RFID Gaming Chip Tracking Across Segmented Collection and Payout Areas
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing gaming chip management systems in casinos struggle to electronically track and manage transactions accurately, particularly at game tables, leading to potential illicit activities and errors in collection and payout processes.
Innovation Solution
A management system incorporating RFID tags in gaming chips, with dedicated reading areas and antennas for collection and payout, along with judgment and alert mechanisms to ensure accurate tracking and detection of illicit activities.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If RFID tags and reading antennas are provided in multiple areas (bet area, chip tray, collection area, payout area), then the tracking precision and reliability of gaming chip transactions are improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the game table into multiple functional areas (bet area, chip tray, collection area, payout area) and places RFID reading antennas in each area. This segmentation allows independent tracking of chips at different stages of the transaction process, improving reliability while managing complexity through modular placement
Solution Approach 2:
The RFID tag acts as an intermediary between the gaming chip and the management system. By embedding the RFID tag in the chip and using reading antennas as intermediaries to detect the tags, the system achieves reliable tracking without direct complex interactions between all system components
2Measurement precision
If collection reading means and payout reading means are provided with judgment means to verify transactions, then the measurement precision of transaction amounts is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The judgment means provides feedback by verifying whether the collected or paid-out chip amount matches the expected amount based on bet information and game results. This feedback mechanism ensures measurement precision by detecting and correcting discrepancies in transaction amounts
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary reading of RFID tags in the collection area before chips are placed in the chip tray, and in the payout area before chips are given to players. This preliminary action allows the system to prepare and verify transaction data before the actual transaction completes, improving measurement precision
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Enhances the electronic tracking of gaming chip transactions, reducing errors and illicit activities by ensuring accurate collection and payout processes.
Implementation Method 1
an RFID tag configured to store information which can identify a value of the gaming chip is built in the gaming chip, and RFID antennas configured to read the RFID tag
Data Source
AI summary
A management system at a game table is provided for performing a game using a gaming chip including a built-in RFID tag. The game table includes a chip tray configured to accommodate the gaming chip of a dealer; a bet area on which the gaming chip to be bet in the game is to be placed; a collection area and a payout area different from the bet area and the chip tray; a collection reading antenna configured to read at the collection area the RFID tag of the gaming chip collected due to losing in the game; and a payout reading antenna configured to read at the payout area the RFID tag of the gaming chip to be paid out to a player who wins the game.