Method for administering a package of shuffled playing cards

• US 10,755,532 B2
• Filed: 06/25/2019
• Issued: 08/25/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 08/08/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Angel Group Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Angel Playing Cards Co Ltd
• Inventors: Shigeta, Yasushi
• Primary Examiner(s): Lewis, David L
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hoel, Matthew D
• Application Number:
  US16/451,700
• Publication Number:
  US 20190318584A1
• Time in Patent Office: 427 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 1/062 Boxes or cases for cards
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 1/18 Score computers; Miscellaneous indicators time-testing devices G07C
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2009/2419 Optical
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2009/2489 by radio transmitters, e.g. using RFID
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2250/58 Antifraud or preventing misuse
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 3/00157 Casino or betting games horse races A63F3/00082
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/322 Casino tables, e.g. tables having integrated screens, chip detection means
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3241 Security aspects of a gaming system, e.g. detecting cheating, device integrity, surveillance computer security G06F21/00
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3293 Card games, e.g. poker, canasta, black jack

Abstract

Administrating a package of shuffled playing cards to prevent fraudulent card exchanges. The administrating system is configured to calculate places and a number of packages of shuffled playing cards at places of the backyard, the places of playing tables, places of carriers and the disposition place using information obtained by the loading step and unloading step and the administrating system calculates by every ID codes bases 1) places of packages registered by the registering step for registering to a data base of administrating system and a number of packages place by place from information obtained from the loading step and the unloading step. The administrating system is configured to recognize whether there is a lost package by comparing the information of all ID codes registered in registering steps with the ID codes at places of packages obtained at the calculating step from the loading step and the unloading step.

Claims

1. A system for administrating a plurality of gaming equipment, which each has been provided with a respective unique ID code, the system comprising:

a storage for containing the gaming equipment;

an administrating controller provided with a computer readable medium that stores a database of the ID codes of the gaming equipment; and

an ID code reader for obtaining ID-code information of each of the ID codes of the gaming equipment in the storage, wherein the administrating controller is configured to repeatedly;

obtain the ID-code information of each of the ID codes of the gaming equipment in the storage from the ID code reader; and

based on the ID-code information of each of the ID codes of the gaming equipment in the storage obtained from the ID code reader, inspect whether there is a mismatch between the gaming equipment presently existing in the storage and gaming equipment that had been previously contained in the storage.

2. The administrating system according to claim 1, wherein the administrating controller is configured to judge whether any of the gaming equipment that had been previously contained in the storage is missing and/or whether any of the gaming equipment presently existing in the storage had not been registered in the database.

3. The administrating system according to claim 2, further comprising:

a lock for preventing removal of the gaming equipment from the storage.

4. The administrating system according to claim 1, wherein the ID code reader is any one of a barcode reader, a 2-dimensional code reader, a camera, and an RFID tag reader.

5. The administrating system according to claim 4, further comprising:

a lock for preventing removal of the gaming equipment from the storage.

6. The administrating system according to claim 1, wherein the ID-code information is image data of the ID code.

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

a lock for preventing removal of the gaming equipment from the storage.

8. A storage for containing gaming equipment, the storage comprising:

an ID code reader, wherein the ID code reader is configured to obtain ID-code information on an ID code provided with the gaming equipment; and

a communication interface via which the ID code reader is configured to send the obtained ID-code information to an administrating controller, wherein the administrating controller is configured to repeatedly;

obtain the ID-code information of the gaming equipment in the storage from the ID code reader; and

based on the ID-code information obtained from the ID code reader, judge whether there is a mismatch between the gaming equipment presently existing in the storage and gaming equipment that had been previously contained in the storage.

9. The storage according to claim 8, wherein the ID code reader is one of a barcode reader, a 2-dimensional code reader, a camera, and an RFID tag reader.

10. The storage according to claim 9, further comprising:

a lock for preventing removal of the gaming equipment from the storage.

11. The storage according to claim 8, wherein the ID-code information is image data of the ID code.

12. The storage according to claim 11, further comprising:

a lock for preventing removal of the gaming equipment from the storage.

13. The storage according to claim 8, further comprising:

a lock for preventing removal of the gaming equipment from the storage.

14. A method for administrating gaming equipment stored in a storage and each assigned a respective ID code, the method comprising:

obtaining ID-code information of the respective ID code of each of the gaming equipment stored in the storage; and

repeatedly inspecting whether there is a mismatch between the gaming equipment presently stored in the storage and gaming equipment initially stored in the storage.

15. The administrating method according to claim 14, wherein each of the ID codes is obtained by any one of a barcode reader, a 2-dimensional code reader, a camera, and an RFID tag reader.

16. The administrating method according to claim 14, wherein the ID-information is image data of the ID code.