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: 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
  • Patent number: 11741780
    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: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: ANGEL GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yasushi Shigeta
  • Patent number: 11741784
    Abstract: A game system for participating in a baccarat game includes a bet area includes: a plurality of betting terminals separated from the game table, including a plurality of bet targets including a player win area and a banker win area, and in which a bet is performed by placing a physical token at any of the bet targets; a bet determining device configured to determine a bet target at which the physical token is placed and an amount thereof; and a collecting device and a payment device configured to collect the betted physical token or pay out for the betted physical token based on the bet target and the amount determined by the bet determining device and a result of a baccarat game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: ANGEL GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yasushi Shigeta
  • Patent number: 11741793
    Abstract: Administrating a package of shuffled playing cards to prevent fraudulent card exchanges. The administrating system is configured to calculate places and a number of packages of shuffled playing cards at places of the backyard, the places of playing tables, places of carriers and the disposition place using information obtained by the loading step and unloading step and the administrating system calculates by every ID codes bases 1) places of packages registered by the registering step for registering to a data base of administrating system and a number of packages place by place from information obtained from the loading step and the unloading step. The administrating system is configured to recognize whether there is a lost package by comparing the information of all ID codes registered in registering steps with the ID codes at places of packages obtained at the calculating step from the loading step and the unloading step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: ANGEL GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yasushi Shigeta
  • Patent number: 11734995
    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: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: ANGEL GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yasushi Shigeta
  • Patent number: 11731033
    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: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: ANGEL GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yasushi Shigeta
  • Patent number: 11727751
    Abstract: A detection system of the present disclosure stores positions and the amount of game tokens that a game participant places on a game table based on a measurement result by a bet chip measuring device in the same persons for each game participant or player positions of the game table. A management control device compares an actual winning rate and a total return amount with figures obtained by a probability statistic calculation at the time of an end of the number of games to determine whether there is a significant difference therebetween and specifies any one of the game participant or the player position, the game table, or a room having the game table where the significant difference is occurring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: ANGEL GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yasushi Shigeta
  • Patent number: 11727750
    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: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: ANGEL GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yasushi Shigeta
  • Publication number: 20230245526
    Abstract: A management system is a management system at a game table 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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventor: Yasushi SHIGETA
  • Patent number: 11715346
    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: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: ANGEL GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yasushi Shigeta
  • Patent number: 11710380
    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: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: ANGEL GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yasushi Shigeta
  • Publication number: 20230230443
    Abstract: A game management system that manages a casino game which is played in a casino facility includes: a camera that acquires an image by photographing bet game tokens; a control device that identifies a bet amount for each player position of a gaming table on the basis of a position, a type, and the number of game tokens in the image; a reader/writer device that identifies a player of each player position of the gaming table; and a point processing unit that stores a member ID of each player who is identified by the reader/writer device and a bet amount of each player position which is identified by the reader/writer device in a recording device in correlation with each other. The point processing unit has a function of giving points based on a bet amount of each player who is identified by the reader/writer device to the player.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2023
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventor: Yasushi SHIGETA
  • Publication number: 20230230442
    Abstract: A new type of RFID tag is provided. A gaming chip that incorporates a sticker-type RFID tag comprises: an enclosing member having a predetermined shape for enclosing the RFID tag; a body member that is injection-molded to encapsulate the enclosing member with the RFID tag; and a gaming chip for amusement. The enclosing member consists of a first part and a second part, and at least the first part or the second part has a flat surface to which a sticker-type RFID tag can adhere, and the first part and the second part are combined to form an enclosing member, in which the sticker-type RFID tag is covered by the first part and the second part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventor: Yasushi SHIGETA
  • Publication number: 20230222870
    Abstract: A management system is a management system configured to manage a gaming currency to be used for betting in a game in a casino and has a configuration wherein the gaming currency includes a built-in EM wire member and a built-in RFID part configured to store information, the management system comprises a gate including an EM detecting system configured to detect presence of the gaming currency possessed by a passing person passing therethrough by detecting presence of the EM wire member; and an RFID reading system configured to read the information from the RFID part, and the RFID reading system is configured to: read the information from the RFID part of the gaming currency declared by the passing person; or read the information from the RFID part of the gaming currency detected by detecting the EM wire member by the EM detecting system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2023
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventor: Yasushi SHIGETA
  • Publication number: 20230214622
    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: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2023
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventor: Yasushi SHIGETA
  • Patent number: 11694511
    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: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: ANGEL GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yasushi Shigeta