Gaming chip and management system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11961365-B2
Application number	US-202218080372-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 13, 2022
Priority date	Mar 31, 2017
Publication date	Apr 16, 2024
Grant date	Apr 16, 2024

Abstract

A management system includes a recording device recording an image of a gaming chip and an inspection device determining a type and authenticity of the gaming chip. The gaming chip has a multilayer structure in which both sides of a colored layer are sandwiched between light color layers, surface printing representing a type of the gaming chip is performed on outer sides of the light color layers, and an authenticity recognition mark is printed on the colored layer of an inside of the light color layers by an infrared absorbing material. A visible light camera photographs a visible light image of the surface printing, and an infrared light camera photographs an infrared image of the internal printing. The inspection device determines the type and authenticity of the gaming chip using the visible light image and the infrared image.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A gaming chip comprising an infrared absorbing material printed on an inside of the gaming chip such that the printed infrared absorbing material can be observed when viewed from top and bottom sides of the gaming chip, wherein an infrared image is indicated by the printed infrared absorbing material.

2. The gaming chip according to claim 1 , wherein surface printing indicating a visible light image is performed on an outer surface of the gaming chip.

3. The gaming chip according to claim 2 , wherein the internal printing is performed under the surface printing.

4. The gaming chip according to claim 1 , wherein the gaming chip is configured of a plurality of layers, and the internal printing is performed on a surface of any one of the plurality of layers.

5. A management system of a table game using a gaming chip, the gaming chip including infrared absorbing material printed on the inside of the gaming chip such that the printed infrared absorbing material can be observed when viewed from top and bottom sides of the gaming chip, the management system comprising:
an infrared camera configured to generate an infrared image by photographing the gaming chip, the infrared image indicated by the infrared absorbing material printed on the inside of the gaming chip; and
an inspection device configured to determine authenticity of the gaming chip based on the infrared image.

6. The management system according to claim 5 , further comprising a visible light camera configured to generate a visible light image obtained by photographing the visible light image of the gaming chip, wherein the inspection device is further configured to determine the authenticity of the gaming chip based on the visible light image.

7. The management system according to claim 6 , wherein the inspection device is configured to recognize contents of the surface printing by performing image recognition on the visible light image, and recognize contents of the internal printing by performing an image recognition on the infrared image.

8. The management system according to claim 7 , wherein the inspection device is configured to determine that the gaming chip is a forgery when the recognized contents of the internal printing do not correspond to the contents of the surface printing.

Assignees

• Angel Group Co Ltd

Inventors

• Shigeta Yasushi

Classifications

• G07F17/3241 Primary

  Security aspects of a gaming system, e.g. detecting cheating, device integrity, surveillance (computer security G06F21/00) · CPC title

• A44C21/00

  Coins (coins specially adapted to operate coin-freed mechanisms G07F1/06); Emergency money; Beer or gambling coins or tokens, or the like · CPC title

• G06K7/1439

  including a method step for retrieval of the optical code · CPC title

• G06K19/047

  the record carrier being shaped as a coin or a gambling token · CPC title

• G06K19/07758

  arrangements for adhering the record carrier to further objects or living beings, functioning as an identification tag · CPC title