CN114613083A - Management system - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention provides a management system (210) in a facility for providing a game using a game table (5004) having a player position, the management system comprising: a membership card (810) in which a card RFID tag (811) storing membership information is incorporated; and card RFID readers (711, 54) provided at player positions of the game table (5004) for reading the member information from the card RFID tag (811).

Description

management system

Divisional application

This application is a divisional application of a patent application whose application date is August 2, 2019, the application number is: 201980091100.0, and the invention name is management system.

technical field

The present invention relates to a management system in a facility providing a game using a gaming table.

Background technique

In a facility (typically a casino) that provides a game using a gaming table, a player is made to register as a member, and a member card is issued. Player information (typically, a member ID) identifying the registered player is stored in the membership card. When a player who is a member plays a game at a gaming table, the membership card is handed over to an operator (typically a dealer of the gaming table, or a gaming table manager who manages a plurality of gaming tables including the gaming table). The operator reads the membership card with a card scanner. A management device connected to the card scanner identifies a member, and stores the member's play status (eg, the number of games played, winning and losing results, betting amount, income and expenditure, bonus points, etc.) in a storage mechanism in association with member information.

Members will actively provide their membership cards to the operators before the game with the benefits obtained through reward points as an incentive. The game provider enjoys the following advantages, and can use the member's game status information for marketing or detect cheating behavior, without giving the member any discount.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The problem to be solved by the invention

However, in order to identify the member who plays the game at each player position, if the member hands the member card to the operator and the operator scans the member card, the effort required for this will affect the operation of the game, and the operation of the game will be affected. efficiency drops.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a management system capable of suppressing a decrease in the efficiency of game operation and identifying members for each player position.

way of solving the problem

A management system of one aspect of the present invention is a management system in a facility that provides a game using a gaming table with player positions, and has the following structure, including: a membership card with a built-in card RFID tag storing membership information; and a card RFID reader, which is provided at the player's position on the gaming table, and reads the member information from the card RFID tag.

According to this configuration, the member information stored in the membership card can be read at the player's position. Therefore, the member does not need to hand over the membership card to the dealer, and the dealer does not need to operate the membership card, and the management system can know which member is the member. Which player position to sit in.

The above-mentioned management system further includes: a coin determination device that determines the coin identification information of the disbursed coins paid out to the player position; the coin identification information of the coin is stored in association with it; and a control device that associates the member information read at the player's position with the disbursement coin determined at the player's position The coin identification information is stored in the storage medium in association.

According to this configuration, it is possible to store which member the payout medal is paid out to, and therefore, it is possible to grasp which player has which medal.

The above-mentioned management system further includes: a coin determination device for judging the value of the paid-out coins paid out to the player position; a storage medium for storing the member information and the game held by the member corresponding to the member information the value of coins is stored in association with them; and a control device that stores the membership information read at the player's position in association with the value of the payout coins determined at the player's position in a the storage medium.

According to this configuration, it is possible to store which member has paid out how much worth of the coins, so that the value of the coins held by the members can be grasped.

The above-mentioned management system further includes: a storage medium that stores the member information in association with the deposit amount corresponding to the member information; and a coin determination device that determines the coin identification of the placed medal placed at the player's position information; a database that stores the correspondence between the coin identification information and the value of the placed coin; and a control device that refers to the database to determine the identification of the coin determined at the player's position with the coin The value corresponding to the information, based on the value, for the member information read at the player's location, the deposit amount associated with the member information stored in the storage medium is updated.

According to this structure, it is possible to store how much the deposit amount is deposited by which member. The deposit amount can be used as reward points for the member, for example.

The above-mentioned management system further includes: a storage medium that stores the member information in association with the deposit amount corresponding to the member information; a coin judgment device that judges the value of the deposited coin placed at the player's position; and

a control device for updating the member information stored in the storage medium related to the member information read at the player position based on the value of the placed medal determined at the player position linked to the stated placement amount.

According to this structure, it is also possible to store how much the deposit amount is deposited by which member. The deposit amount can be used as reward points for the member, for example.

The above-mentioned management system further includes: a coin determination device that determines coin identification information of reserved coins not placed at the player's position; a storage medium that stores the member information and the members corresponding to the member information. The coin identification information of the coin is stored in association with the coin identification information; and a control device that combines the membership information read at the player's position with all the reserved coins determined at the player's position. The medal identification information is associated and stored in the storage medium.

According to this configuration, even if the member is not stored as the owner of the reserved medal held by the member, or is not stored with certainty, by placing such reserved medal at the player's position, it is possible to make a connection with the game as the owner of the reserved medal. associated with the member's member information of the owner of the coin. In addition, when there is an inconsistency among the owners, the inconsistency can be found, and cheating can also be found by recording such inconsistency.

The above-mentioned management system further includes: a coin determination device for judging the value of reserved coins not placed at the player's position; a storage medium for storing the member information and the said member held by the member corresponding to the member information the value of the coins is stored in association with each other; and a control device that stores the member information read at the player's position and the value of the reserved coins determined at the player's position in the player's position in association with each other the storage medium.

According to this configuration, even if the member is not stored as the owner of the reserved medal held by the member, or is not stored with certainty, by placing such reserved medal at the player's position, it is possible to make a connection with the game as the owner of the reserved medal. associated with the member's member information of the owner of the coin. In addition, when there is an inconsistency among the owners, the inconsistency can be found, and cheating can also be found by recording such inconsistency.

In the above management system, the coin identification information of the game coin may be stored in the coin RFID tag built in the game coin, and the game coin determination device and the card RFID reader may be the same A device that reads the chip RFID tag and the card RFID tag.

According to this structure, the membership card can be read using the device for reading the placed medal.

In the above management system, the value of the coin can be stored in the RFID tag of the coin built in the coin, the coin determining device and the card RFID reader can be the same device, the The device reads the coin RFID tag and the card RFID tag.

According to this structure, the membership card can also be read using the device for reading the placed medal.

In the above management system, when one card RFID reader simultaneously reads a plurality of the membership information from a plurality of the membership cards, the control device may The member information is stored in the storage medium in association with the medal identification information.

According to this configuration, when there is a plurality of member information to be associated with the medal identification information, it can be associated with the medal identification information.

In the above-mentioned management system, the storage medium may be installed in the medal, may be provided in the membership card, or may be provided in a database that can communicate with the card RFID reader and the medal determination device .

In the above management system, the card RFID reader for a seated player and the card RFID reader for a player placed behind may be provided at the player's position.

According to this configuration, it is possible to grasp the member information even for the player who is placed behind.

In the above management system, the membership card includes: a regular membership card, which stores in the card RFID tag the membership information inherent to the registered member; and an informal membership card, which stores in the card RFID tag There is temporary membership information.

According to this configuration, it is possible to manage an unregistered player who has not registered as a member using the membership card.

In the above management system, a plurality of the non-regular membership cards store mutually different temporary membership information in the card RFID tags.

According to this structure, even for an unregistered player, the medals held by the player can be managed.

In the above management system, the gaming table may have a plurality of the player positions, and the card RFID reader may be provided at each of the plurality of player positions.

According to this configuration, even if there are a plurality of player positions on the gaming table, players can be identified for each player position.

Invention effect

According to the present invention, the membership information stored in the membership card can be read at the player's position. Therefore, the player does not need to hand over the membership card to the dealer, the dealer does not need to operate the membership card, and the management system can grasp which player is Which player position to sit in.

Description of drawings

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an overview of the entire management system of a table game according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an outline of a database according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is an explanatory diagram of an RFID tag included in a medal according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a conceptual diagram showing a recording method of medal data according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

It is a figure which shows the outline of the whole of the management system of the medal|token according to the 2nd Embodiment of this invention.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a reading device and a writing device of a medal according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7A is an explanatory diagram showing the structure of the data of the medal according to the second embodiment of the present invention.

7B is an explanatory diagram showing a structure of data of medals according to another second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a database according to another second embodiment of the present invention.

9 is a diagram showing an overview of the entire management system of a table game in a casino having a plurality of casino tables according to a third embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing the reading result of the medal obtained by the camera and the RFID according to the third embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing a gaming table according to a third embodiment of the present invention.

It is a figure which shows the state of the medal|token set on the game table of 3rd Embodiment of this invention.

FIG. 13 is a diagram showing a state of coins placed on the gaming table according to the third embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 14A is a detailed diagram showing the medal tray according to the third embodiment of the present invention.

14B is a diagram showing another example of the medal tray according to the third embodiment of the present invention.

15 is a diagram of a gaming table according to a third embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 16 is a diagram of a camera according to the third embodiment of the present invention and a reading result of coins obtained by RFID.

17 is a diagram of a gaming table according to a third embodiment of the present invention.

18 is a diagram of a gaming table according to a third embodiment of the present invention.

19 is a diagram of a gaming table according to a third embodiment of the present invention.

20 is a perspective view of a medal according to a third embodiment of the present invention.

21 is a cross-sectional view of a medal according to a third embodiment of the present invention.

22 is a cross-sectional view of a medal according to a third embodiment of the present invention.

23 is a diagram showing a configuration of a management system according to a first example of the fourth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 24 is a diagram illustrating an example of updating of variation information in the first example of the fourth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 25 is a diagram illustrating an example of updating the fluctuation information in the first example of the fourth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 26 is a diagram illustrating an example of updating the fluctuation information in the first example of the fourth embodiment of the present invention.

27 is a diagram showing a configuration of a management system according to a second example of the fourth embodiment of the present invention.

28 is a diagram showing a configuration of a management system according to a third example of the fourth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 29 is a diagram illustrating an example of updating the database in the third example of the fourth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 30 is a diagram illustrating an example of updating the database in the third example of the fourth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 31 is a diagram illustrating an example of updating the database in the third example of the fourth embodiment of the present invention.

32 is a diagram showing a configuration of a management system according to a fourth example of the fourth embodiment of the present invention.

33 is a diagram showing a configuration of a management system according to a fifth example of the fourth embodiment of the present invention.

34 is a diagram showing a configuration of a management system according to a sixth example of the fourth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 35 is a diagram illustrating an example of updating the fluctuation information in the sixth example of the fourth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 36 is a diagram illustrating an example of updating the fluctuation information in the sixth example of the fourth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 37 is a diagram illustrating an example of updating the fluctuation information in the sixth example of the fourth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 38 is a diagram illustrating an example of updating the fluctuation information in the sixth example of the fourth embodiment of the present invention.

39 is a diagram showing a configuration of a management system according to a seventh example of the fourth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 40 is a diagram illustrating an example of updating the database in the seventh example of the fourth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 41 is a diagram illustrating an example of updating the database in the seventh example of the fourth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 42 is a diagram illustrating an example of updating the database in the seventh example of the fourth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 43 is a diagram illustrating an example of updating the database in the seventh example of the fourth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 44 is a diagram illustrating an example of updating the database in the seventh example of the fourth embodiment of the present invention.

45 is a diagram showing a configuration of a management system according to an eighth example of the fourth embodiment of the present invention.

46 is a diagram showing a configuration of a management system according to a ninth example of the fourth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 47 is a diagram illustrating an example of updating the fluctuation information in the ninth example of the fourth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 48 is a diagram illustrating an example of updating the fluctuation information in the ninth example of the fourth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 49 is a diagram illustrating an example of updating the fluctuation information in the ninth example of the fourth embodiment of the present invention.

50 is a diagram showing an example of a placement area in an eleventh example of the fourth embodiment of the present invention.

51A is a diagram showing another example of the placement area of the eleventh example of the fourth embodiment of the present invention.

51B is a diagram showing another example of the placement area of the eleventh example of the fourth embodiment of the present invention.

52 is a diagram showing a configuration of a management system according to a fifth embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed ways

(first embodiment)

An overview of the entire table game management system according to the first embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 1 . FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an overview of the entire system. The game table 1004 for a card game has placement areas for the player 1441 , the banker 1442 , the draw 1443 , the player pair 1444 , and the banker pair 1445 provided for each player position 1131 to 1135 . Further, a medal arrangement area 1025 is provided at each player position, and a medal reading device 1002 that reads the RFID of the medals 1001 placed in the medal arrangement area is provided.

In addition, each coin arrangement area 1025 includes a pair sub-area 1026 for placing the coin tray 1009 when the dealer pays the coin 1001 from the coin tray 1009 of the game table 1004 to the winner. The withdrawn coins 1001.

Moreover, the control apparatus 1003 which grasps the read result of the RFID of the medal|token 1001 read by the medal|token reading device 1002 is further provided.

At the beginning, a player participating in the game places coins 1001 on a placement area within the coin placement area. The RFID of the placed medal 1001 is read by the medal reading device 1002, whereby the control device 1003 grasps the information on the owner of the medal 1001 associated with the ID information of the RFID on the database.

Based on the result of the game, in the case of winning on the casino side, the dealer collects the coins 1001 placed by the loser, and puts them into the coin tray 1009 . The RFID of the coin 1001 in the coin tray 1009 is grasped by the coin reading device 1002, and the information that the owner of the coin 1001 collected by the casino side is the casino is recorded on the database by the control device 1003. .

Based on the result of the game, for the winner, the dealer pays the winner from the coin tray an amount of coins 1001 corresponding to the amount of the placed coins according to the rules of the game.

When paying, the payout coins may be placed in the above-mentioned pair sub-area 1026, or may be placed in a medal arrangement area other than the pair sub-area.

Here, the recording method of the owner information of the payment token is demonstrated using FIG. 2. FIG. FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a recording method of the information on the owner of the medal 1001 when the medal payout is paid to the winner.

In the case where a plurality of players place coins in the same player's position, and there are 2 or more stacks, the coin reading device 1002 reads the coins 1001 placed in the coin placement area 1025 together, Therefore, in the game, the ID 1010 of the placed medal is acquired without knowing which medal 1001 belongs to which player. The dealer pays out each player (each stack) from the coin tray 1009 when the payout is made to the winner after the winning or losing result of the game is determined. The medals 1001 taken out from the medal tray 1009 are placed in the medal arrangement area 1025 . The medal reading device 1002 reads the ID 1011 of the payout medal placed in the medal arrangement area 1025 .

The paid coin 1001 is received by the winner together with the initially placed coin 1001 . At this time, the placed coins and paid coins are moved out of the coin arrangement area 1025 , and therefore, the IDs of the placed coins and paid coins disappear from the reading result obtained by the coin reading device 1002 . Thereby, the control apparatus 1003 grasps to which player the paid-out coins are paid out by associating with the information on the owner of the placed coins.

The control device 1003 associates and stores the grasped information on the owner of the paid medal and the ID of the medal in the database.

From the above, the traceability of the owner of the medal 1001 becomes possible, and when the medal 1001 is improperly received or the like, it can be found that the owner information stored in the database is different from the actual owner.

In addition, the identification of the actual owner can be grasped by using facial authentication technology and ID such as membership cards.

In addition, in the above-mentioned description, although the ID of each medal|token is managed on the database, the structure which stores owner information in the medal|token 1001 itself may be sufficient.

In addition, the paired sub-areas 1026 described above may be configured such that, in addition to the case of being provided for each player position, the area may be configured independently of each player position, and reading by the medal reading device 1002 may be performed independently. .

Further, it may be configured such that, depending on the reading performance of the medal reading device 1002 , the case where the pair of sub-areas 1026 is used and the case where it is not used can be selected.

Further, the table game management system can also be configured as a combination of an RFID reader that reads the coins in the coin tray 1009 by RFID, a camera that reads the coins placed, and a licensing shoe that determines the winning or losing result of the game. win-lose-result judging devices, etc., use information mutually.

(Second Embodiment)

First, the medal used in the management system of the medal which concerns on embodiment of this invention is demonstrated. FIG. 3 shows the medal 1 used in the same system. In the same figure, an RFID tag 2 capable of storing various kinds of information is embedded in the medal 1 . The RFID tag 2 includes an area 21 in which data cannot be rewritten and an area 22 in which data can be rewritten.

The area 21 in which data cannot be rewritten stores information that is not changed during use of the medal 1, or information that is not changed, or information that cannot be changed, as fixed information 3. FIG. Specifically, the production information, commodity information, casino information, amount information, serial number, and the like of the medal 1 are stored as the fixed information 3 . The production information includes the date of manufacture of the medal, the manufacturing machine, and the like, and the commodity information includes, for example, information indicating the medal for the VIP area of the casino, and information indicating the type of the medal (for example, information indicating a roll code, a cash code, etc.) )Wait.

The area 21 in which data cannot be rewritten may be functionally non-writable or locked so that after necessary information is written in the writable area, it cannot be rewritten. data input.

The rewritable data area 22 stores information that the medal 1 changes during use as the change information 4 . For example, as shown in FIG. 3 , location-related information 220 including date and time-related information 221 , location and event-related information 222 , owner-related information 223 , and the like is stored as change information 4 .

In order to prevent others from reading and writing information improperly, the fixed information 3 and the variable information 4 may be encrypted. In addition, the fixed information 3 and the variable information 4 may be stored as metadata.

FIG. 4 shows an example of a recording method of the data of the fluctuation information 4 of the medal 1 . As shown in FIG. 4, the information 220 related to the location including the date, time information 221, the location, the event information 222, and the owner information 223 is regarded as a block, and the information of the block is linked into a chain In this way, the history of the information 220 related to the location of the medal 1 can be grasped.

An example of the fluctuation information 4 memorize|stored in the medal|token 1 is shown in FIG. 4, and the trend of the medal|token 1 shown below can be grasped|ascertained. A's exchanged cash and game currency 1 at counter 5 at 16:2 on January 28, 2019. At 16:15 on the same day, A's placed the game coin 1 on table No. 325. Mr. B received coin 1 at table No. 325 at 16:43 on the same day as a repayment for the placement win. Mr. B left the casino at 17:1 on the same day with game currency 1.

The change information 4 may be configured to store only the latest information, or may store all the written information related to the location. In addition, as shown in FIG. 4, several pieces of information related to the location can be selected and stored. In the case of selecting several locations for storage, a plurality of location-related information including at least the latest location-related information 220 among all location-related information 220 may be stored. According to the above-described configuration, based on the fluctuation information 4 of a certain medal 1, the history of the use or movement of the medal 1 can be known. That is, the traceability information of the medal 1 is written in the medal 1 itself, and can be grasped.

Next, the management system of the medal|token 1 of this embodiment is demonstrated. FIG. 5 shows an overview of the entire system.

