Patents by Inventor Yasushi Shigeta

Yasushi Shigeta has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11810423
    Abstract: A game management system manages a casino game performed in a plurality of tables in casino facilities. The game management system includes: a camera obtaining an image by capturing bet gaming tokens; a control device specifying a betting amount on the basis of the type and the number of gaming tokens in the image by specifying a betting target on the basis of a position of the gaming token in the image; a card distribution device determining a game result of the casino game; an arithmetic device calculating a profit of a casino manager for each table and each game of the plurality of tables, on the basis of the betting target, the betting amount, and the game result; and a recording apparatus recording the profit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: ANGEL GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yasushi Shigeta
  • Publication number: 20230343174
    Abstract: A management system includes a card distributing device configured to determine a win/loss result of a game using chips on a game table, a dealer chip determining device that specifies type and the number of chips held in a chip tray, a measuring device that measures position, type, and the number of chips on the game table, and a management control device that has a function of transmitting a signal or performing display on a display device depending on a comparison result between a collection amount and an increase amount and a comparison result between a payment amount and a decrease amount, and changes the signal or an output content of the display depending on a content of inconsistency when the inconsistency is determined in the comparison results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventor: Yasushi Shigeta
  • Publication number: 20230338820
    Abstract: A system that manages a package of shuffled playing cards and gaming chips includes a storage box and a control apparatus. The storage box is provided in association with a game table and stores a plurality of shuffled playing cards and a plurality of chip cases and also includes a card reader that reads playing card ID codes of the shuffled playing cards and a chip reader that reads case ID codes of the chip cases. The control apparatus outputs total numbers of the shuffled playing cards and the chip cases stored in the storage box and the playing card ID codes and case ID codes stored in the storage box by monitoring read playing card ID codes and case ID codes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventor: Yasushi SHIGETA
  • Patent number: 11798362
    Abstract: In a measurement system according to the present invention, a management control device that measures a total value of chips bet on the game table using an image analysis result obtained by an image recording device is provided. Further, the chip as the gaming chip to be used in this system has a multilayer structure in which a plurality of plastic layers having different colors are laminated including at least a colored layer in the middle thereof, and a white layer or a light color layer (may be a layer having a lighter color than the colored layer) is laminated on both sides of the intermediate colored layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: ANGEL GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yasushi Shigeta
  • Publication number: 20230334941
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventor: Yasushi SHIGETA
  • Patent number: 11790202
    Abstract: A game token by which a plurality of RFID tags embedded in a plurality of the game tokens stacked each other can be read in a relatively stable manner is provided. A game token is provided with a security part and a receiving part that receives the security part. The security part has a shape with a diameter smaller than the diameter of the receiving part, a structure with a plurality of plastic layers laminated together, an RFID tag, and a visible print layer indicating a type or ID of the game token. The receiving part has a surface. The surface of the receiving part has a recessed portion for receiving the security part, and the depth of the recessed portion is 25% or more of the thickness of the game token.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: ANGEL GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yasushi Shigeta
  • Patent number: 11790203
    Abstract: A game token tray system includes a game token tray having a dual tray structure in which a game token is stored. The game token tray system includes a double tray including a lower tray and an upper tray stacked on the lower tray to store a game token provided with an RF tag in which tag information is stored, a camera that acquires tray image data by imaging the game token stored in the upper tray, an RFID reading device that reads the tag information from the RF tag of the game token stored in the lower tray, and a game recording device that records the tray image data and/or an image analysis result of the tray image data about the game token stored in the upper tray and records the tag information read by the RFID reading device about the game token stored in the upper tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: ANGEL GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yasushi Shigeta
  • Publication number: 20230326289
    Abstract: A table game management system according to the present invention includes a camera that images a game token placed on a game table, and a management control device that grasps a type of the game token placed on the game table based on a color of a side face of the game token imaged by the camera.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventor: Yasushi SHIGETA
  • Publication number: 20230321521
    Abstract: A table game system is provided capable of identifying shuffled playing cards used at the time of the occurrence of a problem in a card shoe apparatus, thereby enabling an investigation of the cause thereof or the taking of countermeasures therefor. A card shoe apparatus of the table game system of the present invention includes a barcode reader and RFID that reads a barcode or RFID provided in a shuffled playing card set, thereby reading a shuffled card ID that uniquely identifies the shuffled playing card set. The control unit has further a function of identifying an exposition of the cut card by the card reading unit and memorizing this information as that the shuffled playing card set now being used will have or be changed to the new one. The information of the exposition of the cut card is at least used for identifying an end of the current game using the shuffled playing cards set is currently set in the card shoe apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventor: Yasushi SHIGETA
  • Publication number: 20230326290
    Abstract: An inspection system of a chip includes a reading device and a determining unit. The reading device is configured to count a number of chips stored in a storage case, the chips associated with a table game and including a chip having a radio tag, read the radio tag while the chips are stored in the storage case, and acquire chip information. The determining unit is configured to compare the chip information of the chips in the storage case with a physical number of the chips in the storage case, determine that there is an abnormal chips among the chips stored in the storage case based on a determination that the counted number of the chips does not match a physical number of the chips in the storage case, and output a result associated with an indication of the abnormal chip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventor: Yasushi SHIGETA
