Card game monitoring system
AssigneeAngel Playing Cards Co., Ltd.
InventorYasushi Shigeta
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Abstract
The card game monitoring system has: a game table (1) on which bettors (2) put wagers (3) on betting areas (4); and a card shooter apparatus has a card reading unit to read and record the number (rank) and suit of the cards (6); and a control unit (7) to determine a winning hand according to a table game rules based on information of numbers (ranks) and suits of the cards sequentially read by the card reading unit (5); a monitor video camera system (8) to capture positions of cards and to identify wagers (3) on each betting area (4) at the game table (1); the control unit (10) has further processing function to check whether wagers (3) with payoff (3W) move to a pool (12) of the winner (W) of the bettors (2) determined by the card shooter apparatus (5) at the end of each game.
Claims24
A card game monitoring system for playing a table game, the card game monitoring system comprising:
- a game table comprising betting areas configured to receive wagers from bettors;
- a card shooter apparatus associated with the game table, the card shooter apparatus comprising a card reading unit configured to read ranks of cards;
- a camera system configured to capture an image of positions on the game table to which one or more cards have been delivered from the card shooter apparatus to the bettors;
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- a control unit configured to determine:
- 1) a number of betting chips and positions of the betting chips by performing an image analysis of the image,
- 2) for each bettor, whether or not the bettor receives more than two cards from the card shooter apparatus,
- 3) each hand of the bettors and a dealer based on a combination of information of the ranks of the cards read by the card shooter apparatus and the positions of cards captured by the camera system, and
- 4) after each game has ended and based on one or more winning hands determined by the control unit, whether a collection of the wagers to a chip tray on the game table is correct.
A card game monitoring system for a game, the card game monitoring system comprising:
- a game table comprising betting areas, the betting areas including, for each bettor, a banker hand betting area and a player hand betting area;
- a card shooter apparatus associated with the game table and configured to read ranks of cards dealt from the card shooter apparatus;
- a monitor camera system configured to capture an image of wagers placed on the game table by each bettor;
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- a control unit configured to:
- perform an image analysis of the image to identify one or more positions within the image at which the wagers are located;
- determine whether a banker hand or a player hand is a winning hand according to a game rule based on information of the ranks of the cards read by the a card shooter apparatus;
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- after each game has ended, check whether a collection of the wagers to a chip tray on the game table is correct in accordance with the identified one or more positions.
A card game monitoring system for playing a table game, the card game monitoring system comprising:
- an electronic dealing shoe associated with a gaming table, the electronic dealing shoe comprising a card reader unit configured to determine, for each card of a plurality of cards dealt from the electronic dealing shoe, a rank and a suit of the card and to generate first information indicating the ranks and the suits of the plurality of cards dealt from the electronic dealing shoe;
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- a control unit configured to:
- receive image information from a camera system indicating the positions on the game table to which the camera system has captured the plurality of cards to have been dealt;
- generate second information indicating positions of the plurality of cards dealt from the electronic dealing shoe and wagers on each betting area at the game table based on the image information, the generation of the second information including performing an image analysis of an image of the image information output by the camera system to identify one or more positions within the image at which the wagers are located to thereby determine respective ones of the betting areas at the game table on which the wagers have been placed;
- determine each hand of a dealer and one or more bettors based on a combination of the first information indicating the rank and the suit of the plurality of cards and the second information indicating the positions of the plurality of cards;
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- after each game has ended and based on an indication of one or more betters as winners having a winning hand, determine whether a collection of the wagers to a chip tray on the game table is correct.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.