US 11,810,426 B2
Management system of substitute currency for gaming
Yasushi Shigeta, Shiga (JP)
Assigned to ANGEL GROUP CO., LTD., Shiga (JP)
Filed by ANGEL GROUP CO., LTD., Shiga (JP)
Filed on Apr. 15, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/231,129.
Application 17/231,129 is a continuation of application No. 15/557,429, granted, now 11,270,554, previously published as PCT/JP2016/072673, filed on Aug. 2, 2016.
Claims priority of application No. 2015-163213 (JP), filed on Aug. 3, 2015; application No. 2015-240631 (JP), filed on Nov. 19, 2015; and application No. 2016-030443 (JP), filed on Feb. 1, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2021/0233355 A1, Jul. 29, 2021
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A63F 13/00 (2014.01); G07F 17/32 (2006.01); A63F 1/18 (2006.01); A63F 3/00 (2006.01); B32B 27/08 (2006.01); B32B 37/18 (2006.01); G06F 1/18 (2006.01); G06K 19/077 (2006.01); G06Q 50/10 (2012.01); H05K 7/14 (2006.01); A63F 1/06 (2006.01); A63F 9/24 (2006.01)
CPC G07F 17/3248 (2013.01) [A63F 1/067 (2013.01); A63F 1/18 (2013.01); A63F 3/00157 (2013.01); B32B 27/08 (2013.01); B32B 37/182 (2013.01); G06F 1/187 (2013.01); G06K 19/077 (2013.01); G06Q 50/10 (2013.01); G07F 17/322 (2013.01); G07F 17/3206 (2013.01); G07F 17/3237 (2013.01); G07F 17/3241 (2013.01); H05K 7/1401 (2013.01); H05K 7/1489 (2013.01); A63F 2009/2435 (2013.01); A63F 2009/2489 (2013.01); A63F 2250/58 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20084 (2013.01); G07F 17/3293 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A management system for managing gaming chips, wherein at least one gaming chip of the gaming chips includes a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag that stores a first information, and each gaming chip of the gaming chips has a second information represented on a side surface of the gaming chip, the second information is readable when the gaming chips are stacked on top of each other, the management system comprising:
an image capture device configured to capture an image of a portion of the side surface of each gaming chip of a stack of one or more gaming chips;
a reader configured to read a set of RFID tags associated with the one or more gaming chips included in the stack to obtain the first information for each read RFID tag;
an image analysis device configured to, based on the image and for each gaming chip included in the stack, identify the second information;
a database in which the first information and the second information for each gaming chip of the gaming chips is associated and recorded; and
a controller configured to inspect, by referring to the database, an association between the first information obtained by the reader and the second information obtained by the image analysis device.