US20190320768A1 - Inspection system, inspection device, and gaming chip - Google Patents
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Definitions
- the present inventionrelates to an inspection system and an inspecting device which are capable of inspecting a gaming chip (or game token), and more particularly, to an inspection system and an inspecting device which are capable of inspecting a gaming chip having a radio tag embedded therein or counting the number of gaming chips.
- a gaming chip having a radio tag storing identification information or type information thereinis known (for example, JP 2008-246103 A).
- a gaming chip having a structure in which a radio tag is not easily extractedis disclosed in JP 2008-246103 A. Accordingly, a structure in which the radio tag hardly has a defect is implemented.
- a first aspect of the present inventionis an inspection system that inspects gaming chips each having a color or a display indicating a value on an outer surface in a state where the gaming chips are stored in a case in which a maximum of the number of gaming chips to be stored is limited, a radio tag storing gaming chip information being embedded in each of the gaming chips, the gaming chips being stored in the case capable of containing a row of gaming chips stacked in a thickness direction, the inspection system including: a reading device that reads the radio tag of the gaming chip in the case and acquires gaming chip information of the gaming chip; and a determining unit that compares the gaming chip information acquired by the reading device with a maximum of the number of gaming chips storable in the case and determines an abnormality of the gaming chip in the case when the number of gaming chips obtained from the gaming chip information acquired by the reading device is different from a maximum of the number of storable gaming chips.
- a second aspect of the present inventionis the inspection system according to the first aspect, wherein the determining unit has a function of comparing a physical characteristic of the case or physical information of the gaming chip obtained from a physical measurement means other than the reading device with the number of physical information of the gaming chip obtained from the gaming chip information acquired by the reading device, determining that there is an abnormal gaming chip among the gaming chips contained in the case when both pieces of information do not coincide with each other, and outputting a determination result.
- a third aspect of the present inventionis the inspection system according to the first aspect, wherein the physical information is a number or height which is obtained optically or a weight which is obtained by measurement.
- a fourth aspect of the present inventionis the inspection system according to the first or second aspect, further including a radio tag information database which is able to refer to information of the radio tag embedded in the gaming chip, wherein the determining unit is configured to compare the gaming chip information of the gaming chip read by the reading device with the information of the radio tag information database and detect an abnormality of a gaming chip of an inspection target.
- a fifth aspect of the present inventionis the inspection system according to the fourth aspect, wherein the determining unit has a function of comparing, when it is determined that there is an abnormal gaming chip among the gaming chips in the case, the information of the radio tags of all the gaming chips in the case with the radio tag information database registered in advance and specifying the presence of an abnormal radio tag which is not stored in the radio tag information database.
- a sixth aspect of the present inventionis the inspection system according to the first or second aspect, wherein the determining unit has a function of specifying, when it is determined that there is an abnormal gaming chip among the gaming chips in the case, the presence of an abnormal gaming chip in which information from the radio tag is unable to be obtained among the gaming chips in the case.
- a seventh aspect of the present inventionis the inspection system according to the first or second aspect, wherein the determining unit has a function of analyzing the information of the radio tag acquired by the reading device and issuing a signal when two or more gaming chips having the same information obtained from the radio tag are contained in the case.
- An eighth aspect of the present inventionis the inspection system according to the fifth aspect, wherein the radio tag information database is an information database of radio tags of gaming chips being stored or used in a game hall, and the determining unit has a function of analyzing the information of the radio tag acquired by the reading device and issuing a signal when information obtained from the radio tag coincides with information of a radio tag of a gaming chip placed in a different place in the game hall.
- the radio tag information databaseis an information database of radio tags of gaming chips being stored or used in a game hall
- the determining unithas a function of analyzing the information of the radio tag acquired by the reading device and issuing a signal when information obtained from the radio tag coincides with information of a radio tag of a gaming chip placed in a different place in the game hall.
- a ninth aspect of the present inventionis an inspecting device that inspects gaming chips each having a color or a display indicating a value on an outer surface, a radio tag storing gaming chip information being embedded in each of the gaming chips, the inspecting device including: an inspection table capable of inspecting the gaming chips in a state where the gaming chips are stacked in a row in a thickness direction, and a maximum of the number of stackable gaming chips is limited; a reading device that reads the radio tags of the row of gaming chips and acquires the gaming chip information of the row of gaming chips; and a determining unit that compares the gaming chip information acquired by the reading device with a maximum of the number of stackable gaming chips of the inspection table and determines an abnormality of the gaming chip placed on the inspection table when the number of gaming chips obtained from the gaming chip information acquired by the reading device is different from a maximum of the number of stackable gaming chips.
- a tenth aspect of the present inventionis the inspecting device according to the ninth aspect, wherein the determining unit has a function of determining, when the gaming chip information of the gaming chip acquired by the reading device does not coincide with physical information of the gaming chip, the presence of an abnormal gaming chip among the gaming chips placed on the inspection table and outputting a determination result.
- An eleventh aspect of the present inventionis the inspecting device according to the tenth aspect, wherein the physical information is a number or height which is obtained optically or a weight which is obtained by measurement.
- a twelfth aspect of the present inventionis the inspecting device according to the ninth or tenth aspect, further including a radio tag information database which is able to refer to information of the radio tag embedded in the gaming chip, wherein the determining unit is configured to compare the gaming chip information of the gaming chip read by the reading device with the information of the radio tag information database and detect an abnormality of a gaming chip of an inspection target placed on the inspection table.
- a thirteenth aspect of the present inventionis the inspecting device according to the twelfth aspect, wherein the determining unit has a function of comparing, when it is determined that there is an abnormal gaming chip among the gaming chips on the inspection table, the information of the radio tags of all the gaming chips on the inspection table with the radio tag information database registered in advance and specifying the presence of an abnormal radio tag which is not stored in the radio tag information database.
- a fourteenth aspect of the present inventionis the inspecting device according to the ninth or tenth aspect, wherein the determining unit has a function of specifying, when it is determined that there is an abnormal gaming chip among the gaming chips in the case, the presence of an abnormal gaming chip in which information from the radio tag is unable to be obtained among the gaming chips in the case.
- a fifteenth aspect of the present inventionis the inspecting device according to the ninth of tenth aspect, wherein the determining unit has a function of analyzing the information of the radio tag acquired by the reading device and issuing a signal when two or more gaming chips having the same information obtained from the radio tag are contained in the case.
- a sixteenth aspect of the present inventionis the inspecting device according to the twelfth aspect, wherein the radio tag information database is an information database of radio tags of gaming chips being stored or used in a game hall, and the determining unit has a function of analyzing the information of the radio tag acquired by the reading device and issuing a signal when information obtained from the radio tag coincides with information of a radio tag of a gaming chip placed in a different place in the game hall.
- the radio tag information databaseis an information database of radio tags of gaming chips being stored or used in a game hall
- the determining unithas a function of analyzing the information of the radio tag acquired by the reading device and issuing a signal when information obtained from the radio tag coincides with information of a radio tag of a gaming chip placed in a different place in the game hall.
- a seventeenth aspect of the present inventionis a gaming chip that is inspectable by the inspection system according to any one of the first to eighth aspects in a state where the gaming chip is stored in a case in which a maximum of the number of gaming chips is limited, a radio tag storing gaming chip information embedded in the gaming chip, a color or a display indicating a value being arranged on an outer surface of the gaming chip.
- FIG. 1is a diagram illustrating a configuration of an inspection system according to a first embodiment of the present invention
- FIG. 2is a perspective view of a gaming chip according to the first embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 3is a side view of a gaming chip according to the first embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 4is a diagram illustrating an example of an image obtained by photographing a plurality of gaming chips in the first embodiment of the present invention
- FIG. 5is a diagram for describing a configuration of code information according to the first embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 6is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of an inspecting device according to the first embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 7is a perspective view of a case according to the first embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 8is a perspective view of a case according to a modified example of the first embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 9is a plan view of a case according to a modified example of the first embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 10is a diagram for describing an example of a use state of an inspection system together with the distribution of gaming chips in the first embodiment of the present invention
- FIG. 11is a diagram illustrating an example of content of information stored in a use management device according to the first embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 12is a diagram illustrating an example of content of read information according to the first embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 13is a diagram for describing a first pass/fail determination method according to the first embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 14is a diagram for describing a second pass/fail determination method according to the first embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 15is a diagram for describing a third pass/fail determination method according to the first embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 16is a diagram for describing a fourth pass/fail determination method according to the first embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 17is a diagram for describing a fifth pass/fail determination method according to the first embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 18is a diagram illustrating an example of a pass/fail result display screen illustrating a pass/fail determination result (pass) according to the first embodiment of the present invention
- FIG. 19is a diagram illustrating an example of a pass/fail result display screen illustrating a pass/fail determination result (fail) according to the first embodiment of the present invention
- FIG. 20is a diagram illustrating a modified example of an RFID antenna of the inspecting device according to the first embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 21is a side view of a gaming chip according to a modified example of the first embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 22is a side sectional view of a gaming chip according to a modified example in the first embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 23is a perspective view of a gaming chip according to a modified example of the first embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 24is a side view of a gaming chip according to a modified example of the first embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 25is a plan view of a gaming chip according to a modified example of the first embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 26is a diagram illustrating an example of an image obtained by photographing stacked gaming chips in the first embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 27is a diagram illustrating a configuration of an inspection system according to a modified example of the first embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 28is a diagram illustrating a configuration of an inspection system according to a modified example of the first embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 29is a diagram illustrating a configuration of an inspection system according to a second embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 30is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of an inspecting device according to the second embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 31is a perspective view of a case according to the second embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 32is a perspective view of a case according to a modified example of the second embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 33is a plan view of a case according to a modified example of the second embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 34is a side sectional view of a gaming chip according to the second embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 35is a diagram illustrating an example of an image obtained by photographing stacked gaming chips according to the second embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 36is a diagram illustrating an example of a pass/fail result display screen illustrating a pass/fail determination result (pass) according to the second embodiment of the present invention
- FIG. 37is a diagram illustrating an example of a pass/fail result display screen illustrating a pass/fail determination result (fail) according to the second embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 38is a diagram for describing an example of a use state of an inspection system together with the distribution of gaming chips according to the second embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 39is a diagram illustrating a configuration of an inspecting device according to another example of the second embodiment of the present invention.
- a first embodimentrelates to an inspection system and an inspecting device which are capable of inspecting a gaming chip, and more particularly to, an inspection system and an inspecting device which are capable of inspecting a plurality of gaming chips contained in a case.
- Gaming chips used in game hallssuch as casinos are manufactured in factories and then transported to game halls, stored in a storage, and moved from the storage to cashiers or game tables in the hall, but it is necessary to prevent gaming chips from being stolen or being replaced with fake gaming chips in the process of transporting, storing, and moving.
- a case containing gaming chipsis used. If a plurality of gaming chips are contained in the case and, then the case is sealed, it is possible to discover a situation in which the gaming chips are withdrawn from the case after the sealing.
- JP 2009-66172 AA system using a gaming chip is disclosed in JP 2009-66172 A.
- the number of gaming chips placed on a betting board of a game tableis calculated on the basis of identification information stored in a radio tag, the number of gaming chips is calculated on the basis of identification information assigned to a side surface, and the calculated numbers of gaming chips are compared. Accordingly, it is possible to detect an unauthorized gaming chip when the unauthorized gaming chip is used in the game table.
- JP 2009-66172 Adetects a fraud by calculating the number of bet gaming chips (placed on the betting board), the system is unable to inspect a plurality of gaming chips contained in the case in a state where the gaming chips are contained in the case and detect the unauthorized gaming chip.
- An inspection systemis an inspection system that inspects a gaming chip having at least first gaming chip information and second gaming chip information, the second gaming chip information is arranged on a side surface of the gaming chip in an optically readable form, the inspection system includes a case that contains a plurality of gaming chips in a stacked manner and an inspecting device that inspects the gaming chip contained in the case, wherein the inspecting device includes a first reading device that acquires the first gaming chip information of the gaming chip contained in the case, a second reading device that optically reads the side surface of the gaming chip contained in the case and acquires the second gaming chip information, and a determining unit that determines whether a plurality of gaming chips contained in the case are pass or fail by determining the authenticity or damages of all the gaming chips contained the case or the number of gaming chips for each value using the first gaming chip information acquired by the first reading device and the second gaming chip information acquired by the second reading device.
- both the first reading unit and the second reading unitacquire the first gaming chip information and the second gaming chip information from the gaming chip contained in the case, it is possible to inspect the gaming chips contained in the case. Further, since two pieces of information, that is, the first gaming chip information and the second gaming chip information are acquired from the gaming chip, and the inspection is performed, the pass/fail determination can be reliably performed.
- the first gaming chip information and the second gaming chip information in a common gaming chipinclude common information
- the determining unitdetermines that a plurality of gaming chips contained in the case are fail when common information portions of a plurality of pieces of first gaming chip information acquired by the first reading device do not coincide with common information portions of a plurality of pieces of second gaming chip information acquired by the second reading device.
- the determining unitcan determine that the gaming chips contained in the case are fail.
- failis determined if a plurality of pieces of identification information read out from a plurality of radio tags do not coincide completely with a plurality of pieces of identification information read out from a plurality of side surfaces. Further, when a value of the gaming chip is recorded in the radio tag and the side surface, fail is determined if the number of each value read from the radio tag does not coincide with the number of each value read from the side surface.
- both or either of the first gaming chip information and the second gaming chip informationincludes individual identification information individually identifying the gaming chip.
- the second gaming chip informationincludes information indicated by a designated color indicating the value of the gaming chip and is information indicating the value of the gaming chip through the designated color.
- both the first gaming chip information and the second gaming chip informationinclude individual identification information, and a plurality of gaming chips contained in the case are determined to be fail when the individual identification information of a plurality of pieces of first gaming chip information acquired by the first reading device does not coincide with the individual identification information of a plurality of pieces of second gaming chip information acquired by the second reading device.
- the determining unitdetermines that the gaming chips contained in the case are fail.
- an inspection systemincludes a storage unit that stores the individual identification information of at least the first gaming chip information or the second gaming chip information of a plurality of gaming chips to be contained in the case, and the determining unit determines that a plurality of gaming chips contained in the case are fail when the individual identification information of a plurality of pieces of first gaming chip information acquired by the first reading device or a plurality of pieces of second gaming chip information acquired by the second reading device does not coincide with the individual identification information of the first gaming chip information or the second gaming chip information stored in the storage unit.
- the determining unitcan determine that the gaming chips contained in the case are fail.
- a plurality of pieces of individual identification information indicated by charactersare stored in the storage unit for the radio tag for each case, a plurality of pieces of individual identification information indicated by numbers are stored for the side surface, and fail is determined when a plurality of pieces of individual identification information read out from a plurality of radio tags do not coincide with a plurality of pieces of individual identification information stored in the storage unit for the radio tag of the case or when a plurality of pieces of individual identification information read out from a plurality of side surfaces do not coincide with a plurality of pieces of individual identification information stored in the storage unit for the side surface of the case.
- an inspection systemaccording to a seventh aspect of the first embodiment further includes a storage unit that stores a correspondence relation between the first gaming chip information and the second gaming chip information, and the determining unit determines that the plurality of gaming chips contained in the case are fail when a plurality of pieces of first gaming chip information acquired by the first reading device and a plurality of pieces of second gaming chip information acquired by the second reading device do not coincide with the correspondence relation stored in the storage unit.
- any valueis allocated to each piece of identification information and stored in the storage unit, the number of each value is obtained with reference to the storage unit for a plurality of pieces of identification information read out from the plurality of radio tags, and fail is determined when the number of each value read out from the side surface does not coincide with the obtained number of each value.
- the storage unitneed not store which case contains a gaming chip of which identification information.
- the determining unitdetermines that a plurality of gaming chips contained in the case are fail when the number of pieces of the first gaming chip information acquired by the first reading device and the number of pieces of the second gaming chip information acquired by the second reading device are not a predetermined number.
- the determining unitcan determine that the gaming chips contained in the case are fail.
- failis determined when any one of the number of pieces of the first gaming chip information read from the radio tag and the number of pieces of the second gaming chip information read from the side surface is not 100.
- the gaming chipincludes color information indicating the value of the gaming chip as the second gaming chip information, and includes value information identifying the value of the gaming chip as the first gaming chip information, and the determining unit determines that a plurality of gaming chips contained in the case are fail when the color information does not coincide with the value information of the first gaming chip information.
- the second gaming chip informationfurther includes value information of the gaming chip in addition to the color information, and the determining unit determines that a plurality of gaming chips contained in the case are fail when the value of the gaming chip indicated by the color information in the second gaming chip information does not coincide with both or either of the value information of the second gaming chip information and the value information of the first gaming chip information.
- the gaming chipin the inspection system of any one of the first to tenth aspects, includes a radio tag having the first gaming chip information.
- the first gaming chip information and the second gaming chip informationinclude group information indicating a group to which the gaming chip belongs, and the group is a group classified in accordance with the value of the gaming chip, a manufacturing time, a manufacturer, and/or a use game hall.
- the determining unitdetermines that a plurality of gaming chips contained in the case are fail when the color information does not coincide with at least of the value information or common information of the first gaming chip information and the second gaming chip information, and individual identification information.
- the determining unitdetermines the number of a plurality of gaming chips contained in the case for each value or a total amount of the values of all the gaming chips on the basis of the color information or the value information of the first gaming chip information or the second gaming chip information.
- the second gaming chip informationincludes information indicated by a designated color indicating a value of the gaming chip on a side surface of the gaming chip and is information indicating the value of gaming chip through the designated color
- the second reading deviceincludes a camera that photographs the side surfaces of a plurality of gaming chips contained in the case and an identifying unit that analyzes an image captured by the camera, specifies the designated color of each of the plurality of gaming chips, and specifying the values of the plurality of gaming chips in accordance with the specified designated colors.
- the determining unitcan perform pass/fail determination using the value information of the gaming chip.
- the designated color indicating the second gaming chip informationis interposed, in a thickness direction of the gaming chip, between common colors which are commonly assigned to gaming chips having different values in the side surface of the gaming chip.
- the identifying unitcan specify types of a plurality of gaming chips in the case by extracting the designated color interposed between the common colors from the image of the side surface.
- the second gaming chip informationis notation information which is inscribed on the side surface to be optically readable
- the second reading deviceincludes a camera that photographs the side surfaces of a plurality of gaming chips stacked and contained in the case and an identifying unit that analyzes the image captured by the camera, specifies the notation information of each of the plurality of gaming chips, and specifies the second gaming chip information of each of a plurality of gaming chips in accordance with the specified notation information.
- the determining unitcan perform the pass/fail determination using the notation information of the gaming chip.
- the notation informationis inscribed using infrared reaction ink which emits in response to infrared rays or infrared absorption ink which absorbs infrared rays, and the camera is an infrared camera.
- the notation informationis inscribed using ink that emits light in response to ultraviolet rays
- the inspecting deviceincludes an ultraviolet irradiating unit that irradiates the side surfaces of a plurality of gaming chips contained in the case with ultraviolet rays.
- the casehas a seal which is broken when the case is opened to allow the contained gaming chip to be withdrawn
- the inspecting devicefurther includes a detecting unit that detects an unbroken seal, and the determining unit determines that a plurality of gaming chips contained in the case are fail when the unbroken seal is not detected by the detecting unit.
- the determining unitcan determine that the gaming chips contained in the case are fail.
- the casein the inspection system of the first aspect, includes a light transmitting portion, and the second reading device optically reads the side surface of the gaming chip contained in the case through the light transmitting portion.
- the second gaming chip informationcan be read in a state where the case is closed.
- an inspection system according to a twenty-second aspect of the first embodimentis an inspection system according to the twenty-first aspect, wherein the light transmission portion is configured with a transparent member.
- the inspecting devicein the inspection system of the first aspect, includes a case receiving portion that receives the case.
- the first gaming chip information and the second gaming chip informationcan be read.
- the caseis portable.
- the caseis a two-stage chip float or chip tray holding the gaming chips in the game table.
- An inspection systemis an inspection system that inspects gaming chips to which a designated color indicating a value on a side surface and notation information inscribed to be optically readable are assigned and includes a case that contains a plurality of gaming chips in a stacked manner and an inspecting device that inspects the gaming chips contained in the case, wherein the inspecting device includes a camera that photographs the side surfaces of the gaming chips contained in the case, an identifying unit that analyzes an image captured by the camera and specifies the designated color and the notation information of each of the plurality of gaming chips, and a determining unit that determines whether the gaming chips are pass or fail for each case on the basis of the designated color and the notation information specified by the identifying unit.