First, in the factory 6, the change information 4 including the information of the completion of manufacture or the factory shipment is written in the data rewritable area 22 of the RFID tag 2 as the information 220 related to the location of the medal 1 by the writing device 14. .

In the backstage 7 of the casino, a receiving process is performed for the medals 1 shipped from the factory 6 . In the background 7, the reading device 13 reads the fluctuation information 4 stored in the data-rewritable area 22 of the medal 1, and based on the reading result, the management control device 15 indicates that the information to be written is the information to be written in the factory. 6. It is determined whether or not the already written information 220 related to the location is written as the latest change information 4. It is assumed that if there is no writing record in the factory 6, it is regarded as a token suspected of fraud, and an error signal is generated. Thereby, the casino side can refuse to accept the medal, or the factory side can be entrusted with the investigation. If there is no problem in writing the recording, the writing device 14 writes the information 220 related to the location indicating the background into the data-rewritable area 22 of the RFID tag 2 . At the time of writing, the location information representing the backend may be added to the location information representing the factory, or the location information representing the factory may be deleted and the location information representing the backend may be recorded. In addition, the reading and writing of the medals in the background 7 can be performed together with the normal verification and activation of the medals.

The medals 1 whose acceptance check has been completed in the backstage 7 are carried to the warehouse 8 or the counter 9 of the casino. In the warehouse 8 or the counter 9, the reading device 13 reads the variation information 4 stored in the data-rewritable area 22 of the medal 1, and based on the reading result, the management control device 15 indicates that the information to be written is It is determined whether or not the information 220 related to the location written in the background 7 is written as the latest change information 4 . In addition, it is possible to check whether or not the information indicating the factory 6 is written in the history of the variation information 4 at the same time. Similar to the aforementioned check in the background 7, the management control device 15 determines whether or not there is an abnormality in the history record of the location information. If there is no problem with the read result, the writing device 14 writes the information about the location of the warehouse 8 or the counter 9 into the area 22 where the data can be rewritten.

The player buys the game currency 1 at the counter 9. When the player purchases the medal 1, the writing device 14 at the counter 9 writes the information indicating the time when the medal was purchased and the change of the owner of the medal from the casino to the guest as the change information 4. enter. The player may be identified and recorded by facial authentication technology, a casino membership card, an ID card such as an ID card, or the like.

By using the purchased medal 1, the player places the medal 1 on the placement area 11 on the gaming table to play the game. The reading device 13 reads the information 220 related to the location including the date, time information 221, location, event information 222 and owner information 223 from the RFID tag 2 of the placed medal 1, and the management control device 15 determines whether No exceptions. For example, it can be determined as abnormal when a certain time or more has elapsed from the date of the last written use information at the gaming table and the information purchased at the counter, and when the owner of the medal 1 is stored The case where the information 223 is different from the owner information 223 determined by face authentication or ID card.

When there is no problem with the read result, the writing device 14 adds the information 220 related to the location to the area 22 where the data can be rewritten for the placed medal 1 . The information 220 related to the location includes date, time information 221 , location, event information 222 , and owner information 223 . At the gaming table, for example, the change information 4 including the player's position number on which the medal 1 is placed and the player's information is written by the writing device 14 . Player information can be determined through ID cards, facial authentication. Usually, since several medal|tokens 1 are placed in the placement area 11 in a stacked state, writing is performed together in a state of being overlapped.

When the player takes out the medal 1 from the casino side, the exit process is performed at the gate 10 . At the time of exit, the information 220 related to the location is read by the reading device 13 , and the management control device 15 determines whether there is no abnormality in the fluctuation information 4 . In addition, the writing device 14 writes the change information 4 including the place indicating the exit, the event information 222 , and the owner information 223 at the gate 10 .

When the player enters the field from the casino side, when the player brings in the coins that have been taken out before, the information related to the location is read by the reading device 13, and the management control device 15 is used to determine whether the fluctuation information 4 is missing or not. abnormal. For example, if the owner of the medal 1 once taken out from the casino is different from the owner when the owner exits the casino, it is possible to grasp the receiving behavior of the medal outside the casino.

When the judgment based on the reading result of the reading device 13 is abnormal, the above-mentioned management control device 15 may output an alarm to the counter 9 or the doorway 10 . The owner of the medal 1 can refuse the exchange based on an alarm output from the management control device 15 when exchanged at the counter 9 or when exiting from the gate 10, or can perform an individual inspection at the exit. In addition, when the result of the determination is abnormal, the management control device 15 issues a warning to the dealer of each gaming table to interrupt the game, or issues a warning to the gaming table, and the gaming table manager can determine whether to interrupt the game or continue the game, or the like, or The process of replacing the medal 1 and the like. Alternatively, the management control device 15 is configured to be connected to the overall management control device 18 of the casino, and to issue a warning to the overall management control device 18 .

Similarly, the management control device 15 may read the fluctuation information 4 by the reading device 13 and determine the abnormality when the exchange is performed at the counter. Specifically, it can be determined as abnormal when a certain time or more has elapsed from the date of the last written use information on the game table and the information exchanged at the counter, and when the game coin 1 is stored with the When the owner information 223 is different, the person wants to exchange, etc. When it is determined to be abnormal, the management control device 15 may output a warning and refuse to exchange the medals 1 determined to be abnormal.

In addition, in the above description, the method of reading by the reading device 13 and writing by the writing device 14 after the judgment by the management control device has been described, but it is also possible to perform reading and writing at the same time. structure to write.

Hereinafter, details of application examples of the present invention will be described.

In the factory 6, the reading and/or writing of the RFID tag 2 is performed at the time of completion of production and at the time of shipment. The writing device 14 writes the production information and the commodity information as the fixed information 3 , locks it so that it cannot be rewritten as necessary, and writes the variable information 4 .

In the background 6, the chip 1 shipped from the factory is received, and when the chip 1 is activated as a usable chip 1, the RFID tag 2 is read and/or written.

In the warehouse 8, when the medal 1 is moved from the warehouse 8 to the counter 9, or when the medal 1 is moved from the counter 9 to the warehouse 8, the reading and/or writing of the RFID tag 2 is performed. Alternatively, the reading and/or writing of the RFID tag 2 may be performed at regular intervals or at predetermined time intervals for the medals 1 stored in the warehouse 8 .

At the counter 9, the RFID tag 2 is read and/or written at the time of movement from or to the warehouse 8 and when the coins 1 are exchanged. When the exchange is made at the counter 9 , the place of exchange, the event information 222 , and the information of the player who exchanged are written as the owner information 223 of the change information 4 . Owner information 223 can be obtained from the player's casino ID card, face authentication system, credit card, or the like.

The player reads and/or writes the RFID tag 2 when entering and exiting the gate 10 . For all the medals 1 taken out from the casino by the player at the time of exit, the place where the player was taken out, the event information 222 , and the owner information 223 indicating the player who was taken out are written and registered as the change information 4, and are registered at the time of entry. In the same manner, the place, event information 222, and owner information 223 indicating the player who brought in are written as variation information 4, and the medal 1 brought into the casino is registered.

In the placement area 11, the RFID tag 2 is read and/or written with respect to the medal 1 placed in the placement area 11 by the player to participate in the game. In addition, the RFID tag 2 is read and/or written to the medal 1 placed in the placement area 11 by the dealer as a repayment to the player.

In the coin tray 12, the RFID tag 2 is read and/or written with respect to the coins 1 collected in the coin tray and the coins 1 stored in the coin tray.

The gaming table further includes a payout area, and the RFID tag 2 can be read and/or written to the coins 1 placed in the placement area 11 by the dealer as a repayment to the player.

The management control device 15 has a function of determining whether or not there is an abnormality in the information 220 related to the location obtained from the reading result of the reading device 13 at each location. Whether or not it is abnormal can be judged whether any of the information about the location to be written has not been used for a predetermined time or more since the previous writing has not been written.

If it has not been used for a predetermined time or more since the previous writing, it is one of the following cases.

1) The latest information related to the location is the information indicating the counter 9, and the next information is written after a specified time or more;

2) The latest information related to the location is the information indicating the entry at the gate 10, and the next information is written after a predetermined time or more;

3) The latest location-related information is information indicating exit at the gate 10, and a predetermined time or more has elapsed for the next information writing.

The situation where the location-related information that should be written is not written is any one of the following situations:

4) When entering the casino, as the latest information related to the location in the area 22 of the game currency 1 that can rewrite the data, the information indicating the exit at the entrance 10 is not written;

5) When the counter 9 is used, the information representing the background 7 is not written;

6) When exiting from the casino, the information indicating the counter 9 or the backstage 7 is not written.

The management control device 15 can determine any one of the following cases based on the owner-related information 223 obtained by the reading device 13 as a determination as to whether or not it is abnormal:

1) A person different from the final owner stored in the area 22 capable of rewriting the data exchanges or exchanges the game currency 1 in the casino, or withdraws from the casino;

2) A person different from the owner at the time of exit stored in the data-rewritable area 22 brings the medal into the casino.

Based on the information indicating the location of the placement area 11, the information indicating the location of the coin tray 12, or the information indicating the payout area obtained by the reading device 13, the management control device 15 determines the following 1) to 4). Any one of the cases is judged as a judgment of whether it is abnormal:

1) A person different from the final owner stored in the area 22 capable of rewriting the data uses the coin 1 at the gaming table;

2) For the game coin 1 that has no usage record at the gaming table, the game coin 1 is exchanged at the counter 9 by a different person from when the game coin 1 was purchased at the counter 9;

3) Using the game coin 1 that does not have the information representing the counter 9 or the backstage 7 in the casino;

4) The latest location-related information is information indicating the placement area 11 or the payment area, and after a predetermined time or more has elapsed, it is exchanged at the counter 9 or used at the gaming table.

FIG. 8 shows databases involved in other embodiments of the present invention. The management system includes a database 17 that records the same fixed information 3 and variable information 4 in addition to the coins 1 . The management control device 15 can record the information in the database 17 based on the reading result of the reading device 13, and can determine abnormality by comparing the fixed information 3 and the variation information 4 stored in the medal 1 with the information in the database.

In the RFID tag 2 of the present embodiment, the functionally write-incapable area of the data-incapable area 21 may be a TID (tag number). After necessary information is written in the area 21 in which data cannot be rewritten, the area locked so that data cannot be rewritten may be an EPC or a user area. The area 22 capable of rewriting data may be an EPC (Electronic Product Code) or a user area.

The reading device 13 and the writing device 14 can be changed in form depending on the location. For example, in the factory 6, the device on the table shown in FIG. 6 may be used, the entrance and exit 10 may be box-shaped, and the placement area 11 and the coin tray 12 may be provided with the reading device 13 in the placement area 11 and the coin tray 12 themselves. and the function of the writing device 14 . In addition, the medal 1 may be read in a state of being directly stacked, or may be read in a state stored in a medal box or the like. In addition, the reading device 13 and the writing device 14 may be integrally formed.

In the above embodiment, the case where one RFID tag is provided in the medal and the single RFID tag has an area in which data cannot be rewritten and an area in which data can be rewritten has been described. In this regard, the following form can also be considered: put two RFID tags in the game currency, one of the RFID tags is locked on the basis of storing the fixed information so that the data cannot be rewritten, and the other RFID tag records the change information, so Data can be rewritten in advance.

However, in this case, when a plurality of medals are read together, as shown in FIG. 7A, since the information group of the fixed information 3 and the information group of the variable information 4 can be read separately, Therefore, it is impossible to determine the combination of the fixed information and the fluctuation information of a specific medal, and it is impossible to specify a medal with abnormal fluctuation information.

On the other hand, when there is one RFID tag, as shown in FIG. 7B , even when a plurality of medals are read together, the correspondence between the fixed information and the fluctuation information read by the reading device can be grasped , therefore, it is considered better to implement through a single RFID tag.

In addition, in general, since the larger the diameter of the RFID tag, the higher the reading accuracy, when the RFID tag is placed in the medal, it is desirable that the RFID tag has at least the diameter of the diameter of the medal or more. When two RFID tags are placed in the medal, the diameter of each RFID tag becomes small, which is not preferable. In addition, when two RFID tags are inserted, the number of RFID tags to be read increases, and therefore, when a plurality of coins are read, the reading speed is lowered.

Through the above aspects, it can be considered that it is more effective to implement by a single RFID tag.

(third embodiment)

Hereinafter, the outline of the whole management system of the table game in the casino which has a several game table according to the embodiment of this invention is demonstrated. 9 is a diagram showing an overview of the entire system. The management system for table games in a casino having a plurality of casino tables 2004 includes a game recording device 2011 that records games played at the casino table 2004 including coins 1 , which are recorded as images via a plurality of cameras 2002; an image analysis device 2012, which performs image analysis on the recorded images; a medal reading device 25, which reads the RFID attached to the medal 1; and a game result determination device 18, which The game result of each game on the casino table 2004 is determined and displayed.

The game result determination device 18 is, for example, a card distribution device 2003, which is a so-called electronic card distribution shoe that has been used by those skilled in the art. The structure is such that the game rules are programmed in advance, the information of the issued card C is read, and the winning or losing of the game can be determined. For example, in a certain card game, the banker's win, the player's win, and the tie (draw) are basically determined by the face value of 2-3 cards, and the result of the judgment (win/loss result) is displayed with the result indicator 2013 To represent.

In the same figure, the gaming table 2004 is a table for a certain card game, and is provided with five seat numbers 13 ("seat number 1" 131, "seat number 2" 132, "seat number 3" 133, "seat number 5" "134, "seat number 6" 135), 5 game participants can participate in the game. The placement area 44 is provided for each seat number 13 . The placement area 44 of seat number 13 includes areas for player (PLAYER) 441, banker (BANKER) 442, tie (TIE) 443, player pair (P) 444, and banker pair (B) 445 . Each game participant plays a game by placing the medal 1 of the placed amount at a position corresponding to the placed object. In FIG. 9 , for example, 2 coins 1 are placed on the draw 443 of the seat number 5, and 2 coins 1 are placed on the player 441 of the seat number 5, so that the game is played. The game table 2004 is also provided with a player card area 45 for placing drawn player cards and a dealer card area 46 for placing drawn dealer cards.

The control device 2014 can grasp where each player 2006 placed the medal 1 in the placement area 2008 (player, banker, tie, pair) and the type of the medal 1 placed by means of the camera 2002 and the image analysis device 2012 (The game coin 1 is divided into different amounts of value for each color) and the number of pieces. That is, for example, the control device 2014 can grasp that two medals 1 are placed in the draw 443 of the seat number 5 and two medals 1 are placed in the player 441 .

As shown in FIG. 9, the medal reading apparatus 25 is arrange|positioned so that it can read the RFID of the medal|token 1 in the reading area|region collectively, using all the placement areas as one reading area for every seat number. The RFID attached to the medal 1 is written with unique ID information, the amount, type, manufacturing information, owner information, and the like of the medal 1 . Alternatively, the ID information may be stored in the database in association with the amount, type, manufacturing information, owner information, and the like of the medal 1 . The medal reading device 25 can grasp the medal 1 for each seat number by reading the RFID attached to the medal 1, and can grasp the total amount of money or the number of pieces. That is, for example, it can grasp|ascertain that four medal|tokens are set in the seat number 5, and each kind, amount, and ID.

As shown in FIG. 10 , based on the image analysis result of the image analysis device 2012 , the control device 2014 grasps the total amount of the medals 1 for each seat number based on the type and number of medals 1 placed in each placement area of each seat number Or the total number of medals is compared with the total amount or total number of medals 1 for each seat number obtained based on the RFID information of medals 1 read by the medal reading device 25 to determine whether they match. Furthermore, the seat number determined to be inconsistent can be output, and the problematic seat number can be specified.

The total amount or the total number of medals 1 for each seat number obtained based on the reading result of the medal reading device 25 is higher than the total amount of medals 1 for each seat number obtained based on the image analysis result of the image analysis device 2012 . When the amount of money or the total number of pieces is small, it is considered that there is a possibility that the RFID attached to the medal 1 is damaged, the RFID cannot be read, or that the token 1 is not attached with an RFID. In FIG. 10 , for the medal 1 placed at the seat number 1, the total number of readings based on the image analysis result of the image analysis device 2012 is 4, while the reading by the RFID of the medal reading device 25 is 4. The resulting total number of reads was 3. Therefore, it is considered that the RFID of one of the four medals 1 placed on the seat number 1 cannot be read.

The total amount or the total number of medals 1 for each seat number obtained based on the reading result of the medal reading device 25 is higher than the total amount of medals 1 for each seat number obtained based on the image analysis result of the image analysis device 2012 . When the amount or the total number of coins is large, it is considered that the image analysis device 2012 may not be able to read the coins 1 due to reasons such as the coins 1 entering a blind spot of the camera. In FIG. 10 , the total number of readings obtained by the image analysis device of the image analysis device 2012 for the medal 1 placed at the seat number 3 is 1, while the reading by the RFID of the medal reading device 25 is 1. The resulting total number of reads was 2. Therefore, it is considered that there are two medals 1 placed on the seat number 3, but the image analysis device 2012 can recognize only one medal.

The ID information of the RFID attached to the medal 1 is registered in the database of the casino, and information of production and shipment at the factory, receipt, verification, and activation on the casino side are recorded. The control device 2014 can compare the information of the RFID read by the medal reading device 25 with the information of the database, and can determine the authenticity of the medal registered as the medal to be used in the casino.

According to this configuration, the type and number of coins 1 placed in each placement area can be grasped by the camera, and coins can be determined for each seat number based on the RFID information of the coins 1 read by the coin reading device 25 1 of the real or bad game currency.

In addition, the table game management system further includes game participant identification means using a face authentication system or a player ID card, and the control device 2014 can associate the game participant information determined by the game participant identification means with the seat number. The control device 2014 can store the deposit amount, the repayment amount or the recovery amount, and win/loss information stored for each seat number for each game participant. In addition, it is possible to collectively store information that game participants have played a plurality of games at a plurality of game tables.

