US 6,616,530 B2Granted

Roulette wheel winning number detection system

AssigneeTechnical Casino Services Ltd.

InventorsHenry Colin Pearce, Christopher Lewis Read

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Abstract

Disclosed is a detection system for detecting a winning number in a roulette game played on a roulette wheel having pockets for receiving a ball and having colored pocket number regions corresponding to the respective pockets, including a video camera for generating a video image of the roulette wheel including at least one colored pocket number region and a corresponding pocket. The video data at an array of points in a first specified area of the color video image corresponding to a region through which the color pocket number region will pass are sampled when the cylinder of the roulette wheel is spun. The identity of the colored pocket number regions are determined from the sampled video data provided by the array of points. The video data is also sampled at a plurality of points in a second specified area in which the ball can be expected to be when in the pocket corresponding to the identified colored pocket number region. Whether or not the ball is in the pocket is determined using the sampled video data provided by the plurality of points and the identity of the identified colored pocket numbered region is output as the winning number if the ball is determined to be in the corresponding pocket.

A system for detecting a winning number in a roulette game played on a roulette wheel having a rim, a cylinder carrying pockets for receiving a roulette ball and pocket number regions corresponding to respective ones of said pockets, each colored pocket number region having a characteristic color, including at least one colored pocket number region having a characteristic index color, arranged in a known sequence thereon, comprising:

a video camera mounted on the rim of said roulette wheel so as to image only a section of said roulette wheel, and wherein said video camera is adapted to generate color video data comprising a video image of a region of said roulette wheel through which said pockets and said corresponding colored pocket number regions pass when the cylinder of said roulette wheel is spun;
a first sampler for sampling said video data at an array of points in a first specified area of said video image corresponding to a region of said roulette wheel through which said colored pocket number regions will pass when the cylinder of said roulette wheel is spun;
an identifier for identifying said colored pocket number region in said first specified area using said sampled video data provided by said first sampler based on the color of said colored number pocket region and said known sequence of colored pocket number regions;
a second sampler for sampling said video data at a plurality of points in a second specified area of said video image corresponding to a region in which said ball can be expected to be present when said ball is in the pocket corresponding to said identified colored pocket number region;
a first determiner for determining whether said ball is in the pocket corresponding to said identified colored pocket number region using said sampled video data provided by said second sampler;
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an output for outputting the identity of said identified colored pocket number region as the winning number if said ball is determined to be in said corresponding pocket by said first determiner.

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Application

10/202,321Filed 24 Jul 2002 · continuation

Priority

24 Jan 2001

Published

US 2003/0060263 A127 Mar 2003

Granted

9 Sep 2003

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Classification6 codes

A63F 5/00
Roulette games
G07F 17/3213
Display means: details of moving display elements, e.g. spinning reels, tumbling members
A63F 2009/2435
With other kinds of input: using a video camera
A63F 2009/2445
Light detector: detecting reflected light

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