Game Table Chip Status Control for Unauthorized Use Prevention
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Solution Overview
Problem
In existing game table systems, dealers must manually validate or invalidate chips after each game result, and there is a risk of unauthorized use due to validated chips being in a cashable state.
Innovation Solution
A game table system with a reading device and computer device that automatically validates chips placed on winning betting areas and invalidates others during a dividend period, eliminating the need for manual validation and reducing unauthorized use.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If manual validation of chips is performed by the dealer after each game result, then chip status can be updated, but it consumes time and effort and increases the risk of unauthorized use
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables self-service automation where the game table automatically validates or invalidates chips based on game results without requiring dealer intervention. The validation unit reads chip identification information and automatically updates chip status, eliminating the need for manual dealer validation while maintaining reliable chip status control.
Solution Approach 2:
The manual mechanical validation process performed by the dealer is replaced with an automated electronic system. The validation unit uses reading devices to detect chip identification information and automatically processes validation, substituting the mechanical manual operation with an electronic automated system that reduces time consumption and prevents unauthorized use.
2Ease of operation
If chips are validated after game results, then winning chips can be cashed, but validated chips may be subject to unauthorized use
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies different validation states to different chips based on their specific game outcomes. Winning chips placed on winning betting areas are validated while losing chips are invalidated, creating local quality differentiation. This ensures that only legitimately won chips can be cashed, preventing unauthorized use while maintaining ease of operation for legitimate transactions.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback control where the validation unit continuously monitors chip locations and game results, automatically updating chip validation status based on real-time game outcomes. This feedback mechanism ensures that chips are validated only under controlled conditions when game results confirm legitimate winnings, thereby preventing unauthorized use while facilitating legitimate cashing operations.
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AI summary
A game table is provided in which a dealer can suppress an unauthorized use of a chip without taking time and effort to confirm a validity of a chip. The game table includes a plurality of betting areas for placing chips, a reading device that reads identification information that specifies the chip placed on the betting area, and a computer device that updates management information including a validity of the chip based on the identification information read from the chip, in which the computer device executes a functions of managing a progress of a game and updating the management information so as to validate a status of the chip placed on the betting area that won the game, invalidating a status of the other chips during a dividend period in which a dividend amount according to a result of the game is paid.