Systems, methods and devices for monitoring betting activities
AssigneeArb Labs Inc.
InventorsAdrian BULZACKI, Vlad CAZAN, Muhammad Talal IBRAHIM
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Abstract
A platform, device and process for capturing images of the surface of a gaming table and determining the quantity, identity, and arrangement of chips bet at a gaming table. Image data is captured corresponding to the one or more chips positioned in at least one betting area on a gaming surface of the respective gaming table and the data is processed to filter out the background, establish a two dimensional grid of points of interests and corresponding histograms for classifying the one or more chips through identifying a dominant classification of each row in the grid of points of interests.
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A machine vision bet recognition device for visually capturing chip placement activities comprising:
- a camera or sensor capturing image data corresponding to one or more chips positioned in at least one chip placement area captured across a plurality of channels including at least a depth information channel, a red channel, a green channel, and a blue channel;
- a processor configured to:
- process the captured image data by generating one or more representative histograms for each chip of the one or more chips for distinguishing different chip types, at least one of the one or more representative histograms generated from at least two channels of the plurality of channels including the depth information channel and at least one of the red channel, the green channel, and the blue channel;
- assign a chip type to each of the one or more chips by identifying a most similar corresponding reference histogram to the representative histogram from a set of reference histograms;
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- determine a total chip value or a change in the total chip value of the one or more chips in the at least one chip placement area based on the assigned chip types.
A method for machine vision bet recognition by visually capturing chip placement activities comprising:
- capturing, using a camera or sensor, image data corresponding to one or more chips positioned in at least one chip placement area captured across a plurality of channels including at least a depth information channel, a red channel, a green channel, and a blue channel;
- processing the captured image data by generating one or more representative histograms for each chip of the one or more chips for distinguishing different chip types, at least one of the one or more representative histograms generated from at least two channels of the plurality of channels including the depth information channel and at least one of the red channel, the green channel, and the blue channel;
- assigning a chip type to each of the one or more chips by identifying a most similar corresponding reference histogram to the representative histogram from a set of reference histograms;
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- determining a total chip value or a change in the total chip value of the one or more chips in the at least one chip placement area based on the assigned chip types.
A non-transitory computer readable medium storing machine interpretable instructions, which when executed by a processor, perform a machine vision bet recognition method, the method comprising:
- capturing, using a camera or sensor, image data corresponding to one or more chips positioned in at least one chip placement area captured across a plurality of channels including at least a depth information channel, a red channel, a green channel, and a blue channel;
- processing the captured image data by generating one or more representative histograms for each chip of the one or more chips for distinguishing different chip types, at least one of the one or more representative histograms generated from at least two channels of the plurality of channels including the depth information channel and at least one of the red channel, the green channel, and the blue channel;
- assigning a chip type to each of the one or more chips by identifying a most similar corresponding reference histogram to the representative histogram from a set of reference histograms;
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- determining a total chip value or a change in the total chip value of the one or more chips in the at least one chip placement area based on the assigned chip types.
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