The control device 2014 can use the coin tray determination device 12 to determine the total amount of the coins 1 in the coin tray 17 of the dealer 2005 of the casino table 2004, and can compare the total amount of coins 1 in the coin tray 17 of the dealer 2005 of the game table 2004, and can compare the game winning or losing results after the game is over and the settlement is performed. It is calculated whether the total amount of coins 1 in the coin tray 17 is increased or decreased according to the amount of the recovered coins 1 placed by each player 2006 and the amount of payout 9W of coins won by the winning player 2006. The coin tray determination device may be configured to capture the coins 1 stored in the coin tray 17 with the camera 2002 and to grasp the total amount of the coins 1 in the coin tray 17 based on the analysis of the image analysis device 2012, or may be set to An RFID reader is installed in the coin tray 17, and the total amount of the coins 1 accommodated in the coin tray 17 is detected.

In this example, information about which type of medal 1 is placed in which position (player, banker, tie, or pair) in the placement area 2008 can be based on the winning or losing result of the game, and the number of coins 1 placed in the pair. The collection of the lost coins and the increase or decrease of the coins 1 in the coin tray 17 after the repayment of the winning coins 1 is completed to detect cheating and errors, so even if the coins 1 after the game is not grasped It is also possible to detect cheating and errors by the movement of , that is, whether the placed medal 1 is moved to the player side or to the dealer side.

Among them, for example, in the case of a certain card game, by reading the face value of the card C drawn in the game, the card issuing device 2003 can determine whether the game is won or lost according to the rules of the card game. result. In addition, the game table 2004 is photographed by the camera 2002, the image is analyzed by the image analysis device 2012, and the analysis result is compared with the game rules by the control device 2014 to determine the winning or losing result of the game. In this case, the camera 2002 , the image analysis device 2012 , and the control device 2014 constitute the game result determination device. The information of which type of medal 1 is placed in which position (player, banker, tie, player pair, banker pair) the player of each seat number 7 is placed in the placement area 2008 can be captured by using the camera 2002 The medal 1 placed in the placement area 2008 is obtained by analyzing the image for each player position 7 by the image analyzing means 2012 .

In addition, the increase/decrease amount of the coins 1 in the coin tray 17 before and after the recovery of the lost coins 1 and the redemption of the won coins 1 can be calculated as follows: The total amount of the coins 1 in the coin tray 17 before the recovery of 1 and the redemption of the winning coins 1, and the coins after the recovery of the losing coins 1 and the redemption of the winning coins 1 The total amount of the medals 1 in the tray 17 is compared.

For example, let the total amount of coins 1 in the coin tray 17 before the game start be Bb, and set the coin tray after the end of the game to collect the lost coins 1 and to pay back the winning coins 1. The total amount of the medal 1 of 17 is set to Ba. In addition, in this game, let the total amount of all the player positions 7 of the medal 1 placed in the player area be bp, and let the total amount of all the player positions 7 of the medal 1 placed in the bank area be bb, and let The total amount of all the player positions 7 of the coins 1 in the draw area is set to bt. For example, when the result of winning or losing in the game is that the banker wins, Ba-Bb=bp-bb+bt should be established. Alternatively, the total amount Ba of the coins 1 in the coin tray 17 after the game ends should be (Bb+bp−bb+bt). When the above situation is not established, it can be determined that there is cheating or error in the collection or reimbursement of game coins.

FIG. 14A is a diagram showing the details of the coin tray according to the present embodiment, and FIG. 14B is a diagram showing another example of the coin tray. In the coin tray 17 are provided: a recovery coin tray 171 which collects and temporarily stores the coins 1L placed by the losing player 2006L, and a redemption coin tray 172 which stores the redeemed coins 1W. The image analysis device 2012 and the control device 2014 grasp the position, type, and number of the medals 1L placed by the losing player 2006L, and calculate the incremental amount of the medals 1L in the game (the number of tokens 1L in the recovered medal tray 171 ). due amount). Further, the image analysis device 2012 and the control device 2014 grasp the actual total amount of the coins 1L in the recovered medal tray 171 after collection, compare the actual total amount with the actual total amount, and determine whether there is a difference.

Further, the control device 2014 can perform the redemption of the medal 1 corresponding to the redemption, and when the redemption is completed, the total amount due to the medal tray obtained based on the redemption amount of the medal in the game and the amount of the medal tray. The actual total amount is compared, and it is determined whether there is a difference between the expected total amount and the actual total amount. The repayment amount of the game coins in the game is based on the position, type and It is calculated based on the number of pieces and the game result.

In addition, the redemption of the medals 1W to the winning player 2006W can be achieved by using the medals 1W in the redemption medal tray 172, thereby ensuring that the image analysis device 2012 and the control device 2014 grasp the value of the recovered medals in the recovered medal tray 171. The time required for the actual total amount of coin 1L.

As described above, in this embodiment, the control device 2014 calculates the income and expenditure of the coins according to the amount of coins placed on the gaming table 2004 in each game and the winning or losing result of the game, and verifies the coin tray 17 after the game. An increase in the balance within. If a discrepancy is detected in this verification, the control device 2014 issues a warning, or adds a record indicating that the discrepancy was detected to the record of the image captured by the camera 2002 . The operator on the casino side can investigate the cause of the difference by checking the video.

In the table game management system of the present embodiment, the positions and types of coins 1 placed by all players 2006 in the game are added or subtracted from the total amount of coins 1 in the coin tray 17 before each game is settled. and the number of pieces, and the increase or decrease amount of the medals in the game calculated by the winning or losing result of the game obtained by the win-loss result determination device, the value of the medal 1 in the medal tray 17 after the liquidation at the end of the game is calculated. The due amount is compared with the actual amount of coins 1 in the coin tray 17 at the end of the game obtained by means of the image analysis means 2012, and it is determined whether there is a difference between the due amount and the actual amount.

The control device 2014 grasps the position, type, and number of coins placed by each player by means of the image analysis device 2012, and grasps the actual total amount of coins in the coin tray when the collection of all lost coins placed by each player is completed. , compare the actual total amount of the coins 1 in the coin tray 17 with the actual total amount of the coins 1 in the coin tray 17, and determine whether there is a difference between the due total and the actual total, wherein , the due total of the coins 1 in the coin tray 17 is the total amount in the coin tray before the liquidation of each game, plus the position, type and number of the coins placed by the losing player. It is obtained by increasing the value of the coin tray 17.

The control device 2014 adds the increment of the coin tray 17 in the game according to the position, type, and number of the coins 1 placed by the losing player to the total amount of the coins 1 in the coin tray 17 before the settlement of each game. The actual total amount of the coins 1 in the coin tray 17 is compared with the actual total amount of the coins 1 in the coin tray 17, and if it is determined that there is no difference between the actual total and the actual total , and compare the actual total amount of coins 1 in the coin tray 17 at the end of the game with the actual total amount of coins 1 in the coin tray 17 at the end of the game obtained by means of the image analysis device 2012, and determine When there is a difference between the expected total amount and the actual total amount, it is determined as a payment error, and a payment error signal notifying the payment error is generated.

The coin tray 17 is provided with a recovered coin tray 171, and the recovered coin tray 171 recovers and temporarily stores the coins 1L placed by the losing player. The total amount is compared with the actual total amount of the coins 1L in the recovered coin tray 171, and it is determined whether there is a difference between the actual total and the expected total The total amount is obtained by adding the increment of the medal 1 in the game calculated according to the position, type, and number of the medal 1L placed by the losing player.

The control device 2014 determines that there is a difference between the actual total amount of coins 1 grasped in the coin tray 17 of the dealer 2005 of the gaming table 2004 and the coins calculated based on the amount of coins placed by all players and the winning or losing results of the game. When the difference does not correspond to the increase or decrease amount, in order to be able to analyze the game record that caused the above difference in the game recording device 2011, the game recording device 2011 can assign an index or time to the obtained video, or determine and reproduce the recovery scene of the medal 1 or payment scene.

In this way, the control device 2014 obtains the total amount of coins in the coin tray 17 after settlement at the end of the game by means of the image analysis device 2012, but the judgment after settlement in this case refers to any one of the following 1) to 4). The moment when the situation occurred:

1) At the end of the repayment for the winning coin 1;

2) When the card C used in the game is recycled and discarded in the discard area 41 or discard slot 42 of the table;

3) When the prescribed button attached to the win-loss result determination device is pressed;

4) When the flag 43 indicating winning or losing is restored.

In addition, the control device 2014 is of an artificial intelligence effective utilization type or a deep learning structure capable of grasping the positions of coins placed on each player position 7 of the game table 2004 (positions placed on the player, banker, or pair) and The amount (type and number of pieces), which is obtained by comparing the winning and losing history of each player in 2006 and the amount of game coins (win amount) obtained from the winning and losing results of each game with the statistical data of a large number of (big data) games in the past, extracting Abnormal conditions (as set by the casino). Typically, it is a device equipped with the control device 2014 of the artificial intelligence utilization type or deep learning structure: the occurrence of a winning amount of a certain amount (1 million points) or more, or the player position 7 of a certain gaming table 2004. A state in which the amount of landed coins at the time of losing is small and the amount of landed coins at the time of winning continues for many games, and this situation can be extracted as an abnormality by comparing this situation with statistical data (big data, etc.) of past games. situation.

Furthermore, the control device 2014 (integrated with the image analysis device 2012 ) of the management system of the table game is an individual player that can identify the player position 7 from which the abnormal situation is extracted, or the player position 7 who has won a predetermined amount or more of winning. 2006 Construct. The identification of such a player 2006 is determined in the image analysis device 2012 by obtaining an image of the face through feature point extraction or the like, and assigning an identification number (ID or the like). In addition, the control device 2014 has a warning function of notifying the presence of the specific player to the other gaming table when the specific player 2006 leaves the seat and sits at another gaming table. Specifically, the game table manager or the person in charge of each table (may be the dealer) who manages each game table 2004 is notified to prevent more abnormal phenomena.

The control device 2014 can determine the collection for each seat number based on the ID information of the RFID of the coins 1 that have been collected and determined by the coin tray judgment device and the ID information of the RFID of the coins 1 read by the coin reading device 25 . of the game currency 1.

In FIG. 11, as shown in the detailed table of FIG. 12 and FIG. 13, the medal|token 1 is placed. According to the analysis by the image analysis device 2012, the place (player, banker, etc.) where the medal 1 is placed and the number (and the amount of money) can be grasped. On the other hand, according to the reading of the medal reading device 25, the ID of the RFID attached to the medal 1 can be grasped for each seat number. Furthermore, since the coin tray determination device can determine the ID of the medal 1 in the medal tray 17, the ID added before and after collection can be grasped, and the collected medal 1 can be grasped. In FIGS. 11 to 13 , when the game result is that the banker wins, it can be seen from the analysis result of the image analysis device 2012 that the two coins placed on the banker pair should be collected, and it can be seen that the coin tray judgment device determines Among the IDs of the recovered medals, the medal reading device 25 reads the two medals ID6 and ID18 placed in the seat number 5 and is recovered.

Furthermore, the control device 2014 can grasp the game result obtained by the game result determination device and the detection result of the position, the amount, and the number of the medals 1 determined based on the image analysis result of the image analysis device for each seat number. The total amount or total number of coins 1 to be collected. Therefore, the control device 2014 can compare the total amount or the total number of coins 1 collected for each seat number determined based on the RFID with the total amount or total number of coins 1 to be collected based on the image analysis result. , to determine whether it is consistent.

For example, the reading result of the medal reading device 25 at seat number 1 is "A, B, C, D, E", and the analysis result of the image analyzing device 2012 is "2 ties, 2 dealers", and the game When the result is "Banker wins" and the reading result of the medal tray determination device 18 is "A, B", it can be seen that the medals of A and B placed in the draw are correctly collected.

Furthermore, the control device 2014 can determine whether the ID information of the RFID of the medal 1 collected by the medal tray determination device and the ID information of the RFID of the placed medal 1 read by the medal reading device 25 are not Consistent. According to this determination, it can be determined whether or not the medals 1 collected in the medal tray are the medals placed on the gaming table, or whether they are the medals 1 that have been improperly collected from other places.

Furthermore, the control device 2014 can determine the types of medals such as cash codes, rolling codes, and promotional codes based on the RFID information read by the medal reading device 25, and can store information placed for each determined type of medals. Amount, Recovery Amount, or Repayment Amount.

Rollover is a special game currency that can be purchased by a specific member and cannot be exchanged for cash, and the rollover is managed according to the amount purchased by each member. It must be used for games and consumption, and the repayment of games using transcoding will be repaid by cash codes. By storing the amount of the deposited or collected transcode based on the RFID information read by the medal reading device 25, it is possible to grasp the amount of the transcode to be held by a specific member.

The medal reading device 25 is also provided with a function of confirming an area, and can read the medal 1 placed for repayment. As shown in FIG. 15 , when paying back the dealer of seat number 2, the medal reading device 25 sets and reads the medal 1 for redemption. In FIG. 15, it is placed next to the winning medal 1 placed by the dealer of seat number 2. The control device 2014 can compare the repayment amount determined based on the game result obtained by the game result determination device and the measurement results of the position, the amount, and the number of the medals 1 obtained by the image analysis result by the image analysis device, and the reading based on the medal. The amounts of the medals 1 placed for each seat number obtained as a result of the reading by the device 25 are compared, and it is determined and output whether or not the repayment amounts match. In FIG. 16 , the total number of medals 1 to be paid for the seat number 1 is 4, whereas the reading result of the medal reading device 25 is 3, so they do not match. In a case where the payout amounts do not match, a signal of inconsistency is output, and the dealer can reposition the coins 1 for payout based on the outputted signal. When the medal 1 is relocated, the determination can be performed again, and the determination result can be output. The area in which the medal 1 for payout is placed may be any position within the medal reading device 25 . In addition, as shown in FIG. 15, the payout confirmation area 26 may be arranged on the dealer side of the placement area separately from the placement area. In FIG. 15, the medal 1 for redemption is placed in the payment confirmation area 26 of the seat number 6, the medal reading device 25 reads it, the control device 2014 makes a judgment, and the redemption medal is placed on the winning ticket placed on the dealer. next to the game coin 1.

In addition, the image analysis by the image analysis device 2012 is also performed on the confirmation area, and the control device 2014 compares this with the reading result of the medal reading device 25, and determines whether the total number of pieces matches.

The control device 2014 can output a signal based on the implemented determination. The signal may be output by being displayed on the display unit of the coin tray 17 or the display unit of the card dispensing device 2003, or by the game station manager or the background of the casino.

The medal reading device 25 may use all the placement areas as one reading area for each seat number as shown in FIG. 17 , or may place the placement area for the player and the dealer for each seat as shown in FIG. 18 . The area is used as a reading area, and the placement area for the tie, the placement area for the player, and the placement area for the banker are used as a reading area. In addition, as shown in FIGS. 19 and 22 , the side placement area for the tie pair placement area, the player pair placement area, and the banker pair placement area may be used as one reading area, respectively.

Next, the medal|token 1 used in embodiment of this invention is demonstrated. FIG. 20 is an external view of the medal 1 used in this system, and FIG. 21 is a front sectional view. The medal 1 has a multi-layered structure in which a plurality of plastic layers of different colors are stacked, and at least a colored layer 101 is provided in the middle, and a white layer 102 or a light-colored layer (although not shown) is provided on both sides of the intermediate colored layer 101. Although it is shown in the figure, it only needs to be a layer lighter in color than the colored layer 101 ) laminated. In this way, the colored layer 101 is provided, and a white layer 102 or a light-colored layer (although not shown, but a layer lighter in color than the colored layer 101) is laminated on both sides of the intermediate colored layer 101. , thus, as shown in FIG. 20, a stripe pattern in the stacking direction is formed on the side surface, and by changing the color (red, green, yellow, blue, etc.) of the colored layer 101, the type of the medal 1 (10 o’clock, 20 o’clock) can be determined , 100 points, 1000 points, etc.).

The colored layer 101 may be formed by colored multiple layers (three layers in FIG. 21 ) as shown in FIG. 21 . Since the colored multilayers (three layers in FIG. 21 ) are thermocompression-bonded to each other, the three-layer structure is not visible as shown in FIG. 21 , and FIG. 21 shows the three layers in the description. In addition, a part of the hollow portion B is provided in the middle layer among the three layers of the colored layer 101, and the RFID is embedded therein.

In addition, the medal|token 1 is not limited to the structure which laminated|stacked a plastic layer, The structure which has the same external appearance as the colored layer 101 may be sufficient as an external appearance.

Next, the method by which the image analysis apparatus 2012 analyzes the medal|token 1 is demonstrated in detail. The image analysis device 2012 performs image analysis on the image recorded by the recording device 11, and identifies at least two colors of the specific color 121 at least partially attached to the medal 1 and the reference color R different from the specific color 121 existing in the image. In addition, the specific color 121 is attached to a predetermined position of the medal 1 or at least partially attached to the medal 1 in a predetermined shape. For example, it may be attached as the colored layer 101, may be attached to the side surface of the medal 1 in the circumferential direction, or may be attached to the surface of the medal 1 as a predetermined mark. In addition, the reference color R may be, for example, the color of a specific area of the game table 2004, or may be a color added to the medal 1 at a position different from the specific color 121.

The image analysis device 2012 includes, for example, an artificial intelligence device 12a that determines a specific color by a deep learning technique or the like, and determines the number and type of the medals 1 arranged on the game table 2004 . The image analysis device 2012 can also determine the position of the medal 1 on the gaming table 2004 .

The image analysis device 2012 acquires a plurality of images of the medal 1 and the reference color R irradiated under different illuminances, and manually teaches the acquired images and the correct color of the specific color 121 of the medal 1 and the reference color R of each image. Learning is performed as teacher data, and a learning model 13a (recognition program) is created. In addition, for the image of the medal 1 and the reference color R irradiated under the same illumination conditions, the specific color 121 and the reference color R can be irradiated under the same illuminance, thereby obtaining the difference between the specific color 121 and the reference color R. relative relationship. For example, the relative relationship can be used for the identification of a specific color 121 .

In addition, the image analysis device 2012 may not use artificial intelligence, but by using the camera 2002 to capture and record as an image, and use the result of the image analysis to detect features on the image such as shape, brightness, color saturation, hue, etc., Thereby, the center line C of the medal 1 is extracted.

The artificial intelligence device 12a is further configured to perform an image of a predetermined range around the extracted center line C (for example, a range of 8 pixels centered on the center line and orthogonal to the center line, etc.) Analyze and identify the specific color 121 in the peripheral image and at least two colors of the reference color R different from the specific color 121 . In addition, when performing image analysis on the extracted peripheral image in a predetermined range around the center line C, the image may be directly analyzed, or it may be performed on the basis of image processing such as color enhancement and noise removal. Analysis is performed to more easily identify specific colors 121 .

