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 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.
Claims7
A monitoring system for a game in which cards are drawn one by one from a card dealing device by a dealer and dealt in any of a plurality of card deal areas, comprising:
- a camera configured to capture an image of proceedings of the game;
- an image analyzing device configured to analyze the image;
- a card deal detecting device configured to identify the card deal area in which a card drawn from the card dealing device is dealt based on a result of the analysis of the image by the image analyzing device;
- a card information obtaining device configured to obtain card information including a rank of a card drawn from the card dealing device and dealt in any of the plurality of card deal areas;
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- a controller configured to determine a hand of the card deal area identified by the card deal detecting device based on the card information obtained by the card information obtaining device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.