Planar Infrared Token Sensors for Gaming Table Wager Integrity
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing casino table gaming systems face challenges in preventing fraud, particularly with high-value side bets, bonus, and jackpot wagers, due to limitations in automated wager recognition, including misreads from token detection and lack of standardized fraud prevention across multiple gaming tables and facilities.
Innovation Solution
A token sensor system with planar detection using infrared light and gesture recognition is integrated into gaming tables, allowing for accurate wager detection, display of dynamic information, and player interaction, connected to a centralized system for uniform fraud prevention across multiple tables.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If physical wagers are placed on gaming tables, then wagering can be done traditionally, but fraud risk increases due to late placement, alteration, and side bet manipulation
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary detection of wager placement using sensors before the game round officially begins. The processor identifies wagers in advance and locks them in, preventing late placement or alteration during critical moments. This preliminary action ensures wager integrity is established before potential fraud opportunities arise.
Solution Approach 2:
The system continuously monitors wager positions using sensors and provides real-time feedback to the processor. When a wager is detected or moved, the system immediately responds by updating the game state or alerting dealers, creating a closed-loop control system that prevents fraud through continuous verification and immediate correction.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple gaming tables are linked together, then uniform fraud prevention can be implemented, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal sensor-based wager detection system that can be deployed across multiple gaming tables and facilities using the same hardware and software architecture. The standardized sensor nodes and centralized processor create a multi-functional system that handles detection, verification, and fraud prevention uniformly across all linked tables, achieving scalability without proportionally increasing complexity.
3Extent of automation
If automated wager recognition systems are implemented, then fraud prevention improves, but measurement precision decreases due to sensor misreads
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges multiple sensor types (optical sensors, weight sensors, and position sensors) into a unified wager detection system. By combining the outputs of these different sensor modalities, the system achieves more accurate and reliable wager recognition than any single sensor could provide alone, eliminating misreads through cross-verification.
Solution Approach 2:
The processor acts as an intermediary between the raw sensor data and the final wager recognition decision. It receives signals from multiple sensors, applies validation logic, filters out false readings, and confirms genuine wager placements before registering them. This intermediary processing layer eliminates sensor misreads through intelligent data validation and error correction.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Enhances fraud prevention and wager recognition accuracy, enabling fair gaming with dynamic player interaction and seamless integration of progressive and bonus wager systems across multiple tables.
Implementation Method 1
A token sensor system with planar detection using infrared light
Data Source
AI summary
A token sensor for a gaming table and a related system and method are provided. In a typical configuration, multiple token sensors are positioned at respective locations of a game layout installed above a cushioning layer of the gaming table that covers a support surface (top) of the gaming table. In accordance with some embodiments, each token sensor includes an electronic display for the display of a randomly selected potential award. Each potential award may be won when a token has been detected by its associated sensor and a qualifying hand occurs at its respective location. In some embodiments, a qualifying hand is not required for the displayed award to be won. The potential awards may include, but are not limited to, progressive awards and award modifiers such as multipliers.