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 |
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.
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