Inspection system and management system
AssigneeAngel Group Co., Ltd.
InventorYasushi Shigeta
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Abstract
When an unfair gaming currency is delivered to a dealer from a player, the currency is detected as unfair. The inspection system for inspecting the gaming currency, in which an RF tag is built, comprises: a gaming currency tray for housing the gaming currencies of the dealer in a casino game; an RF reader for reading the RF tags of the plural gaming currencies housed in the gaming currency tray; plural photosensors for detecting at least the number of the plural gaming currencies housed in the gaming currency tray at a constant time interval or always in a method other than RFID; and an inspection/alarm part for generating alarms when the number of the gaming currencies whose RF tags are read by the RF reader is not equal to the number of the gaming currencies detected by the plural photosensors.
Claims12
A management system configured to manage gaming chips in a casino having a plurality of gaming tables and a cashier, each of the gaming chips has a built-in radio frequency identification (RFID) tag storing an identifier (ID), the management system comprising:
- at each gaming table of the plurality of gaming tables, a gaming chip tray configured to hold a plurality of gaming chips;
- a tray RFID reader configured to read the RFID tags of the gaming chips held in the gaming chip trays;
- a database storing, at least for each of the plurality of gaming tables, the IDs of the gaming chips held in the respective gaming chip tray in association with location information;
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- a management controller configured to update the database based on a reading result of the tray RFID reader,
- wherein the gaming chips held in each gaming chip tray increase or decrease due to at least a settlement of games at the respective gaming table and transfer of the gaming chips between the cashier and the gaming chip tray,
- wherein the management controller is configured to update the database based on the increase or decrease of the gaming chips in each of the gaming chip trays when the gaming chips increase or decrease in each of the gaming chip trays, and
- wherein the management controller is configured to manage revenues and expenses of the casino based on an amount of increase or decrease of the gaming chips in each gaming chip tray due to the settlement of the games, an amount of the gaming chips transferred from the gaming chip tray to the cashier, and an amount of the gaming chips transferred from the cashier to the gaming chip tray.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.