Card-centered abnormality detection system using camera and shoe
AssigneeAngel Group Co., Ltd.
InventorYasushi Shigeta
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Abstract
Conventional systems have a problem that, after drawing cards onto a table in a baccarat game, if a dealer makes a mistake in dealing cards to the Player side and the Banker side or in passing cards to game participants after dealing, the mistake cannot be detected. An abnormality detection system according to the present invention can detect an abnormality or cheating and issue a warning or stop the abnormality or cheating based on an image analysis result from an image analyzing device 12 when, after drawing cards onto a table in a baccarat game, a dealer makes a mistake in dealing cards to the Player side and the Banker side or in passing cards to customers after dealing, for example.
Claims14
A game monitoring system for a game in which a dealer draws cards from a card dealer device one by one and deals the cards to any of a plurality of card dealing areas, the game monitoring system comprising:
- at least one imaging device configured to generate one or more images of proceedings of the game;
- and
- at least one processor configured to:
- analyze the one or more images;
- for each card of multiple cards drawn from the card dealer device:
- based on analysis of the one or more images, identify into which card dealing area of the plurality of card dealing areas the card has been dealt;
- obtain, from the card dealer device, card information including at least a rank of the card;
- and
- determine a hand in a card dealing area of the plurality of card dealing areas, the hand including a first card and a second card of the multiple cards determined to be in the card dealing area based on the analysis of the one or more images, and the hand determined based on a first rank of the first card and a second rank of the second card obtained from the card dealer device.
An abnormality detection system, comprising:
- an imaging device;
- and
- at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor is configured to:
- perform image analysis of a video, obtained from the imaging device, of proceedings of a game played on a game table;
- identify an order of dealing and respective positions of cards dealt onto respective areas of the game table based on the image analysis;
- determine whether there is an abnormality of the identified order of dealing and identified respective positions of the cards being in non-conformance with a rule of the game;
- and
- output an indication of a presence of the abnormality when a determination result is presence of the abnormality.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.