GAMING SYSTEM THAT NAVIGATES DEALER IN GAME ADVANCEMENT AND PREVENTS FRAUD

• US 20100331085A1
• Filed: 06/14/2010
• Published: 12/30/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/25/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Interblock DOO
• Original Assignee: Aruze Gaming America Incorporated (Aruze Gaming America, Inc. /Okada/), Universal Entertainment Corporation
• Inventors: NAGANO, Hiroyuki
• Granted Patent: US 8,622,796 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/31
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3211 Display means
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/322 Casino tables, e.g. tables having integrated screens, chip detection means
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3276 wherein the players compete, e.g. tournament
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3293 Card games, e.g. poker, canasta, black jack

Abstract

The present invention provides a gaming system that can allow a game to be appropriately advanced even by an inexperienced dealer by way of navigating the dealer in game advancement, thereby allowing fraud to be avoided and cost to be reduced. An image input device, which captures images for displaying to players playing the game at a plurality of stations, captures an image of a side of a game portion on which the dealer is positioned to include card placement areas. Then, a controller performs image recognition processing of comparing image data of the card placement areas captured by the image input device with comparative image data stored in memory. Thereafter, in a case in which image recognition processing results in an image showing a card being included, the score of the card game is calculated based on recognition results of the images showing cards.

Claims

1. A gaming system that executes a card game, comprising:

a plurality of stations;

a control unit that transmits and receives information related to a game with the plurality of stations, and controls advancement of the game;

a game portion that has a flat surface and has a plurality of card placement areas on which a required number of cards, among cards used in the card game, in order to determine an outcome of the game is placed;

an image input device that captures an image of a side of the game portion on which a dealer is positioned which contains the plurality of card placement areas, and transmits image data thus captured to the control unit in order to display to players playing the game at the plurality of stations;

a card shoe that accommodates cards used in the card game; and

memory that stores a game advancement program related to advancement of the game, and stores images captured of card placement areas of the game portion and comparative image data for performing image recognition processing,

wherein the control unit includes

a controller that executes processing of;

(a) starting the card game based on the game advancement program,

(b) executing image recognition processing of comparing image data of the card placement area captured by the image input device with the comparative image data stored in the memory, and

(c) calculating a score of the card game according to the game advancement program stored in the memory based on a recognition result of an image showing the card, in a case where the image recognition processing results in an image showing the card being included.

2. The gaming system according to claim 1,

wherein the image recognition processing is performed a plurality of times in the processing of (b), and in a case of being the same recognition result, the processing of (c) is performed.

3. A gaming system that executes a card game, comprising:

a plurality of stations;

a control unit that transmits and receives information related to a game with the plurality of stations, and control advancement of the game;

a game portion that has a flat surface and has a plurality of card placement areas on which a required number of cards, among cards used in the card game, in order to determine an outcome of the game are placed;

an image input device that captures an image of a side of the game portion on which a dealer is positioned which contains the plurality of card placement areas, and transmits image data thus captured to the control unit in order to display to players playing the game at the plurality of stations;

a card shoe that accommodates cards used in the card game;

memory that stores a game advancement program related to advancement of the game, and stores images captured of card placement areas of the game portion and comparative image data for performing image recognition processing; and

an instructional device that provides information related to advancement of the game to the dealer,

wherein the control unit includes a controller that executes processing of;

(a) starting the card game, and presenting on the instructional device drawing out a card from the card shoe based on the game advancement program,

(b) executing image recognition processing of comparing image data of the card placement area captured by the image input device with the comparative image data stored in the memory,

(c) calculating a score of the card game according to the game advancement program stored in the memory based on a recognition result of an image showing the card, in a case where the image recognition processing results in an image showing the card being included,

(d) repeating recognition of the image showing the card a plurality of times, in a case of an image showing the card not being included in the processing of (b),

(e) determining whether the card is further placed on any of the plurality of card placement areas, based on the score calculated in the processing of (c),

(f) presenting on the instructional device drawing out a card from the card shoe based on the game advancement program, in a case where it is determined to further place a card in the processing of (e),

(g) determining winning of the game, in a case where the processing of (a) to (f) has been repeated a predetermined number of times, and it is determined not to further place the card in the processing of (e), and

(h) presenting a result of the game on the instructional device based on the processing of (c).

4. The gaming system according to claim 3,

wherein in a case where even by repeating recognition of an image showing the card a predetermined number of time in the processing of (d) cannot recognize the card, a matter of not being able to recognize is presented on the instructional device.

5. The gaming system according to claim 3,

wherein the processing of (b) and (c) is repeated a plurality of time, and in a case where the score calculated each time is the same score, the processing of (e) is performed.

6. The gaming system according to claim 3,

wherein the plurality of standard image data is stored multiply in the memory for each group of cards used in the game.