- the identifying unitspecifies the designated color and the notation information for the gaming chips contained in the case, it is possible to inspect the gaming chips contained in the case. Further, since two pieces of information, that is, the designated color and the notation information are specified from the side surface of the gaming chip, and the inspection is performed, the pass/fail determination can be performed reliably.
- An inspection systemis an inspection system that inspects gaming chips to which a designated color indicating a value on a side surface is assigned, a radio tag storing gaming chip information being embedded in each of the gaming chips, and the inspection system includes a case that contains a plurality of gaming chips in a stacked manner and an inspecting device that inspects the gaming chips contained in the case, wherein the inspecting device includes a reading unit that reads a radio tag of the gaming chip contained in the case and acquires the gaming chip information, a camera that photographs the side surfaces of the gaming chips contained in the case, an identifying unit that analyzes an image captured by the camera and specifies the designated color of each of the plurality of gaming chips, and a determining unit that determines whether the gaming chips are pass or fail for each case on the basis of the gaming chip information acquired by the reading unit and the designated color specified by the identifying unit.
- the reading unitacquires the gaming chip information from the gaming chip contained in the case, and the identifying unit also specifies the designated color for the gaming chip contained in the case, it is possible to inspect the gaming chips contained in the case. Further, since two pieces of information, that is, the gaming chip information and the designated color are specified from the side surface of the gaming chip, and the inspection is performed, the pass/fail determination can be performed reliably.
- An inspecting deviceis an inspecting device that inspects a plurality of gaming chips contained in a case in a stacked manner, a radio tag storing first gaming chip information being embedded in each of the gaming chips, optically readable second gaming chip information being assigned to a side surface of the gaming chip, and the inspecting device includes a first reading device that reads the radio tags of a plurality of gaming chips contained in the case and acquires the first gaming chip information, a second reading device that optically reads the side surfaces of a plurality of gaming chips contained in the case and acquires the second gaming chip information, and a determining unit that determines whether the gaming chips are pass or fail for each case on the basis of the first gaming chip information acquired by the first reading device and the second gaming chip information acquired by the second reading device.
- both the first reading unit and the second reading unitacquire the first gaming chip information and the second gaming chip information from the gaming chips contained in the case, it is possible to inspect the gaming chips contained in the case. Further, since two pieces of information, that is, the first gaming chip information and the second gaming chip information are acquired from the gaming chips, and the inspection is performed, the pass/fail determination can be reliably performed.
- An inspecting deviceis an inspecting device that inspect a plurality of gaming chips contained in a case in a stacked manner, a designated color indicating a value on a side surface and optically readable notation information being assigned to each of the gaming chips, and the inspecting device includes a camera that photographs the side surfaces of a plurality of gaming chips contained in the case, an identifying unit that analyzes an image captured by the camera and specifies the designated color and the notation information of each of the plurality of gaming chips, and a determining unit that determines whether the gaming chips are pass or fail for each case on the basis of the designated color and the notation information specified by the identifying unit.
- An inspecting deviceis an inspecting device that inspects a plurality of gaming chips contained in a case in a stacked manner, a radio tag storing gaming chip information being embedded in each of the gaming chips, a designated color indicating a value on a side surface being assigned to each of the gaming chips, and the inspecting device includes a reading unit that reads the radio tags of a plurality of gaming chips contained in the case and acquires the gaming chip information, a camera that photographs the side surfaces of a plurality of gaming chips contained in the case, an identifying unit that analyzes an image captured by the camera and specifies the designated color of each of the plurality of gaming chips, and a determining unit that determines whether the gaming chips are pass or fail for each case on the basis of the gaming chip information acquired by the reading unit and the designated color specified by the identifying unit.
- An inspection systemis an inspection system that inspects gaming chip, a radio tag storing gaming chip information being embedded in each of the gaming chips, and the inspection system includes a case that contains a plurality of gaming chips in a stacked manner and an inspecting device that inspects the gaming chips contained in the case, wherein the inspecting device includes a reading unit that reads the radio tags of the gaming chips contained in the case and acquires the gaming chip information, and a determining unit that determines whether the gaming chips are pass or fail for each case on the basis of the gaming chip information acquired by the reading unit, and a storage unit that stores the gaming chip information of a plurality of gaming chips to be contained in the case, and the determining unit determines that a plurality of gaming chips contained in the case are fail when a plurality of pieces of gaming chip information acquired by the reading unit do not coincide with the gaming chip information stored in the storage unit.
- An inspecting deviceis an inspecting device that inspects a plurality of gaming chips contained in a case in a stacked manner, a radio tag storing gaming chip information being embedded in each of the gaming chips, and the inspecting device includes a reading unit that reads the radio tags of a plurality of gaming chips contained in the case and acquires the gaming chip information and a determining unit that determines whether the gaming chips are pass or fail for each case on the basis of the gaming chip information acquired by the reading unit.
- FIG. 1is a diagram illustrating a configuration of an inspection system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- An inspection system 1includes a case 100 that contains gaming chips in a stacked state and an inspecting device 200 that inspects a plurality of gaming chips contained in the case 100 in the stacked state in a state where the gaming chips are contained in the case 100 .
- the case 100has a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape and is made of transparent resin.
- the case 100contains disc shaped gaming chips C in a stacked state. In the case 100 , five columns each containing 20 gaming chips C are formed, and a total of 100 gaming chips C can be contained.
- the case 100can be carried (portable) in a state where the gaming chips C are contained.
- the case 100includes an upper portion 101 and a lower portion 102 which are separable, and when the upper portion 101 and the lower portion 102 are separated, the gaming chips C can be contained in the case 100 , and the gaming chips C can be withdrawn from the case 100 .
- the inspecting device 200includes a receiving unit 210 and a main body portion 220 .
- the inspecting device 200can receive the case 100 through the receiving unit 210 .
- the receiving unit 210has a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape in which an upper surface and a front surface are opened as a whole, and the receiving unit 210 is formed by left and right side walls 211 , a bottom portion 212 , and an inner wall 213 and has a width, a height, and a depth in which the case 100 can fit exactly.
- the main body portion 220is installed behind the inner wall 213 of the receiving unit 210 and includes an RFID reader 221 , a computer 222 , and a display unit 223 .
- the main body portion 220further includes an infrared camera 225 and a visible light camera 226 .
- the infrared camera 225 and the visible light camera 226are attached to the end of an arm 227 to photograph the side surface of the gaming chip C contained in the case 100 from the upper surface side of the case 100 contained in the receiving unit 210 .
- the RFID reader 221 , the display unit 223 , the infrared camera 225 , and the visible light camera 226are connected to the computer 222 .
- An RFID antenna 224is connected to the RFID reader 221 .
- the RFID antenna 224extends from the RFID reader 221 and extends spirally in the left and right sidewalls 211 . In other words, a spiral RFID antenna 224 is laid in each of the left and right sidewalls 211 , and each RFID antenna 224 is connected to the RFID reader 221 .
- the display unit 223includes a liquid crystal panel.
- a touch sensormay be installed on the liquid crystal panel, and the display unit 223 may be configured as a touch panel.
- FIG. 2is a perspective view of the gaming chip C according to an embodiment of the present invention
- FIG. 3is a side view of the gaming chip C according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- the gaming chip Chas a designated color layer 501 which is characterized by a designated color in the middle and a common color layer 502 which is characterized by a common color on both sides of the designated color layer 501 in the middle in a thickness direction (upper and lower sides in FIG. 3 ), and a stripe pattern (in the thickness direction) is formed on the side surface.
- An RFID tag 503is inserted between the designated color layer 501 and one common color layer 502 of the gaming chip C as a radio tag. For example, individual identification information individually identifying (uniquely specifying) the gaming chip C and value (type) information are stored in the RFID tag 503 as the gaming chip information of the gaming chip C.
- a transparent layer 504is formed as the outermost layer of the gaming chip C.
- the gaming chip Cincludes the designated color layer 501 which is an intermediate layer, the common color layers 502 sandwiching the designated color layer 501 from both sides, and the transparent layers 504 which are the outermost layers of both sides.
- the gaming chip Cis formed such that five elongated layers of plastic materials (the transparent layer 504 , the common color layer 502 , the designated color layer 501 , the common color layer 502 , and the transparent layer 504 ) are stacked, the RFID tag 503 is arranged between the designated color layer 501 and one common color layer 502 at a predetermined interval at that time, and the five layers of plastic materials are thermocompression bonded and then punched into a circular shape, a rectangular shape, or the like through a press so that one RFID tag 503 is included in one gaming chip C.
- the punchingis performed through the press, dimensions of a die and a punch of a mold for punching are designed, and R treatment (rounded corner) is applied to the end of the transparent layer 504 of the outermost layer.
- the transparent layer 504may be formed by thermocompression bonding three layers including the designated color layer 501 and the two common color layers 502 and then applying varnish to the surface. Further, the designated color layer 501 and the two common color layers 502 may not be separate members, and the designated color layer 501 and the two common color layers 502 may be formed by applying the designated color (and the common color) to the side surface through inkjet printing or the like after the designated color layer 501 and the two common color layers 502 are integrally formed.
- the designated color layer 501indicates the value (type) of the gaming chip C using a color (a designated color).
- the color of the designated color layer 501is set to a different color (red, green, yellow, blue, or the like) in accordance with the value of the gaming chip C, and thus it is possible to specify the value of the gaming chip C (10 points, 20 points, 100 points, 1000 points, or the like) by checking the color of the designated color layer 501 optically read from the side surface of the gaming chip C.
- a color common to the gaming chips C having different values (a common color)is assigned to the common color layer 502 .
- the common coloris preferably a color lighter than any designated color, and the common color is white in the present embodiment.
- Code information 505 indicating the gaming chip information of the gaming chip Cis further inscribed on the side surface of the gaming chip C (specifically, the common color layer 502 of the side surface).
- the code information 505indicates information by arranging a plurality of marks (square marks in the present embodiment). Since the designated color layer 501 indicates information (the value of the gaming chip C) with color, whereas the code information 505 indicates information with a mark inscribed on the side surface, the code information 505 can be regarded as notation information. Examples of the notation information include a plurality of character strings, a numeric string, and a bar code.
- the code information 505 of the present embodimentis repeatedly inscribed with a cycle of 60° in a circumferential direction of the gaming chip C. Accordingly, the perfect code information 505 is included within a range of 120° in the circumferential direction regardless of a direction in which the side surface of the gaming chip C is observed in the circumferential direction.
- a repetition cycle of the gaming chip Cis not limited to 60° and may be repeatedly inscribed at equal intervals in the circumferential direction at least three times.
- the code information 505is inscribed using invisible ink.
- printingis performed by inkjet printing using infrared absorbing ink (specifically, carbon black) that absorbs infrared rays as the invisible ink. Since only a portion on which the code information 505 is printed does not reflect infrared rays, the code information 505 floats when the side surface of the gaming chip C is photographed by the infrared camera 225 .
- the infrared camera 225may be equipped with an infrared lamp and irradiate the side surface of the gaming chip C to be photographed with infrared rays.
- the invisible inkis not limited to the infrared absorbing ink and may be, for example, infrared reaction ink that emits fluorescence in response to infrared rays or UV ink which emits fluorescence in response to ultraviolet rays.
- the ultraviolet camerais used in place of the infrared camera 225 , and black light which irradiates the side surface of the gaming chip C with ultraviolet rays is used to cause the UV ink to emit fluorescence.
- a mark m′ using the UV ink or the carbon black inkis formed on a surface X of the common color layer 502 .
- the mark m′indicates whether the gaming chip 5 is true or false, and the mark m′ becomes visible when irradiated with ultraviolet rays (or infrared rays), and it is indicated whether the gaming chip 5 is true or false in accordance with a combination of shapes of the mark m′ and the number of marks m′.
- the transparent layer 504is thermocompression bonded or applied on the outermost layer so as to cover a print 506 (such as 100 points) for specifying the game hall or the mark m′ on the surface, but embossing treatment or vanish treatment is applied to the transparent layer 504 , and thus the gaming chips C are prevented from adhering to each other, and slipping is further improved.
- a print 506such as 100 points
- the R treatment (R)is performed on the end of the transparent layer 504 of the outermost layer which has undergone a print 506 (100 points or the like), and the surface of the common color layer 502 is prevented from being deformed in the process of punching the gaming chip C and appearing on the side surface. Further, a sharp edge of the gaming chip C is prevented from remaining and damaging a hand and other gaming chips C.
- the designated color layer 501may be formed by one or a plurality of colored layers. Further, metal or ceramics for increasing the weight of the layer may be formed in the layer of the designated color layer 501 . Further, the RFID tag 503 may be installed in a space which is formed in a part of the designated color layer 501 or between the designated color layer 501 and the common color layer 502 .
- FIG. 4is a diagram illustrating an example of an image obtained by photographing a plurality of gaming chips C contained in the case 100 through the infrared camera 225 and the visible light camera 226 .
- the case 100may be a two-stage chip float (an upper tray portion which is particularly movable in a two-stage chip tray) or a chip tray which holds the gaming chip C in the game table.
- the infrared camera 225 and the visible light camera 226can photograph the code information 505 . Further, it is possible to count the number of gaming chips C by counting the designated color layer 501 in the vertical direction. Even with the two-stage tray, when each stage is developed, it is possible to capture the side surfaces of all the gaming chips C contained in the case 100 through the infrared camera 225 and the visible light camera 226 .
- the code information 505is indicated by the marks m arranged in a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns.
- FIG. 5is a diagram for describing a configuration of the code information 505 .
- upper and lower marks mare paired to form one code element.
- one piece of code information 505is configured with a 10 -digit code element.
- a character Y on the side of the 10-digit code elementis a direction determination mark Y for determining the direction of the code information 505 .
- FIG. 6is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of the inspecting device 200 .
- the inspecting device 200includes a bar code reader 228 and a communication unit 229 in addition to the RFID reader 221 , the computer 222 , the display unit 223 , the RFID antenna 224 , the infrared camera 225 , and the visible light camera 226 illustrated in FIG. 1 .
- the computer 222is configured with a processor (not illustrated), a memory, and the like and functions as an identifying unit 230 and a determining unit 231 when the processor executes an inspection program.
- An RFID systemis configured with the RFID reader 221 , the RFID antenna 224 , and the RFID tag 503 embedded in the gaming chip C.
- the gaming chip information of the gaming chip C stored in the RFID tag 503 embedded in the gaming chip Cis read out by the RFID reader 221 in a non-contact manner and used for a process in the computer 222 .
- the infrared camera 225includes an infrared transmission filter that transmits only infrared light and captures an infrared image.
- the infrared image generated by the photographing of the infrared camera 225is transmitted to the computer 222 and used for a process of the identifying unit 230 .
- the visible light camera 226captures an image of light of a visible region.
- a visible light image generated by the photographing of the visible light camera 226is also transmitted to the computer 222 and used for a process of the identifying unit 230 .
- the infrared camera 225 and the visible light camera 226are directed toward the case 100 above the case 100 , and photograph the side surfaces of a plurality of gaming chips C in the case 100 over the upper portion 101 of the case 100 .
- the bar code reader 228reads the bar code BC attached to the case 100 and acquires case identification information to be described later.
- the display unit 223displays a determination result of the determining unit 231 of the computer 222 .
- the communication unit 229communicates data with a manufacturing management device 302 installed in a factory F or a use management device 303 installed in a game hall P.
- FIG. 7is a perspective view of a case 100 .
- the case 100is formed by combining the upper portion 101 and the lower portion 102 .
- the upper portion 101 and the lower portion 102are made of transparent resin.
- the infrared camera 225 and the visible light camera 226 of the inspecting device 200 of the present embodiment(hereinafter referred to simply as a “camera”) installed above the receiving unit 210 , it is necessary for at least the upper surface of the case 100 to transmit light.
- a portion positioned between the receiving unit 210 of the inspecting device 200 and the camera when the case 100 is received by the receiving unit 210 of the inspecting device 200needs to be a light transmitting portion.
- the case 100has a sealed structure including the upper portion 101 and the lower portion 102 , but the light transmission portion may be in a perforated state.
- the case 100has a shape in which the five columns in which 20 gaming chips C are stacked and contained are formed in parallel, and in the example of FIG. 7 , a cross section of each column is polygonal (octagonal) so that the upper portion 101 and the lower portion 102 substantially follow the shape of the gaming chip C to be contained.
- FIG. 8is a perspective view of a case 100 ′ according to a modified example
- FIG. 9is a plan view of the case 100 ′.
- the case 100 ′also includes an upper portion 101 ′ and a lower portion 102 made of a transparent resin.
- the upper surface of the upper portion 101 ′ facing the camerais formed as a plane surface. Since the surface facing the camera is a plane surface, a linear shadow caused by a corner of a polygon cross section of the case 100 ′ does not appear on the camera as illustrated in FIG. 9 , and it is possible to accurately identify information of the side surface of the gaming chip C in image analysis on a captured image of the camera.
- FIG. 10is a diagram for describing an example of a use state of the inspection system 1 together with the distribution of the gaming chips C.
- the gaming chip Cis manufactured by a manufacturing device 301 of a factory F (s 1 ), and 100 gaming chips C are contained in the case 100 (s 2 ).
- the case 100is sealed with a seal at the factory F after the gaming chips C are contained.
- the bar code BC indicating the case identification information uniquely specifying the case 100is affixed to the side surface of the case 100 (s 3 ).
- the case identification information of the bar code BC affixed to the case 100is input to the manufacturing management device 302 in the factory F (s 4 ). Further, the case 100 containing the gaming chips C is transferred to the inspecting device 200 , the gaming chip information (to be described later in detail) assigned to the gaming chip C is read, and the pass/fail inspection is performed. The gaming chip information read from the gaming chip C contained in the case 100 is transferred to the manufacturing management device 302 (s 5 ) and associated with the case identification information through the manufacturing management device 302 .
- the manufacturing management device 302may be a personal computer.
- the case 100 determined to be pass in the inspecting device 200 of the factory Fis conveyed from the factory F to a game hall P (s 6 ).
- the case 100is first stored in a storage R in the game hall P (s 7 ).
- the inspecting device 200is installed in the storage R, and the case 100 that arrived from the factory F is inspected through the inspecting device 200 .
- the case identification information and the gaming chip information associated with the case identification informationare transmitted from the manufacturing management device 302 in the factory F to the use management device 303 in the game hall P.
- the use management device 303acquires the case identification information and the gaming chip information associated with the case identification information from the manufacturing management device 302 for each of a plurality of cases 100 containing the gaming chip C and includes a storage unit that stores the acquired information for each case 100 .
- the use management device 303may be a personal computer.
- an inspectionis performed using the information stored in the use management device 303 .
- the case 100 determined to be pass in the inspection in the storage Ris carried to a game table T (s 9 ) or carried to a cashier CA (s 10 ).
- Each of the game table T and the cashier CAincludes the inspecting device 200 , and the case 100 containing the gaming chip C is inspected by the inspecting devices 200 in a sealed state.
- the case 100 containing used gaming chips Cis also inspected, and the inspecting device 200 is also used for the inspection.
- the case identification information transmitted from the manufacturing management device 302 and stored in the use management device 303 and the gaming chip information associated with the case identification informationare referred to.
- FIG. 11is a diagram illustrating an example of content of information which is generated by the manufacturing management device 302 , transmitted to the use management device 303 , and stored in the use management device 303 .
- Informationis generated for each case 100 , and the gaming chip information of a plurality of gaming chips C (100 gaming chips in the present embodiment) contained in the case 100 is associated with each piece of case identification information (Ca 1 , Ca 2 , Ca 3 , . . . ).
- information including a combination of the individual identification information (aa, ab, ac, . . . , du, dv) uniquely specifying the gaming chip C and information (r, r, r, . . . , b, b) specifying the value (type) of the gaming chip Cis stored in the RFID tag 503 , information including a combination of individual identification information (00001, 00002, 00003, . . . , 00099, 00100) uniquely specifying the gaming chip C and information (1, 1, 1, . . . , 2, 2) specifying the value (type) of the gaming chip is stored as the notation information of the side surface, and information (red, red, red, . . . , blue, blue) specifying the value (type) of the gaming chip C is stored as the color information of the side surface.
- the information stored in the RFID tag 503is information which is electromagnetically readable by the RFID reader 221 and corresponds to first gaming chip information of the present invention, and the notation information assigned to the side surface and the color information are optically readable information and correspond to second gaming chip information of the present invention.
- FIG. 12is a diagram illustrating an example of content of information acquired from one case 100 through the bar code reader 228 , the RFID reader 221 , the infrared camera 225 , and the visible light camera 226 in the inspecting device 200 .
- An English character string stored in the RFID tag 503 installed in each of a plurality of gaming chips Cis read out from the RFID reader 221 .
- a numeric string which is the notation information inscribed on the side surfaceis read out from the infrared camera 225 . Further, the color of the side surface is read out from the visible light camera 226 .
