Chip Recognition System with AI Self-Determination for Game Tables
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing recognition systems for chips in games struggle to accurately identify multiple types of chips, especially when images have low reading accuracy due to overlapping chips or partial hiding, leading to incorrect determination results.
Innovation Solution
A recognition system that includes a game recording device to capture images of stacked chips and a chip determination device equipped with artificial intelligence. The AI learns from past determinations, especially those with errors, to improve self-determination accuracy and outputs unclear determinations when image quality is low, excluding potentially incorrect results.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If the chip determination device forcibly outputs a determination result for images with low reading accuracy, then the determination process is completed without delays, but the reliability of the determination result deteriorates due to potential incorrect readings
Solution Approach 1:
The chip determination device performs self-determination by comparing the obtained image with stored characteristic images of predetermined states. When similarity exceeds a threshold, the system identifies the image as a predetermined state (e.g., overlapping chips) and outputs an unclear determination result, preventing forced incorrect readings while maintaining processing continuity
Solution Approach 2:
The system pre-stores characteristic images of predetermined states (such as overlapping chip configurations) in the chip determination device. This preliminary preparation enables rapid comparison and identification during the determination process, allowing the system to quickly recognize low-quality images and exclude them from forced determination
2Reliability
If the chip determination device excludes images with low reading accuracy from determination results, then the reliability of determination results is improved, but the productivity decreases due to more excluded cases requiring manual intervention
Solution Approach 1:
The chip determination device automatically performs self-determination by comparing obtained images with stored characteristic images. The system autonomously identifies predetermined states and excludes unclear cases without requiring manual review, thereby maintaining high reliability while minimizing productivity loss through automated filtering
3Measurement precision
If the system stores characteristic images of predetermined states for comparison, then the ability to identify low-quality images is improved, but the device complexity increases due to additional storage and comparison functions
Solution Approach 1:
The system stores characteristic images (copies) of predetermined states in the chip determination device. These stored images serve as reference templates for comparison with obtained images, enabling accurate identification of low-quality images without requiring complex analysis algorithms
Solution Approach 2:
The chip determination device integrates multiple functions: image acquisition, image storage, image comparison, and determination result output. By combining these functions in a single device, the system achieves precise image quality assessment without proportionally increasing overall device complexity
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AI summary
A recognition system of a chip in a game parlor having a game table includes a game recording device which records a state of the chips stacked on the game table as an image using a camera and a chip determination device which analyzes an image of the state of the recorded chips to determine the number and the type of the chips bet by a player. The chip determination device has a function of storing a characteristic of an image of a predetermined state of the chip, and of outputting and displaying, as a determination result, a fact of an unclear determination when the image obtained from the game recording device at the time of determining is the image of the predetermined state.