In short, the artificial intelligence device 12a of the image analysis device 2012 extracts the center line C from the image of the medal 1, and recognizes the surrounding image by performing image analysis on the surrounding image in a predetermined range centered on the center line C. A structure of at least two colors of a specific color 121 and a reference color R different from the specific color 121, and a plurality of the peripheral images of the medal 1 and the reference color R illuminated under different illuminances are taught as teacher data artificial intelligence device.

In other embodiments of the present invention, the control device 2014 further has a function of determining at least one of the following:

1) In each game, whether there is no change in coins during the period from the start of card drawing or from the start of the dealer's game operation to the display of the winning or losing result of the game by the card issuing device,

2) After the end of each game, during the period when the dealer collects the coins placed by the loser among the game participants, whether there is no change in coins caused by persons other than the dealer,

3) After each game is over, during the period when the dealer collects the coins placed by the loser among the game participants, is there any additional coins?

4) After each game is over, whether the dealer has paid for the position of the coins placed by the winner among the game participants,

5) After each game is over, whether the winner among the game participants has taken the placed coins and the paid coins.

Furthermore, the control device 2014 may be configured to detect the hand movement of the dealer and the game participant, the movement of the medal, or the movement of the hand and the game by using the analysis result of the image analysis device 2012. The movement of the coin is determined to determine at least one of 1) to 5).

The control device 2014 has the functions shown in the following 1) to 5) according to the rules of a certain card game, and is a characteristic function of the present invention to determine whether or not cheating that violates the rules has been performed. which is,

1) In each game, the information obtained by the camera 2002 is used by the image analysis device 2012 to monitor from the signal obtained from the card dispensing device 2003 to start the drawing of the card, or when the dealer 2005 presses the start button for 4 s. On the other hand, whether or not there is no change in the medal 1 until the card issuing device 2003 displays the winning or losing result of the game from the start of the operation of the ongoing game.

2) After each game is over, the image analysis device 2012 uses the information obtained by the camera 2002 to monitor whether the loser 6 takes the money without cheating while the dealer 2005 collects the medals 1 placed by the loser among the game participants 2006. Game currency 1.

3) After each game is over, the image analysis device 2012 uses the information obtained by the camera 2002 to monitor, while the dealer 2005 collects the medals 1 placed by the loser among the game participants, persons other than the dealer 2005 ( winner or loser) has added the winning coin 1W, or has not re-placed the coin 1 on the unplaced winning side.

4) After each game, the image analysis device 2012 uses the information obtained by the camera 2002 to monitor whether the dealer 2005 places the medal 1 on the winner among the game participants 2006, and correctly places the paid medal 1W.

5) After each game is over (the dealer 2005 operates the card issuing device 2003 and causes the display lamp 13 to display the result of winning or losing), the image analysis device 2012 uses the information obtained by the camera 2002 to monitor whether the winner 6W among the game participants 2006 has taken the game. The placed coin 1 and the paid coin 1W are displayed.

In addition, in the above-mentioned embodiment, the image analysis device 2012 and the control device 2014 are devices having an artificial intelligence effective utilization type or a deep learning structure. Specifically, the image analysis device 2012 and the control device 2014 may be characterized by invariant scales. Transform (SIFT; Scale-Invariant Feature Transform) algorithm, Convolutional Neural Network (CNN; Convolutional Neutral Network), deep learning (deep learning), machine learning (machine learning), or use the same method for image analysis, various of the above control. These techniques are techniques for recognizing an object included in a captured image by performing image recognition, and in recent years, in particular, a deep learning technique in which a neural network is multi-layered has been performed to recognize an object with high accuracy. This deep learning technique generally recognizes objects with high accuracy by overlapping layers across multiple stages in an intermediate layer between the input and output layers of a neural network. Among the deep learning techniques, in particular, convolutional neural networks have been attracting attention because they have higher performance than recognizing objects based on existing image feature quantities.

In the convolutional neural network, a label-attached recognition object image is learned, and the main object included in the recognition object image is recognized. When there are a plurality of main objects in the learning image, they are designated by a region rectangle, and the image corresponding to the designated region is labeled with the learning. Furthermore, the convolutional neural network can also determine the main object in the image and the position of the object.

If the convolutional neural network is further explained, in the object recognition flow, by performing edge extraction processing on the recognition target image, etc., a candidate region is extracted based on local features, and the candidate region is input to the convolutional neural network, and the extraction process is performed. The classification is performed on the basis of the feature vector, and the classified candidate area with the highest reliability is obtained as the identification result. The so-called reliability is an amount indicating how much the similarity between a certain image area and the subject of the image learned together with the label is relatively higher than the similarity at other levels.

Various embodiments of the present invention have been described above, but it goes without saying that the above-described embodiments can be modified within the scope of the present invention by those skilled in the art, and the device of the present embodiment can be appropriately modified according to the needs of the game to which it is applied. That's it.

(payment)

In order to solve the above-mentioned conventional problems, the management system of the medal of the present invention is configured as follows:

A single RFID tag having an area where data cannot be rewritten and an area where data can be rewritten is attached to the coin,

The area of the RFID tag where the data cannot be rewritten stores at least one of the production information, commodity information, casino information, amount information, and serial number of the game currency as fixed information,

The area where the data can be rewritten stores information related to the location of the game coin as change information,

From the fixed information stored in the data-unrewritable area, the variation information of the data-rewritable area stored in the same RFID tag can be extracted,

The system also has:

a writing device, which writes the information related to the location of the medal into the area capable of rewriting the data;

a reading device capable of reading together the fixed information stored in the data-incapable areas of a plurality of the medals, and reading the fixed information based on the read fixed information paired information related to said location stored in said data-rewritable area; and

management control means which examines the information related to said location obtained by said reading means,

The area where the data can be rewritten stores a plurality of information related to the location, and the information includes at least the information related to the latest location among all the information related to the location written by the writing device,

The management control device is configured to include a function of determining whether or not there is an abnormality in the history record of the location-related information obtained by the reading device, and if there is an abnormality, an error signal is generated to determine the abnormality The fixed information of the game currency.

Further, the data-rewritable area is configured to store information on the location and information of the time when the writing device writes the medal, and the management control device is configured to: Based on the location-related information obtained by the reading device, it is determined whether or not there is any of the following cases: a predetermined time or more has elapsed since the last writing. The case where the location-related information that is used or should be written is not written.

Further, the information related to the location includes at least one of information indicating the counter, information indicating entry or exit, or information indicating the backstage,

The case where it has not been used for a predetermined time or more since the previous writing is any one of the following cases.

1) The information related to the latest location is the information indicating the counter, and the next information is written after a specified time or more;

2) The information related to the latest location is the information indicating admission, and the next information is written after a specified time or more;

3) The information related to the latest location is information indicating exit, and a predetermined time or more has elapsed for the next information writing.

The case where the location-related information to be written is not being written is any one of the following cases.

4) When entering the casino, the information indicating the exit is not written, as the information related to the latest location of the area of the game currency that can rewrite the data;

5) When used at the counter, the information indicating the background is not written;

6) When exiting from the casino, no information indicating the counter or the backstage is written.

In addition, the information related to the location also includes information related to the owner who owns the game currency.

Furthermore, the management control device has a function of being able to determine whether any one of the following 1) or 2) is present based on the information about the owner obtained by the reading device. the abnormal situation,

1) A person who is different from the final owner stored in the area where the data can be rewritten exchanges or exchanges game coins in the casino, or withdraws from the casino;

2) A person different from the owner at the time of exit stored in the data-rewritable area brings the medal into the casino.

In addition, and information about the owner who owns the coins can be determined by face authentication or reading of an ID card.

Further, the information about the location may include information indicating the location of the coin tray of the specific game table, or information indicating the location of the placement area or the payout area.

In addition, the management device may further include a function of determining the following 1 based on information on the location of the coin tray of the gaming table obtained by the reading device or information indicating the location of the placement area and payment area information ) to 4) any one of the situations, as a situation to determine whether the abnormality exists,

1) A person different from the final owner stored in the area capable of rewriting the data uses the game coin at the gaming table;

2) For game coins that have no usage record at the gaming table, they will be exchanged at the counter by a person who is different from when the game coin was purchased at the counter;

3) Using game coins that do not have information indicating the counter or the backstage in the casino;

4) The information related to the latest location is the information indicating the placement area or the payment area, and after a predetermined time has passed, it is exchanged at the counter or used at the gaming table.

Further, the information possessed by the RFID tag can be encrypted.

Further, the area where data cannot be rewritten may be a structure that cannot functionally rewrite data, or a structure that is locked so that data cannot be rewritten.

Further, the reading device is configured to read together the fixed information stored in the data-incapable area and the location-related information stored in the data-rewritable area;

The management control device may be configured to be capable of extracting and grasping the rewritable information stored in the same RFID tag from the fixed information of the plurality of medals read by the reading device. The information related to the location of the data area.

In order to solve the above-mentioned conventional problems, the medal of the present invention includes a single RFID tag having an area in which data cannot be rewritten and an area in which data can be rewritten,

The area where the data cannot be rewritten stores at least one of the production information, commodity information, casino information, amount information, and serial number of the game coin as fixed information,

The data-rewritable area is configured to store, as fluctuation information, information about the location of the medal written by the writing device,

The variation information of the data-rewritable area stored in the same RFID tag can be extracted from the fixed information stored in the data-incapable area.

In addition, further, the medals may be structured such that the fixed information stored in the data-incapable areas of a plurality of the medals can be read together by a reading device, and based on the read data The fixed information can read the location-related information stored in the data-rewritable area.

In order to solve the above problems in the past, the management system of the tabletop game of the present invention has:

Game currency, which is attached with RFID capable of being identified separately;

a gaming table for playing games using the game currency;

a game recording device, which records, by means of a camera, as an image the coins placed by each game participant in the game played on the gaming table;

an image analysis device that performs image analysis on the recorded images of the game coins;

a coin reading device that reads the RFID attached to the coin placed by each game participant; and

a control device that grasps the image analysis result of the image analysis device and the reading result of the medal reading device,

The gaming table has multiple placement areas, and the multiple placement areas include at least a placement area for the player and a placement area for the dealer according to each seat number,

The medal reading device reads the medal by using all the placement areas as one reading area for each seat number, or divides the whole into a plurality of reading areas smaller than the number of the placement areas , to read the coins for each of the read areas,

The control device is configured to be able to independently grasp the placed medals for each placement area including at least the player placement area and the dealer placement area based on the image analysis result of the image analysis device. The type and number of medals, the total amount or total number of medals for each seat number or each reading area obtained based on the image analysis result of the image analysis device is compared with the medal reading device based on the total amount or number of medals. It is judged whether the total amount or the total number of the medals for each of the seat numbers or each of the reading areas obtained from the reading results of the coin are consistent, and the judgment result is output.

Further, the control device may be configured to output the seat numbers for which the determination results do not match.

The control device may be configured to be based on the image analysis of the image analysis device based on the total amount or total number of medals for each seat number obtained based on the reading result of the medal reading device. When the total amount or the total number of coins obtained for each seat number is small, a signal can be generated indicating that the RFID attached to the coins may be damaged, or that the RFID may not be attached to the coins. .

In addition, the control device may be configured such that the total amount or the total number of medals for each seat number obtained based on the reading result of the medal reading device is higher than that based on the image analysis device. When the total amount or the total number of medals for each seat number obtained as a result of the image analysis is large, a signal can be generated indicating that the image analysis device may have incorrectly read the medals.

In addition, a database is provided which stores the ID of the RFID attached to the medal,

The control device may be configured to be able to compare the ID of the RFID obtained based on the reading result of the medal reading device with the ID stored in the database, to determine the authenticity of the medal, and to determine the authenticity of the medal. result output.

In addition, it also has,

a coin tray that holds the coin used by the dealer at the gaming table;

a coin tray determination device capable of grasping the type and number of the coins stored in the coin tray; and

a game result judgment device that judges the game result of each game at each casino table,

The control device has a calculation function of using the game result obtained by the game result determination device and the measurement results of the position, the amount, and the number of medals obtained based on the image analysis result of the image analysis device, each time each time. The recovery and reimbursement of games is performed on the casino side of the gaming table for revenue and expenditure calculations;

Also available:

The recovery judgment function is to compare the amount of coins to be recovered in the game with the actual amount of coins to be recovered in the game, when the recovery of the lost coins placed by each game participant is completed, and to determine the amount of coins that should be recovered. Whether there is a difference between the amount and the actual recovery amount, so as to determine whether there is cheating or error in the recovery of the game currency, wherein the amount of the game currency in the game should be recovered according to each game participant on the gaming table. Calculated from the position, type and number of coins placed, and the result of the game; and

The redemption determination function performs the redemption of the coins corresponding to the redemption, and at the end of the redemption, the due sum of the coin tray and the actual total amount of the coin tray obtained based on the repayment amount of the coins in the game A comparison is made, and in the case where it is determined that there is a discrepancy between the due amount and the actual amount, it is determined that there is cheating or error in the repayment, wherein the repayment amount of the game coins in the game is based on the respective amounts at the gaming table. The position, type, and number of coins placed by a game participant are calculated based on the game result.

In addition, the control device may have the following structure:

Each seat number can be determined based on the ID information of the RFID ID of the coin collected by the coin tray judging device and the ID information of the RFID of the coin read by the coin reading device The recovered game coins are compared with the determined ID or amount or number of the game coins and the ID or amount or number of the game coins that should be recovered for each seat number, and are determined according to each seat number. Whether it is consistent, wherein the ID or amount or number of the game coins to be recovered for each seat number is obtained by using the game result obtained by the game result determination device and the image analysis result of the image analysis device. It is determined based on the measurement results of the position, amount, and number of coins.

In addition, the control device may be configured to be able to determine, in each game, the usage purpose or the purpose of use of the medal based on the ID information of the RFID of the medal read by the medal reading device. In addition, the amount of money placed, the amount of money collected, or the amount of money to be paid is stored for each of the types of the medals, for each seat number.

In addition, the control device may be configured to be capable of storing, for each seat number, the accumulated amount of money placed for each type of the medal, the accumulated amount of money collected, or the accumulated amount of money paid back in a plurality of games. .

In addition, the kind of the game currency may be at least a cash code or a rolling code or a promotion code.

Further, the control device may be configured to be able to identify an owner based on the ID information of the transcoding, and to store, for each owner, the accumulated amount of the transcoding, the accumulated amount of the recovered amount, or the accumulated amount of the reimbursed amount. .

In addition, the medal reading device reads the medal for repayment placed in the medal reading device for each seat number,

The control device may be configured to use the game result obtained by the game result determination device and the measurement result of the position, the amount, and the number of coins obtained based on the image analysis result of the image analysis device. The repayment amount is compared with the amount of the medals placed for each of the seat numbers obtained based on the reading result of the medal reading device, and it is determined and output whether the repayment amount matches or does not match.

In addition, the control device may be configured to display inconsistency when the determination result of the repayment amount is inconsistency, and further, the placement of each of the seat numbers read by the medal reading device may be configured. When the amount of money of the medals of the medal reading device is changed, the determination is performed again, and the agreement or disagreement is output again.

Further, the control device may be configured to be able to compare the amount of the medal set for repayment for each of the seat numbers with the increase/decrease amount of the medal tray before and after the repayment, Determine if there is a difference.

Moreover, the said medal reading apparatus may be provided with the payment confirmation area arrange|positioned at the dealer side of the said setting area|region for setting the said medal|token for redemption.

In addition, a game participant determination mechanism using a face authentication system or a player ID card may be provided,

The control device may be a structure capable of associating the seat number with the information on the game participant determined by the game participant determination means.

In addition, a display device that performs display based on the output of the control device is further provided.

In addition, the game table also has a side placement area,

The placement area for side placement is provided so as to be adjacent to each placement area of each seat number,

The medal reading device is capable of reading at least one of the placement areas for side placement together,

The control device may be configured to be able to grasp the type and the number of the medals placed in the at least one of the side placement placement areas based on the image analysis result of the image analysis device, and to determine the type and number of coins placed on the at least one of the side placement placement areas, based on the image analysis result. A game in which the total amount or the total number of medals in the at least one side-set placement area obtained from the image analysis result of the analyzing device and the side-set placement area based on the reading result of the medal reading device It is judged whether the total amount of coins or the total number of coins match, and a signal of the judgment result is output.

In addition, other embodiments of the present invention are management systems for the following tabletop games,

It has:

Game currency, which is attached with RFID capable of being identified separately;

a gaming table for playing games using the game currency;

a game recording device, which records, by means of a camera, as an image the coins placed by each game participant in the game played on the gaming table;

an image analysis device that performs image analysis on the recorded images of the game coins;

a coin reading device that reads the RFID attached to the coin placed by each game participant; and

a control device that grasps the image analysis result of the image analysis device and the reading result of the medal reading device,

The game table has a placement area consisting of a placement area for players, a placement area for dealers, and a placement area for side placement,

The placement area for side placement is provided so as to be adjacent to each placement area of each seat number,

The medal reading device is capable of reading at least one of the placement areas for side placement together,

The control device is configured to be capable of independently grasping the type and number of the medals placed on the at least one placement area for side placement based on the image analysis result of the image analyzing device, and to determine the type and number of medals placed on the at least one placement area for side placement independently. The total amount or total number of medals in the at least one side-set placement area obtained from the image analysis result of the image analysis device, and the side-placed game based on the reading result of the medal reading device It is judged whether the total amount or the total number of coins matches, and a signal of the judgment result is output.

Further, the control device may be configured to output the side placement in which the determination results do not match.

In addition, the control device may be configured such that the total amount or the total number of medals placed on each of the sides obtained based on the reading result of the medal reading device is higher than that based on the image analysis device. When the total amount or the total number of coins placed on each of the sides obtained as a result of the image analysis is small, a signal can be generated indicating that the RFID attached to the coins may be damaged, or that the coins may not be attached. RFID.

In addition, the control device may be configured such that the total amount of coins or the total number ratio of coins in each of the side placement placement areas obtained based on the reading result of the medal reading device is based on the image. In the case where the total amount or the total number of medals for each of the side-set placement areas obtained as a result of the image analysis by the analyzing device is large, a signal can be generated that indicates that there is a possibility that the game is played against the game by the image analyzing device. Coin read error.