- the identifying unit 230analyzes (the image of) the numeric string read out from the infrared camera 225 , identifies a number, specifies information including the numeric string, and specifies the designated color from the image of the side surface read out from the visible light camera 226 .
- the notation information and the designated color information of the side surface of a plurality of gaming chips Ccan be acquired in accordance with an arrangement order of the gaming chips C in the case 100 , but the information acquired from a plurality of RFID tags 503 is unable to be acquired in accordance with the arrangement order of the gaming chips C. In other words, it is difficult to specify a gaming chip C from which the information of the RFID tag 503 is obtained.
- the identifying unit 230specifies the gaming chip information stored in the RFID tags 503 of each of a plurality of gaming chips C contained in the case 100 on the basis of a result of reading the RFID reader 221 , analyzes the infrared image obtained by the infrared camera 225 , specifies the gaming chip information indicated by the notation information, analyzes the visible light image obtained by the visible light camera 226 , and specifies the color of the designated color layer 501 .
- the determining unit 231determines the authenticity/damage of all the gaming chips contained in the case or the number of gaming chips of each value on the basis of the information, and determines whether the case 100 is pass or fail.
- the gaming chip information stored in the RFID tag 503is referred to as “first gaming chip information”
- the notation information assigned to the side surface of the gaming chip C and the color information of the designated color layer 501are referred to as “second gaming chip information”.
- the first gaming chip information and the second gaming chip information in the same gaming chipare the same information as illustrated in FIG. 13 .
- the first gaming chip informationis information including the individual identification information and the value information of each gaming chip C, and the same content as the first gaming chip information is inscribed on the side surface in a form of the notation information as the second gaming chip information.
- the RFID reader 221reads the first gaming chip information from the RFID tag 503 of the gaming chip C and outputs the first gaming chip information to the identifying unit 230 , the infrared camera 225 photographs the side surface of the gaming chip C, and the identifying unit 230 specifies the second gaming chip information.
- the identifying unit 230a correspondence relation between a plurality of pieces of first gaming chip information and a plurality of pieces of second gaming chip information is unclear.
- the determining unit 231compares a plurality of pieces of first gaming chip information obtained by the identifying unit 230 with a plurality of pieces of second gaming chip information, and when a plurality of pieces of first gaming chip information completely correspond to a plurality of pieces of second gaming chip information in a one-to-one manner, that is, when all pieces of first gaming chip information coincide with any one of second gaming chip information without overlapping, the determining unit 231 determines that a plurality of gaming chips C contained in the case 100 are pass, but when a plurality of pieces of first gaming chip information obtained by the identifying unit 230 do not completely coincide with a plurality of pieces of second gaming chip information, the determining unit 231 determines that a plurality of gaming chips C contained in the case 100 are fail.
- the determining unit 231determines whether a plurality of gaming chips C contained in the case 100 are pass or fail by determining the authenticity/damage of all the gaming chips contained in the case 100 .
- the first gaming chip information and the second gaming chip information in the same gaming chip Care the same information as illustrated in FIG. 14 .
- the first gaming chip informationis the value information of each gaming chip C, and in each gaming chip C, the designated color is assigned to the designated color layer 501 of the side surface as the second gaming chip information.
- the RFID reader 221reads out the first gaming chip information from the RFID tag 503 of the gaming chip C and outputs the first gaming chip information to the identifying unit 230 , the visible light camera 226 photographs the side surface of the gaming chip C, and the identifying unit 230 analyzes the image and specifies the second gaming chip information (the color of the designated color layer 501 ).
- a correspondence relation between a plurality of pieces of first gaming chip information and a plurality of pieces of second gaming chip informationis unclear, a plurality of pieces of first gaming chip information may overlap each other, and a plurality of pieces of second gaming chip information may also overlap with each other.
- “r”indicates red
- “b”indicates blue
- “y”indicates yellow
- “g”indicates green.
- the determining unit 231determines “pass”, and otherwise, the determining unit 231 determines “fail”.
- the determining unit 231determines whether a plurality of gaming chips C contained in the case 100 are pass or fail by determining the number of all the gaming chips C contained in the case 100 for each value.
- the first gaming chip information and the second gaming chip information in the same gaming chip Care different information as illustrated in FIG. 15 .
- information of an English character stringis stored in the RFID tag 503 of the gaming chip C as the first gaming chip information, and the notation information of a numeric string is inscribed on the side surface of the gaming chip C as the second gaming chip information.
- the RFID reader 221reads out the first gaming chip information from the RFID tag 503 of the gaming chip C and outputs the first gaming chip information to the identifying unit 230 , the infrared camera 225 photographs the side surface of the gaming chip C, and the identifying unit 230 specifies the second gaming chip information.
- the identifying unit 230a correspondence relation between a plurality of pieces of first gaming chip information and a plurality of pieces of second gaming chip information is unclear.
- the first gaming chip information and the second gaming chip informationare stored in the use management device 303 in association with the case identification information of the case 100 .
- the determining unit 231compares a plurality of pieces of first gaming chip information obtained by the identifying unit 230 with a plurality of pieces of first gaming chip information associated with the case identification information of the case 100 stored in the use management device 303 , and determines whether or not they completely correspond to each other in a one-to-one manner.
- the determining unit 231compares a plurality of pieces of second gaming chip information obtained by the identifying unit 230 with a plurality of pieces of second gaming chip information associated with the case identification information of the case 100 stored in the use management device 303 and determines whether or not they completely correspond to each other in a one-to-one manner.
- the determining unit 231determines that a plurality of pieces of first gaming chip information obtained by the identifying unit 230 coincide with any one of a plurality of pieces of first gaming chip information associated with the case identification information of the case 100 stored in the use management device 303 without overlapping, and a plurality of pieces of second gaming chip information obtained by the identifying unit 230 completely correspond to a plurality of pieces of second gaming chip information associated with the case identification information of the case 100 stored in the use management device 303 in a one-to-one manner, that is, a plurality of pieces of second gaming chip information obtained by the identifying unit 230 coincide with any one of a plurality of pieces of second gaming chip information associated with the case identification information of the case 100 stored in the use management device 303 without overlapping, the determining unit 231 determines that a plurality of pieces of first gaming chip information obtained by the identifying unit 230 coincide with any one of a plurality of pieces of second gaming chip information associated with the case identification information of the case 100 stored in the use management device 303 without overlapping,
- the determining unit 231determines whether or not a plurality of gaming chips C contained in the case 100 are pass or fail by determining the authenticity/damage of all the gaming chips C contained in the case 100 .
- the first gaming chip information and the second gaming chip information in the same gaming chip Care different information as illustrated in FIG. 16 .
- information of an English character stringis stored in the RFID tag 503 of the gaming chip C as the first gaming chip information, and the designated color layer 501 of the side surface of the gaming chip C is colored in the designated color corresponding to the value as the second gaming chip information.
- the RFID reader 221reads out the first gaming chip information from the RFID tag 503 of the gaming chip C and outputs the first gaming chip information to the identifying unit 230 , the visible light camera 226 photographs the side surface of the gaming chip C and outputs a captured image to the identifying unit 230 , and the identifying unit 230 analyzes the captured image and specifies the designated color which is the second gaming chip information.
- the identifying unit 230a correspondence relation between a plurality of pieces of first gaming chip information and a plurality of pieces of second gaming chip information is unclear.
- the first gaming chip information and the second gaming chip informationare stored in the use management device 303 in association with the case identification information of the case 100 .
- the determining unit 231compares a plurality of pieces of first gaming chip information obtained by the identifying unit 230 with a plurality of pieces of first gaming chip information associated with the case identification information of the case 100 stored in the use management device 303 and determines whether or not they completely correspond to each other in a one-to-one manner.
- the determining unit 231compares the number of each designated color in a plurality of pieces of second gaming chip information obtained by the identifying unit 230 with the number of each designated color in a plurality of pieces of second gaming chip information associated with the case identification information of the case 100 stored in the use management device 303 , and determines whether or not the numbers of designated colors coincide with each other.
- the determining unit 231determines the case 100 to be “pass”, and when any one of a plurality of pieces of first gaming chip information does not coincide, and the number of any one of the designated colors in a plurality of pieces of second gaming chip information does not coincide, the determining unit 231 determines the plurality of gaming chips C contained in the case 100 to be “fail”.
- the determining unit 231determines whether or not a plurality of gaming chips C contained in the case 100 are pass or fail by determining the authenticity/damage of all the gaming chips C contained in the case 100 and the number of gaming chips C for each value.
- the first gaming chip information and the second gaming chip information in the same gaming chip Care different information as illustrated in FIG. 17 .
- the individual identification information including a numeric stringis stored in the RFID tag 503 of the gaming chip C as the first gaming chip information, and the value information of the gaming chip C is assigned to the side surface of the gaming chip C as the second gaming chip information in the form of the designated color of the designated color layer 501 .
- the RFID reader 221reads out the first gaming chip information from the RFID tag 503 of the gaming chip C and outputs the first gaming chip information to the identifying unit 230 , the visible light camera 226 photographs the side surface of the gaming chip C and outputs a captured image to the identifying unit 230 , and the identifying unit 230 analyzes the captured image and specifies the designated color which is the second gaming chip information.
- the identifying unit 230a correspondence relation between a plurality of pieces of first gaming chip information and a plurality of pieces of second gaming chip information is unclear.
- the correspondence relation between the first gaming chip information and the second gaming chip informationis stored in the use management device 303 .
- the individual identification information uniquely specifying the gaming chip Cis associated with the designated color of the designated color layer 501 of the side surface, that is, the value information of the gaming chip C, and it is possible to understand the value of the gaming chip C when the individual identification information is designated.
- the use management device 303need not store a combination of the first gaming chip information and the second gaming chip information for each piece of case identification information. In other words, in the present example, the gaming chips C contained in case 100 can be inspected without using the case identification information.
- the determining unit 231specifies the first gaming chip information corresponding to the first gaming chip information identified by the identifying unit 230 from the first gaming chip information stored in the use management device 303 and specifies the second gaming chip information associated with the first gaming chip information, that is, the value.
- the determining unit 231can obtain the number of each value in a plurality of pieces of second gaming chip information extracted from the use management device 303 for one case by performing the above process on all pieces of the first gaming chip information identified by the identifying unit 230 .
- the determining unit 231compares the number of each value obtained as described above with the number of each value in the second gaming chip information identified for the case 100 from the identifying unit 230 . When the numbers of each of all the values coincide, the determining unit 231 determines that a plurality of gaming chips C contained in the case 100 are pass, and when the number of any one of the values does not coincide, the determining unit 231 determines that a plurality of gaming chips C contained in the case 100 are fail.
- the determining unit 231determines whether or not a plurality of gaming chips C contained in the case 100 are pass or fail by determining the authenticity/damage of all the gaming chips C contained in the case 100 and the number of gaming chips C for each value.
- the pass/fail determinationcan be performed similarly to the above example.
- the first to fifth pass/fail determination methodshave been described above, but the determining unit 231 may employ a combination of the above pass/fail determination methods.
- the determining unit 231may determine that a plurality of gaming chips C contained in the case 100 are fail.
- the first and second pass/fail determination methodsare pass/fail determination methods that can be executed without using the information stored in the use management device 303 installed in the game hall P and suitable when executed by the inspecting device 200 in the factory F
- the third to fifth pass/fail determination methodsare pass/fail determination methods using the information stored in the use management device 303 installed in the game hall P and suitable when executed by the inspecting device 200 in the game hall P, but the inspecting device 200 in the game hall P may employ the first or second pass/fail determination method.
- the use management device 303may be omitted.
- the inspecting device 200 in the game hall Palso inspects the case 100 containing the used gaming chips C, but in the case, the first, second, or fifth pass/fail determination method in which information of the gaming chips to be contained in the case need not be stored may be employed.
- the gaming chip Cincludes the individual identification information and/or the value information as the first gaming chip information and/or the second gaming chip information.
- the individual identification informationis information uniquely specifying each gaming chip C
- the value informationis information that can overlap each other in a plurality of gaming chips C and can be regarded as information (group information) indicating a group to which each gaming chip belongs.
- group information of the associated groupinstead of the value or in addition to the value, for example, information of a gaming chip manufacturing time, a manufacturer, and/or a game hall in which a gaming chip is used may be employed.
- both the first gaming chip information and the second gaming chip informationmay include the individual identification information identifying the gaming chip
- the first gaming chip information and the second gaming chip informationmay include the group information indicating the group to which the gaming chip belongs
- the first gaming chip informationmay include the individual identification information identifying the gaming chip
- the second gaming chip informationmay include the group information of the group to which the gaming chip belongs
- the first gaming chip informationmay include the group information of the group to which the gaming chip belongs
- the second gaming chip informationmay include the individual identification information identifying the gaming chip.
- FIGS. 18 and 19are diagrams illustrating an example of a pass/fail determination result display screen illustrating a pass/fail determination result in the determining unit 231 .
- These pass/fail result display screensare generated by the computer 222 on the basis of the pass/fail determination result in the determining unit 231 and displayed on the display unit 223 .
- FIG. 18illustrates an example of a display screen in the case of “pass”
- FIG. 19illustrates an example of a display screen in the case of “fail”.
- a pass/fail result display screen 800includes a total of the number of detections 801 which is the number of combinations of the first gaming chip information and the second gaming chip information read out from the gaming chip C by the identifying unit 230 , the number of authorized gaming chips C 802 , and the number of unauthorized gaming chips C 803 .
- the computer 222sets a larger one of the number of pieces of first gaming chip information and the number of pieces of second gaming chip information as the total of the number of detections 801 .
- the identifying unit 230specifies 100 pieces of second gaming chip information from a plurality of gaming chips C but obtains only 99 pieces of first gaming chip information.
- the computer 222sets 100 which is the larger of the first gaming chip information and the second gaming chip information as the total of the number of detections 801 .
- the computer 222decides the number of combinations of the first gaming chip information and the second gaming chip information that are determined to coincide with each other as the number of authorized gaming chips C 802 , and decides a number obtained by subtracting the number of authorized gaming chips C from the total of the number of detections 801 as the number of unauthorized gaming chips C 803 .
- the computer 222decides a smaller one of the number of pieces of first gaming chip information in which the correspondence relation with the first gaming chip information stored in the use management device 303 has been confirmed and the number of pieces of second gaming chip information in which the correspondence relation with the second gaming chip information stored in the use management device 303 has been confirmed as the number of authorized gaming chips C 802 , and decides a number obtained by subtracting the number of authorized gaming chips C from the total of the number of detections 801 as the number of unauthorized gaming chips C 803 .
- the computer 222decides the number of pieces of second gaming chip information in which the correspondence relation with the second gaming chip information stored in the use management device 303 has been confirmed as the number of authorized gaming chips C 802 , and decides a number obtained by subtracting the number of authorized gaming chips C from the total of the number of detections 801 as the number of unauthorized gaming chips C 803 .
- the pass/fail result display screen 800includes a gaming chip information display portion 804 that displays the gaming chip information read out from the gaming chip C through the identifying unit 230 .
- the gaming chip information display portion 804when the gaming chip information stored in the use management device 303 is read or when the first gaming chip information coincides with the second gaming chip information, the gaming chip information is colored and displayed, and the gaming chip information which is stored in the use management device 303 but not read out is displayed in white (see FIG. 19 ).
- the gaming chip informationis displayed outside the gaming chip information display portion 804 as unauthorized gaming chip information 805 .
- FIG. 20is a diagram illustrating an RFID antenna 224 of the inspecting device 200 according to a modified example.
- the arm 227 , the infrared camera 225 , and the visible light camera 226are not illustrated.
- the RFID antenna 224is installed in the left and right sidewalls 211 , but the RFID antenna 224 may be installed in an inner wall 213 . In this case, the RFID antenna 224 is arranged in a spiral shape inside the inner wall 213 .
- FIG. 21is a side view of a gaming chip C′ according to a modified example.
- the designated color layer 501is sandwiched between the common color layers 502 , but in the example of FIG. 21 , in the gaming chip C′, a common color layer 502 is formed as the center, and the designated color layer 501 is formed as both (upper and lower) sides.
- individual identification information indicated by a 7-digit numeric stringis inscribed (printed) on the side surface of the gaming chip C′ as code information 505 ′.
- the code information 505 ′ serving as the notation informationis inscribed on the common color layer 502 in the middle. In this case, the code information 505 ′ can indicate 10-th power of 7 types of information.
- both the code information 505 indicated by the presence/absence of the mark m described for the gaming chip C of the above embodiment and the code information 505 ′ of the numeric string illustrated in FIG. 21are inscribed on the side surface of the gaming chip C.
- the code information 505 of the mark m and the code information 505 ′ of the numeric stringmay be printed with different types of ink.
- the code information 505 of the mark mmay be printed with the infrared reaction ink
- the code information 505 ′ of the numeric stringmay be printed with the UV reactive ink.
- an infrared camera and an ultraviolet cameramay be prepared to photograph the side surface of the gaming chip C, the code information 505 of the mark m may be read by the infrared camera, and the code information 505 ′ of the numeric string may be read by the ultraviolet camera.
- FIG. 22is a side sectional view of the gaming chip C′′ according to another modified example.
- the gaming chip C′′has a multi-layer structure in which a plurality of plastic layers having different colors are stacked, a designated color layer 501 (a colored layer) is arranged at least in the middle, and a common color layer (a white or light-colored layer) 502 are stacked on both sides of the designated color layer 501 in the middle. It is desirable that the color of the common color layer 502 be thinner than the color of the designated color layer 501 .
- the gaming chip C′′has a multi-layer structure in which the designated color layer 501 is arranged, and the common color layer 502 is stacked on both sides of the designated color layer 501 in the middle as described above, it is possible to specify a type of gaming chip C′′ (10 points, 20 points, 100 points, 1,000 points, or the like) by forming a stripe pattern on the side surface in a stack direction and changing the color of the designated color layer 501 (red, green, yellow, blue, or the like) as illustrated in FIG. 23 .
- FIG. 23is a perspective view of stacked gaming chips C′′
- FIG. 24is a side view of the gaming chip C′′
- FIG. 25is a plan view of the gaming chip C′′.
- the gaming chip C′′has a five or more-layer structure in which a print 507 (100 points or the like) indicating a type (value) of gaming chip C′′ is performed on the surface (the upper surface and the lower surface) of the common color layer 502 , a transparent layer 504 is formed as the outermost layer, and the respective layers are thermocompression-bonded.
- the gaming chip C′′is formed using an elongated plastic material such that a state in which the respective layers (the designated color layer 501 , the common color layer 502 , and the transparent layer 504 ) are thermocompression-bonded and adhered to each other in an elongated stated (a five-layer structure or the like) is formed and then punched out into a circular shape, a rectangular shape, or the like through a process or the like.
- the punchingis performed through the press, dimensions of a die and a punch of a mold for punching are designed, and R treatment (rounded corner) is applied to the end of the transparent layer 504 of the outermost layer.
- the mark m′′is formed on the surface of common color layer 502 using the UV ink or the carbon black ink.
- the mark m′′indicates whether the gaming chip C′′ is true or false, and the mark m′′ becomes visible when irradiated with ultraviolet rays (or infrared rays), and it is indicated whether the gaming chip C′′ is true or false in accordance with a combination of shapes of the mark m′′ and the number of marks m′′.
- the transparent layer 504is thermocompression bonded or applied on the outermost layer so as to cover the print 507 or the mark m′, but embossing treatment is applied to the transparent layer 504 , and thus the gaming chips C′′ are prevented from adhering to each other.
- the R treatment (R)is performed on the end of the transparent layer 504 of the outermost layer which has undergone a print 507 (100 points or the like), and the surface of the common color layer 502 is prevented from being deformed in the process of punching the gaming chip C′′ and appearing on the side surface. Further, a sharp edge of the gaming chip C′′ is prevented from remaining and damaging a hand and other gaming chips C′′.
- the designated color layer 501may be formed by a plurality of layers colored in the designated color (three layers in FIG. 22 ). Since a plurality of layers colored in the designated color (three layers in FIG. 22 ) are thermocompression bonded to each other, the three-layer structure is not visible as illustrated in FIG. 22 , and FIG. 22 illustrates the three layers of the designated color layer 501 for the sake of description. Further, a partial hollow B is formed in a middle layer among the three layers of the designated color layer 501 , and a RFID tag 503 is installed in the partial hollow B.
- FIG. 26is a diagram illustrating an example of an image obtained by photographing the stacked gaming chips. As illustrated in FIG. 26 , it is possible to photograph the side surface of the gaming chip C through the visible light camera 226 and clearly identify the designated color layer 501 .
- an artificial intelligence utilization type computer or control system or a deep learning (structure) techniqueis used in the image analysis. Since the artificial intelligence utilization type computer or control system or the deep learning (structure) technique is known to those skilled in the art, detailed description thereof is omitted.
