Gaming system and gaming table
AssigneeCompal Electronics, Inc.
InventorsChe-Wei Liang, Kun-Hsuan Chang, Yu-Hao Tseng, Jung-Ming Hung, Sheng-Chieh Tang
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Abstract
A gaming system for card games is provided. The gaming system includes a plurality of gaming cards and a processor. Each of the gaming cards has a recognition code. The processor is configured to: generate a correspondence between the recognition codes of the gaming cards and a plurality of card faces; obtain an image of the gaming card placed in a recognition area captured by an image capturing device; recognize the recognition code in the image to generate game data according to a recognition result and the correspondence; and generate a game screen to be displayed by a display according to the game data. In addition, a gaming table is also provided.
Claims33
A gaming system, comprising:
- a plurality of gaming cards, each of the gaming cards having a recognition code, wherein the recognition code is printed on an outer casing of each of the gaming card by using an invisible ink and the recognition code is invisible under a visible light;
- and
- a processor, configured to:
- generate a correspondence between the recognition codes of the gaming cards and a plurality of card faces;
- obtain a recognition code image of the gaming card placed in a recognition area by an image capturing device capable of capturing the invisible ink;
- recognize the recognition code image, and obtain a recognition result;
- generate first game data according to the recognition result and the correspondence;
- and
- generate a first game screen according to the first game data,
- wherein each of the gaming cards is wirelessly coupled to the processor, wherein each of the gaming cards has a display panel, and the processor is configured to transmit the card faces to the gaming cards according to the correspondence,
- wherein when the gaming card does not receive a corresponding card face, the display panel of the gaming card is a black screen.
A gaming table, comprising:
- a plurality of gaming cards, each of the gaming cards having a recognition code, wherein the recognition code is printed on an outer casing of each of the gaming card by using an invisible ink and the recognition code is invisible under a visible light;
- a display, comprising a recognition area, and configured to display a first game screen;
- an invisible light source, configured to emit an invisible light towards the recognition area;
- an image capturing device, configured to capture at least one recognition code image of at least one of the gaming cards formed by a reflected light of the invisible light;
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- a processor, coupled to the display, the invisible light source and the image capturing device, and configured to:
- generate a correspondence between a plurality of recognition codes of the gaming cards and a plurality of card faces;
- obtain a recognition code image of the gaming card placed in the recognition area by the image capturing device capable of capturing the invisible ink;
- recognize the recognition code image of the gaming card placed in the recognition area, and obtain a recognition result;
- generate first game data according to the recognition result and the correspondence;
- and
- generate the first game screen according to the first game data,
- wherein each of the gaming cards is wirelessly coupled to the processor, wherein each of the gaming cards has a display panel, and the processor is configured to transmit the card faces to the gaming cards according to the correspondence,
- wherein when the gaming card does not receive a corresponding card face, the display panel of the gaming card is a black screen.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.