In addition, a database is provided which stores the ID of the RFID attached to the medal,

The control device may be configured to be able to determine the authenticity of the medal by comparing the ID of the RFID obtained based on the reading result of the medal reading device with the ID stored in the database.

Further, the control device may be configured to be capable of being determined based on the ID information of the RFID of the medal collected by the medal tray determination device, and the medal read by the medal reading device. The ID information of the RFID, determine the recovered game coins placed on each side, and determine the ID or amount or number of the game coins that should be recovered in the placement area for each side placement as determined as follows. The IDs, amounts, or numbers of the coins recovered in the side placement placement area are compared, and the consistency or inconsistency of the amount recovered is determined for each side placement placement area. The ID, the amount, or the number of the coins collected is determined by using the position, amount, and number of coins obtained based on the game result obtained by the game result determination device and the image analysis result based on the image analysis device. obtained from the measurement results.

(Fourth Embodiment)

Hereinafter, a fourth embodiment of the present invention will be described.

(first example)

23 is a diagram showing a configuration of a management system according to a first example of the fourth embodiment of the present invention. The management system 110 does not use a database to track the owners of game coins. For this purpose, the game currency stores the owner's information. The management system 110 includes a game table 4004 having a substantially oval shape. The player 82 is located on one side of the gaming table 4004 (the lower side in FIG. 23 ), and the dealer is located on the opposite side (not shown). The upper surface of the game table 4004 is divided into placement areas 41a to 41e (hereinafter, collectively referred to as "placement area 41") for each of a plurality of player positions. The placement area 41 is an area for the player 82 to play by placing his coins 83 . A coin tray 12 on which the dealer's coins 83 are placed is provided on the dealer's position side of the gaming table 4004 .

The medal 83 has the same structure as the medal of the above-described embodiment. That is, the RFID tag 2 is embedded in the medal 83, and the RFID tag 2 includes a non-rewritable area 21 for storing fixed information 3 and a rewritable area 22 for storing variable information 4 . The RFID tag 2 stores a medal ID (identification information) for uniquely identifying the medal 83 as the unique information 3 . Further, the RFID tag 2 stores a user ID that uniquely identifies the owner of the medal 83 as the variation information 4 .

In addition, when a common user ID is attached to the casino or the dealer, and the casino holds the coins 83 (including the case where they are stored in the coin tray 12 ), the storage of the variation information 4 indicates that the casino or the dealer holds the coins 83 . The player's user ID.

RFID antennas 511a to 511e (hereinafter, collectively referred to as "RFID antennas 511") are provided in the respective placement areas 41a to 41e of the game table 4004. Specifically, the RFID antennas 511 are respectively embedded in positions below the wool fabric (ラシャ) of the gaming table 4004, where the corresponding placement areas 41 are divided. In addition, the coin tray 12 is also provided with the RFID antenna 513 .

The RFID antenna 511 reads and writes data to the RFID tag 2 embedded in the medal 83 placed in the corresponding placement area 41 . The RFID antenna 513 reads and writes the RFID tag 2 embedded in the coins 83 placed on the coin tray 12 .

The RFID antennas 511 a to 511 e and the RFID antenna 513 are connected to the RF control device 54 . It should be noted that, in FIG. 23, in order to facilitate the reading of the drawing, only the line connecting the antenna 511e and the RF control device 54 is shown, and the lines connecting the antennas 511a to 511d and the RF control device 54 are omitted from illustration, and the line connecting the antenna 511e and the RF control device 54 is omitted. Similarly to 511e, the antennas 511a to 511d are also connected to the RF control device 54. FIG. The same applies to the following drawings. The RF control device 54 controls each antenna to perform reading and writing. The RF control device 54 performs control of reading and writing by distinguishing each antenna. For this reason, an area ID is added to each antenna, and the area ID is used to uniquely identify the area to be read and written by the antenna. Further, when reading is performed, the RF control device 54 periodically performs reading.

By checking the area ID, it is possible to determine whether the read coins 83 are located in the coin tray 12 or the placement area 41 , and in the placement area 41 , it is also possible to identify which player's placement areas 41 a to 41 e are located.

When reading is performed, the RF control device 54 receives the data read by the antenna from each antenna, and identifies the area ID in which area the data was read. In addition, when writing is performed, the RF control device 54 specifies the area ID which is the antenna for writing, and transmits the writing data. Thereby, the RF control device 54 can control the reading and writing of the respective antennas.

The RF control device 54 outputs the user ID of the medal 83 (“User ID” in FIG. 23 ) and the area ID of the area in which the user ID was read (“Area ID” in FIG. 23 ) based on the data read by each antenna ). The management system 110 further includes a management control device 56 connected to the RF control device 54 . The management control device 56 receives the user ID and the area ID from the RF control device 54 , and specifies the user ID written in the RFID tag 2 to the RF control device 54 .

It should be noted that, as described below, the user ID of the RFID tag 2 stored in the medal 83 is changed due to the movement of the medal 83, and the RFID tag 2 stores the past user ID in addition to the latest user ID. as change information 4. Thereby, by comparing this change information 4, the change of the owner of each medal|token 83 can be investigated. In addition, in the following description, expressions such as "rewriting the user ID" mean that at least the latest user ID is changed, and does not mean that the information of the past user ID must be deleted at the same time.

The management control device 56 updates the fluctuation information 4 of the medal 83 based on the data (user ID and area ID) of the medal 83 received from the RF control device 54 . Hereinafter, an update method of the variation information 4 will be described.

24 to 26 are diagrams for explaining an example of updating of variation information. As shown in FIG. 24, the player places coins 831 in the placement area 41b. The management control device 56 receives the user ID of the placed medal 831 obtained by reading the RFID tag 2 of the medal (hereinafter, also referred to as "placed medal 831") placed by the player in the placement area, and the ID of the placement area 41b. Region ID.

In the stage of placement, as shown in FIG. 24, the same user ID (“P1” in the example of FIG. 24) is read from the placement area 41b, and the same ID is also read from the coin tray 12 (in FIG. 24 example, a "D" indicating that the owner is the casino or dealer). When the player wins the game, as shown in FIG. 25 , the dealer pays (repays) a medal (hereinafter, also referred to as “payment of medal 832”) from the medal tray 12 and places it in the placement area 41b is placed next to the coin 831.

In this way, in the placement area 41b, "D" is read in addition to "P1" as the user ID. When there are two kinds of user IDs of the medals 83 read from the same placement area 41, and one of them is "D" and the other is the user ID assigned to the player, the management control device 56 controls the RF control The device 54 rewrites the user IDs of all the coins 83 in the placement area 41 to the user IDs assigned to the player (in FIG. 25, "P1"). In addition, in this case, in the land medal 831 which stores "P1" as a user ID, "P1" is also added similarly as the latest user ID.

On the other hand, when the player loses the game, as shown in FIG. 26 , the dealer collects the placed medal 831 to the medal tray 12 . In this way, in the coin tray 12, "P1" is read in addition to "D" as the user ID. When there is a user ID (“P1” in the example of FIG. 26 ) assigned to the player other than “D” among the user IDs of the coins 83 read from the coin tray 12 , the management control The device 56 rewrites the user IDs of all the coins 83 in the coin tray 12 to "D".

It should be noted that a collection floating table for temporarily storing the medals 83 recovered to the medal tray 12 is provided, and the antenna is separated from the other parts by the recovery floating table, so that only the medals 83 recovered to the recovery floating table can be processed. the above processing.

Through the above-described processing performed by the management control device 56, the user ID stored in the medal 83 is updated in response to the change of the actual owner. That is, in the present embodiment, the user ID is stored in the RFID tag 2 of the medal 83, and the user ID is updated so that the owner of the paid medal 832 and the owner of the placed medal 831 are the same, so even if The management control device 56 can track the owner caused by the game played at the game table 4004 without using the post-database and player identification system described later, and the management control device 56 does not grasp the progress of the game (the placement stage, the game stage, and the liquidation stage). changes.

It should be noted that, when the player newly purchases the game coins 83, the player is identified using the player identification system described later, and the user ID of the casino or the dealer is rewritten to the user ID of the identified player, and on this basis. , and hand over the coin 83 to the player. Furthermore, even in the case where the player exchanges the coins 83, the user ID of the coins 83 handed over by the player can be rewritten to the user ID of the casino or the dealer.

(Second case)

27 is a diagram showing a configuration of a management system according to a second example of the fourth embodiment. In addition to the structure of the management system 110 of the first example, the management system 120 incorporates a player identification system. The player identification system may include an image recognition system composed of the camera 52 and the image recognition device 55, and a card authentication system composed of the membership card 81 and the card reader 53, or may include any of them.

The camera 52 photographs the face of the player 82 at the player's position, and outputs the image generated by the photographing to the image recognition device 55 . The image recognition device 55 includes a face recognition engine based on a neural network that learns face images of a plurality of players 82 registered in advance (hereinafter, the registered players are referred to as "members"). The image recognition device 55 inputs the image from the camera 52 to the neural network, thereby determining which member's facial image the input facial image is. In addition, when the image recognition apparatus 55 determines that the image from the camera 52 is not the face of any of the registered members, it outputs the result that the face image is a non-member's face image.

Further, the image recognition device 55 specifies the player position of the member based on the position in the image in which the face is authenticated. The image recognition device 55 outputs the member's user ID (“user ID” in FIG. 27 ) and the area ID of the determined player position (“area ID” in FIG. 27 ) corresponding to the image from the camera 52 . It should be noted that the image recognition device 55 outputs "Unknown" as the user ID when the member cannot be identified.

The card reader 53 scans the membership card 81 handed to the dealer by the player 82 , and reads the information stored in the membership card 81 . The membership card 81 is a magnetic card formed with a magnetic strip that stores at least the user ID of the player 82 (member). The dealer takes the membership card 81 from the player 82 , scans the membership card 81 with the card reader 53 , and enters the player position of the player 82 into the card reader 53 . The card reader 53 outputs the user ID (“User ID” in FIG. 27 ) read from the membership card 81 and the area ID of the player’s position (“Area ID” in FIG. 27 ) input by the dealer .

The management control device 56 is input with the user ID and the area ID stored in the medal 83 read by the RF control device 54 using the antenna 511, and the user ID and the area ID determined by the image recognition device 55 based on the face image of the player are input , and input the user ID obtained by reading the membership card 81 by the card reader 53 and the area ID designated by the dealer.

For the same area ID, the user ID read by the antenna 511 , that is, the user ID stored as the owner of the medal 83 in the medal 83 placed in the placement area 41 , and the user ID read by the membership card 81 In the case where the received user ID or the user ID determined by the image recognition device 55, that is, the player determined by the player determination system does not match, the management control device 56 controls the RF control device 54 so that the coins 83 placed in the placement area 41 do not match. The user ID stored as the owner in the change area 4 of the player is overwritten with the user ID of the player determined by the player determination system.

The RF control device 54 writes the user ID of the player identified by the player identification system in the rewritable area 22 of the RFID tag 2 of the medal 83 placed in the placement area 41 using the antenna 511 . In this case, the RF control device 54 may record in the writable area 22 that the user ID, which is the owner information, has been rewritten due to the inconsistency of the user ID. Thereby, when the casino or the dealer acquires the medal 83, by comparing the owner's transition history, it is possible to know that there is a disagreement between the owners, and it is also possible to identify the player involved in the disagreement.

It should be noted that, in the player identification system, only the identification of the player by the face authentication system and the identification of the player by reading the membership card 81 may be performed. That is, when the registered member is seated at the player's place, the player does not have to be identified by the membership card 81, and in this case, the player can be identified only by the face authentication system. In addition, even when the face is not successfully photographed and face authentication cannot be performed, the player can be identified by the membership card 81 .

Furthermore, there are cases in which the player can be identified by either face authentication or the membership card 81 . In this case, there is a case where the user ID of the player specified by the face authentication and the user ID of the player specified by the membership card 81 are different. When the user ID of either one of the two matches the user ID read from the medals 83 , the management control device 56 controls the RF control device 54 so that it does not match the user ID read from the medals 83 . The user ID of , and the fact that it does not match the player identified by the player identification system are recorded in the writable area 22 of the medal 83 .

In this example, as in the first example, the user ID stored in the medal 83 is updated according to the actual owner. Further, in this example, when the user ID of the player determined by the player determination system does not match the user ID stored in the coins 83 , the inconsistency is corrected, and the inconsistency is recorded in the coins 83 . Thereby, by checking the record of the medals 83, it is possible to know that there is an exchange of the medals 83 between players, and it is possible to identify the players involved in this situation.

It should be noted that when exchanging the game coins 83, the same player identification system as described above can be used, so that the user ID of the player (the user who wants to exchange) identified by face authentication or the membership card 81, and the user ID involved in the exchange If the user IDs stored in the coins 83 are different, an alarm indicating that is output, and the operator does not agree to the exchange.

(third case)

28 is a diagram showing a configuration of a management system according to a third example of the fourth embodiment. The management system 130 includes the database 57 in addition to the configuration of the management system 110 of the first example. In the database 57, the coin ID ("coin ID" in FIG. 28 ) for uniquely identifying the coin 83 and the user ID of the player holding the coin 83 are stored in association with each other. It should be noted that, as described above, the owner of the medal 83 is changed due to purchase, use in the game, and exchange, and the database 57 records the history of the owner in the past. Thereby, by checking the database 57, the transition of the owner of each medal|token 83 can be known.

In this example, the coins 83 may have the unwritable area 21 but not the writable area 22 . That is, the medal 83 may store at least the medal ID. Further, the RF control device 54 may be an RF reader having only a read function but not a write function.

The management control device 56 updates the database 57 based on the data (the medal ID and the area ID) of the medal 83 received from the RF control device 54 . Hereinafter, an update method of the database 57 will be described.

29 to 31 are diagrams for explaining an example of the update database 57 . As shown in FIG. 29, the player places the medal 831 on the placement area 41b. The medal ID of the medal 831 and the area ID of the set area 41b are input into the management control device 56, which are acquired by reading the RFID tag 2 of the medal 831 set by the player in the set area 41b.

In the placement stage, as shown in FIG. 29 , “C00001” to “C00005” are read from the placement area 41 b as the medal IDs, and “C20001” to “C20100” are read from the medal tray 12 as the medal IDs. And the RF control apparatus 54 outputs the combination of the medal|token ID read by the antenna 511,513, and the area ID corresponding to this antenna 511,513 to the management control apparatus 56. In the example of FIG. 29, in the RF control device 54, the combination of the medal IDs "C00001" to "C00005" and the area ID "Area 2", and the medal IDs "C20001" to "20100" and the area ID " The combination of the area T" (representing the area ID of the coin tray 12 ) is output to the management control device 56 .

When the player wins the game, as shown in FIG. 30 , the dealer pays (repays) the payout coin 832 from the coin tray 12 and places it beside the placed coin 831 in the placement area 41b. In this way, the RF control device 54 acquires the combination of the medal IDs "C00001" to "C00005" and "C20001" to "C20005" and the area ID "Area 2", and the medal IDs "C20006" to "C20100" ” and the area ID “area T”, and output these combinations to the management control device 56 .

The management control device 56 compares all the medal IDs read out with the database 57, and acquires the user ID associated with the medal ID. Then, the management control device 56 compares the combination of the medal ID and the area ID acquired from the RF control device 54, and updates the database 57 when the user IDs of the plurality of medal IDs associated with the same area ID are different. , so that these user IDs become the same user ID.

Specifically, when the user ID of the player and the user ID of the casino or the dealer exist as the user IDs of the plurality of medals 83 read in the area ID of the same placement area 41, the management control device 56 Rewrites the user ID of the casino or the dealer to the user ID of the player, thereby unifying the user IDs of the medal IDs that make up the combination with the same area ID.

On the other hand, when the player loses the game, as shown in FIG. 31 , the dealer collects the placed coins 831 to the coin tray 12 . In this way, from the medal tray 12, in addition to "C20001" to "C20100", "C00001" to "C00005" are read as the medal ID. The RF control device 54 acquires the combination of the medal IDs "C20001" to "C20100" and "C00001" to "C00005" and the region ID "region T" of the medal tray 12, and outputs the combination to the management control device 56.

The management control device 56 compares all the medal IDs read out with the database 57, and acquires the user ID associated with the medal ID. Then, the management control device 56 collates the combination of the medal ID and the area ID acquired from the RF control device 54, and updates the database 57 when the user ID is different from the user ID of the plurality of medal IDs that constitute the combination with the same area ID. , so that these user IDs become the same user ID. .

Specifically, when the user ID of the player and the user ID of the casino or the dealer exist as the user IDs of the plurality of coins 83 read in the area ID of the coin tray 12, the management control device 56 The player's user ID is rewritten to the casino or dealer's user ID, thereby rewriting the user ID of all chip IDs associated with the zone ID of the chip tray 12 to the casino or dealer's user ID.

By the above-described processing of the management control device 56, the user ID stored in the database 57 is updated according to the actual owner. That is, in the present embodiment, the database 57 is rewritten for the coins 83 associated with different user IDs existing in the same area so as to be unified into any one of these user IDs according to the area. Thereby, even if the above-mentioned player identification system is not used, or the management control device 56 does not know the progress of the game (the placement stage, the game stage, and the liquidation stage), it is possible to trace the owner caused by the game played at the casino table 4004. changes.

In addition, in the above-described example, the management control device 56 judges that the coin is the payout coin 831 based on reading the payout coin 831 in the placement area 41 and setting the user ID to "D" in the database 57, Instead of rewriting the user ID of the medal to the user ID of the player, the medal ID of the payment medal 832 may be determined based on the difference between the medal IDs read from the medal tray 12 before and after payment.

For example, in the examples of FIGS. 29 and 30 , before payment, as shown in FIG. 29 , the medal IDs “C20001” to “C20100” are read from the medal tray 12 . As shown at 30 , the medal IDs “C20006” to “C20100” are read from the medal tray 12 . Thereby, the management control apparatus 56 can judge that the medal|token IDs "C20001" - "C20005" are the medal|token IDs paid out based on this difference.