- the inspecting device 200may include a detecting unit that detects an unbroken seal affixed to the case 100 .
- the detecting unitmay detect the seal optically or magnetically. In this case, when an unbroken seal is not detected by the detecting unit, the determining unit 231 determines that a plurality of gaming chips C contained in the case 100 are fail.
- all the components of the inspecting device 200are arranged in a single device as illustrated in FIG. 6 , but the components may be distributedly arranged.
- the computer 222 , the display unit 223 , and the communication unit 229may be implemented by a personal computer connected to the inspecting device 200 .
- the distributedly arranged componentsmay be connected to be able to perform wired or wireless communication or may be connected via a network such as the Internet.
- the infrared camera 225 and/or the visible light camera 226 and the arm 227may be separated from the inspecting device 200 , and the cameras may be connected to the computer 222 .
- FIG. 27illustrates an example in which only one of the infrared camera 225 and the visible light camera 226 is installed separately from the inspecting device 200
- FIG. 28illustrates an example in which the infrared camera 225 is installed separately from the inspecting device 200
- the visible light camera 226is installed integrally with the inspecting device 200 .
- an ultraviolet cameramay be installed as a third camera together with an ultraviolet lamp, or one of the cameras in FIGS. 27 and 28 may be an ultraviolet camera equipped with an ultraviolet lamp.
- the gaming chip informationis stored in the RFID tag 503 , the code information 505 serving as the gaming chip information is inscribed on the side surface, the designated color of the designated color layer 501 of the side surface is also dealt as the gaming chip information indicating the value of the gaming chip C, and one gaming chip C has the three pieces of gaming chip information, but the present invention is not limited to this example, and the gaming chip C may has only two of the three pieces of gaming chip information.
- the first to fifth pass/fail determination methodscan be executed.
- the determining unit 231performs the pass/fail determination using the three pieces of gaming chip information.
- the display unit 223may be a lamp that simply indicates only whether it is pass or fail or may be a lamp that performs digital display of the total of the number of detections 801 , the number of authorized gaming chips C 802 , and the number of unauthorized gaming chips C 803 .
- the determining unit 231 of the above embodimentis able to specify the number of each of the values of a plurality of gaming chips C contained in the case 100 as described above.
- the determining unit 231may further calculate a total amount of the values of a plurality of gaming chips C contained in the case 100 on the basis of the number of each value.
- the calculated total amountmay be displayed on the pass/fail result display screen (see FIGS. 18 and 19 ) displayed on the display unit 223 .
- a second embodimentrelates to an inspection system and an inspecting device which are capable of inspecting the gaming chips, and more particularly to, an inspection system and an inspecting device which are capable of inspecting the gaming chips having a radio tag embedded therein or counting the number of gaming chips.
- a gaming chip having a radio tag storing identification information or type information thereinis known (for example, JP 2008-246103 A).
- a gaming chip having a structure in which a radio tag is not easily extractedis disclosed in JP 2008-246103 A. Accordingly, a structure in which the radio tag hardly has a defect is implemented.
- An Inspection systemis an inspection system that inspects gaming chips each having a color or a display indicating a value on an outer surface in a state where the gaming chips are stored in a case in which a maximum of the number of gaming chips to be stored is limited, a radio tag storing gaming chip information being embedded in each of the gaming chips, the gaming chips being stored in the case capable of containing a row of gaming chips stacked in a thickness direction, the inspection system including: a reading device that reads the radio tag of the gaming chip in the case and acquires gaming chip information of the gaming chip; and a determining unit that compares the gaming chip information acquired by the reading device with a maximum of the number of gaming chips storable in the case and determines an abnormality of the gaming chip in the case when the number of gaming chips obtained from the gaming chip information acquired by the reading device is different from a maximum of the number of storable gaming chips.
- the determining unithas a function of comparing a physical characteristic of the case or physical information of the gaming chip obtained from a physical measurement means other than the reading device with the number of pieces of physical information of the gaming chip obtained from the gaming chip information acquired by the reading device, determining that there is an abnormal gaming chip among the gaming chips contained in the case when both pieces of information do not coincide with each other, and outputting a determination result.
- the physical informationis a number or height which is obtained optically or a weight which is obtained by measurement.
- the inspection systemmay further include a radio tag information database which is able to refer to information of the radio tag embedded in the gaming chip, and the determining unit may be configured to compare the gaming chip information of the gaming chip read by the reading device with the information of the radio tag information database and detect an abnormality of a gaming chip of an inspection target.
- the determining unitmay have a function of comparing, when it is determined that there is an abnormal gaming chip among the gaming chips in the case, the information of the radio tags of all the gaming chips in the case with the radio tag information database registered in advance and specifying the presence of an abnormal radio tag which is not stored in the radio tag information database.
- the determining unitmay have a function of specifying, when it is determined that there is an abnormal gaming chip among the gaming chips in the case, the presence of an abnormal gaming chip in which information from the radio tag is unable to be obtained among the gaming chips in the case.
- the determining unitmay have a function of analyzing the information of the radio tag acquired by the reading device and issuing a signal when two or more gaming chips having the same information obtained from the radio tag are contained in the case.
- the radio tag information databasemay be an information database of radio tags of gaming chips being stored or used in a game hall
- the determining unitmay have a function of analyzing the information of the radio tag acquired by the reading device and issuing a signal when information obtained from the radio tag coincides with information of a radio tag of a gaming chip placed in a different place in the game hall.
- An inspecting deviceis inspecting device that inspects gaming chips each having a color or a display indicating a value on an outer surface, a radio tag storing gaming chip information being embedded in each of the gaming chips, the inspecting device including: an inspection table capable of inspecting the gaming chips in a state where the gaming chips are stacked in a row in a thickness direction, and a maximum of the number of stackable gaming chips is limited; a reading device that reads the radio tags of the row of gaming chips and acquires the gaming chip information of the row of gaming chips; and a determining unit that compares the gaming chip information acquired by the reading device with a maximum of the number of stackable gaming chips of the inspection table and determines an abnormality of the gaming chip placed on the inspection table when the number of gaming chips obtained from the gaming chip information acquired by the reading device is different from a maximum of the number of stackable gaming chips.
- the determining unitmay have a function of determining, when the gaming chip information of the gaming chip acquired by the reading device does not coincide with physical information of the gaming chip, the presence of an abnormal gaming chip among the gaming chips placed on the inspection table and outputting a determination result.
- the physical informationmay be a number or height which is obtained optically or a weight which is obtained by measurement.
- the inspecting devicemay further include a radio tag information database which is able to refer to information of the radio tag embedded in the gaming chip, and the determining unit may be configured to compare the gaming chip information of the gaming chip read by the reading device with the information of the radio tag information database and detect an abnormality of a gaming chip of an inspection target placed on the inspection table.
- the determining unitmay have a function of comparing, when it is determined that there is an abnormal gaming chip among the gaming chips on the inspection table, the information of the radio tags of all the gaming chips on the inspection table with the radio tag information database registered in advance and specifying the presence of an abnormal radio tag which is not stored in the radio tag information database.
- the determining unitmay have a function of specifying, when it is determined that there is an abnormal gaming chip among the gaming chips in the case, the presence of an abnormal gaming chip in which information from the radio tag is unable to be obtained among the gaming chips in the case.
- the determining unitmay have a function of analyzing the information of the radio tag acquired by the reading device and issuing a signal when two or more gaming chips having the same information obtained from the radio tag are contained in the case.
- the radio tag information databasemay be an information database of radio tags of gaming chips being stored or used in a game hall
- the determining unitmay have a function of analyzing the information of the radio tag acquired by the reading device and issuing a signal when information obtained from the radio tag coincides with information of a radio tag of a gaming chip placed in a different place in the game hall.
- the gaming chipsare stored in the case in which the number of storable gaming chips is decided, and the number of gaming chips is determined, it is possible to perform the inspection so that it is possible to detect whether or not the radio tag is broken.
- FIG. 29is a diagram illustrating a configuration of an inspection system according to the second embodiment.
- An inspection system 51includes a case 5100 that contains gaming chips in a stacked state and an inspecting device 5200 that inspects a plurality of gaming chips contained in the case 5100 in the stacked state in a state where the gaming chips are contained in the case 5100 .
- the case 5100has a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape and is made of transparent resin.
- the case 5100contains disc shaped gaming chips C in a stacked state. In the case 5100 , five columns 5100 C each containing 20 gaming chips C are formed, and a total of 100 gaming chips C can be contained.
- the case 5100can be carried (portable) in a state where the gaming chips C are contained.
- the case 5100includes an upper portion 5101 and a lower portion 5102 which are separable, and when the upper portion 5101 and the lower portion 5102 are separated, the gaming chips C can be contained in the case 5100 , and the gaming chips C can be withdrawn from the case 5100 .
- the inspecting device 5200includes a receiving unit 5210 and a main body portion 5220 .
- the inspecting device 5200can accept the case 5100 through the receiving unit 5210 .
- the receiving unit 5210has a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape in which an upper surface and a front surface are opened as a whole, and the receiving unit 5210 is formed by left and right side walls 5211 , a bottom portion 5212 , and an inner wall 5213 and has a width, a height, and a depth in which the case 5100 can fit exactly.
- the main body portion 5220is installed behind the inner wall 5213 of the receiving unit 5210 and includes a reading device 5221 , a determining unit 5222 , and a display unit 5223 .
- the reading device 5221 and the display unit 5223are connected to the determining unit 5222 .
- a radio tag antenna 5224is connected to the reading device 5221 .
- the radio tag antenna 5224extends from the reading device 5221 and extends spirally in the left and right sidewalls 5211 . In other words, the spiral shaped radio tag antenna 5224 is laid in each of the left and right sidewalls 5211 , and each radio tag antenna 5224 is connected to the reading device 5221 .
- the display unit 5223includes a liquid crystal panel.
- a touch sensormay be installed on the liquid crystal panel, and the display unit 5223 may be configured as a touch panel.
- FIG. 30is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of the inspecting device 5200 .
- the inspecting device 5200includes a bar code reader 5228 and a communication unit 5229 in addition to the reading device 5221 , the determining unit 5222 , the display unit 5223 , and the radio tag antenna 5224 illustrated in FIG. 29 .
- the determining unit 5222is configured with a processor (not illustrated), a memory, and the like and functions as an identifying unit 5230 and an identification content determining unit 5231 when the processor executes an inspection program.
- a radio tag systemis configured with the reading device 5221 , the radio tag antenna 5224 , and a radio tag 5503 embedded in the gaming chip C.
- the gaming chip information of the gaming chip C stored in the radio tag 5503 embedded in the gaming chip Cis read out by the reading device 5221 in a non-contact manner and used for a process in the determining unit 5222 .
- the bar code reader 5228reads the bar code BC attached to the case 5100 and acquires the case identification information.
- the display unit 5223displays a determination result of the identification content determining unit 5231 of the determining unit 5222 .
- the communication unit 5229communicates data with a manufacturing management device 5302 installed in the factory F or an information database 5303 installed in the game hall P.
- FIG. 31is a perspective view of the case 5100 .
- the case 5100is formed by combining the upper portion 5101 and the lower portion 5102 .
- the upper portion 5101 and the lower portion 5102are made of transparent resin.
- the case 5100has a sealed structure including the upper portion 5101 and the lower portion 5102 , but the light transmission portion may be in a perforated state.
- the case 5100has a shape in which the five columns 5100 C in which 20 gaming chips C are stacked and contained are formed in parallel, and in the example of FIG. 31 , a cross section of each column is polygonal (octagonal) so that the upper portion 5101 and the lower portion 5102 substantially follow the shape of the gaming chip C.
- Each column 5100 Chas a shape in which 21 or more gaming chips C are unable to be contained.
- FIG. 32is a perspective view of a case 5100 ′ according to a modified example
- FIG. 33is a plan view of the case 5100 ′.
- the case 5100 ′also includes of an upper portion 5101 ′ and a lower portion 5102 made of a transparent resin.
- the upper surface of the upper portion 5101 ′ facing the camerais formed as a plane surface. Since the surface facing the camera is a plane surface, a linear shadow caused by a corner of a polygon cross section of the case 5100 ′ does not appear on the camera as illustrated in FIG. 33 , and it is possible to accurately identify information of the side surface of the gaming chip C in image analysis on a captured image of the camera.
- FIG. 34is a side sectional view of the gaming chip C of the present embodiment.
- the gaming chip Chas a multi-layer structure in which a plurality of plastic layers having different colors are stacked, a designated color layer 5501 (a colored layer) is arranged at least in the middle, and a common color layer (a white or light-colored layer) 5502 are stacked on both sides of the designated color layer 5501 in the middle.
- the designated color layer 5501may be formed by a plurality of layers colored in the designated color (three layers in FIG. 34 ). Since a plurality of layers colored in the designated color (three layers in FIG. 34 ) are thermocompression bonded to each other, the three-layer structure is not visible as illustrated in FIG. 34 , and FIG. 34 illustrates the three layers of the designated color layer 5501 for the sake of description. Further, a partial hollow B is formed in a middle layer among the three layers of the designated color layer 5501 , and a radio tag 5503 is installed in the partial hollow B.
- the inspection system 51inspects the gaming chips C each having the radio tag 5503 storing the gaming chip information therein and including a color 5501 or a display 5507 indicating a value on the outer surface in a state where the gaming chip C is stored in the case 5100 in which a maximum of the number of gaming chips to be stored is limited.
- the gaming chips Care stored in the case 5100 capable of containing a row of gaming chips C stacked in a thickness direction
- the inspection system 51includes a reading device 5221 that reads the radio tag 5503 of the gaming chip C in the case 5100 and acquires the gaming chip information of the gaming chip C and the determining unit 5222 that compares the gaming chip information acquired by the reading device 5221 with a maximum of the number of gaming chips storable in the case 5100 (it is set to a maximum of 100 in the present embodiment) and determines an abnormality of the gaming chip C in the case 5100 when the number of gaming chips C obtained from the gaming chip information acquired by the reading device 5221 is different from a maximum of the number of storable gaming chips ( 100 ).
- the inspection system 51further includes an information database 5303 of the radio tag 5503 which can refer to the information of the radio tag 5503 embedded in the gaming chip C, and the determining unit 5222 is configured to compare the gaming chip information of the gaming chip C read by the reading device 5221 with the information database 5303 of the radio tag 5503 and detect an abnormality of a gaming chip C of an inspection target.
- the information database 5303stores information of all the radio tags 5503 of the gaming chips used in the game hall in advance.
- the determining unit 5222has a function of comparing, when it is determined that there is an abnormal gaming chip C among the gaming chips C in the case 5100 , the information of the radio tags 5503 of all the gaming chips C in the case 5100 with the information database 5303 of the radio tag 5503 registered in advance and specifying the presence of an abnormal radio tag 5503 which is not stored in the information database of the radio tag 5503 .
- the determining unit 5222has a function of specifying, when it is determined that there is an abnormal gaming chip C among the gaming chips C in the case 5100 , the presence of an abnormal gaming chip C in which information from the radio tag 5503 is unable to be obtained among the gaming chips C in the case 5100 .
- the display unit 5223displays an abnormality when it is determined that there is an abnormal gaming chip C described above.
- a pass/fail result display screen 5800includes a total of the number of detections 5801 which is the number of pieces of information of the radio tag 5503 read out from the gaming chip C by the identifying unit 5230 and the number of unauthorized gaming chips C 5803 .
- FIGS. 36 and 37are diagrams illustrating an example of the pass/fail result display screen illustrating a result of determining the abnormality of the gaming chip in the identification content determining unit 5231 .
- the pass/fail result display screensare generated on the basis of the result of determining the abnormality of the gaming chip in the identification content determining unit 5231 by the determining unit 5222 and displayed on the display unit 5223 .
- FIG. 36illustrates an example of a display screen in the case of “pass”
- FIG. 37illustrates an example of a display screen in the case of “fail”.
- FIG. 38is a diagram illustrating an inspecting device 5400 according to another modified example.
- the inspecting device 5400inspects the gaming chip C having the radio tag 5503 storing the gaming chip information therein and including a color 5501 or a display 5507 indicating a value on the outer surface.
- the inspecting device 5400includes an inspection table 5427 capable of inspecting the gaming chip in a state where the gaming chips C are stacked in a row in the thickness direction, and a maximum of the number of stackable gaming chips is limited, a reading device 5421 that reads the radio tags 5503 of a row of gaming chips C and acquires the gaming chip information of a row of gaming chips C and a determining unit 5422 that compares the gaming chip information acquired by the reading device 5421 with a maximum of the number of stackable gaming chips of the inspection table 5427 (which is set to a maximum of 20 in the present embodiment) and determines the abnormality of the gaming chip C placed on the inspection table 5427 when the number of gaming chips C obtained from the gaming chip information acquired by the reading device 5421 is different from a maximum of the number of stackable gaming chips (20).
- the inspecting device 5400includes a number control plate 5425 that limits the maximum of the number of stackable gaming chips in the state in which the gaming chips C are placed in a row.
- An optical sensor 5426is installed in the inspecting device 5400 and determines a physical number of individual gaming chips C.
- the determining unit 5422has a function of determining that there is an abnormal gaming chip C among the gaming chips C placed in the inspection table 5427 when the gaming chip information of the gaming chip acquired by the reading device 5421 does not coincide with the physical information of the gaming chip C and outputting a determination result.
- FIG. 39is a diagram for describing an example of a use state of the inspection system 1 along with the distribution of the gaming chips C.
- the gaming chip Cis manufactured by a manufacturing device 5301 of a factory F (s 1 ), and 100 gaming chips C are contained in the case 5100 (s 2 ).
- the case 5100is sealed with a seal at the factory F after the gaming chips C are contained.
- the bar code BC indicating the case identification information uniquely identifying the case 5100is affixed to the side surface of the case 5100 (s 3 ).
- the case identification information of the bar code BC affixed to the case 5100is input to the manufacturing management device 5302 in the factory F (s 4 ). Further, the case 5100 containing the gaming chips C is transferred to the inspecting device 5200 , the gaming chip information (to be described later in detail) assigned to the gaming chip C is read, and the pass/fail inspection is performed. The gaming chip information read from the gaming chip C contained in the case 5100 is transferred to the manufacturing management device 5302 (s 5 ) and associated with the case identification information through the manufacturing management device 5302 .
- the manufacturing management device 5302may be a personal computer.
- the case 5100 determined to be pass in the inspecting device 5200 of the factory Fis conveyed from the factory F to a game hall P (s 6 ).
- the case 5100is first stored in a storage R in the game hall P (s 7 ).
- the inspecting device 5200is installed in the storage R, and the case 5100 that arrived from the factory F is inspected through the inspecting device 5200 .
- the information database 5303acquires the case identification information and the gaming chip information associated with the case identification information from the manufacturing management device 5302 for each of a plurality of cases 5100 containing the gaming chip C and includes a storage unit that stores the acquired information for each case 5100 .
- the information database 5303may be a personal computer.
- an inspectionis performed using the information stored in the information database 5303 .
- the case 5100 determined to be pass in the inspection in the storage Ris carried to a game table T (s 9 ) or carried to a cashier CA (s 10 ).
- Each of the game table T and the cashier CAincludes the inspecting device 5200 , and the case 5100 containing the gaming chip C is inspected by the inspecting devices 5200 in a sealed state.
- the case 5100 containing used gaming chips Cis also inspected, and the inspecting device 5200 is also used for the inspection.
- the case identification information transmitted from the manufacturing management device 5302 and stored in the information database 5303 and the gaming chip information associated with the case identification informationare referred to.
- the gaming chip Cincludes the identification information and/or the value information as the radio tag information.
- the identification informationis information uniquely specifying each gaming chip C
- the value informationis information that can overlap each other in a plurality of gaming chips C and can be regarded as information (group information) indicating a group to which each gaming chip belongs.
- group information of the associated groupinstead of the value or in addition to the value, for example, information of a gaming chip manufacturing time, a manufacturer, and/or a game hall in which a gaming chip is used may be employed.
- the radio tag informationmay include the identification information identifying the gaming chip or may include the group information indicating the group to which the gaming chip belongs.
- the inspecting device 5200may include a detecting unit that detects an unbroken seal affixed to the case 5100 .
- the detecting unitmay detect the seal optically or magnetically. In this case, when an unbroken seal is not detected by the detecting unit, the identification content determining unit 5231 determines that a plurality of gaming chips C contained in the case 5100 are fail.
- all the components of the inspecting device 5200are arranged in a single device as illustrated in FIG. 30 , but the components may be distributedly arranged.
- some or all of the determining unit 5222 , the display unit 5223 , and the communication unit 5229may be implemented by a personal computer connected to the inspecting device 5200 .
