttons, touch screen

Family

Application15/208,731Parent of this continuation · filed 13 Jul 2016

US 2018/0365930 A1Pre-grant publication · published 20 Dec 2018

US 10,089,824 B2Parent of this continuation

US 2017/0018140 A1Published application

US 10,311,672 B2This patent

From the US filing history. Foreign family members aren’t listed.

Gaming table system

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Abstract

Claims10