(The fourth case)

32 is a diagram showing a configuration of a management system according to a fourth example of the fourth embodiment. In addition to the configuration of the management system 110 of the first example, the management system 140 includes a player identification system, a database 57 , and a card distribution device (electronic card shoe) 4003 . In addition, the game table 4004 is provided with payout areas 42a to 42e (hereinafter referred to as "payout area 42") on the dealer's side rather than the placement area 41 at each player position. In addition, the payout areas 42a to 42e are provided with antennas 512a to 512e (hereinafter, when collectively referred to as "antenna 512") corresponding to the respective areas.

When the dealer pays out (repays) the coins 83 to the player 82 who has won the game, after placing the coins 83 taken out from the coin tray 12 in the payout area 42 of the winning player 82, it is placed on the player. 82 for placement area 41.

The camera 52 of this example images the placed medal 831 placed in the placement area 41 in addition to the player 82 . In addition, the image recognition device 55 performs image recognition processing on the placed coins 831 of the placement area 41 in addition to the player's face, so as to recognize which placement object (idle) in the placement area 41 the placed coins 831 of each placement area 41 is placed. House, Banker, Tie, Player Pair, Banker Pair, etc.), the identification result is output as the placement content (“Place” in FIG. 32 ).

It should be noted that the camera that captures the face of the player 82 and the camera that captures the placed medal 831 may be different cameras. Furthermore, the image recognition device that determines the player based on the player's face image and the image recognition device that recognizes the placed content based on the image of the placed medal 831 may be different devices.

In this example, the card issuing device 4003 determines the progress status of the game (that is, any one of placing, in-game, and liquidation), and outputs it to the RF control device 54 . When the first card is drawn, the card issuing device 4003 judges that the game has started, and judges that the game is over based on the result of reading the drawn card according to a certain card game rule. Further, when the game start button is pressed, the card issuing device 4003 judges that the settlement is completed and starts placing.

In addition, the card issuing device 4003 reads at least the card face value of the drawn card, and determines the player's win, the banker's win, the tie, the player's pair, the banker's pair and other games according to a certain card game rule. result.

The management control device 56 determines which player position receives payment based on the placement content acquired from the image recognition device 55 and the game result acquired from the card issuing device 4003 . The management control device 56 also acquires the user ID of the player at each player position from the image recognition device 55 or the card reader 53, and therefore, based on this information, can determine which player has received the payment.

When the game progress status received from the card issuing device 4003 is liquidation, the RF control device 54 operates the antenna 512 of the payout area 42 to read and write the RFID tag of the medal 83 .

The management control device 56 compares the database 57, and in the case where the user ID associated with the chip ID of the payout chip 832 read in the payout area 42 is the user ID of the casino or the dealer, the corresponding placement at this time is used. The user ID is overwritten with the user ID associated with the medal ID of the medal 831 placed in the area 41 .

It should be noted that when the dealer collects the coins 831 placed by the losing player, the antenna 512 of the payout area 42 may read the coin ID of the placed coins 831 , in this case, read the coins in the payout area 42 The obtained medal ID is consistent with the medal ID read in the corresponding placement area 41 before that, so it is judged that the medal ID was read in the payout area 42 at the time of collection. In this case, it is not The user ID of the medal 83 read in the payout area 42 is rewritten.

It should be noted that, in this example, the management system 140 including the player identification system, the database 57, and the card distribution device (electronic card distribution shoe) 4003 has been described. In the player identification system, the database 57, and the management system of the card issuing device (electronic card shoe) 4003, the payout area 42 and the antenna 512 corresponding to the payout area can be installed, and the user ID can be updated as in this example.

In the management system 140 of the present example, the payout area 42 is provided, and the RFID tags of the coins 83 are read and written separately from the placement area 41, so that the payout game paid out from the coin tray 12 can be performed at high speed. Coin 832 read and write. That is, as shown in the above-mentioned first to third examples, if the payout medal 832 is read and written by the antenna 512 in the same manner as the placed medal 831, the payout medal 832 is read and written in order to be read and written. , it takes time to read and write the placed medals 831, but in the payout area 42, only the payout medals 832 can be read and written, so it can be done in a short time Read and write within the game, it will not cause great obstacles to the operation of the game.

(The fifth example)

33 is a diagram showing a configuration of a management system according to a fifth example of the fourth embodiment. The management system 150 has the same configuration as the management system 140 of the fourth example shown in FIG. 32 . That is, the management system 150 includes the player identification system, the database 57 , and the card distribution device (electronic card shoe) 4003 in addition to the configuration of the management system 110 of the first example.

The camera 52 of this example images the placed medal 831 placed in the placement area 41 in addition to the player 82 . In addition, the image recognition device 55 performs image recognition processing not only on the player's face but also on the placed coins 831 in the placement area 41, and recognizes to which placement object (player player) the placed coins 831 in each placement area 41 are placed in the placement area 41. , Banker, Tie, Player Pair, Banker Pair, etc.), and output the identification result as the placement content (“Place” in FIG. 32 ).

It should be noted that the camera that captures the face of the player 82 and the camera that captures the placed medal 831 may be different cameras. Furthermore, the image recognition device that determines the player based on the player's face image and the image recognition device that recognizes the placed content based on the image of the placed medal 831 may be different devices.

The card issuing device 4003 reads at least the face value of the cards drawn in sequence, so as to determine according to the rules of a certain card game, including the player's win, the banker's win, the draw, the player's pair, and the banker's pair. game result.

The management control device 56 determines which player position accepts payment (refund) based on the placement content acquired from the image recognition device 55 and the game result acquired from the card issuing device 4003 . The management control device 56 also acquires the user ID of the player at each player position from the image recognition device 55 or the card reader 53, and therefore can determine which player has accepted (repaid) based on this information.

For each placement area 41 , the combination of the area ID of the placement area 41 and the medal ID of the placed medal 831 read in the placement area 41 is input from the RF control device 54 to the management control device 56 . As described above, the management control device 56 determines which player position is to receive the payment, and therefore, compares the database 57 to acquire the user ID associated with the medal ID read at the player position that received the payment, and with the acquired user ID, The user ID associated with the chip ID of the paid chip 832 is updated.

In addition, the management control apparatus 56 recognizes the medal|token ID which is not read from the medal|token tray 12 before and after payout as the medal|token ID of the payout medal|token 832. Also, when there are multiple players accepting payouts, the dealer pays out in order from one end to a predetermined direction (eg, pays out in order from the dealer's right-hand end to the left-hand end). This makes it possible to determine to which player position or player the payout coins 832 taken out from the coin tray 12 are taken out for, even when there are a plurality of players who accept payouts.

In addition, the management control device 56 can determine the player position of the losing player, and therefore, the database 57 is updated so that the user ID associated with the medal ID read from the placement area 41 of the player position is used as indicating the casino or the dealer. "D" of the person.

As described above, in this example, since the management control device 56 grasps the land content and the game result, it can determine which player or player position the land coins 831 are paid and which player or player position the land coins 831 are paid for. In addition, since the medal IDs of the deposited medals 831 and paid medals 832 can be identified, the database 57 can determine for which medal IDs the associated user IDs are updated and which user IDs should be changed. Thereby, the tracking of the owner of the medal|token 83 can be performed.

(Sixth case)

34 is a diagram showing a configuration of a management system according to a sixth example of the fourth embodiment. The management system 160 has the same configuration as that of the second example. In a certain card game, as described above, a plurality of player positions are provided on the game table 4004, and a placement area 41 is provided for each player position at a position corresponding to each player position of the game table 4004. In principle, there is one player playing the game at one player position.

However, when all the player positions are filled, players (behind players) who place the placement area 41 allocated to the player with seats also appear from behind the players who play at the player positions (players with seats). placement of players), such placements are permitted according to the casino or gaming table 4004. A plurality of medals 83 with different user IDs are placed in the same placement area because they are placed later. The management system 160 of this example can trace the owner of the medal|token 83 even in such a case.

In the management system 160 of this example, as in the second example, the user ID of the medal 83 is stored in the rewritable area 22 of the RFID tag 2 of the medal 83 without using a database. However, there is a player determination system that determines the player.

In the example of FIG. 35, the drop medal|token 831a of the user ID "P1", and the drop medal|token 831b of the user ID "P2" are set in the same placement area 41b. At this time, as the user ID of the medal 83, "P1" and "P2" can be read from the placement area 41b.

36 to 38 are diagrams explaining examples of payouts in the case where both players win the game. First, as shown in FIG. 35, a payment is made to the player 82a of the user ID "P1". At this time, the management system 160 cannot distinguish whether the payment is made to the player 82a with the user ID "P1" or the player 82b with the user ID "P2", and, for the plurality of game coins 83 existing in one placement area 41 , since the writing information cannot be changed, the management control device 56 controls the RF control device 54 to rewrite the user ID to selective information such as "P1 or P2" for all the medals 83 existing in the placement area 41b.

The player 82a who accepts the payment removes his placed coins 831a and payout coins 832a from the placement area 41b, as shown in FIG. The dealer confirms that the player 82a has taken the coins 83, and as shown in FIG. 38, pays out the payout coins 832b with the user ID "D" to the placed coins 831b. At this time, the management control device 56 controls the RF control device 54, and rewrites the user IDs of all the medals 83 in the placement area 41 to "P1 or P2".

Thereby, the players 82a and 82b placed in the same placement area 41 both own the medals 83 whose user IDs are recorded as "P1 or P2".

Assume that, when these players 82a and 82b use these coins 83 to place them in the same placement area 41 again, "P1 or P2" is recorded as the user ID in both the placed coins 831a and 831b. Alternatively, there is a case where a part of the deposited coins includes the coins 83 whose user ID is "P1" or "P2". In these cases, when paying out according to the game result, the management control device 56 controls the RF control device 54 to selectively write “P1 or P2".

It should be noted that, when the placed medal 831 whose user ID is "P1 or P2" is collected in the medal tray 12, "D" representing the casino or the dealer is written as the user ID.

After that, in the case where the players 82a, 82b individually place the coins 83 in which the user IDs of a plurality of users are selectively recorded in the placement area 41, the user IDs of the players determined by the player determination system and the users in the selection When any one of the IDs matches, the management control device 56 controls the RF control device 54 and rewrites the optional user ID of the medal 83 to the matching user ID.

For example, in the case where the player 82a places the coins 83 recorded as the user ID with "P1 or P2" in the placement area 41 individually, the user ID is read from the placed coins 831 in the placement area 41 by the RF control device 54 "P1orP2", the user ID of the player placed in the placement area 41 is identified by the player identification system as "P1". In this case, since the user ID "P1" matches, the management control device 56 controls the RF control device 54 to rewrite the user ID of the placed medal 831 in the placement area 41 to "P1".

On the other hand, when a player with a medal 83 whose user ID is selectively recorded is placed, in the same placement area 41, a player with a user ID that does not exist in the selection is placed, and when payment is accepted according to the game result , the user ID of the coin 83 is also selectively written to the user ID of the player so that it is included in the selection.

For example, when the player 82a places the medal 83 with "P1 or P2" recorded as the user ID in the placement area 41, and another player places the medal 83 with "P3" recorded as the user ID in the same placement area 41 , when paying out according to the game result, the management control device 56 controls the RF control device 54 to rewrite the user IDs of all the coins 83 including the payout coins in the placement area 41 to "P1 or P2 or P3".

As described above, in this example, the user ID is allowed to be selectively recorded, and the owner can be tracked even when a plurality of players are placed in the same placement area. Further, by using the player determination system, it is possible to reliably rewrite the selectively recorded user ID.

It should be noted that, when a plurality of players are placed in the same placement area 41, and some players win and some players lose, the coins that have been placed on the losing players are collected first. Therefore, the coins are read on the coin tray 12. When the coins are collected, "D" may be recorded as the user ID, and the above-mentioned processing may be performed for the coins that accept the payout of the coins 832 and the pay coins that pay the coins.

(Seventh example)

39 is a diagram showing a configuration of a management system according to a seventh example of the fourth embodiment. The management system 170 has the same configuration as the management system 130 of the third example. In the management system 170, even when a plurality of players are placed in the same placement area 41, the owner of the medal 83 can be tracked.

40 to 44 are diagrams for explaining an example of updating the database 57 . The player 82a places the placed medal 831a in the placement area 41b, and if the player 82b places the placed medal 831b in the same placement area 41b, as shown in FIG. 40, in the RF control device 54, from the placement area 41b, as a user ID, read the medal IDs "C00001" to "C00005" of the placed medal 831a and the medal IDs "C10001" to "C 10005" of the placed medal 831b, and the area ID "area 2" of the placed area 41 The combination is output to the management control device 56 . In addition, the medal IDs "C20001" to "C20100" are read from the medal tray 12, and in the management control device 56, the combination with the area ID "area T" of the medal tray 12 is acquired.

As shown in FIG. 40 , at this point in time, in the database 57, the medal IDs "C00001" to "C00005" are associated with the user ID "P1", and the medal IDs "C10001" to "C10005" are associated with the user The ID "P2" is associated, and the medal IDs "C20001" to "C20100" are associated with the user ID "D".

If the game result is that both the players 82a and 82b win, as shown in FIG. 41, first, the dealer pays out either the landed medal 831a and the landed medal 831b. At this time, in the placement area 41b, in addition to the medal IDs "C00001" to "C00005" of the placed medals 831a and the medal IDs "C10001" to "C10005" of the placed medals 831b, payout medals are also read. The combination of the medal IDs "C20001" to "C20005" of 832a and the area ID "area 2" of the placement area 41 is output to the management control device 56 .

At this stage, the management control device 56 has not yet been able to determine whether or not the placed medals 831a with the medal IDs "C00001" to "C00005" of the paid medals 832a have been paid, and whether or not the medal IDs "C10001" to "C10005" have been paid. The placed coins 831b are paid out, and therefore, the database 57 is not updated.

Next, when the player 82a removes the placed coins 831a and the payout coins 832a for paying the placed coins from the placement area 41b, as shown in FIG. 41, only the remaining placed coins 831b are read in the placement area 41b The game currency ID "C10001" ~ "C10005". Based on this change, the management control device 56 determines that the payout coins 832a of the medal IDs "C20001" to "C20005" read in the placement area 41b are paid out to the landed medals 831a of the medal IDs "C00001" to "C00005" , the user IDs associated with the medal IDs "C20001" to "C20005" in the database 57 are rewritten from "D" to "P1", that is, to the payout games associated with the medal IDs "C20001" to "C20005" The user ID associated with the placed coins 831a taken from the placement area 41b together with the coins 832a.

The dealer confirms whether the placed coin 831a and the payout coin 832a paid out to the placed coin are removed from the placement area 41b. As shown in FIG. 43, in the same placement area 41b, the placed coin 831b is paid out and paid out 832b. In this way, from the placement area 41b, the medal IDs "C10001" to "C10005" of the placed medal 831b and the medal IDs "C20006" to "C20010" of the paid medal 832b are read, and they are combined with the placed medals. The area ID "area 2" of the area 41 is recorded in the management control device 56 in combination.

After that, if the player 82b removes the placed medal 831b and the paid medal 832b, as shown in FIG. 44, the medal ID cannot be read from the placement area 41b, and only the medal read from the medal tray 12 The ID is input to the management control device 56 . Based on this change, the management control device 56 judges that the payout coins 832b of the medal IDs "C20006" to "C20010" are delivered to the same player as the player with the medal IDs "C10001" to "C10005", and updates the database 57 so that in the database In 57, the user IDs associated with the medal IDs "C20006" to "C20010" and the user IDs associated with the medal IDs "C10001" to "C10005" are made the same.

As described above, according to the management system 170 of this example, it is detected that the placed coins 831 and the payout coins 832 are taken out of the placement area together, and the database 57 is updated so that the user ID of the payout coins 832 is associated with the placed coins 831 the user ID is the same. Thereby, even when the coins 83 of a plurality of players are placed in the same placement area 41, by paying these players in order, it is possible to know to which player the coins 832 are paid out, update the database 57, and enable Track the owner of in-game coins.

(The eighth case)

45 is a diagram showing a configuration of a management system according to an eighth example of the fourth embodiment. The management system 180 has the same configuration as the management system 140 of the fourth example. However, in the management system 180, the game table 4004 is provided with the player pair sub-area 44, the hand area 45, and the banker pair sub-area 46 as placement areas. In addition, in the game table 4004, antennas 514, 515, and 516 are provided corresponding to the player pair sub-area 44, the draw area 45, and the banker pair sub-area 46, respectively.

In each of these areas 44 to 46 , the area is divided for each player position, and when players place a placement in these areas 44 to 46 , they are placed at positions (divided) corresponding to the respective player positions in these areas. Place game coins.

That is, the player pair sub-area 44, the draw area 45, and the banker pair sub-area 46 are shared placement areas shared by a plurality of players, respectively. In the example of FIG. 45, players 82a to 82C participate in the game, and players 82b and 82C among these players place coins 831b and 831C, respectively, in the draw area 45.

In the case of this example, as for the common placement areas 44 to 46 , the owner of the medal 83 can be traced as in the sixth or seventh example. It should be noted that even when the management system 180 does not have the database 57, the owner of the medal 83 can be traced as in the sixth example, and even when the management system 180 does not have the player identification system, for In the common placement area, the owner of the medal 83 can be tracked as in the seventh example.

(Ninth case)

46 is a diagram showing a configuration of a management system according to a ninth example of the fourth embodiment. The management system 190 includes a player identification system. In this example, the tracking of the medals 83 is performed without using the database 57 . In addition, the game table 4004 is provided with payout areas 42a to 42e and antennas 512a to 512e corresponding to the payout areas. In addition, the fixed information 3 of the RFID tag 2 of the medal 83 stores information indicating the amount (value) of the medal 83, and the fluctuation information 4 stores the user ID of the owner.

It should be noted that, in this example, the database 57 may be used, and in this case, the coin ID is stored in the coin 83, and the amount (value) of the coin 83 and the user ID of the owner are used as the coin ID. The associated method is stored in the database 57 .

As shown in FIG. 47, if player 82a's placed coins 831a (5 coins of "100") and player 82b's placed coins 831b (2 coins of "1000") are placed in the placement area 41b ), then from the placement area 41b, 5 game coins 83 with an amount of "100" and a user ID of "P1" are read, and 2 game coins with an amount of "1000" and a user ID of "P2" are read The coin 83 is output to the management control device 56 together with "area 2" which is the area ID of the placement area 41 .

For each placement area 41, the management control device 56 calculates the total value of the amount of coins placed for each player, and detects the amount of placement for each player. In FIG. 47, the management control apparatus 56 detects that the deposit amount of the user ID "P1" is "500", and the deposit amount of the user ID "P2" is "2000".