- the distributedly arranged componentsmay be connected to be able to perform wired or wireless communication or may be connected via a network such as the Internet.
- the display unit 5223may be a lamp that simply indicates only whether it is pass or fail or may be a lamp that performs digital display of the total of the number of detections 5801 , the number of authorized gaming chips C 5802 , and the number of unauthorized gaming chips C 5803 .
- the identification content determining unit 5231 of the above embodimentcan specify the number of each of the values of a plurality of gaming chips C contained in the case 5100 .
- the identification content determining unit 5231may calculate a total amount of the values of a plurality of gaming chips C contained in the case 5100 further on the basis of the number of each value. The calculated total amount may be displayed on the pass/fail result display screen (see FIGS. 36 and 37 ) displayed on the display unit 5233 .
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Description
- This nonprovisional application is based on Japanese Patent Application No. 2016-225540 filed with the Japan Patent Office on Nov. 18, 2016 and Japanese Patent Application No. 2017-100318 filed with the Japan Patent Office on Apr. 29, 2017, the entire contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference.
- The present invention relates to an inspection system and an inspecting device which are capable of inspecting a gaming chip (or game token), and more particularly, to an inspection system and an inspecting device which are capable of inspecting a gaming chip having a radio tag embedded therein or counting the number of gaming chips.
- A gaming chip having a radio tag storing identification information or type information therein is known (for example, JP 2008-246103 A).
- A gaming chip having a structure in which a radio tag is not easily extracted is disclosed in JP 2008-246103 A. Accordingly, a structure in which the radio tag hardly has a defect is implemented.
- However, when the number of gaming chips disclosed in JP 2008-246103 A is read by the radio tag, since the number of gaming chips is calculated on the basis of the read radio tag information, gaming chip information is unable to be acquired when the radio tag installed in the gaming chip is broken or when no radio tag is installed, and there is a problem in that there is a difference between the actual number of gaming chips and the number of gaming chips calculated by reading the radio tag.
- In this regard, it is an object of the present invention to provide an inspection system and an inspecting device which are capable of detecting whether or not the radio tag is broken.
- A first aspect of the present invention is an inspection system that inspects gaming chips each having a color or a display indicating a value on an outer surface in a state where the gaming chips are stored in a case in which a maximum of the number of gaming chips to be stored is limited, a radio tag storing gaming chip information being embedded in each of the gaming chips, the gaming chips being stored in the case capable of containing a row of gaming chips stacked in a thickness direction, the inspection system including: a reading device that reads the radio tag of the gaming chip in the case and acquires gaming chip information of the gaming chip; and a determining unit that compares the gaming chip information acquired by the reading device with a maximum of the number of gaming chips storable in the case and determines an abnormality of the gaming chip in the case when the number of gaming chips obtained from the gaming chip information acquired by the reading device is different from a maximum of the number of storable gaming chips.
- A second aspect of the present invention is the inspection system according to the first aspect, wherein the determining unit has a function of comparing a physical characteristic of the case or physical information of the gaming chip obtained from a physical measurement means other than the reading device with the number of physical information of the gaming chip obtained from the gaming chip information acquired by the reading device, determining that there is an abnormal gaming chip among the gaming chips contained in the case when both pieces of information do not coincide with each other, and outputting a determination result.
- A third aspect of the present invention is the inspection system according to the first aspect, wherein the physical information is a number or height which is obtained optically or a weight which is obtained by measurement.
- A fourth aspect of the present invention is the inspection system according to the first or second aspect, further including a radio tag information database which is able to refer to information of the radio tag embedded in the gaming chip, wherein the determining unit is configured to compare the gaming chip information of the gaming chip read by the reading device with the information of the radio tag information database and detect an abnormality of a gaming chip of an inspection target.
- A fifth aspect of the present invention is the inspection system according to the fourth aspect, wherein the determining unit has a function of comparing, when it is determined that there is an abnormal gaming chip among the gaming chips in the case, the information of the radio tags of all the gaming chips in the case with the radio tag information database registered in advance and specifying the presence of an abnormal radio tag which is not stored in the radio tag information database.
- A sixth aspect of the present invention is the inspection system according to the first or second aspect, wherein the determining unit has a function of specifying, when it is determined that there is an abnormal gaming chip among the gaming chips in the case, the presence of an abnormal gaming chip in which information from the radio tag is unable to be obtained among the gaming chips in the case.
- A seventh aspect of the present invention is the inspection system according to the first or second aspect, wherein the determining unit has a function of analyzing the information of the radio tag acquired by the reading device and issuing a signal when two or more gaming chips having the same information obtained from the radio tag are contained in the case.
- An eighth aspect of the present invention is the inspection system according to the fifth aspect, wherein the radio tag information database is an information database of radio tags of gaming chips being stored or used in a game hall, and the determining unit has a function of analyzing the information of the radio tag acquired by the reading device and issuing a signal when information obtained from the radio tag coincides with information of a radio tag of a gaming chip placed in a different place in the game hall.
- A ninth aspect of the present invention is an inspecting device that inspects gaming chips each having a color or a display indicating a value on an outer surface, a radio tag storing gaming chip information being embedded in each of the gaming chips, the inspecting device including: an inspection table capable of inspecting the gaming chips in a state where the gaming chips are stacked in a row in a thickness direction, and a maximum of the number of stackable gaming chips is limited; a reading device that reads the radio tags of the row of gaming chips and acquires the gaming chip information of the row of gaming chips; and a determining unit that compares the gaming chip information acquired by the reading device with a maximum of the number of stackable gaming chips of the inspection table and determines an abnormality of the gaming chip placed on the inspection table when the number of gaming chips obtained from the gaming chip information acquired by the reading device is different from a maximum of the number of stackable gaming chips.
- A tenth aspect of the present invention is the inspecting device according to the ninth aspect, wherein the determining unit has a function of determining, when the gaming chip information of the gaming chip acquired by the reading device does not coincide with physical information of the gaming chip, the presence of an abnormal gaming chip among the gaming chips placed on the inspection table and outputting a determination result.
- An eleventh aspect of the present invention is the inspecting device according to the tenth aspect, wherein the physical information is a number or height which is obtained optically or a weight which is obtained by measurement.
- A twelfth aspect of the present invention is the inspecting device according to the ninth or tenth aspect, further including a radio tag information database which is able to refer to information of the radio tag embedded in the gaming chip, wherein the determining unit is configured to compare the gaming chip information of the gaming chip read by the reading device with the information of the radio tag information database and detect an abnormality of a gaming chip of an inspection target placed on the inspection table.
- A thirteenth aspect of the present invention is the inspecting device according to the twelfth aspect, wherein the determining unit has a function of comparing, when it is determined that there is an abnormal gaming chip among the gaming chips on the inspection table, the information of the radio tags of all the gaming chips on the inspection table with the radio tag information database registered in advance and specifying the presence of an abnormal radio tag which is not stored in the radio tag information database.
- A fourteenth aspect of the present invention is the inspecting device according to the ninth or tenth aspect, wherein the determining unit has a function of specifying, when it is determined that there is an abnormal gaming chip among the gaming chips in the case, the presence of an abnormal gaming chip in which information from the radio tag is unable to be obtained among the gaming chips in the case.
- A fifteenth aspect of the present invention is the inspecting device according to the ninth of tenth aspect, wherein the determining unit has a function of analyzing the information of the radio tag acquired by the reading device and issuing a signal when two or more gaming chips having the same information obtained from the radio tag are contained in the case.
- A sixteenth aspect of the present invention is the inspecting device according to the twelfth aspect, wherein the radio tag information database is an information database of radio tags of gaming chips being stored or used in a game hall, and the determining unit has a function of analyzing the information of the radio tag acquired by the reading device and issuing a signal when information obtained from the radio tag coincides with information of a radio tag of a gaming chip placed in a different place in the game hall.
- A seventeenth aspect of the present invention is a gaming chip that is inspectable by the inspection system according to any one of the first to eighth aspects in a state where the gaming chip is stored in a case in which a maximum of the number of gaming chips is limited, a radio tag storing gaming chip information embedded in the gaming chip, a color or a display indicating a value being arranged on an outer surface of the gaming chip.
FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of an inspection system according to a first embodiment of the present invention;FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a gaming chip according to the first embodiment of the present invention;FIG. 3 is a side view of a gaming chip according to the first embodiment of the present invention;FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of an image obtained by photographing a plurality of gaming chips in the first embodiment of the present invention;FIG. 5 is a diagram for describing a configuration of code information according to the first embodiment of the present invention;FIG. 6 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of an inspecting device according to the first embodiment of the present invention;FIG. 7 is a perspective view of a case according to the first embodiment of the present invention;FIG. 8 is a perspective view of a case according to a modified example of the first embodiment of the present invention;FIG. 9 is a plan view of a case according to a modified example of the first embodiment of the present invention;FIG. 10 is a diagram for describing an example of a use state of an inspection system together with the distribution of gaming chips in the first embodiment of the present invention;FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating an example of content of information stored in a use management device according to the first embodiment of the present invention;FIG. 12 is a diagram illustrating an example of content of read information according to the first embodiment of the present invention;FIG. 13 is a diagram for describing a first pass/fail determination method according to the first embodiment of the present invention;FIG. 14 is a diagram for describing a second pass/fail determination method according to the first embodiment of the present invention;FIG. 15 is a diagram for describing a third pass/fail determination method according to the first embodiment of the present invention;FIG. 16 is a diagram for describing a fourth pass/fail determination method according to the first embodiment of the present invention;FIG. 17 is a diagram for describing a fifth pass/fail determination method according to the first embodiment of the present invention;FIG. 18 is a diagram illustrating an example of a pass/fail result display screen illustrating a pass/fail determination result (pass) according to the first embodiment of the present invention;FIG. 19 is a diagram illustrating an example of a pass/fail result display screen illustrating a pass/fail determination result (fail) according to the first embodiment of the present invention;FIG. 20 is a diagram illustrating a modified example of an RFID antenna of the inspecting device according to the first embodiment of the present invention;FIG. 21 is a side view of a gaming chip according to a modified example of the first embodiment of the present invention;FIG. 22 is a side sectional view of a gaming chip according to a modified example in the first embodiment of the present invention;FIG. 23 is a perspective view of a gaming chip according to a modified example of the first embodiment of the present invention;FIG. 24 is a side view of a gaming chip according to a modified example of the first embodiment of the present invention;FIG. 25 is a plan view of a gaming chip according to a modified example of the first embodiment of the present invention;FIG. 26 is a diagram illustrating an example of an image obtained by photographing stacked gaming chips in the first embodiment of the present invention;FIG. 27 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of an inspection system according to a modified example of the first embodiment of the present invention;FIG. 28 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of an inspection system according to a modified example of the first embodiment of the present invention;FIG. 29 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of an inspection system according to a second embodiment of the present invention;FIG. 30 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of an inspecting device according to the second embodiment of the present invention;FIG. 31 is a perspective view of a case according to the second embodiment of the present invention;FIG. 32 is a perspective view of a case according to a modified example of the second embodiment of the present invention;FIG. 33 is a plan view of a case according to a modified example of the second embodiment of the present invention;FIG. 34 is a side sectional view of a gaming chip according to the second embodiment of the present invention;FIG. 35 is a diagram illustrating an example of an image obtained by photographing stacked gaming chips according to the second embodiment of the present invention;FIG. 36 is a diagram illustrating an example of a pass/fail result display screen illustrating a pass/fail determination result (pass) according to the second embodiment of the present invention;FIG. 37 is a diagram illustrating an example of a pass/fail result display screen illustrating a pass/fail determination result (fail) according to the second embodiment of the present invention;FIG. 38 is a diagram for describing an example of a use state of an inspection system together with the distribution of gaming chips according to the second embodiment of the present invention; andFIG. 39 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of an inspecting device according to another example of the second embodiment of the present invention.- Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings. Further, embodiments to be described below are merely examples for carrying out the present invention, and the present invention is not limited to a specific configuration to be described below. When the present invention is carried out, a concrete configuration according to an embodiment may be appropriately employed.
- A first embodiment relates to an inspection system and an inspecting device which are capable of inspecting a gaming chip, and more particularly to, an inspection system and an inspecting device which are capable of inspecting a plurality of gaming chips contained in a case.
- Gaming chips used in game halls such as casinos are manufactured in factories and then transported to game halls, stored in a storage, and moved from the storage to cashiers or game tables in the hall, but it is necessary to prevent gaming chips from being stolen or being replaced with fake gaming chips in the process of transporting, storing, and moving. To this end, a case containing gaming chips is used. If a plurality of gaming chips are contained in the case and, then the case is sealed, it is possible to discover a situation in which the gaming chips are withdrawn from the case after the sealing.
- As a gaming chip in which a radio tag storing identification information or type information is internally installed, and optically readable code information indicating the identification information or the type information is assigned to a side surface is known (for example, JP 2009-66172 A).
- A system using a gaming chip is disclosed in JP 2009-66172 A. In the system, the number of gaming chips placed on a betting board of a game table is calculated on the basis of identification information stored in a radio tag, the number of gaming chips is calculated on the basis of identification information assigned to a side surface, and the calculated numbers of gaming chips are compared. Accordingly, it is possible to detect an unauthorized gaming chip when the unauthorized gaming chip is used in the game table.
- However, since the system disclosed in JP 2009-66172 A detects a fraud by calculating the number of bet gaming chips (placed on the betting board), the system is unable to inspect a plurality of gaming chips contained in the case in a state where the gaming chips are contained in the case and detect the unauthorized gaming chip.
- In this regard, it is an object of the first embodiment to provide an inspection system and an inspecting device which are capable of inspecting a plurality of gaming chips contained in a case in a state where the gaming chips are contained in the case.
- An inspection system according to a first aspect of the first embodiment is an inspection system that inspects a gaming chip having at least first gaming chip information and second gaming chip information, the second gaming chip information is arranged on a side surface of the gaming chip in an optically readable form, the inspection system includes a case that contains a plurality of gaming chips in a stacked manner and an inspecting device that inspects the gaming chip contained in the case, wherein the inspecting device includes a first reading device that acquires the first gaming chip information of the gaming chip contained in the case, a second reading device that optically reads the side surface of the gaming chip contained in the case and acquires the second gaming chip information, and a determining unit that determines whether a plurality of gaming chips contained in the case are pass or fail by determining the authenticity or damages of all the gaming chips contained the case or the number of gaming chips for each value using the first gaming chip information acquired by the first reading device and the second gaming chip information acquired by the second reading device.
- With this configuration, since both the first reading unit and the second reading unit acquire the first gaming chip information and the second gaming chip information from the gaming chip contained in the case, it is possible to inspect the gaming chips contained in the case. Further, since two pieces of information, that is, the first gaming chip information and the second gaming chip information are acquired from the gaming chip, and the inspection is performed, the pass/fail determination can be reliably performed.
- In an inspection system according to a second aspect of the first embodiment, in the inspection system of the first aspect, the first gaming chip information and the second gaming chip information in a common gaming chip include common information, and the determining unit determines that a plurality of gaming chips contained in the case are fail when common information portions of a plurality of pieces of first gaming chip information acquired by the first reading device do not coincide with common information portions of a plurality of pieces of second gaming chip information acquired by the second reading device.
- With this configuration, when an unauthorized gaming chip in which the common information portion of the first gaming chip information does not coincide with the common information portion of the second gaming chip information is contained in the case, the determining unit can determine that the gaming chips contained in the case are fail.
- For example, when common identification information is recorded in the radio tag and the side surface, fail is determined if a plurality of pieces of identification information read out from a plurality of radio tags do not coincide completely with a plurality of pieces of identification information read out from a plurality of side surfaces. Further, when a value of the gaming chip is recorded in the radio tag and the side surface, fail is determined if the number of each value read from the radio tag does not coincide with the number of each value read from the side surface.
- In an inspection system according to a third aspect of the first embodiment, in the inspection system of the first aspect, both or either of the first gaming chip information and the second gaming chip information includes individual identification information individually identifying the gaming chip.
- In an inspection system according to a fourth aspect of the first embodiment, in the inspection system of the first aspect, the second gaming chip information includes information indicated by a designated color indicating the value of the gaming chip and is information indicating the value of the gaming chip through the designated color.
- In an inspection system according to a fifth aspect of the first embodiment, in the inspection system of the third aspect, both the first gaming chip information and the second gaming chip information include individual identification information, and a plurality of gaming chips contained in the case are determined to be fail when the individual identification information of a plurality of pieces of first gaming chip information acquired by the first reading device does not coincide with the individual identification information of a plurality of pieces of second gaming chip information acquired by the second reading device.
- With this configuration, when an unauthorized gaming chip in which the individual identification information of the first gaming chip information does not coincide with the individual identification information of the second gaming chip information is contained in the case, the determining unit determines that the gaming chips contained in the case are fail.
- In the inspection system of the first aspect, an inspection system according to a sixth aspect of the first embodiment includes a storage unit that stores the individual identification information of at least the first gaming chip information or the second gaming chip information of a plurality of gaming chips to be contained in the case, and the determining unit determines that a plurality of gaming chips contained in the case are fail when the individual identification information of a plurality of pieces of first gaming chip information acquired by the first reading device or a plurality of pieces of second gaming chip information acquired by the second reading device does not coincide with the individual identification information of the first gaming chip information or the second gaming chip information stored in the storage unit.
- With this configuration, when an unauthorized gaming chip in which the first gaming chip information or the second gaming chip information is incorrect is contained in a case, the determining unit can determine that the gaming chips contained in the case are fail.
- For example, when the individual identification information indicated by characters is recorded in the radio tag, and the individual identification information indicated by numbers is recorded on the side surface, a plurality of pieces of individual identification information indicated by characters are stored in the storage unit for the radio tag for each case, a plurality of pieces of individual identification information indicated by numbers are stored for the side surface, and fail is determined when a plurality of pieces of individual identification information read out from a plurality of radio tags do not coincide with a plurality of pieces of individual identification information stored in the storage unit for the radio tag of the case or when a plurality of pieces of individual identification information read out from a plurality of side surfaces do not coincide with a plurality of pieces of individual identification information stored in the storage unit for the side surface of the case.
- In the inspection system of the first aspect, an inspection system according to a seventh aspect of the first embodiment further includes a storage unit that stores a correspondence relation between the first gaming chip information and the second gaming chip information, and the determining unit determines that the plurality of gaming chips contained in the case are fail when a plurality of pieces of first gaming chip information acquired by the first reading device and a plurality of pieces of second gaming chip information acquired by the second reading device do not coincide with the correspondence relation stored in the storage unit.
- With this configuration, when a gaming chip in which the correspondence relation between the first gaming chip information and the second gaming chip information is inaccurate is contained in the case, fail can be determined.
- For example, when the identification information is recorded in the radio tag, and the value is recorded in the side surface, any value is allocated to each piece of identification information and stored in the storage unit, the number of each value is obtained with reference to the storage unit for a plurality of pieces of identification information read out from the plurality of radio tags, and fail is determined when the number of each value read out from the side surface does not coincide with the obtained number of each value. Conversely, the same applies when the value is recorded in the radio tag, and the identification information is recorded in the side surface. In these cases, the storage unit need not store which case contains a gaming chip of which identification information.
- In an inspection system according to an eighth aspect of the first embodiment, in the inspection system of any one of the first to seventh aspects, the determining unit determines that a plurality of gaming chips contained in the case are fail when the number of pieces of the first gaming chip information acquired by the first reading device and the number of pieces of the second gaming chip information acquired by the second reading device are not a predetermined number.
- With this configuration, when the gaming chip is withdrawn from the case or the gaming chip is added to the case, the determining unit can determine that the gaming chips contained in the case are fail.
- For example, when the number of gaming chips contained in the case is 100, fail is determined when any one of the number of pieces of the first gaming chip information read from the radio tag and the number of pieces of the second gaming chip information read from the side surface is not 100.
- In an inspection system according to a ninth aspect of the first embodiment, in the inspection system of any of the first to eighth aspects, the gaming chip includes color information indicating the value of the gaming chip as the second gaming chip information, and includes value information identifying the value of the gaming chip as the first gaming chip information, and the determining unit determines that a plurality of gaming chips contained in the case are fail when the color information does not coincide with the value information of the first gaming chip information.
- In an inspection system according to a tenth aspect of the first embodiment, in the inspection system of the ninth aspect, the second gaming chip information further includes value information of the gaming chip in addition to the color information, and the determining unit determines that a plurality of gaming chips contained in the case are fail when the value of the gaming chip indicated by the color information in the second gaming chip information does not coincide with both or either of the value information of the second gaming chip information and the value information of the first gaming chip information.
- In an inspection system according to an eleventh aspect of the first embodiment, in the inspection system of any one of the first to tenth aspects, the gaming chip includes a radio tag having the first gaming chip information.
