Gaming System Real-Time Cash Management via RFID Chip Tracking
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional gaming systems lack real-time cash management capabilities, only allowing cash management when chips are exchanged for cash after game completion, failing to provide continuous financial tracking during gameplay.
Innovation Solution
A gaming system with a first reader section for identifying game media, a value judgment section for determining negotiable values, a registration section for associating identifiers with values, and an update section for real-time updates on chip ownership and value changes, enabling real-time cash management through a server-based system.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If a conventional chip-based gaming system is used, then chip identification and basic value management are achieved, but real-time cash management during gameplay cannot be performed
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements continuous real-time monitoring of chip movements throughout the gameplay process. The server continuously receives chip movement information from reader sections positioned at different game table regions, maintaining uninterrupted tracking of chip ownership and location changes during the entire gaming session, thereby achieving continuous cash management functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
The system establishes a feedback loop where chip movement detections are immediately transmitted to the server, which then updates the association between chip identifiers and player identifiers in real-time. This feedback mechanism ensures that cash management information is continuously refreshed and reflected without delay, enabling precise real-time financial tracking.
2Reliability
If manual cash management is used, then system complexity is reduced, but financial tracking precision and anti-counterfeiting capability deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a server as an intermediary component that mediates between the physical chips, reader sections, and player identification data. The server maintains a centralized database associating chip identifiers with player identifiers and manages all updates regarding chip movements and ownership changes, thereby enhancing reliability without requiring complex modifications to individual game table components.
Solution Approach 2:
The system replaces manual mechanical cash management processes with automated electronic identification and data processing. IC tags embedded in chips enable automatic electronic identification, and the server performs automated association and update operations, substituting manual tracking with electronic systems that enhance anti-counterfeiting capability while maintaining manageable system complexity.
3Measurement precision
If real-time chip tracking is implemented, then cash management precision improves, but information processing load increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts only the essential identification information (chip identifier and player identifier associations) from the complex chip data. The reader sections selectively read and transmit only the necessary identification data to the server, which then performs targeted updates to the chip-player association records, thereby achieving precise financial tracking while minimizing unnecessary data processing volume.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements localized reading operations at specific game table regions using multiple reader sections. Each reader section is responsible for monitoring chip movements in its specific region, processing and transmitting only the relevant local data to the server. This localized approach enables comprehensive financial tracking precision while distributing and reducing the overall data processing load across multiple independent reading points.
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AI summary
A gaming system is provided enabling real-time cash management to be performed, even while in the play of a game to be performed by employing game media rendering their items of recorded information readable. Having received a result of detection of game chips on a game betting board from a game betting device, a server device accumulates the result of the detection, and judges whether or not movement of game chips has occurred between a dealer and each player, in comparison with a past result. When movement of game chips has occurred between the dealer and such each player, data relevant to a game chip table, a player table, and a dealer table is updated so as to reflect a result of the movement.