Gaming Table RFID Betting Verification System
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Solution Overview
Problem
In gaming facilities, human errors can occur during game management on gaming tables due to frequent movement of gaming media, leading to potential cheating and inaccuracies in bet tracking and payment processes.
Innovation Solution
A gaming table system equipped with an antenna member for wireless communication to read gaming media values and a control unit that executes scanning processes to fix and verify bet amounts, ensuring accurate tracking and preventing game progression until discrepancies are resolved, with a display and touch panel for dealer input and error correction.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the dealer manually tracks gaming media on the betting area, then the game can progress smoothly, but human errors occur leading to inaccurate bet tracking and potential cheating
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the manual mechanical tracking system with an automated electronic monitoring system using RFID antennas and readers to detect gaming media on the betting area, eliminating human error in bet tracking while maintaining smooth game progression
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables self-monitoring of gaming media through automated RFID detection, where the betting table itself tracks and verifies bet amounts without requiring dealer intervention, thus improving reliability while keeping the system relatively simple
2Reliability
If the dealer checks gaming media continuously to prevent cheating, then bet tracking accuracy improves, but the game progression is delayed
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs periodic scanning of the betting area at specific intervals (bet fixation timing and predetermined timing after fixation) rather than continuous monitoring, ensuring bet change detection while maintaining efficient game progression
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs scanning at bet fixation timing before the game progresses, preliminarily establishing the correct bet amount, and then performs another scan at predetermined timing to verify no changes occurred, preventing cheating without delaying the game
3Measurement precision
If automated scanning is performed at multiple timings to verify bet amounts, then detection accuracy of bet changes improves, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The control unit executes scanning at two specific periodic timings: bet fixation timing to establish the initial bet amount and predetermined timing after fixation to verify it remains unchanged, providing precise verification without overly complex control logic
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The system effectively prevents game progression errors by ensuring accurate bet tracking and payment processes, reducing human errors and enhancing dealer efficiency in managing gaming media.
Implementation Method 1
an antenna member configured to read a value of the gaming medium placed in the betting area by wireless communication
Data Source
AI summary
The progress of a game while a change in gaming media placed in a betting area of a gaming table is left uncollected is prevented. A gaming table system includes a gaming table including a betting area in which gaming media are placed and an antenna member configured to read a value of the gaming media placed in the betting area by wireless communication and a control unit configured to execute a scanning process of obtaining the total value of the gaming media in the betting area by controlling the antenna member. The control unit fixes a first bet amount by executing the scanning process at a timing to fix the bet and fixes a second bet amount by executing the scanning process again at a predetermined timing, and the control unit repeats the scanning process until these amounts become identical.