- In an inspection system according to a twelfth aspect of the first embodiment, in the inspection system of any one of the first to eleventh aspects, at least either or both of the first gaming chip information and the second gaming chip information include group information indicating a group to which the gaming chip belongs, and the group is a group classified in accordance with the value of the gaming chip, a manufacturing time, a manufacturer, and/or a use game hall.
- In an inspection system according to a thirteenth aspect of the first embodiment, in the inspection system of the tenth aspect, the determining unit determines that a plurality of gaming chips contained in the case are fail when the color information does not coincide with at least of the value information or common information of the first gaming chip information and the second gaming chip information, and individual identification information.
- In an inspection system according to a fourteenth aspect of the first embodiment, in the inspection system of the tenth aspect, the determining unit determines the number of a plurality of gaming chips contained in the case for each value or a total amount of the values of all the gaming chips on the basis of the color information or the value information of the first gaming chip information or the second gaming chip information.
- In an inspection system according to a fifteenth aspect of the first embodiment, in the inspection system of the first aspect, the second gaming chip information includes information indicated by a designated color indicating a value of the gaming chip on a side surface of the gaming chip and is information indicating the value of gaming chip through the designated color, and the second reading device includes a camera that photographs the side surfaces of a plurality of gaming chips contained in the case and an identifying unit that analyzes an image captured by the camera, specifies the designated color of each of the plurality of gaming chips, and specifying the values of the plurality of gaming chips in accordance with the specified designated colors.
- With this configuration, the determining unit can perform pass/fail determination using the value information of the gaming chip.
- In an inspection system according to a sixteenth aspect of the first embodiment, in the inspection system of the fifteenth aspect, the designated color indicating the second gaming chip information is interposed, in a thickness direction of the gaming chip, between common colors which are commonly assigned to gaming chips having different values in the side surface of the gaming chip.
- With this configuration, even when a plurality of gaming chips are stacked in the case, the identifying unit can specify types of a plurality of gaming chips in the case by extracting the designated color interposed between the common colors from the image of the side surface.
- In an inspection system according to a seventeenth aspect of the first embodiment, in the inspection system of the first aspect, the second gaming chip information is notation information which is inscribed on the side surface to be optically readable, and the second reading device includes a camera that photographs the side surfaces of a plurality of gaming chips stacked and contained in the case and an identifying unit that analyzes the image captured by the camera, specifies the notation information of each of the plurality of gaming chips, and specifies the second gaming chip information of each of a plurality of gaming chips in accordance with the specified notation information.
- With this configuration, the determining unit can perform the pass/fail determination using the notation information of the gaming chip.
- In an inspection system according to an eighteenth aspect of the first embodiment, in the inspection system of the seventeenth aspect, the notation information is inscribed using infrared reaction ink which emits in response to infrared rays or infrared absorption ink which absorbs infrared rays, and the camera is an infrared camera.
- With this configuration, it is possible to cause identification information attached to the side surface to be invisible under natural light.
- In an inspection system according to a nineteenth aspect of the first embodiment, in the inspection system of the seventeenth aspect, the notation information is inscribed using ink that emits light in response to ultraviolet rays, and the inspecting device includes an ultraviolet irradiating unit that irradiates the side surfaces of a plurality of gaming chips contained in the case with ultraviolet rays.
- With this configuration, it is possible to cause identification information attached to the side surface to be invisible under natural light.
- In an inspection system according to a twentieth aspect of the first embodiment, in the inspection system of the first aspect, the case has a seal which is broken when the case is opened to allow the contained gaming chip to be withdrawn, and the inspecting device further includes a detecting unit that detects an unbroken seal, and the determining unit determines that a plurality of gaming chips contained in the case are fail when the unbroken seal is not detected by the detecting unit.
- With this configuration, when the seal is broken, the determining unit can determine that the gaming chips contained in the case are fail.
- In an inspection system according to a twenty-first aspect of the first embodiment, in the inspection system of the first aspect, the case includes a light transmitting portion, and the second reading device optically reads the side surface of the gaming chip contained in the case through the light transmitting portion.
- With this configuration, the second gaming chip information can be read in a state where the case is closed.
- In the inspection system of the twenty-first aspect, an inspection system according to a twenty-second aspect of the first embodiment is an inspection system according to the twenty-first aspect, wherein the light transmission portion is configured with a transparent member.
- With this configuration, it is possible to provide a sealed structure including the light transmitting portion in the case.
- In an inspection system according to a twenty-third aspect of the first embodiment, in the inspection system of the first aspect, the inspecting device includes a case receiving portion that receives the case.
- With this configuration, when the case is arranged in the case receiving portion, the first gaming chip information and the second gaming chip information can be read.
- In an inspection system according to a twenty-fourth aspect of the first embodiment, in the inspection system of the twenty-first aspect, the case is portable.
- With this configuration, it is possible to inspect the gaming chips in the case at an arbitrary point in the process of moving the case from a factory to a table or a cashier.
- In an inspection system according to a twenty-fifth aspect of the first embodiment, in the inspection system of the first aspect, the case is a two-stage chip float or chip tray holding the gaming chips in the game table.
- An inspection system according to a twenty-sixth aspect of the first embodiment is an inspection system that inspects gaming chips to which a designated color indicating a value on a side surface and notation information inscribed to be optically readable are assigned and includes a case that contains a plurality of gaming chips in a stacked manner and an inspecting device that inspects the gaming chips contained in the case, wherein the inspecting device includes a camera that photographs the side surfaces of the gaming chips contained in the case, an identifying unit that analyzes an image captured by the camera and specifies the designated color and the notation information of each of the plurality of gaming chips, and a determining unit that determines whether the gaming chips are pass or fail for each case on the basis of the designated color and the notation information specified by the identifying unit.
- With this configuration, since the identifying unit specifies the designated color and the notation information for the gaming chips contained in the case, it is possible to inspect the gaming chips contained in the case. Further, since two pieces of information, that is, the designated color and the notation information are specified from the side surface of the gaming chip, and the inspection is performed, the pass/fail determination can be performed reliably.
- An inspection system according to a twenty-seventh aspect of the first embodiment is an inspection system that inspects gaming chips to which a designated color indicating a value on a side surface is assigned, a radio tag storing gaming chip information being embedded in each of the gaming chips, and the inspection system includes a case that contains a plurality of gaming chips in a stacked manner and an inspecting device that inspects the gaming chips contained in the case, wherein the inspecting device includes a reading unit that reads a radio tag of the gaming chip contained in the case and acquires the gaming chip information, a camera that photographs the side surfaces of the gaming chips contained in the case, an identifying unit that analyzes an image captured by the camera and specifies the designated color of each of the plurality of gaming chips, and a determining unit that determines whether the gaming chips are pass or fail for each case on the basis of the gaming chip information acquired by the reading unit and the designated color specified by the identifying unit.
- With this configuration, since the reading unit acquires the gaming chip information from the gaming chip contained in the case, and the identifying unit also specifies the designated color for the gaming chip contained in the case, it is possible to inspect the gaming chips contained in the case. Further, since two pieces of information, that is, the gaming chip information and the designated color are specified from the side surface of the gaming chip, and the inspection is performed, the pass/fail determination can be performed reliably.
- An inspecting device according to a twenty-eighth aspect of the first embodiment is an inspecting device that inspects a plurality of gaming chips contained in a case in a stacked manner, a radio tag storing first gaming chip information being embedded in each of the gaming chips, optically readable second gaming chip information being assigned to a side surface of the gaming chip, and the inspecting device includes a first reading device that reads the radio tags of a plurality of gaming chips contained in the case and acquires the first gaming chip information, a second reading device that optically reads the side surfaces of a plurality of gaming chips contained in the case and acquires the second gaming chip information, and a determining unit that determines whether the gaming chips are pass or fail for each case on the basis of the first gaming chip information acquired by the first reading device and the second gaming chip information acquired by the second reading device.
- With this configuration, since both the first reading unit and the second reading unit acquire the first gaming chip information and the second gaming chip information from the gaming chips contained in the case, it is possible to inspect the gaming chips contained in the case. Further, since two pieces of information, that is, the first gaming chip information and the second gaming chip information are acquired from the gaming chips, and the inspection is performed, the pass/fail determination can be reliably performed.
- An inspecting device according to a twenty-ninth aspect of the first embodiment is an inspecting device that inspect a plurality of gaming chips contained in a case in a stacked manner, a designated color indicating a value on a side surface and optically readable notation information being assigned to each of the gaming chips, and the inspecting device includes a camera that photographs the side surfaces of a plurality of gaming chips contained in the case, an identifying unit that analyzes an image captured by the camera and specifies the designated color and the notation information of each of the plurality of gaming chips, and a determining unit that determines whether the gaming chips are pass or fail for each case on the basis of the designated color and the notation information specified by the identifying unit.
- An inspecting device according to a thirtieth aspect of the first embodiment is an inspecting device that inspects a plurality of gaming chips contained in a case in a stacked manner, a radio tag storing gaming chip information being embedded in each of the gaming chips, a designated color indicating a value on a side surface being assigned to each of the gaming chips, and the inspecting device includes a reading unit that reads the radio tags of a plurality of gaming chips contained in the case and acquires the gaming chip information, a camera that photographs the side surfaces of a plurality of gaming chips contained in the case, an identifying unit that analyzes an image captured by the camera and specifies the designated color of each of the plurality of gaming chips, and a determining unit that determines whether the gaming chips are pass or fail for each case on the basis of the gaming chip information acquired by the reading unit and the designated color specified by the identifying unit.
- An inspection system according to a thirty first aspect of the first embodiment is an inspection system that inspects gaming chip, a radio tag storing gaming chip information being embedded in each of the gaming chips, and the inspection system includes a case that contains a plurality of gaming chips in a stacked manner and an inspecting device that inspects the gaming chips contained in the case, wherein the inspecting device includes a reading unit that reads the radio tags of the gaming chips contained in the case and acquires the gaming chip information, and a determining unit that determines whether the gaming chips are pass or fail for each case on the basis of the gaming chip information acquired by the reading unit, and a storage unit that stores the gaming chip information of a plurality of gaming chips to be contained in the case, and the determining unit determines that a plurality of gaming chips contained in the case are fail when a plurality of pieces of gaming chip information acquired by the reading unit do not coincide with the gaming chip information stored in the storage unit.
- An inspecting device according to a thirty second aspect of the first embodiment is an inspecting device that inspects a plurality of gaming chips contained in a case in a stacked manner, a radio tag storing gaming chip information being embedded in each of the gaming chips, and the inspecting device includes a reading unit that reads the radio tags of a plurality of gaming chips contained in the case and acquires the gaming chip information and a determining unit that determines whether the gaming chips are pass or fail for each case on the basis of the gaming chip information acquired by the reading unit.
FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of an inspection system according to an embodiment of the present invention. Aninspection system 1 includes acase 100 that contains gaming chips in a stacked state and an inspectingdevice 200 that inspects a plurality of gaming chips contained in thecase 100 in the stacked state in a state where the gaming chips are contained in thecase 100.- The
case 100 has a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape and is made of transparent resin. Thecase 100 contains disc shaped gaming chips C in a stacked state. In thecase 100, five columns each containing20 gaming chips C are formed, and a total of100 gaming chips C can be contained. Thecase 100 can be carried (portable) in a state where the gaming chips C are contained. Thecase 100 includes anupper portion 101 and alower portion 102 which are separable, and when theupper portion 101 and thelower portion 102 are separated, the gaming chips C can be contained in thecase 100, and the gaming chips C can be withdrawn from thecase 100. - The inspecting
device 200 includes a receivingunit 210 and amain body portion 220. The inspectingdevice 200 can receive thecase 100 through the receivingunit 210. The receivingunit 210 has a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape in which an upper surface and a front surface are opened as a whole, and the receivingunit 210 is formed by left andright side walls 211, abottom portion 212, and aninner wall 213 and has a width, a height, and a depth in which thecase 100 can fit exactly. - The
main body portion 220 is installed behind theinner wall 213 of the receivingunit 210 and includes anRFID reader 221, acomputer 222, and adisplay unit 223. Themain body portion 220 further includes aninfrared camera 225 and a visiblelight camera 226. Theinfrared camera 225 and the visiblelight camera 226 are attached to the end of anarm 227 to photograph the side surface of the gaming chip C contained in thecase 100 from the upper surface side of thecase 100 contained in the receivingunit 210. - The
RFID reader 221, thedisplay unit 223, theinfrared camera 225, and the visiblelight camera 226 are connected to thecomputer 222. AnRFID antenna 224 is connected to theRFID reader 221. TheRFID antenna 224 extends from theRFID reader 221 and extends spirally in the left andright sidewalls 211. In other words, aspiral RFID antenna 224 is laid in each of the left andright sidewalls 211, and eachRFID antenna 224 is connected to theRFID reader 221. - The
display unit 223 includes a liquid crystal panel. A touch sensor may be installed on the liquid crystal panel, and thedisplay unit 223 may be configured as a touch panel. FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the gaming chip C according to an embodiment of the present invention, andFIG. 3 is a side view of the gaming chip C according to an embodiment of the present invention. The gaming chip C has a designatedcolor layer 501 which is characterized by a designated color in the middle and acommon color layer 502 which is characterized by a common color on both sides of the designatedcolor layer 501 in the middle in a thickness direction (upper and lower sides inFIG. 3 ), and a stripe pattern (in the thickness direction) is formed on the side surface.- An
RFID tag 503 is inserted between the designatedcolor layer 501 and onecommon color layer 502 of the gaming chip C as a radio tag. For example, individual identification information individually identifying (uniquely specifying) the gaming chip C and value (type) information are stored in theRFID tag 503 as the gaming chip information of the gaming chip C. Atransparent layer 504 is formed as the outermost layer of the gaming chip C. In other words, the gaming chip C includes the designatedcolor layer 501 which is an intermediate layer, thecommon color layers 502 sandwiching the designatedcolor layer 501 from both sides, and thetransparent layers 504 which are the outermost layers of both sides. - The gaming chip C is formed such that five elongated layers of plastic materials (the
transparent layer 504, thecommon color layer 502, the designatedcolor layer 501, thecommon color layer 502, and the transparent layer504) are stacked, theRFID tag 503 is arranged between the designatedcolor layer 501 and onecommon color layer 502 at a predetermined interval at that time, and the five layers of plastic materials are thermocompression bonded and then punched into a circular shape, a rectangular shape, or the like through a press so that oneRFID tag 503 is included in one gaming chip C. When the punching is performed through the press, dimensions of a die and a punch of a mold for punching are designed, and R treatment (rounded corner) is applied to the end of thetransparent layer 504 of the outermost layer. - The
transparent layer 504 may be formed by thermocompression bonding three layers including the designatedcolor layer 501 and the twocommon color layers 502 and then applying varnish to the surface. Further, the designatedcolor layer 501 and the twocommon color layers 502 may not be separate members, and the designatedcolor layer 501 and the twocommon color layers 502 may be formed by applying the designated color (and the common color) to the side surface through inkjet printing or the like after the designatedcolor layer 501 and the twocommon color layers 502 are integrally formed. - The designated
color layer 501 indicates the value (type) of the gaming chip C using a color (a designated color). In other words, the color of the designatedcolor layer 501 is set to a different color (red, green, yellow, blue, or the like) in accordance with the value of the gaming chip C, and thus it is possible to specify the value of the gaming chip C (10 points, 20 points, 100 points, 1000 points, or the like) by checking the color of the designatedcolor layer 501 optically read from the side surface of the gaming chip C. A color common to the gaming chips C having different values (a common color) is assigned to thecommon color layer 502. The common color is preferably a color lighter than any designated color, and the common color is white in the present embodiment. Code information 505 indicating the gaming chip information of the gaming chip C is further inscribed on the side surface of the gaming chip C (specifically, thecommon color layer 502 of the side surface). Thecode information 505 indicates information by arranging a plurality of marks (square marks in the present embodiment). Since the designatedcolor layer 501 indicates information (the value of the gaming chip C) with color, whereas thecode information 505 indicates information with a mark inscribed on the side surface, thecode information 505 can be regarded as notation information. Examples of the notation information include a plurality of character strings, a numeric string, and a bar code.- The
code information 505 of the present embodiment is repeatedly inscribed with a cycle of 60° in a circumferential direction of the gaming chip C. Accordingly, theperfect code information 505 is included within a range of 120° in the circumferential direction regardless of a direction in which the side surface of the gaming chip C is observed in the circumferential direction. A repetition cycle of the gaming chip C is not limited to 60° and may be repeatedly inscribed at equal intervals in the circumferential direction at least three times. - The
code information 505 is inscribed using invisible ink. In the present embodiment, printing is performed by inkjet printing using infrared absorbing ink (specifically, carbon black) that absorbs infrared rays as the invisible ink. Since only a portion on which thecode information 505 is printed does not reflect infrared rays, thecode information 505 floats when the side surface of the gaming chip C is photographed by theinfrared camera 225. In order to cause the printed portion to float clearly, theinfrared camera 225 may be equipped with an infrared lamp and irradiate the side surface of the gaming chip C to be photographed with infrared rays. - Further, the invisible ink is not limited to the infrared absorbing ink and may be, for example, infrared reaction ink that emits fluorescence in response to infrared rays or UV ink which emits fluorescence in response to ultraviolet rays. In the case of using the UV ink, the ultraviolet camera is used in place of the
infrared camera 225, and black light which irradiates the side surface of the gaming chip C with ultraviolet rays is used to cause the UV ink to emit fluorescence. - Further, in the gaming chip C, a mark m′ using the UV ink or the carbon black ink is formed on a surface X of the
common color layer 502. The mark m′ indicates whether thegaming chip 5 is true or false, and the mark m′ becomes visible when irradiated with ultraviolet rays (or infrared rays), and it is indicated whether thegaming chip 5 is true or false in accordance with a combination of shapes of the mark m′ and the number of marks m′. Thetransparent layer 504 is thermocompression bonded or applied on the outermost layer so as to cover a print506 (such as 100 points) for specifying the game hall or the mark m′ on the surface, but embossing treatment or vanish treatment is applied to thetransparent layer 504, and thus the gaming chips C are prevented from adhering to each other, and slipping is further improved. - The R treatment (R) is performed on the end of the
transparent layer 504 of the outermost layer which has undergone a print506 (100 points or the like), and the surface of thecommon color layer 502 is prevented from being deformed in the process of punching the gaming chip C and appearing on the side surface. Further, a sharp edge of the gaming chip C is prevented from remaining and damaging a hand and other gaming chips C. The designatedcolor layer 501 may be formed by one or a plurality of colored layers. Further, metal or ceramics for increasing the weight of the layer may be formed in the layer of the designatedcolor layer 501. Further, theRFID tag 503 may be installed in a space which is formed in a part of the designatedcolor layer 501 or between the designatedcolor layer 501 and thecommon color layer 502. FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of an image obtained by photographing a plurality of gaming chips C contained in thecase 100 through theinfrared camera 225 and the visiblelight camera 226. In this case, thecase 100 may be a two-stage chip float (an upper tray portion which is particularly movable in a two-stage chip tray) or a chip tray which holds the gaming chip C in the game table. Even when the gaming chip C is stacked in thecase 100 in the vertical direction as illustrated inFIG. 4 , theinfrared camera 225 and the visiblelight camera 226 can photograph thecode information 505. Further, it is possible to count the number of gaming chips C by counting the designatedcolor layer 501 in the vertical direction. Even with the two-stage tray, when each stage is developed, it is possible to capture the side surfaces of all the gaming chips C contained in thecase 100 through theinfrared camera 225 and the visiblelight camera 226.- In the present embodiment, the
code information 505 is indicated by the marks m arranged in a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns.FIG. 5 is a diagram for describing a configuration of thecode information 505. As illustrated inFIG. 5 , upper and lower marks m are paired to form one code element. In the example ofFIG. 5 , one piece ofcode information 505 is configured with a10-digit code element. There are four types of patterns of one code element constituted by a pair of upper and lower marks m, four types of information can be indicated by one code element as illustrated inFIG. 5 , and thus thecode information 505 configured with the 10-digit code element can indicate 10-th power of 4 types of information. A character Y on the side of the 10-digit code element is a direction determination mark Y for determining the direction of thecode information 505. FIG. 6 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of the inspectingdevice 200. The inspectingdevice 200 includes abar code reader 228 and acommunication unit 229 in addition to theRFID reader 221, thecomputer 222, thedisplay unit 223, theRFID antenna 224, theinfrared camera 225, and the visiblelight camera 226 illustrated inFIG. 1 . Further, thecomputer 222 is configured with a processor (not illustrated), a memory, and the like and functions as an identifyingunit 230 and a determiningunit 231 when the processor executes an inspection program.- An RFID system is configured with the
RFID reader 221, theRFID antenna 224, and theRFID tag 503 embedded in the gaming chip C. The gaming chip information of the gaming chip C stored in theRFID tag 503 embedded in the gaming chip C is read out by theRFID reader 221 in a non-contact manner and used for a process in thecomputer 222. - The