When the game result is that both the players 82a and 82b win, the dealer pays out (repays) the placed coins 831a and 831b in order, respectively. As shown in FIG. 48, first, when paying out the payout medal 832a to the set medal 831a, the dealer places the payout medal 832a in the payout area 42b.

At this time, the RF control apparatus 54 reads the medal|token 83 in the payout area 42b, reads out five medal|tokens 83 of the amount "100", and outputs these to the management control device 56. The management control device 56 calculates the total amount of the payout coins 832a read in the payout area 42b, and detects the payout amount.

The management control device 56 compares the payout amount to be paid out of the medal 832a and the deposit amount for each player in the placement area 41b, and identifies the player whose deposit amount matches the payout amount. In FIG. 48 , five payout coins 832a of "100" are read from the payout area 42b, and the payout amount "500" is detected. The management control device 56 judges that the payout amount "500" matches the drop amount "500" of the medal 831a of the user ID "P1", and rewrites the user ID of the payout medal 832a to "P1".

After that, when the player 82a takes out the payout coins 832a and the placed coins 831a, as shown in FIG. 49, the placed coins 831b of the player 82b are left in the placement area 41b. When the dealer places the payout coins 832b paid out to the placed coins 831b in the payout area 42b, the management control device 56 calculates the total amount of the payout coins 832b to detect the payout amount of the payout coins 832b.

The management control device 56 compares the payout amount paid out of the medal 832b and the deposit amount for each player in the placement area 41b, and identifies the player whose deposit amount matches the payout amount. In FIG. 49 , two payout coins 832b of "1000" are read from the payout area 42b, and the payout amount "2000" is detected. The management control device 56 judges that the payout amount "2000" matches the drop amount "2000" of the medal 831b of the user ID "P2", and rewrites the user ID of the payout medal 832b to "P2".

As described above, in the management control system 190 of the present example, even when a plurality of players place a deposit in the same deposit area 41, when the deposit amounts are different, the payout amount based on the deposit amount and the payout coins , and determine to which player the paid game currency is paid.

(The tenth case)

In the first to ninth examples described above, when the player 82 is a non-member who is not registered as a member, such a non-member does not have a user ID, and therefore, the player 82 cannot be identified by the player identification system. Furthermore, as described above, the RFID tag 2 or the database 57 does not store a valid user ID for the coins 83 that are not owned by the member, and therefore, "Unknown" is recorded as the user ID.

When paying the game coins 832 to a player who is not a member, the management system records the user ID of the paying game coins 832 as "Unknown", and when collecting the coins 831 from the players who are not members, the management system records the coins 831 for placing coins. The user ID of 831 is denoted as "D".

In the case of placing in the same placement area 41 for a player who is a member and a player who is a non-member, when both players win the game, the dealer can pay normally from the non-member or pay normally from the member as such rules for payment.

For example, in the case of applying the rule that payment is usually made from a non-member, the management system rewrites the user ID of the payment token 832 paid first to "Unknown", and the payment token 832 paid later uses In the above example, rewrite the user ID of the player who is a member.

In addition, for example, in the case of applying the rule that payment is usually made from a member, the management system rewrites the user ID of the payment token 832 paid first to the user ID determined by the placed token 831, and for the later payment The payment game currency 832, rewrite the user ID to "Unknown".

It should be noted that, in the case where the dealer uses the card authentication system to identify the player, he scans the membership card 81 himself, so he can know which player is the member, but when the player is identified by the facial recognition system, he cannot know which player is the member. . Here, as the recognition result of the facial recognition system, visual information indicating the position or placement area of the player whose user ID is recognized may be displayed to the dealer through a monitor or the like.

(the eleventh case)

FIG. 50 is a diagram showing an example of a placement area in the eleventh example of the fourth embodiment. In this example, the placement area 41 for each player position is divided into a placement area 411 for members and a placement area 412 for non-members, and the antennas are also divided into antennas 5111 for members and antennas 5112 for non-members.

The management control device 56 controls the RF control device 54 to rewrite the user ID of the medal 83 for the placed medal 831 placed in the placing area 411 for members, as in the above-mentioned first to ninth examples, and rewrite the user ID of the medal 83 for the placed medal In the placed coins 831 of the placement area 412, all the user IDs of the paid coins 832 paid for the placed coins are rewritten to "Unknown".

According to this example, there is no coin 83 whose user ID attached to the player is stored in the coin itself or the database 57, and no user ID attached to the player is stored in the coin itself or in the database 57 (the user ID is "Unknown") When the coins 83 are mixed and read, it is possible to efficiently track the coins 83 stored in the coins themselves or the database 57 in addition to the user ID of the player.

51a and 51b are diagrams showing other examples of the placement area in the eleventh example of the fourth embodiment. In this example, the placement area 41 of each player position is selectively set as the placement area 41 for members as shown in FIG. 51a or the placement area 41 for non-members as shown in FIG. 51b.

A display unit 413 is provided near each storage area 41, and the display unit 413 can changeably display whether the storage area 41 is set as a member area or a non-member area. The display part 413 is provided under the wool fabric of the gaming table 4004, and the display information can be set so that the player can visually confirm the information through the wool fabric.

It should be noted that the structure for visually displaying that each placement area 41 is set to either for members or for non-members is not limited to the display portion 413 embedded under the wool fabric of the gaming table 4004 . For example, it is possible to display that each placement area 41 is set to be either for members or for non-members by a monitor installed on the gaming table 4004 so as to be visible to the player.

The management control device 56 controls the RF control device 54 to rewrite the medals 83 for the medals 831 placed in the area when the set area 41 is set for members, as shown in the first to ninth examples above. In the case where the placement area 41 is set for non-members, the user IDs of the paid coins 832 paid to the coins 831 placed in this area are all rewritten to "Unknown".

In this example, there is no coin 83 whose user ID attached to the player is stored in the coin itself or in the database 57, and there is no coin 83 whose user ID attached to the player is not stored in the coin itself or in the database 57 (the user ID is "Unknown" ) When the coins 83 are mixed and read, the coins 83 stored in the coins themselves or the database 57 with the user ID attached to the player can be effectively traced.

(The twelfth case)

In the above-described first to ninth examples, even in the case where coins 83 are exchanged between the dealer and the player on the game table 4003, the owner of the coins 83 can be traced. In this case, the management system includes a progress state determination unit that determines the progress state of the game (that is, any of the standing state, the game state, and the liquidation state). The card issuing device 4003 can be used as the means for judging the progress status concerned, and any means thereof may be used.

In the management system of this example, the management control device 56 controls the RF control device 54 so that each antenna periodically reads at predetermined time intervals during the standstill. During the placement, the management control device 56 reads the game whose user ID is "D" in any one of the placement areas 41 or any one of the payout areas 42 (hereinafter, referred to as "the reading area of the game table 4004"). In the case of the coins 83, and when the coins 83 whose user ID is the user ID added to the member's user ID are read in the coin tray 12, it is determined that the coins 83 are exchanged.

The reason for this is that in the operation of a certain card game, it is impossible to move the coins 83 from the coin tray 1 to the game table 4003 during the placement, except for exchange, and the coins 83 of the players on the game table 4003 are not moved. It cannot be moved to the coin tray 12 either. It should be noted that when the progress status of the game is "in game", such movement of the medals 83 is cheating. Therefore, when the management control device 56 detects the movement of the medals 83 as described above during the game , an alarm can be output.

When the management control device 56 reads the medal 83 whose user ID is the user ID attached to the member or is "Unknown" in the medal tray 12 during the placement, it is determined that the medal 83 is used for inter-coin exchange. The coins 83 (pre-exchange coins) are taken out from the player to the gaming table 4004 in exchange.

Specifically, in the case where the medal 83 itself stores the user ID, when the management control device 56 reads the user ID or "Unknown" attached to the member from the medal tray 12 during placement, it is determined that the exchange is When the user ID is stored in the database 57, it is determined that the exchange is being performed when the number of coins 83 read from the coin tray 12 decreases during placement. Alternatively, in the case where the user ID is stored in the database 57, when the number of coins 83 read from the coin tray increases during placement, it can be determined that the exchange is in progress.

In addition, when the management control device 56 reads from the reading area of the game table 4004 during the setting, the user ID is the medal 83 representing "D" held by the casino or the dealer, and the game is played. The coins 83 are determined to be the coins 83 (post-exchange coins) given to the player in correspondence with the coins before the exchange.

Specifically, in the case where the user ID is stored in the medal 83 itself, when the management control device 56 reads the user ID "D" from the reading area of the game table 4004 during placement, it is determined as exchange, and the user ID When stored in the database 57, the management control device 56 periodically reads the reading area of the game table 4004 during placement, and refers to the database 57 for each reading to determine the medal with the user ID "D". 83 is read from the read area of the game table 4004.

The management control device 56 rewrites the user ID of the pre-exchange token to "D" indicating the casino or the dealer, and rewrites the post-exchange token user ID to the pre-exchange token user ID. Specifically, when the user ID is stored in the RFID tag 2 of the medal 83, the management control device 56 controls the RF control device 54 to rewrite the user ID stored in the corresponding pre-exchange token and post-exchange token, and the user ID When the ID is stored in the database 57 in association with the medal ID, the management control device 56 rewrites the user ID associated with the corresponding medal ID in the database 57 .

In addition, the management control device 56 controls the RF control device 54 after determining the pre-exchange coins and the post-exchange coins to change these user IDs (when the user IDs are stored in the coins 83), or to update the database 57 (user ID storage at database 57).

It should be noted that, in the above embodiment, the membership card 81 is a magnetic card, and the card reader 53 is a magnetic card reader that reads information from the magnetic stripe of the membership card 81. Instead, an RFID tag can be embedded in the membership card. 81. Record the user ID in the RFID tag. In this case, an RFID reader composed of an antenna and an RF control device 54 is used as the card reader 53 . Furthermore, such antennas can be placed at each player location. In this case, the player can read the membership card 81 at each player's position without handing over the player's own membership card 81 to the dealer. Information specifying the player's position is transmitted from each antenna to the RF control device 54 together with the user ID read from the membership card 81 . Further, the antenna 511 and the RF control device 54 provided in the placement area 41 can be used as an RFID reader for reading the membership card 81 . In this case, the user ID can be read by the antenna 511 when the player places the membership card 81 in the placement area 41 at the player's own player position.

The following techniques are disclosed through the first to eleventh examples of the fourth embodiment described above.

(A1) A management system, which is a management system for managing game coins, comprising:

an owner determination mechanism, which compares a storage mechanism in which the owner of the gaming coin is stored when the gaming coin is used, and determines the owner of the gaming coin;

a player determination mechanism that, when the coin is used, identifies the player who used the coin; and

A control mechanism that, for the coins used, in the event that the owner determined by the owner determination mechanism and the player determined by the player determination mechanism do not agree, the control mechanism will be determined by the player The player determined by the determination mechanism is stored in the storage mechanism as the owner.

(A2) The management system according to (A1), wherein, for the coins used, in a case where the owner determined by the owner determination mechanism and the player determined by the player determination mechanism do not match , and the control mechanism stores the inconsistency in the storage mechanism.

(A3) The management system according to (A1), wherein the player determination mechanism determines the player who uses the medal through face authentication or reading of an ID card.

(A4) The management system according to (A1), wherein the storage means is a database, or an RFID tag built into the medal.

(A5) A management system, which is a management system for managing game coins, comprising:

a storage mechanism, which stores the owner of said game currency;

a player determination mechanism that determines a player who accepts reimbursement of the chip; and

A control mechanism that causes the storage mechanism to store the player as the owner for the coins paid back.

(A6) The management system according to (A5), wherein,

The determining mechanism also determines a placement area allocated to the player,

The control device determines to which of the placement areas the paid-out coins are paid out, thereby determining to which player the paid-out coins are paid out.

(A7) The management system according to (A5), wherein,

In the control device, the coins stored as the owner by the player determined by the determination mechanism, and the player determined by the determination mechanism as the owner are placed in the placement area. In the case of the coins stored,

For the coin to be paid back for the coin stored by the player determined by the determination mechanism as the owner, the player determined by the determination mechanism is stored as the owner of the medal.

(A8) The management system according to (A5), wherein,

Also provided is a detection device that detects the amount of the coins to be paid back,

In the control device, the coins stored as the owner by the player determined by the determination mechanism, and the player determined by the determination mechanism as the owner are placed in the placement area. In the case of the coins stored,

For the coins paid back to the placement area after being detected by the detection device in an amount corresponding to the reimbursement of the coins stored to the player determined by the determination mechanism without being the owner, The player identified by the determining mechanism is stored as the owner of the coin.

(A9) The management system according to (A5), wherein,

Also provided is a detection device that detects the amount of the coins to be paid back,

In the control device, the coins stored as the owner by the player determined by the determination mechanism, and the player determined by the determination mechanism as the owner are placed in the placement area. In the case of the coins stored,

For the medal first detected by the detection device in the placement area, the player determined by the determination mechanism is stored as the owner of the medal.

(A10) The management system according to any one of (A6) to (A9), wherein

The placement area includes: an area for placing the coins stored as the owner by the player determined by the determination mechanism; and placing the player determined by the determination mechanism and not stored as the owner of the game currency area.

(A11) The management system according to any one of (A6) to (A10), wherein

It also includes output means for outputting visual information for distinguishing between the placement area in which the medals stored by the player identified by the identification means are placed and those in which the coins stored by the identification means are placed. The placement area of the medal that is not stored by the player determined by the mechanism as the owner is determined.

(A12) A management system, which is a management system for managing game coins, comprising:

a storage mechanism, which stores the owner of said game currency;

a player determination mechanism that determines a plurality of back-up players who may receive the payout of the stack of chips; and

A control mechanism that causes the storage mechanism to store the plurality of back-up players as the owner for each of the medals constituting the stack of payouts.

(A13) The management system according to (A12), wherein,

The player determination means determines a plurality of players who have received the payment when placed in the same placement area as the plurality of back-up players.

(A14) The management system according to (A12), wherein,

the player determination mechanism determines the placement player who placed the medal,

The management system further includes an owner determination mechanism that determines the plurality of supplementary players stored as the owner in the storage mechanism with respect to the deposited coins,

In a case where the placed player determined by the player determination mechanism matches any one of the plurality of replacement players determined by the owner determination mechanism, the control mechanism may match the matching player. The player is determined to be the owner and causes the storage mechanism to store.

(B1) A management system, which is a management system used in a game on a gaming table to manage game coins with identification information stored thereon, comprising:

a first identification device that reads the identification information stored in the placed game coins placed in the placement area of the gaming table;

a second identification device, which obtains the identification information stored in the payment coins to be paid for the placed coins;

a storage device that stores the identification information in association with the owner of the medal in which the identification information is stored; and

a control device that associates the owner with the identification information read by the first identification device from the placed medal as the identification information of the paid medal acquired by the second identification device The associated owner is stored in the storage device.

(B2) The management system according to (B1), wherein,

The second identification device is the first identification device, and by reading the identification information stored in the payment coins placed through the placement area, the identification information stored in the payment coins is obtained. the identification information.

(B3) The management system according to (B1), wherein,

The second identification device is a device that reads the identification information stored in a plurality of the coins in the dealer's coin tray, and is based on the number of coins read before the payment of the payout coins. The identification information stored in the payment token is obtained by the difference between the identification information and a plurality of the identification information read after paying the payment token.

(B4) The management system according to (B1), wherein,

The second identification device reads the identification information stored in the payment game coins placed on the gaming table that are different from the placement area, thereby obtaining the payment game coins stored in the game table. of the identification information.

(B5) The management system according to (B1), wherein,

The first identification device periodically reads the identification information,

When the identification information read by the first identification device from the placed medals is not read by the first identification device, the control device sends the unread information to the control device. The owner associated with the identification information is stored in the storage device as the owner associated with the identification information of the payment medal acquired by the second identification device.

(B6) The management system according to (B1), wherein,

The second identification device obtains the identification information by periodically reading the identification information stored in the payment game coins,

When the identification information read by the second identification device from the payout coins is not read by the second identification device, the control device removes the first identification device from the placement game. The owner associated with the identification information read by coins is stored in the storage device as the owner associated with the identification information that has not been read.

(B7) A management system, which is a management system used in a game of a gaming table and manages game coins stored with identification information, comprising:

a first identification device that obtains the identification information stored in the pre-exchange game coins taken out by the player to the gaming table for the exchange between the game coins;

a second identification device, which obtains the identification information stored in the post-exchange token given to the player corresponding to the pre-exchange token;

a storage device that stores the identification information in association with the owner of the medal in which the identification information is stored; and

A control device that takes the owner associated with the identification information of the pre-exchange coins acquired by the first identification device as the identification of the post-exchange coins acquired by the second identification device The information associated with the owner is stored in the storage device.

(B8) The management system according to (B7), wherein,

The control device also uses the owner associated with the identification information of the pre-exchange medal acquired by the second identification device as the owner of the post-exchange medal acquired by the first identification device. The owner associated with the identification information is stored in the storage device.

(B9) The management system according to (B7), wherein,

The first identification device is a reading device that reads the identification information of a plurality of the game coins in the dealer's game currency tray, and acquires the added identification information as a storage before the exchange. the identification information in the game currency.

(B10) The management system according to (B7), wherein,

The second identification device is a reading device that reads the identification information in a plurality of the coins in the dealer's coin tray, and acquires the reduced identification information as stored in the exchange The identification information in the back game currency.

(B11) A management system, which is used in a game of a casino table and manages the exchange of game coins stored with identification information, comprising:

a reading device that reads the identification information stored in the coins placed in the reading area on the gaming table for exchange;

a storage device that stores the identification information in association with the owner of the medal in which the identification information is stored;

A control device having an owner associated with the identification information stored in the first medal read by the reading device and stored in a different location from the reading device by the reading device When the owners associated with the identification information in the second coins of the first coins are different, the owners associated with the identification information stored in the first coins are used as the second coins The identification information stored in the medal is associated with the owner, and is stored in the storage device.

(Fifth Embodiment)

FIG. 52 is a diagram showing a configuration of a management system according to the fifth embodiment. The management system 210 of this embodiment can be used as a system other than or in place of the system for identifying a player in any one of the above-described first to fourth embodiments. That is, in the present embodiment, as the player identification system, a system for identifying a player by facial recognition verification and a system for identifying a player by scanning a membership card are described, but the player identification system of the present embodiment can also be used It can be used as a system in addition to the above system, or in place of the above system.

