US 2026/0290115 A1 · GAME MANAGEMENT SYSTEM TO TRACK GAME PLAY BY PLAYERS

Abstract

A game management system that manages a casino game which is played in a casino facility includes: a camera that acquires an image by photographing bet game tokens; a control device that identifies a bet amount for each player position of a gaming table on the basis of a position, a type, and the number of game tokens in the image; a reader/writer device that identifies a player of each player position of the gaming table; and a point processing unit that stores a member ID of each player who is identified by the reader/writer device and a bet amount of each player position which is identified by the reader/writer device in a recording device in correlation with each other. The point processing unit has a function of giving points based on a bet amount of each player who is identified by the reader/writer device to the player.

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Dependent claims

A game management system comprising:

an imaging unit that acquires an image by photographing face of a player participating in a game in a casino facility and game tokens which the player has bet in a game;
a player identifying unit that identifies a player position where the player whose face was photographed is located;
an information processing device that identifies the player position in which the game tokens are bet and the bet amount in the player's game, based on the image;
and
an associating unit for associating face of the player whose player position is identified by the player identifying unit, and the bet amount of the game tokens bet in the player position where the player is located.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

19/677,569Filed 14 May 2026

Priority

JP 2018-03146926 Feb 2018

Published

24 Sep 2026

Term ends

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Classification10 codes

G07F 17/322
Construction aspects of a gaming system, e.g. housing, seats, ergonomic aspects: casino tables, e.g. tables having integrated screens, chip…
G07F 17/3206
Player-machine interfaces: player sensing means, e.g. presence detection, biometrics
G07F 17/3225
For games, toys, sports, or amusements: data transfer within a gaming system, e.g. data sent between gaming machines and users
G07F 17/3239
About the players, e.g. profiling, responsible gaming, strategy/behavior of players, location of players: tracking of individual players

Family

Application16/284,437Continuation · filed 25 Feb 2019

Application18/123,626Continuation · filed 20 Mar 2023

Application19/210,316Continuation · filed 16 May 2025

Application19/677,569Continuation

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Game management system to track game play by players

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Abstract

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