infrared camera 225 includes an infrared transmission filter that transmits only infrared light and captures an infrared image. The infrared image generated by the photographing of theinfrared camera 225 is transmitted to thecomputer 222 and used for a process of the identifyingunit 230. The visiblelight camera 226 captures an image of light of a visible region. A visible light image generated by the photographing of the visiblelight camera 226 is also transmitted to thecomputer 222 and used for a process of the identifyingunit 230. As illustrated inFIG. 1 , theinfrared camera 225 and the visiblelight camera 226 are directed toward thecase 100 above thecase 100, and photograph the side surfaces of a plurality of gaming chips C in thecase 100 over theupper portion 101 of thecase 100. - The
bar code reader 228 reads the bar code BC attached to thecase 100 and acquires case identification information to be described later. Thedisplay unit 223 displays a determination result of the determiningunit 231 of thecomputer 222. Thecommunication unit 229 communicates data with amanufacturing management device 302 installed in a factory F or ause management device 303 installed in a game hall P. FIG. 7 is a perspective view of acase 100. Thecase 100 is formed by combining theupper portion 101 and thelower portion 102. In the present embodiment, theupper portion 101 and thelower portion 102 are made of transparent resin. As described above, since theinfrared camera 225 and the visiblelight camera 226 of the inspectingdevice 200 of the present embodiment (hereinafter referred to simply as a “camera”) installed above the receivingunit 210, it is necessary for at least the upper surface of thecase 100 to transmit light. In other words, in thecase 100, a portion positioned between the receivingunit 210 of the inspectingdevice 200 and the camera when thecase 100 is received by the receivingunit 210 of the inspectingdevice 200 needs to be a light transmitting portion. In the present embodiment, thecase 100 has a sealed structure including theupper portion 101 and thelower portion 102, but the light transmission portion may be in a perforated state.- As described above, the
case 100 has a shape in which the five columns in which20 gaming chips C are stacked and contained are formed in parallel, and in the example ofFIG. 7 , a cross section of each column is polygonal (octagonal) so that theupper portion 101 and thelower portion 102 substantially follow the shape of the gaming chip C to be contained. FIG. 8 is a perspective view of acase 100′ according to a modified example, andFIG. 9 is a plan view of thecase 100′. Thecase 100′ also includes anupper portion 101′ and alower portion 102 made of a transparent resin. In the present modified example, the upper surface of theupper portion 101′ facing the camera is formed as a plane surface. Since the surface facing the camera is a plane surface, a linear shadow caused by a corner of a polygon cross section of thecase 100′ does not appear on the camera as illustrated inFIG. 9 , and it is possible to accurately identify information of the side surface of the gaming chip C in image analysis on a captured image of the camera.FIG. 10 is a diagram for describing an example of a use state of theinspection system 1 together with the distribution of the gaming chips C. The gaming chip C is manufactured by amanufacturing device 301 of a factory F (s1), and 100 gaming chips C are contained in the case100 (s2). Thecase 100 is sealed with a seal at the factory F after the gaming chips C are contained. Further, the bar code BC indicating the case identification information uniquely specifying thecase 100 is affixed to the side surface of the case100 (s3).- At this time, the case identification information of the bar code BC affixed to the
case 100 is input to themanufacturing management device 302 in the factory F (s4). Further, thecase 100 containing the gaming chips C is transferred to the inspectingdevice 200, the gaming chip information (to be described later in detail) assigned to the gaming chip C is read, and the pass/fail inspection is performed. The gaming chip information read from the gaming chip C contained in thecase 100 is transferred to the manufacturing management device302 (s5) and associated with the case identification information through themanufacturing management device 302. Themanufacturing management device 302 may be a personal computer. - The
case 100 determined to be pass in the inspectingdevice 200 of the factory F is conveyed from the factory F to a game hall P (s6). Thecase 100 is first stored in a storage R in the game hall P (s7). The inspectingdevice 200 is installed in the storage R, and thecase 100 that arrived from the factory F is inspected through the inspectingdevice 200. - Meanwhile, the case identification information and the gaming chip information associated with the case identification information are transmitted from the
manufacturing management device 302 in the factory F to theuse management device 303 in the game hall P. Theuse management device 303 acquires the case identification information and the gaming chip information associated with the case identification information from themanufacturing management device 302 for each of a plurality ofcases 100 containing the gaming chip C and includes a storage unit that stores the acquired information for eachcase 100. Theuse management device 303 may be a personal computer. - In the inspection performed by the inspecting
device 200 in the storage R, an inspection is performed using the information stored in theuse management device 303. Thecase 100 determined to be pass in the inspection in the storage R is carried to a game table T (s9) or carried to a cashier CA (s10). Each of the game table T and the cashier CA includes the inspectingdevice 200, and thecase 100 containing the gaming chip C is inspected by the inspectingdevices 200 in a sealed state. In the game table T and the cashier CA, thecase 100 containing used gaming chips C is also inspected, and the inspectingdevice 200 is also used for the inspection. In the inspection in the three inspectingdevices 200 in the game hall P, the case identification information transmitted from themanufacturing management device 302 and stored in theuse management device 303 and the gaming chip information associated with the case identification information are referred to. FIG. 11 is a diagram illustrating an example of content of information which is generated by themanufacturing management device 302, transmitted to theuse management device 303, and stored in theuse management device 303. Information is generated for eachcase 100, and the gaming chip information of a plurality of gaming chips C (100 gaming chips in the present embodiment) contained in thecase 100 is associated with each piece of case identification information (Ca1, Ca2, Ca3, . . . ).- As the gaming chip information, information including a combination of the individual identification information (aa, ab, ac, . . . , du, dv) uniquely specifying the gaming chip C and information (r, r, r, . . . , b, b) specifying the value (type) of the gaming chip C is stored in the
RFID tag 503, information including a combination of individual identification information (00001, 00002, 00003, . . . , 00099, 00100) uniquely specifying the gaming chip C and information (1, 1, 1, . . . , 2, 2) specifying the value (type) of the gaming chip is stored as the notation information of the side surface, and information (red, red, red, . . . , blue, blue) specifying the value (type) of the gaming chip C is stored as the color information of the side surface. - The information stored in the
RFID tag 503 is information which is electromagnetically readable by theRFID reader 221 and corresponds to first gaming chip information of the present invention, and the notation information assigned to the side surface and the color information are optically readable information and correspond to second gaming chip information of the present invention. FIG. 12 is a diagram illustrating an example of content of information acquired from onecase 100 through thebar code reader 228, theRFID reader 221, theinfrared camera 225, and the visiblelight camera 226 in the inspectingdevice 200. An English character string stored in theRFID tag 503 installed in each of a plurality of gaming chips C is read out from theRFID reader 221. A numeric string which is the notation information inscribed on the side surface is read out from theinfrared camera 225. Further, the color of the side surface is read out from the visiblelight camera 226. The identifyingunit 230 analyzes (the image of) the numeric string read out from theinfrared camera 225, identifies a number, specifies information including the numeric string, and specifies the designated color from the image of the side surface read out from the visiblelight camera 226.- Here, the notation information and the designated color information of the side surface of a plurality of gaming chips C can be acquired in accordance with an arrangement order of the gaming chips C in the
case 100, but the information acquired from a plurality of RFID tags503 is unable to be acquired in accordance with the arrangement order of the gaming chips C. In other words, it is difficult to specify a gaming chip C from which the information of theRFID tag 503 is obtained. - Next, a pass/fail determination method in the
computer 222 of the inspectingdevice 200 will be described. As described above, the identifyingunit 230 specifies the gaming chip information stored in the RFID tags503 of each of a plurality of gaming chips C contained in thecase 100 on the basis of a result of reading theRFID reader 221, analyzes the infrared image obtained by theinfrared camera 225, specifies the gaming chip information indicated by the notation information, analyzes the visible light image obtained by the visiblelight camera 226, and specifies the color of the designatedcolor layer 501. On the basis of the information, the determiningunit 231 determines the authenticity/damage of all the gaming chips contained in the case or the number of gaming chips of each value on the basis of the information, and determines whether thecase 100 is pass or fail. In the following description, the gaming chip information stored in theRFID tag 503 is referred to as “first gaming chip information”, and the notation information assigned to the side surface of the gaming chip C and the color information of the designatedcolor layer 501 are referred to as “second gaming chip information”. - In a first pass/fail determination method, the first gaming chip information and the second gaming chip information in the same gaming chip are the same information as illustrated in
FIG. 13 . In an example ofFIG. 13 , the first gaming chip information is information including the individual identification information and the value information of each gaming chip C, and the same content as the first gaming chip information is inscribed on the side surface in a form of the notation information as the second gaming chip information. - The
RFID reader 221 reads the first gaming chip information from theRFID tag 503 of the gaming chip C and outputs the first gaming chip information to the identifyingunit 230, theinfrared camera 225 photographs the side surface of the gaming chip C, and the identifyingunit 230 specifies the second gaming chip information. In this case, in the identifyingunit 230, a correspondence relation between a plurality of pieces of first gaming chip information and a plurality of pieces of second gaming chip information is unclear. - The determining
unit 231 compares a plurality of pieces of first gaming chip information obtained by the identifyingunit 230 with a plurality of pieces of second gaming chip information, and when a plurality of pieces of first gaming chip information completely correspond to a plurality of pieces of second gaming chip information in a one-to-one manner, that is, when all pieces of first gaming chip information coincide with any one of second gaming chip information without overlapping, the determiningunit 231 determines that a plurality of gaming chips C contained in thecase 100 are pass, but when a plurality of pieces of first gaming chip information obtained by the identifyingunit 230 do not completely coincide with a plurality of pieces of second gaming chip information, the determiningunit 231 determines that a plurality of gaming chips C contained in thecase 100 are fail. - As a case in which a plurality of pieces of first gaming chip information obtained by the identifying
unit 230 do not completely coincide with a plurality of pieces of second gaming chip information, there is a case in which any one of the gaming chips C contained in thecase 100 is a fake or a case in which theRFID tag 503 or the side surface of the gaming chip C is damaged. In other words, the determiningunit 231 determines whether a plurality of gaming chips C contained in thecase 100 are pass or fail by determining the authenticity/damage of all the gaming chips contained in thecase 100. - In a second pass/fail determination method, the first gaming chip information and the second gaming chip information in the same gaming chip C are the same information as illustrated in
FIG. 14 . In an example ofFIG. 14 , the first gaming chip information is the value information of each gaming chip C, and in each gaming chip C, the designated color is assigned to the designatedcolor layer 501 of the side surface as the second gaming chip information. - The
RFID reader 221 reads out the first gaming chip information from theRFID tag 503 of the gaming chip C and outputs the first gaming chip information to the identifyingunit 230, the visiblelight camera 226 photographs the side surface of the gaming chip C, and the identifyingunit 230 analyzes the image and specifies the second gaming chip information (the color of the designated color layer501). - In this case, in the identifying
unit 230, a correspondence relation between a plurality of pieces of first gaming chip information and a plurality of pieces of second gaming chip information is unclear, a plurality of pieces of first gaming chip information may overlap each other, and a plurality of pieces of second gaming chip information may also overlap with each other. In the first gaming chip information and the second gaming chip information ofFIG. 14 , “r” indicates red, “b” indicates blue, “y” indicates yellow, and “g” indicates green. - When the number of each of all the designated colors (red, blue, yellow, and green) in a plurality of pieces of first gaming chip information obtained by the identifying
unit 230 coincides with the number of each of all the designated colors (red, blue, yellow, and green) in a plurality of pieces of second gaming chip information, the determiningunit 231 determines “pass”, and otherwise, the determiningunit 231 determines “fail”. - As a case in which the number of each of all the designated colors in the first gaming chip information does not coincide with the number of each of all the designated colors in a plurality of pieces of second gaming chip information, there is a case in which any one of the gaming chips C contained in the
case 100 is a fake or a case in which the side surface of any of the gaming chips C is damaged. In other words, the determiningunit 231 determines whether a plurality of gaming chips C contained in thecase 100 are pass or fail by determining the number of all the gaming chips C contained in thecase 100 for each value. - In a third pass/fail determination method, the first gaming chip information and the second gaming chip information in the same gaming chip C are different information as illustrated in
FIG. 15 . In an example ofFIG. 15 , information of an English character string is stored in theRFID tag 503 of the gaming chip C as the first gaming chip information, and the notation information of a numeric string is inscribed on the side surface of the gaming chip C as the second gaming chip information. - The
RFID reader 221 reads out the first gaming chip information from theRFID tag 503 of the gaming chip C and outputs the first gaming chip information to the identifyingunit 230, theinfrared camera 225 photographs the side surface of the gaming chip C, and the identifyingunit 230 specifies the second gaming chip information. In this case, in the identifyingunit 230, a correspondence relation between a plurality of pieces of first gaming chip information and a plurality of pieces of second gaming chip information is unclear. - The first gaming chip information and the second gaming chip information are stored in the
use management device 303 in association with the case identification information of thecase 100. The determiningunit 231 compares a plurality of pieces of first gaming chip information obtained by the identifyingunit 230 with a plurality of pieces of first gaming chip information associated with the case identification information of thecase 100 stored in theuse management device 303, and determines whether or not they completely correspond to each other in a one-to-one manner. The determiningunit 231 compares a plurality of pieces of second gaming chip information obtained by the identifyingunit 230 with a plurality of pieces of second gaming chip information associated with the case identification information of thecase 100 stored in theuse management device 303 and determines whether or not they completely correspond to each other in a one-to-one manner. - When a plurality of pieces of first gaming chip information obtained by the identifying unit230 completely correspond to a plurality of pieces of first gaming chip information associated with the case identification information of the case100 stored in the use management device303 in a one-to-one manner, that is, a plurality of pieces of first gaming chip information obtained by the identifying unit230 coincide with any one of a plurality of pieces of first gaming chip information associated with the case identification information of the case100 stored in the use management device303 without overlapping, and a plurality of pieces of second gaming chip information obtained by the identifying unit230 completely correspond to a plurality of pieces of second gaming chip information associated with the case identification information of the case100 stored in the use management device303 in a one-to-one manner, that is, a plurality of pieces of second gaming chip information obtained by the identifying unit230 coincide with any one of a plurality of pieces of second gaming chip information associated with the case identification information of the case100 stored in the use management device303 without overlapping, the determining unit231 determines that a plurality of gaming chips C contained in the case100 are pass, and when any one of a plurality of pieces of first gaming chip information does not coincide or any one of a plurality of pieces of second gaming chip information does not coincide, the determining unit231 determines that a plurality of gaming chips C contained in the case100 are fail.
- As a case in which one of a plurality of pieces of first gaming chip information does not coincide with the stored information or one of a plurality of pieces of second gaming chip information does not coincide with the stored information, there is a case in which any one of gaming chips C contained in the
case 100 is a fake or a case in which theRFID tag 503 or the side surface of the gaming chip C is damaged. In other words, the determiningunit 231 determines whether or not a plurality of gaming chips C contained in thecase 100 are pass or fail by determining the authenticity/damage of all the gaming chips C contained in thecase 100. - In a fourth pass/fail determination method, the first gaming chip information and the second gaming chip information in the same gaming chip C are different information as illustrated in
FIG. 16 . In an example ofFIG. 16 , information of an English character string is stored in theRFID tag 503 of the gaming chip C as the first gaming chip information, and the designatedcolor layer 501 of the side surface of the gaming chip C is colored in the designated color corresponding to the value as the second gaming chip information. - The
RFID reader 221 reads out the first gaming chip information from theRFID tag 503 of the gaming chip C and outputs the first gaming chip information to the identifyingunit 230, the visiblelight camera 226 photographs the side surface of the gaming chip C and outputs a captured image to the identifyingunit 230, and the identifyingunit 230 analyzes the captured image and specifies the designated color which is the second gaming chip information. In this case, in the identifyingunit 230, a correspondence relation between a plurality of pieces of first gaming chip information and a plurality of pieces of second gaming chip information is unclear. - The first gaming chip information and the second gaming chip information are stored in the
use management device 303 in association with the case identification information of thecase 100. The determiningunit 231 compares a plurality of pieces of first gaming chip information obtained by the identifyingunit 230 with a plurality of pieces of first gaming chip information associated with the case identification information of thecase 100 stored in theuse management device 303 and determines whether or not they completely correspond to each other in a one-to-one manner. The determiningunit 231 compares the number of each designated color in a plurality of pieces of second gaming chip information obtained by the identifyingunit 230 with the number of each designated color in a plurality of pieces of second gaming chip information associated with the case identification information of thecase 100 stored in theuse management device 303, and determines whether or not the numbers of designated colors coincide with each other. - When a plurality of pieces of first gaming chip information obtained by the identifying
unit 230 completely correspond to a plurality of pieces of first gaming chip information associated with the case identification information of thecase 100 stored in theuse management device 303, and the number of each of all the designated colors in a plurality of pieces of second gaming chip information obtained by the identifyingunit 230 coincide with the number of each of all the designated colors in a plurality of pieces of second gaming chip information associated with the case identification information of thecase 100 stored in theuse management device 303, the determiningunit 231 determines thecase 100 to be “pass”, and when any one of a plurality of pieces of first gaming chip information does not coincide, and the number of any one of the designated colors in a plurality of pieces of second gaming chip information does not coincide, the determiningunit 231 determines the plurality of gaming chips C contained in thecase 100 to be “fail”. - As a case in which one of a plurality of pieces of first gaming chip information does not coincide with the stored information or the number of any of the designated colors in a plurality of pieces of second gaming chip information does not coincide, there is a case in which any one of gaming chips C contained in the
case 100 is a fake or a case in which theRFID tag 503 or the side surface of the gaming chip C is damaged. In other words, the determiningunit 231 determines whether or not a plurality of gaming chips C contained in thecase 100 are pass or fail by determining the authenticity/damage of all the gaming chips C contained in thecase 100 and the number of gaming chips C for each value. - In a fifth pass/fail determination method, the first gaming chip information and the second gaming chip information in the same gaming chip C are different information as illustrated in
FIG. 17 . In an example ofFIG. 17 , the individual identification information including a numeric string is stored in theRFID tag 503 of the gaming chip C as the first gaming chip information, and the value information of the gaming chip C is assigned to the side surface of the gaming chip C as the second gaming chip information in the form of the designated color of the designatedcolor layer 501. - The
RFID reader 221 reads out the first gaming chip information from theRFID tag 503 of the gaming chip C and outputs the first gaming chip information to the identifyingunit 230, the visiblelight camera 226 photographs the side surface of the gaming chip C and outputs a captured image to the identifyingunit 230, and the identifyingunit 230 analyzes the captured image and specifies the designated color which is the second gaming chip information. In this case, in the identifyingunit 230, a correspondence relation between a plurality of pieces of first gaming chip information and a plurality of pieces of second gaming chip information is unclear. - The correspondence relation between the first gaming chip information and the second gaming chip information is stored in the
use management device 303. In an example ofFIG. 17 , the individual identification information uniquely specifying the gaming chip C is associated with the designated color of the designatedcolor layer 501 of the side surface, that is, the value information of the gaming chip C, and it is possible to understand the value of the gaming chip C when the individual identification information is designated. In the case of the present example, theuse management device 303 need not store a combination of the first gaming chip information and the second gaming chip information for each piece of case identification information. In other words, in the present example, the gaming chips C contained incase 100 can be inspected without using the case identification information. - The determining
unit 231 specifies the first gaming chip information corresponding to the first gaming chip information identified by the identifyingunit 230 from the first gaming chip information stored in theuse management device 303 and specifies the second gaming chip information associated with the first gaming chip information, that is, the value. The determiningunit 231 can obtain the number of each value in a plurality of pieces of second gaming chip information extracted from theuse management device 303 for one case by performing the above process on all pieces of the first gaming chip information identified by the identifyingunit 230. - The determining
unit 231 compares the number of each value obtained as described above with the number of each value in the second gaming chip information identified for thecase 100 from the identifyingunit 230. When the numbers of each of all the values coincide, the determiningunit 231 determines that a plurality of gaming chips C contained in thecase 100 are pass, and when the number of any one of the values does not coincide, the determiningunit 231 determines that a plurality of gaming chips C contained in thecase 100 are fail. - As a case in which the number of each value in a plurality of pieces of second gaming chip information extracted from the
use management device 303 does not coincide with the number of each value in the second gaming chip information identified for thecase 100 from the identifyingunit 230, there is a case in which any one of gaming chips C contained in thecase 100 is a fake or a case in which theRFID tag 503 or the side surface of the gaming chip C is damaged. In other words, the determiningunit 231 determines whether or not a plurality of gaming chips C contained in thecase 100 are pass or fail by determining the authenticity/damage of all the gaming chips C contained in thecase 100 and the number of gaming chips C for each value. - Although not illustrated, even when the value of the gaming chip C is stored as the first gaming chip information, and the individual identification information of the gaming chip C is stored as the second gaming chip information, the pass/fail determination can be performed similarly to the above example.