As shown in FIG. 52 , at each player position of the game table 5004 of the present embodiment, card reading areas 61 a to 61 e (hereinafter, collectively referred to as the card reading area 61 a to 61 e for reading the membership card 810 are provided at positions closer to the hand than the placing area 41 ). is "card reading area 61").

A card RFID tag 811 is built in the membership card 810 . The user ID is stored in the card RFID tag 811 .

Card reading antennas 711 a to 711 e (hereinafter, collectively referred to as “card reading antennas 711 ”) for reading the card RFID tag 811 of the membership card 810 placed there are embedded in the card reading area 61 . The card reading antenna 711 is connected to the RF control device 54 . The RF control device 54 controls the card reading antenna 711 to read information from the card RFID tag 811 .

According to this example, in the case where the player is identified by the membership card, in order to associate the player's position with the member, as described in the above-described embodiment, casino operators such as dealers and console operators are not required. By scanning the membership card and specifying the player's position, the player's position can be associated with the member only by placing the membership card 810 in the card reading area 61 on the near-hand side of the placement area 41 of the gaming table 5004.

In addition, in this example, among the medals 83 held by the player, medals (hereinafter, also referred to as “reserved medals 833 ”) that are not placed in the placement area 41 are also read in the card reading area 61 . . In this example, the RFID tag 2 is built in the medal 83 (hereinafter, in order to distinguish it from the card RFID tag 811, it is also called "the medal RFID tag 2"). The medal ID and/or value (amount) of the medal 83 are stored in the medal RFID tag 2 .

In the example of FIG. 52, in the case where the player 82a wins the game and receives the payout, the paid out payout coins 832b are read in the placement area 41b. In the database 57, the owner of the payout chip 832b is updated from the dealer or the casino to the player 82a. Specifically, in the database 57, the user ID indicating the dealer or the casino is changed to the user ID associated with the coin ID that pays the coin 832b, and the coin ID that pays the coin 832 is rewritten to the user The user ID of 82a is the user ID read from the membership card 810 in the membership card reading area 61b.

It should be noted that, instead of the above solution, when the payment game coin 832b is read in the card reading area 61b, the user ID associated with the payment game coin 832b can be rewritten to be read from the member in the card reading area 61b. User ID read from card 810.

In addition, in the case where the user ID and the value of the medal 83 held by the member of the user ID are stored in association with the database 57, when the payment medal 832b is placed in the placement area 41b or the card reading area 61b, Upon reading, the database 57 is updated to associate the value of the payout coin 832b with the user ID read in the card reading area 61b.

In addition, the user ID and the medal ID and/or value of the medal 83 held by the member of the user ID may be stored in the card RFID tag 811 of the membership card 810 held by the member in association with, instead of being stored in Database 57. In this case, the membership card 810 can be read and written in the card reading area 61 .

Then, when the payment token 832b is read in the placement area 41b or the card reading area 61b, the token ID and/or value of the payment token 832b is stored in the membership card 810, thereby being stored in the membership card 810 The user ID of the user ID is associated with the chip ID and/or value of the chip 83 held by the member of the user ID.

In addition, instead of storing in the database 57, the user ID and the medal ID and/or the value of the medal held by the member of the user ID may be stored in the medal RFID tag 2 in association with each other. In this case, writing can be performed after reading the medal RFID tag 2 in the placement area 41 or the card reading area 61 .

Then, when the coin ID and/or value of the payout coin 832b are read in the placement area 41b or the card reading area 61b, they are stored in the card reading area 61b by storing the coin RFID tag 2 of the payment coin 832b in the card reading area 61b. The read user ID of the membership card 810 and the user ID stored in the membership card 810 are associated with the medal ID and/or value of the medal 83 held by the member of the user ID.

In addition, for the card reading antenna 711 and the antenna 511 of the placement area 41 (hereinafter, in order to distinguish it from the card reading antenna 711, also referred to as "coin reading antenna 511") is not read. The coin ID of the coin 83 can record that it is recovered and held by the dealer or the casino. Alternatively, for the value of the medals 83 not read by either the card reading antenna 711 or the medal reading antenna 511, the transfer of the value to the dealer or the casino may be recorded.

In addition, not only the information of the member and the medals held by the member, but also the deposit performance of each member may be recorded in the database 57 . In this case, when the medal 83 is placed in the placement area 41, the value of the medal, that is, the placement amount, can be determined by reading the medal ID of the placed medal 831 in the placement area 41 and referring to the database 57, or in the When the value stored in the medal RFID tag 2 is read, the value is read in the deposit area 41 to determine the deposit amount. The deposit amount is associated with the user ID of the membership card 810 read in the card reading area 61 at the player's position, and is recorded in the database 57 as the deposit performance of the member.

In addition, in the above-described embodiment, the card reading area 61 different from the placement area 41 is provided at each player position, the medal reading antenna 511 is provided in the placement area 41, and the card reading antenna is provided in the card reading area 61, respectively. 711, however, the card reading area 61 and the card reading antenna 711 may not be provided, and the card RFID tag 811 of the membership card 810 may be read and written through the medal reading antenna 511 of the placement area 41.

That is, in the above-described embodiment, the antenna of the medal RFID tag 2 for reading the medals 83 for paying the medals 832 and the like at each player position and the antenna for reading the membership card 810 may be the same antenna.

Furthermore, in the above-described embodiment, a card reading area 61 in which the player is placed behind may be provided between the respective player positions. As described above, since the player behind the seat shares the same placement area 41 with the player with a seat, it is necessary to determine whether the paid game coins 832 are paid out to the player with a seat or to the player seated behind. However, in order to solve this problem, This can be dealt with by the solutions of the above-described embodiments (eg, associating the coin IDs that pay the coin 832 with both the user ID of the seated player and the user ID of the player behind, etc.).

Further, in the above-mentioned embodiment, a plurality of membership cards 810 are simultaneously read in one card reading area 61, and in the case where a plurality of stacked game coins 831 are placed in the corresponding placing area 41, it can also be combined with In the same manner as in the above-described embodiment, the association between the user ID and the medal ID is performed.

In addition, in the present embodiment, the dealer may provide a non-member membership card on the game table 5004 to a player who is not registered as a member. Hereinafter, a membership card provided to a registered member is specifically referred to as a "regular membership card", and a membership card provided to an unregistered player is specifically referred to as a "non-regular membership card".

A temporary user ID representing an unregistered player may be stored in the non-regular membership card as the user ID. In this case, the temporary user IDs may be different from each other in the plurality of non-regular membership cards. As a result, the unregistered players cannot be identified individually, but the unregistered players can be managed separately from each other. In addition, when an unregistered player performs membership registration, the information recorded on the non-regular membership card can be handed over to the regular membership card.

It should be noted that, in this embodiment, the membership card 810 can be placed in the card reading area 61 from time to time to be read and written in the card reading area 61 from time to time, or the user ID of the player 82 and the player When the token ID or value of the token 83 held by 82 is stored in the database 57 or the token RFID tag 2, the membership card 810 is first read in the card reading area 61, and then other The database 57 or the medal RFID tag 2 is updated until the membership card 810, or until it is released by the dealer, assuming that the player 82 of the membership card 810 is playing the game at the player's position.

In addition, when the player sits at the player's seat and places the membership card 810 and the medals 83 (reserved medals 833 ) held in the card reading area 61 , the RF control device 54 uses the card reading antenna 711 to read the membership card 810 . The card RFID tag 811 of the card 810 and the chip RFID tag 2 of the reserved chip 833 . On the other hand, in the database 57, for each member, the user ID is stored in association with the medals 83 held by the member.

The management control device 56 determines whether the combination of the user ID stored in the card RFID tag 811 and the medal ID stored in the medal RFID tag 2 read by the RF control device 54 is stored in the database 57 or not. When the combination of the user ID and the medal ID read by the RF control device 54 is not stored in the database 57, the management control device 56 outputs an alarm.

Through the fifth embodiment explained above, the following techniques are disclosed.

(C1) The management system of one embodiment is the management system 210 that provides a facility for using a game using the game table 5004 having a player's position, and has the following structure, and includes a membership card 810 that has a built-in member information (user ID) stored therein. Card RFID tag 811 ; a card RFID reader (card reading antenna 711 and RF control device 54 ), which is installed at the player's position on the gaming table 5004 , reads member information (user ID) from the card RFID tag 811 .

(C2) The management system 210 of the above (C1) may further include a coin determination device (the coin reading antenna 511 and the RF control device 54) that determines the amount of the payout coins (the payout coins 832) paid out to the player's position. Coin identification information (game coin ID); a storage medium (database 57, game coin RFID tag 2, or card RFID tag 811) that stores member information (user ID) and a member holding the member corresponding to the member information (user ID) The coin identification information (coin ID) of any coins (coin 83) is stored in association with the management control device 56, which determines the membership information (user ID) read at the player's position with the player's position. The coin identification information (coin ID) of the paid-out coins 832 is stored in a storage medium (the database 57, the coin RFID tag 2, or the card RFID tag 811) in association with each other.

(C3) The management system 210 of the above (C1) may further include: a coin determination device (a coin reading antenna 711, an image recognition system for recognizing the amount, or a management control device 56 for determining based on the placement content and the game result), It determines the value (amount) of the payout chip (payout chip 832) paid out to the player's location; the storage medium (database 57, chip RFID tag 2, or card RFID tag 811), which combines member information (user ID) and Stored in association with the value (amount) of the coins (game coins) held by the member corresponding to the member information (user ID); the management control device 56 which stores the member information (user ID) read at the player's position and The value (amount) of the payout chip (payout chip 832 ) determined at the player's position is stored in a storage medium (database 57 , chip RFID tag 2 , or card RFID tag 811 ) in association with it.

(C4) The management system 210 of the above (C1) may further include a storage medium (the database 57, the game currency RFID tag 2, or the card RFID tag 811) that associates the member information (user ID) with the member information (user ID) ) corresponding placement amount is associated and stored; the coin determination device (the coin reading antenna 511 and the RF control device 54), which determines the coin identification information (the coin ID) of the placed coin 831 placed at the player's position; The database 57 stores the correspondence between the coin identification information (the coin ID) and the value (amount) of the placed coin 831; the management control device 56 refers to the database 57 to determine the coin identification information ( The value (amount) corresponding to the game currency ID), based on the value (amount), the member information (user ID) read at the player's location is updated and stored in the storage medium (database 57, the game currency RFID tag 2, or the card RFID The credit associated with the member information (user ID) of the tag 811).

(C5) The management system 210 of the above (C1) may further include a storage medium (the database 57, the coin RFID tag 2, or the card RFID tag 811) that associates the member information (user ID) with the member information (user ID). ) corresponding placement amount is stored in association; the coin determination device (the coin reading antenna 511 and the database 57, the coin reading antenna 511, or the image recognition system for judging the value of the coin), which determines that the place is placed at the player's position The value (amount) of the placed coins 831; the management control device 56, based on the value (amount) of the placed coins 831 determined at the player's position, updates the storage for the member information (user ID) read at the player's position An amount is placed in association with the member information (user ID) in the storage medium (database 57, coin RFID tag 2, or card RFID tag 811).

(C6) The management system 210 of the above (C1) may further include a coin determination device (the card reading antenna 711 and the RF control device 54) that determines the coin identification information ( coin ID); a storage medium (database 57, coin RFID tag 2, or card RFID tag 811) that combines member information (user ID) and coins (user ID) held by members corresponding to the member information (user ID). The coin identification information (coin ID) of the coin 83) is stored in association with the management control device 56, which stores the membership information (user ID) read at the player's position and the reserved coins 833 determined at the player's position The coin identification information (coin ID) of the coin is stored in a storage medium (database 57 , coin RFID tag 2 , or card RFID tag 811 ) in association with each other.

(C7) The management system of (C1) above may further include a medal determination device (the card reading antenna 711 and the RF control device 54, or an image recognition system for determining the value of the reserved medal 833) that determines that the player has not placed The value (amount) of the reserved coins 833 of the location; the storage medium (database 57, the RFID tag 2 of the coins, or the card RFID tag 811), which combines the member information (user ID) and the corresponding member information (user ID) The value (amount) of the coins (coin 83) held by the member is stored correspondingly; the management control device 56, which combines the member information (user ID) read at the player's position and the reserved game determined at the player's position The value (amount) of the coins 833 is stored in association with the storage medium (the database 57, the coin RFID tag 2, or the card RFID tag 811).

(C8) In the management system 210 of any one of the above (C2), (C4), and (C6), the coin RFID tag 2 built in the coin (the coin 83) can store the coin (the coin 83). 83) coin identification information (coin ID), the coin judging device (coin reading antenna 511 and RF control device 54) and the card RFID reader (card reading antenna 711 and RF control device 54) can be The same device, the device reads the coin RFID tag 2 and the card RFID tag 811 .

(C9) In the management system 210 of any one of the above (C3), (C5), and (C6), the coin RFID tag 2 built in the coin (the coin 83) may store the coin (the coin 83) value (amount), the chip judging device (the chip reading antenna 511 and the RF control device 54) and the card RFID reader (the card reading antenna 711 and the RF control device 54) may be the same device, the device The coin RFID tag 2 and the card RFID tag 811 are read.

(C10) In the management system 210 of the above (C2), a single card RFID reader (card reading antenna 711 and RF control device 54) simultaneously reads a plurality of member information (users) from a plurality of membership cards 810 ID), the management control device 56 may store the read pieces of member information (user IDs) in association with the medal identification information (coin ID) in the storage medium (database 57, medal RFID tag 2 , or card RFID tag 811).

(C11) In the management system 210 of the above-mentioned (C2) to (C7), the storage medium may be attached to the medal (the medal 83).

(C12) In the management system 210 of the above (C2) to (C7), the storage medium may be provided in the membership card 810.

(C13) In the management system 210 of the above-mentioned (C2) to (C7), the storage medium may be provided in the database 57 .

(C14) In the management system 210 of the above (C1), a card RFID reader for seated players (card reading antenna 711) and a card RFID reader for players (card reading take the antenna).

(C15) In the management system 210 of the above (C1), the membership card 810 may include: a regular membership card, which stores the inherent membership information of the registered member in the card RFID tag 811; an informal membership card, which is stored in the card RFID tag 811 Temporary member information is stored in the tag 811 .

(C16) In the management system 210 of the above (C15), temporary membership information different from each other may be stored in the card RFID tags 811 of the plurality of non-regular membership cards.

(C17) In the management system 210 of the above (C1), the gaming table 5004 may have a plurality of player positions, and a card RFID reader (the card reading antenna 711 and the RF control device 54) may be provided in each of the plurality of player positions One.

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Claims (17)

1. A management system in a facility for providing a game using a game table having a player position, the management system comprising:

a membership card having a card RFID tag storing membership information built therein; and

and a card RFID reader provided at the player position of the game table, and configured to read the member information from the card RFID tag.

2. The management system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a medal determination device that determines medal identification information of a paid-out medal paid out to the player position;

a storage medium that stores the member information and the medal identification information of the medal held by the member corresponding to the member information in association with each other; and

and a controller that stores the member information read at the player position in the storage medium in association with the medal identification information of the paid-out medals determined at the player position.

3. The management system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a medal determination device that determines a value of paid-out medals paid out to the player position;

a storage medium that stores the member information and the value of the medal held by a member corresponding to the member information in association with each other; and

and a control device that stores the member information read at the player position in the storage medium in association with the value of the payout medal determined at the player position.

4. The management system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a storage medium that stores the member information in association with a placement amount corresponding to the member information;

a medal determination device that determines medal identification information of a medal placed at the player position;

a database that stores a correspondence relationship between the medal identification information and the value of the placed medal; and

and a control device that determines the value corresponding to the medal identification information determined at the player position with reference to the database, and updates the placement amount associated with the member information stored in the storage medium with respect to the member information read at the player position based on the value.

5. The management system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a storage medium that stores the member information in association with a placement amount corresponding to the member information;

a medal determination device that determines a value of a placed medal placed at the player position; and

and a control device that updates the placement amount stored in the storage medium in association with the member information with respect to the member information read at the player position, based on the value of the placed token determined at the player position.

6. The management system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a medal determination device that determines medal identification information of a reserved medal that is not placed at the player position;

a storage medium that stores the member information and the medal identification information of the medals held by the members corresponding to the member information in association with each other; and

and a control device that stores the member information read at the player position and the token identification information of the reserved token determined at the player position in the storage medium in association with each other.

7. The management system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a medal determination device that determines a value of a reserved medal that is not placed at the player position;

a storage medium that stores the member information and a value of the medal held by a member corresponding to the member information in association with each other; and

and a control device that stores the member information read at the player position and the value of the reserved medal determined at the player position in the storage medium in association with each other.

8. The management system according to any one of claims 2, 4, and 6,

the chip identification information of the chip is stored in a chip RFID tag built in the chip,

the game chip determination device is the same device as the card RFID reader, and reads the game chip RFID tag and the card RFID tag.

9. The management system according to any one of claims 3, 5, and 7,

the value of the medal is stored in a medal RFID tag embedded in the medal,

the game chip determination device is the same device as the card RFID reader, and reads the game chip RFID tag and the card RFID tag.

10. The management system of claim 2,

in the case where one card RFID reader reads a plurality of pieces of membership information from a plurality of membership cards at the same time, the control device stores the plurality of pieces of membership information read in association with the token identification information in the storage medium.

11. The management system according to any one of claims 2 to 7,

the storage medium is mounted to the game chip.

12. The management system according to any one of claims 2 to 7,

the storage medium is arranged on the membership card.

13. The management system according to any one of claims 2 to 7,

the storage medium is provided in a database that can communicate with the card RFID reader and the medal determination device.

14. The management system of claim 1,

the card RFID reader of a seated player and the card RFID reader of a player placed behind are provided at the player position.

15. The management system of claim 1,

the membership card includes:

a regular membership card in which member information unique to a registered member is stored in the card RFID tag; and

a denormal membership card storing temporary membership information in the card RFID tag.

16. The management system of claim 15,

the plurality of the unauthorized member cards stores temporary member information different from each other in the card RFID tag.

17. The management system of claim 1,

the gaming table has a plurality of the player positions,

the card RFID reader is located at each of the plurality of player positions.

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