Fraud detection system in a casino

Abstract

A fraud detection system which detects fraud in a game of performing collection and redemption of chips in accordance with a win or lose result includes a camera which captures an image of chips contained in a chip tray of a dealer, an image analyzing apparatus which analyses the image captured by the camera to detect an amount of the chips contained in the chip tray, a card distribution device which determines a win or lose result of a game, and a control device which compares the win or lose result of the game and the amount of the chips contained in the chip tray before and after collection and redemption of the chips to detect fraud.

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         13 . A table game system comprising:
 one or more cameras configured to capture a game table from diagonally upward and generate an image of chips placed on the game table; and   one or more processors configured to:
 recognize a plurality of chips stacked on the game table by analyzing the image generated by the one or more cameras using deep learning techniques, 
 recognize a hand and/or an arm by analyzing images generated by the one or more cameras, and 
 determine who has handled the plurality of chips based on a result of the hand and/or arm recognition when the plurality of chips are recognized. 
   
     
     
         14 . The table game system according to  claim 13 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to recognize a position, a type, and a number of the plurality of chips stacked. 
     
     
         15 . The table game system according to  claim 13 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to determine where a person whose hand extending to the plurality of chips is sitting. 
     
     
         16 . The table game system according to  claim 13 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to recognize whose hand is the hand that places the chips. 
     
     
         17 . The table game system according to  claim 16 , wherein the one or more processors are configured to determine who has bet how much on which betting object on the game table based on the results of the hand and/or arm recognition and the position, type, and a number of chips in the plurality of chips recognized by the image analyzing. 
     
     
         18 . The table game system according to  claim 17 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to cause a storage device to store a history of the bet amount for each person. 
     
     
         19 . The table game system according to  claim 13 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to determine whose hand is the hand that takes the chips. 
     
     
         20 . The table game system according to  claim 13 , wherein the one or more cameras are further configured to generate an image of a face of a game participant who moves the chips. 
     
     
         21 . The table game system according to  claim 20 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to identify an ID of the game participant by analyzing the face of the game participant in the image generated by the one or more cameras. 
     
     
         22 . The table game system according to  claim 13 , wherein:
 the one or more cameras are configured to generate an image of a hand and/or arm extending to the chip, and   the one or more processors are further configured to cause a memory device to store the image.   
     
     
         23 . The table game system according to  claim 13 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to determine, in each game, whether there is any movement of the chips from a start of a game until a predetermined condition is met by analyzing the images generated by the one or more cameras. 
     
     
         24 . The table game system according to  claim 13 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to determine, by analyzing images generated by the one or more cameras, whether a game-loser has illegally taken the chips after the end of each game, while a dealer is collecting the chips that were bet by one or more game-losers among one or more game participants. 
     
     
         25 . The table game system according to  claim 13 , wherein the one or more processors is further configured to, by analyzing the images generated by the one or more cameras, determine whether, after the end of each game, while a dealer is collecting the chips that were bet by one or more game-losers among one or more game participants, the one or more game participants have not added the chips or have not repositioned the chips. 
     
     
         26 . The table game system according to  claim 13 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to, by analyzing the images generated by the one or more cameras, determine whether, at the end of each game, a dealer has correctly placed one or more payout chips in a position of the chip that a game-winner among one or more game participants had bet on. 
     
     
         27 . The table game system according to  claim 13 , wherein the one or more processors are configured to determine, at the end of each game, whether a game-winner among game participants has taken betting chips and payout chips by analyzing the images generated by the one or more cameras. 
     
     
         28 . The table game system according to  claim 13 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to, by analyzing the image generated by the one or more cameras, detect hand movement, chip movement, or hand movement and chip movement of a dealer and game participants to determine who has handled the plurality of chips. 
     
     
         29 . The table game system according to  claim 13 , wherein the one or more cameras including a plurality of the cameras whose capturing directions are different from each other.