  • Patent number: 11783670
    Abstract: A game management system manages a casino game performed in a plurality of tables in casino facilities. The game management system includes: a camera obtaining an image by capturing bet gaming tokens; a control device specifying a betting amount on the basis of the type and the number of gaming tokens in the image by specifying a betting target on the basis of a position of the gaming token in the image; a card distribution device determining a game result of the casino game; an arithmetic device calculating a profit of a casino manager for each table and each game of the plurality of tables, on the basis of the betting target, the betting amount, and the game result; and a recording apparatus recording the profit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: ANGEL GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yasushi Shigeta
  • Patent number: 11783665
    Abstract: A detection system according to the present invention includes a control device that detects fraud conducted on a game table by using the image analysis result obtained by an image analysis device. In addition, each game token used in this detection system has a multilayer structure having plastic layers with a plurality of different colors stacked on each other, with a colored layer being provided at least intermediately, and white layers or light-colored layers (not illustrated, but may be any layers lighter in color than the colored layer) being stacked on two sides of the intermediate colored layer. As described above, this game token has a multi-layer structure including the colored layer, with the white layers or light-colored layers (not illustrated, but may be any layers lighter in color than the colored layer) being stacked on the two sides of the intermediate colored layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: ANGEL GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yasushi Shigeta
  • Publication number: 20230310976
    Abstract: A packing box for packaging of playing cards has, in an assembled state, a shape of a rectangular parallelepiped with six faces including front and rear faces, right and left side faces, and top and bottom faces. The packing box includes cut lines in two locations at a predetermined interval in parallel with a longitudinal direction of the rectangular parallelepiped, and a central band in a portion defined by the cut lines provided in the two locations. The right and left side faces of the packing box can be removed along the cut lines such that side edges of the playing cards within the packing box are exposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventor: Yasushi SHIGETA
  • Publication number: 20230297790
    Abstract: A cage is divided into a plurality of locations, including a cashier room. The gaming chip has an RFID tag storing a chip ID. The cage system that manages the movement of the gaming chips within the cage of the casino hall comprises: a chip reader that reads a chip ID from an RFID tag of a gaming chip moving between multiple locations within the cage; a chip reader that reads the chip ID from the RFID tag of the gaming chips that exit the cage to the casino hall; and a chip management database that records the chip IDs read by the chip reader as the movement history of the gaming chips.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventor: Yasushi SHIGETA
  • Publication number: 20230298438
    Abstract: In a table game system provided by the present invention, a card shoe used in a table game can be used to calculate periods associated with the progress of the game handled by a dealer, particularly periods from the time when a card is drawn from a card accommodating section to the time when a result of the game is displayed, such as a game play period, and other periods excluding the play period which includes a bet period and a bet settlement period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventor: Yasushi SHIGETA
  • Patent number: 11756370
    Abstract: There is provided a game management system that can manage games using RFID tags built into chips even when multiple types of chips are housed in a chip tray, and a double chip tray used for the system. A chip tray is a double chip tray equipped with a chip tray reader capable of reading two types of chips of different shapes and/or sizes that incorporate RFID tags, namely round chips and plaque chips, an upper chip holder that can hold chips, and a lower chip holder that can hold chips. The chip tray reader is configured to read the RFID tags of the two types of chips held in the chip tray, and is capable of determining the respective amounts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: ANGEL GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yasushi Shigeta
  • Publication number: 20230282059
    Abstract: The management system is a management system for a gaming chip equipped with an RFID tag, wherein the RFID tag stores identification information including a tag ID assigned at the time of manufacture of the RFID tag and a chip ID assigned at the time of manufacture of the gaming chip. The management system includes an antenna and a chip tray reader/writer that read identification information from the RFID tag of the gaming chips that exist within a reading range; a table verification device that controls the chip tray reader/writer. The table verification device causes the chip tray reader/writer to repeatedly perform a first reading, in which the chip ID is read without reading the tag ID, and, when a new chip ID was read in the first reading, cases the chip tray reader/writer to perform a second reading in which the tag ID is read.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventor: Yasushi SHIGETA
  • Publication number: 20230282062
    Abstract: The game system of the present disclosure comprises a game table having a betting area in which a plurality of betting targets are laid out, a camera that captures the game table and generates a captured image, and an information processing device that identifies which betting target the stack is bet on, wherein when a plurality of stacks of the gaming chips are bet on the same betting area, the information processing device, based on the captured image, determines which stack is the stack of main player and which stack is the stack of back-betting player.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventor: Yasushi SHIGETA
  • Publication number: 20230282065
    Abstract: A management system for a gaming chip is equipped with an RFID tag, wherein the RFID tag stores identification information including a tag ID assigned at the time of manufacture of the RFID tag and a chip ID assigned at the time of manufacture of the gaming chip. The management system includes an antenna and a chip tray reader/writer that read identification information from the RFID tag of the gaming chips that exist within a reading range; a table verification device that controls the chip tray reader/writer. The table verification device causes the chip tray reader/writer to repeatedly perform a first reading, in which the chip ID is read without reading the tag ID, and, when a new chip ID was read in the first reading, cases the chip tray reader/writer to perform a second reading in which the tag ID is read.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventor: Yasushi SHIGETA
  • Publication number: 20230274611
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventor: Yasushi SHIGETA