Fraud detection system in a casino
AssigneeAngel Playing Cards 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.
Claims9
A detecting system comprising:
- a chip recognition device, wherein the chip recognition device is configured to recognize one or more chips on a first gaming table in a casino;
- and
- at least one control device, wherein the at least one control device is configured to perform the following respectively for each of one or more players at the first gaming table:
- obtain a respective win and lose result for each of a plurality of games played by the respective player at the first gaming table;
- for each of the plurality of games:
- identify, based on the recognition by the chip recognition device, respective chip wager information, the chip wager information including respective positions, types, and numbers of chips wagered by the respective player in the respective game;
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- determine a respective win/lose amount of the player in the respective game based on the obtained win and lose result of the respective game and the identified chip wager information of the respective player in the respective game;
- compile a respective win/lose history of the respective player or a data of an acquired or lost amount of chips based on the win/lose amounts determined for the respective player for the plurality of games;
- upon relocation of the respective player from the first gaming table to a second gaming table in the casino, transmit to a processing device of the second gaming table an indication of the relocation of the respective player to the second gaming table;
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- transmit the compiled win/lose history of the respective player or the data of the acquired or lost amount of chips to the processing device of the second gaming table for use by the processing device of the second gaming table after the relocation of the respective player to the second gaming table.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.