Fraud detection system in a casino
AssigneeAngel Group Co., Ltd.
InventorYasushi Shigeta
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Abstract
A fraud detection system which detects fraud in a game of performing collection and redemption of chips in accordance with a win or lose result includes a camera which captures an image of chips contained in a chip tray of a dealer, an image analyzing apparatus which analyses the image captured by the camera to detect an amount of the chips contained in the chip tray, a card distribution device which determines a win or lose result of a game, and a control device which compares the win or lose result of the game and the amount of the chips contained in the chip tray before and after collection and redemption of the chips to detect fraud.
Claims14
A system in a casino, the system comprising:
- a gaming table including a plurality of betting areas for wagering chips, the plurality of betting areas including a player area and a banker area;
- a chip tray which is installed in the game table and configured to store the chips owned by the casino;
- a camera configured to capture the plurality of betting areas and the chips wagered on any one of the plurality of betting areas to produce an image in which the wagered chips are captured from diagonally above the wagered chips, the camera has an offset viewing angle configured to capture the plurality of betting areas on which can be recognized positions, types, and numbers of wagered chips by each player;
- an image analyzing apparatus configured to perform image analysis on the image by using a deep learning technology to recognize, for each wagered chip, a type of the wagered chip and on which betting area of the plurality of betting areas the wagered chip is wagered;
- a game result determining apparatus configured to determine a game result of each game of a baccarat game on the game table;
- and
- a control device configured to:
- calculate a collection amount and/or a redemption amount based on a result of the image analysis performed by the image analyzing apparatus and the game result determined by the game result determining apparatus;
- and
- 1) compare a calculated amount of the chips in the chip tray after a collection calculated based on the calculated collection amount and an amount of the chips before the collection with an actual amount of the chips in the chips tray after the collection;
- 2) compare a calculated amount of the chips in the chip tray after a redemption calculated based on the calculated redemption amount and an amount of the chips before the redemption with an actual amount of the chips in the chips tray after the redemption;
- and/or
- 3) compare a calculate amount of the chips in the chip tray after the redemption calculated based on the calculated collection amount and the calculated redemption amount and an amount of the chips before the collection with an actual amount of the chips in the chips tray after the redemption,
- to determine whether there is a discrepancy between the calculated amount and the actual amount.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.