- The first to fifth pass/fail determination methods have been described above, but the determining
unit 231 may employ a combination of the above pass/fail determination methods. In addition to the above pass/fail determination methods, when both the number of pieces of first gaming chip information and the number of pieces of second gaming chip information read from a plurality of gaming chips C contained in thecase 100 are not a predetermined number (100 in the present embodiment), the determiningunit 231 may determine that a plurality of gaming chips C contained in thecase 100 are fail. - The first and second pass/fail determination methods are pass/fail determination methods that can be executed without using the information stored in the
use management device 303 installed in the game hall P and suitable when executed by the inspectingdevice 200 in the factory F, the third to fifth pass/fail determination methods are pass/fail determination methods using the information stored in theuse management device 303 installed in the game hall P and suitable when executed by the inspectingdevice 200 in the game hall P, but the inspectingdevice 200 in the game hall P may employ the first or second pass/fail determination method. When all the inspectingdevices 200 in the game hall P employ the pass/fail determination method in which the information stored in theuse management device 303 is not used such as the first or second pass/fail determination method, theuse management device 303 may be omitted. - Further, the inspecting
device 200 in the game hall P also inspects thecase 100 containing the used gaming chips C, but in the case, the first, second, or fifth pass/fail determination method in which information of the gaming chips to be contained in the case need not be stored may be employed. - Further, in the above embodiment, the gaming chip C includes the individual identification information and/or the value information as the first gaming chip information and/or the second gaming chip information. Here, the individual identification information is information uniquely specifying each gaming chip C, whereas the value information is information that can overlap each other in a plurality of gaming chips C and can be regarded as information (group information) indicating a group to which each gaming chip belongs. In the present embodiment, as the group information of the associated group, instead of the value or in addition to the value, for example, information of a gaming chip manufacturing time, a manufacturer, and/or a game hall in which a gaming chip is used may be employed.
- In other words, both the first gaming chip information and the second gaming chip information may include the individual identification information identifying the gaming chip, the first gaming chip information and the second gaming chip information may include the group information indicating the group to which the gaming chip belongs, the first gaming chip information may include the individual identification information identifying the gaming chip, and the second gaming chip information may include the group information of the group to which the gaming chip belongs, or, the first gaming chip information may include the group information of the group to which the gaming chip belongs, and the second gaming chip information may include the individual identification information identifying the gaming chip.
FIGS. 18 and 19 are diagrams illustrating an example of a pass/fail determination result display screen illustrating a pass/fail determination result in the determiningunit 231. These pass/fail result display screens are generated by thecomputer 222 on the basis of the pass/fail determination result in the determiningunit 231 and displayed on thedisplay unit 223.FIG. 18 illustrates an example of a display screen in the case of “pass”, andFIG. 19 illustrates an example of a display screen in the case of “fail”.- As illustrated in
FIGS. 18 and 19 , a pass/failresult display screen 800 includes a total of the number ofdetections 801 which is the number of combinations of the first gaming chip information and the second gaming chip information read out from the gaming chip C by the identifyingunit 230, the number of authorizedgaming chips C 802, and the number of unauthorizedgaming chips C 803. - The
computer 222 sets a larger one of the number of pieces of first gaming chip information and the number of pieces of second gaming chip information as the total of the number ofdetections 801. For example, when 100 gaming chips C are contained in thecase 100, and one of the 100 gaming chips C has noRFID tag 503 therein, the identifyingunit 230 specifies 100 pieces of second gaming chip information from a plurality of gaming chips C but obtains only 99 pieces of first gaming chip information. In this case, thecomputer 222 sets 100 which is the larger of the first gaming chip information and the second gaming chip information as the total of the number ofdetections 801. - In the case of the first or second pass/fail determination method, the
computer 222 decides the number of combinations of the first gaming chip information and the second gaming chip information that are determined to coincide with each other as the number of authorizedgaming chips C 802, and decides a number obtained by subtracting the number of authorized gaming chips C from the total of the number ofdetections 801 as the number of unauthorizedgaming chips C 803. - In the case of the third or fourth pass/fail determination method, the
computer 222 decides a smaller one of the number of pieces of first gaming chip information in which the correspondence relation with the first gaming chip information stored in theuse management device 303 has been confirmed and the number of pieces of second gaming chip information in which the correspondence relation with the second gaming chip information stored in theuse management device 303 has been confirmed as the number of authorizedgaming chips C 802, and decides a number obtained by subtracting the number of authorized gaming chips C from the total of the number ofdetections 801 as the number of unauthorizedgaming chips C 803. - In the case of the fifth pass/fail determination method, the
computer 222 decides the number of pieces of second gaming chip information in which the correspondence relation with the second gaming chip information stored in theuse management device 303 has been confirmed as the number of authorizedgaming chips C 802, and decides a number obtained by subtracting the number of authorized gaming chips C from the total of the number ofdetections 801 as the number of unauthorizedgaming chips C 803. - The pass/fail
result display screen 800 includes a gaming chipinformation display portion 804 that displays the gaming chip information read out from the gaming chip C through the identifyingunit 230. In the gaming chipinformation display portion 804, when the gaming chip information stored in theuse management device 303 is read or when the first gaming chip information coincides with the second gaming chip information, the gaming chip information is colored and displayed, and the gaming chip information which is stored in theuse management device 303 but not read out is displayed in white (seeFIG. 19 ). - In the pass/fail
result display screen 800, when the gaming chip information not stored in theuse management device 303 is read or when the first gaming chip information does not coincide with the second gaming chip information, the gaming chip information is displayed outside the gaming chipinformation display portion 804 as unauthorizedgaming chip information 805. FIG. 20 is a diagram illustrating anRFID antenna 224 of the inspectingdevice 200 according to a modified example. InFIG. 20 , thearm 227, theinfrared camera 225, and the visiblelight camera 226 are not illustrated. In the above embodiment, theRFID antenna 224 is installed in the left andright sidewalls 211, but theRFID antenna 224 may be installed in aninner wall 213. In this case, theRFID antenna 224 is arranged in a spiral shape inside theinner wall 213.FIG. 21 is a side view of a gaming chip C′ according to a modified example. In the gaming chip C of the above embodiment, the designatedcolor layer 501 is sandwiched between thecommon color layers 502, but in the example ofFIG. 21 , in the gaming chip C′, acommon color layer 502 is formed as the center, and the designatedcolor layer 501 is formed as both (upper and lower) sides. In the example ofFIG. 21 , individual identification information indicated by a 7-digit numeric string is inscribed (printed) on the side surface of the gaming chip C′ ascode information 505′. In the example ofFIG. 21 , thecode information 505′ serving as the notation information is inscribed on thecommon color layer 502 in the middle. In this case, thecode information 505′ can indicate 10-th power of 7 types of information.- Further, both the
code information 505 indicated by the presence/absence of the mark m described for the gaming chip C of the above embodiment and thecode information 505′ of the numeric string illustrated inFIG. 21 are inscribed on the side surface of the gaming chip C. In this case, thecode information 505 of the mark m and thecode information 505′ of the numeric string may be printed with different types of ink. For example, thecode information 505 of the mark m may be printed with the infrared reaction ink, and thecode information 505′ of the numeric string may be printed with the UV reactive ink. In this case, an infrared camera and an ultraviolet camera may be prepared to photograph the side surface of the gaming chip C, thecode information 505 of the mark m may be read by the infrared camera, and thecode information 505′ of the numeric string may be read by the ultraviolet camera. FIG. 22 is a side sectional view of the gaming chip C″ according to another modified example. The gaming chip C″ has a multi-layer structure in which a plurality of plastic layers having different colors are stacked, a designated color layer501 (a colored layer) is arranged at least in the middle, and a common color layer (a white or light-colored layer)502 are stacked on both sides of the designatedcolor layer 501 in the middle. It is desirable that the color of thecommon color layer 502 be thinner than the color of the designatedcolor layer 501. Since the gaming chip C″ has a multi-layer structure in which the designatedcolor layer 501 is arranged, and thecommon color layer 502 is stacked on both sides of the designatedcolor layer 501 in the middle as described above, it is possible to specify a type of gaming chip C″ (10 points, 20 points, 100 points, 1,000 points, or the like) by forming a stripe pattern on the side surface in a stack direction and changing the color of the designated color layer501 (red, green, yellow, blue, or the like) as illustrated inFIG. 23 .FIG. 23 is a perspective view of stacked gaming chips C″,FIG. 24 is a side view of the gaming chip C″, andFIG. 25 is a plan view of the gaming chip C″. As illustrated inFIG. 23 , the gaming chip C″ has a five or more-layer structure in which a print507 (100 points or the like) indicating a type (value) of gaming chip C″ is performed on the surface (the upper surface and the lower surface) of thecommon color layer 502, atransparent layer 504 is formed as the outermost layer, and the respective layers are thermocompression-bonded. The gaming chip C″ is formed using an elongated plastic material such that a state in which the respective layers (the designatedcolor layer 501, thecommon color layer 502, and the transparent layer504) are thermocompression-bonded and adhered to each other in an elongated stated (a five-layer structure or the like) is formed and then punched out into a circular shape, a rectangular shape, or the like through a process or the like. When the punching is performed through the press, dimensions of a die and a punch of a mold for punching are designed, and R treatment (rounded corner) is applied to the end of thetransparent layer 504 of the outermost layer.- Further, in the gaming chip C″, the mark m″ is formed on the surface of
common color layer 502 using the UV ink or the carbon black ink. The mark m″ indicates whether the gaming chip C″ is true or false, and the mark m″ becomes visible when irradiated with ultraviolet rays (or infrared rays), and it is indicated whether the gaming chip C″ is true or false in accordance with a combination of shapes of the mark m″ and the number of marks m″. Thetransparent layer 504 is thermocompression bonded or applied on the outermost layer so as to cover theprint 507 or the mark m′, but embossing treatment is applied to thetransparent layer 504, and thus the gaming chips C″ are prevented from adhering to each other. - The R treatment (R) is performed on the end of the
transparent layer 504 of the outermost layer which has undergone a print507 (100 points or the like), and the surface of thecommon color layer 502 is prevented from being deformed in the process of punching the gaming chip C″ and appearing on the side surface. Further, a sharp edge of the gaming chip C″ is prevented from remaining and damaging a hand and other gaming chips C″. - As illustrated in
FIG. 22 , the designatedcolor layer 501 may be formed by a plurality of layers colored in the designated color (three layers inFIG. 22 ). Since a plurality of layers colored in the designated color (three layers inFIG. 22 ) are thermocompression bonded to each other, the three-layer structure is not visible as illustrated inFIG. 22 , andFIG. 22 illustrates the three layers of the designatedcolor layer 501 for the sake of description. Further, a partial hollow B is formed in a middle layer among the three layers of the designatedcolor layer 501, and aRFID tag 503 is installed in the partial hollow B. - Since the gaming chip C, C′, and C″ have a stacked multi-layer structure, and a stripe pattern in the lamination direction is vividly formed on the side surface as illustrated in
FIG. 2 ,FIG. 21 , andFIG. 22 , it is possible to easily and accurately measure the color of the designated color layer501 (the type of gaming chip) and the number of designatedcolor layers 501 through image analysis as compared with a chip of a related art.FIG. 26 is a diagram illustrating an example of an image obtained by photographing the stacked gaming chips. As illustrated inFIG. 26 , it is possible to photograph the side surface of the gaming chip C through the visiblelight camera 226 and clearly identify the designatedcolor layer 501. Further, it is possible to accurately analyze and determine an image when an artificial intelligence utilization type computer or control system or a deep learning (structure) technique is used in the image analysis. Since the artificial intelligence utilization type computer or control system or the deep learning (structure) technique is known to those skilled in the art, detailed description thereof is omitted. - As described above, the
case 100 is sealed with a seal after a predetermined number of gaming chips C are contained. The seal is broken when the case is opened to allow the contained gaming chips to be withdrawn. The inspectingdevice 200 may include a detecting unit that detects an unbroken seal affixed to thecase 100. The detecting unit may detect the seal optically or magnetically. In this case, when an unbroken seal is not detected by the detecting unit, the determiningunit 231 determines that a plurality of gaming chips C contained in thecase 100 are fail. - In the above embodiment, all the components of the inspecting
device 200 are arranged in a single device as illustrated inFIG. 6 , but the components may be distributedly arranged. For example, some or all of thecomputer 222, thedisplay unit 223, and thecommunication unit 229 may be implemented by a personal computer connected to the inspectingdevice 200. The distributedly arranged components may be connected to be able to perform wired or wireless communication or may be connected via a network such as the Internet. - Further, as illustrated in
FIGS. 27 and 28 , theinfrared camera 225 and/or the visiblelight camera 226 and thearm 227 may be separated from the inspectingdevice 200, and the cameras may be connected to thecomputer 222.FIG. 27 illustrates an example in which only one of theinfrared camera 225 and the visiblelight camera 226 is installed separately from the inspectingdevice 200, andFIG. 28 illustrates an example in which theinfrared camera 225 is installed separately from the inspectingdevice 200, and the visiblelight camera 226 is installed integrally with the inspectingdevice 200. Further, in addition to theinfrared camera 225 and the visiblelight camera 226, an ultraviolet camera may be installed as a third camera together with an ultraviolet lamp, or one of the cameras inFIGS. 27 and 28 may be an ultraviolet camera equipped with an ultraviolet lamp. - In the above embodiment, in the gaming chip C, the gaming chip information is stored in the
RFID tag 503, thecode information 505 serving as the gaming chip information is inscribed on the side surface, the designated color of the designatedcolor layer 501 of the side surface is also dealt as the gaming chip information indicating the value of the gaming chip C, and one gaming chip C has the three pieces of gaming chip information, but the present invention is not limited to this example, and the gaming chip C may has only two of the three pieces of gaming chip information. When the gaming chip C has two pieces of gaming chip information, the first to fifth pass/fail determination methods can be executed. - In the above first to fifth pass/fail determination methods, two pieces of gaming chip information are used, but when the gaming chip C has three pieces of gaming chip information, the determining
unit 231 performs the pass/fail determination using the three pieces of gaming chip information. - In the above embodiment, the example in which the
display unit 223 is configured with a liquid crystal panel has been described, but thedisplay unit 223 may be a lamp that simply indicates only whether it is pass or fail or may be a lamp that performs digital display of the total of the number ofdetections 801, the number of authorizedgaming chips C 802, and the number of unauthorizedgaming chips C 803. - The determining
unit 231 of the above embodiment is able to specify the number of each of the values of a plurality of gaming chips C contained in thecase 100 as described above. In this regard, the determiningunit 231 may further calculate a total amount of the values of a plurality of gaming chips C contained in thecase 100 on the basis of the number of each value. The calculated total amount may be displayed on the pass/fail result display screen (seeFIGS. 18 and 19 ) displayed on thedisplay unit 223. - A second embodiment relates to an inspection system and an inspecting device which are capable of inspecting the gaming chips, and more particularly to, an inspection system and an inspecting device which are capable of inspecting the gaming chips having a radio tag embedded therein or counting the number of gaming chips.
- A gaming chip having a radio tag storing identification information or type information therein is known (for example, JP 2008-246103 A).
- A gaming chip having a structure in which a radio tag is not easily extracted is disclosed in JP 2008-246103 A. Accordingly, a structure in which the radio tag hardly has a defect is implemented.
- However, when the number of gaming chips disclosed in JP 2008-246103 A is read by the radio tag, since the number of gaming chips is calculated on the basis of the read radio tag information, gaming chip information is unable to be acquired when the radio tag installed in the gaming chip is broken or when no radio tag is installed, and there is a problem in that there is a difference between the actual number of gaming chips and the number of gaming chips calculated by reading the radio tag.
- In this regard, it is an object of the present invention to provide an inspection system and an inspecting device which are capable of detecting whether or not the radio tag is broken.
- An Inspection system according to a first aspect of the second embodiment is an inspection system that inspects gaming chips each having a color or a display indicating a value on an outer surface in a state where the gaming chips are stored in a case in which a maximum of the number of gaming chips to be stored is limited, a radio tag storing gaming chip information being embedded in each of the gaming chips, the gaming chips being stored in the case capable of containing a row of gaming chips stacked in a thickness direction, the inspection system including: a reading device that reads the radio tag of the gaming chip in the case and acquires gaming chip information of the gaming chip; and a determining unit that compares the gaming chip information acquired by the reading device with a maximum of the number of gaming chips storable in the case and determines an abnormality of the gaming chip in the case when the number of gaming chips obtained from the gaming chip information acquired by the reading device is different from a maximum of the number of storable gaming chips.
- Further, the determining unit has a function of comparing a physical characteristic of the case or physical information of the gaming chip obtained from a physical measurement means other than the reading device with the number of pieces of physical information of the gaming chip obtained from the gaming chip information acquired by the reading device, determining that there is an abnormal gaming chip among the gaming chips contained in the case when both pieces of information do not coincide with each other, and outputting a determination result.
- Further, the physical information is a number or height which is obtained optically or a weight which is obtained by measurement.
- Further, the inspection system may further include a radio tag information database which is able to refer to information of the radio tag embedded in the gaming chip, and the determining unit may be configured to compare the gaming chip information of the gaming chip read by the reading device with the information of the radio tag information database and detect an abnormality of a gaming chip of an inspection target.
- Further, the determining unit may have a function of comparing, when it is determined that there is an abnormal gaming chip among the gaming chips in the case, the information of the radio tags of all the gaming chips in the case with the radio tag information database registered in advance and specifying the presence of an abnormal radio tag which is not stored in the radio tag information database.
- Further, the determining unit may have a function of specifying, when it is determined that there is an abnormal gaming chip among the gaming chips in the case, the presence of an abnormal gaming chip in which information from the radio tag is unable to be obtained among the gaming chips in the case.
- Further, the determining unit may have a function of analyzing the information of the radio tag acquired by the reading device and issuing a signal when two or more gaming chips having the same information obtained from the radio tag are contained in the case.
- Further, the radio tag information database may be an information database of radio tags of gaming chips being stored or used in a game hall, and the determining unit may have a function of analyzing the information of the radio tag acquired by the reading device and issuing a signal when information obtained from the radio tag coincides with information of a radio tag of a gaming chip placed in a different place in the game hall.
- An inspecting device according to a second aspect of the second embodiment is inspecting device that inspects gaming chips each having a color or a display indicating a value on an outer surface, a radio tag storing gaming chip information being embedded in each of the gaming chips, the inspecting device including: an inspection table capable of inspecting the gaming chips in a state where the gaming chips are stacked in a row in a thickness direction, and a maximum of the number of stackable gaming chips is limited; a reading device that reads the radio tags of the row of gaming chips and acquires the gaming chip information of the row of gaming chips; and a determining unit that compares the gaming chip information acquired by the reading device with a maximum of the number of stackable gaming chips of the inspection table and determines an abnormality of the gaming chip placed on the inspection table when the number of gaming chips obtained from the gaming chip information acquired by the reading device is different from a maximum of the number of stackable gaming chips.
- Further, the determining unit may have a function of determining, when the gaming chip information of the gaming chip acquired by the reading device does not coincide with physical information of the gaming chip, the presence of an abnormal gaming chip among the gaming chips placed on the inspection table and outputting a determination result.
- Further, the physical information may be a number or height which is obtained optically or a weight which is obtained by measurement.
- Further, the inspecting device may further include a radio tag information database which is able to refer to information of the radio tag embedded in the gaming chip, and the determining unit may be configured to compare the gaming chip information of the gaming chip read by the reading device with the information of the radio tag information database and detect an abnormality of a gaming chip of an inspection target placed on the inspection table.
- Further, the determining unit may have a function of comparing, when it is determined that there is an abnormal gaming chip among the gaming chips on the inspection table, the information of the radio tags of all the gaming chips on the inspection table with the radio tag information database registered in advance and specifying the presence of an abnormal radio tag which is not stored in the radio tag information database.
- Further, the determining unit may have a function of specifying, when it is determined that there is an abnormal gaming chip among the gaming chips in the case, the presence of an abnormal gaming chip in which information from the radio tag is unable to be obtained among the gaming chips in the case.
- Further, the determining unit may have a function of analyzing the information of the radio tag acquired by the reading device and issuing a signal when two or more gaming chips having the same information obtained from the radio tag are contained in the case.
- Further, the radio tag information database may be an information database of radio tags of gaming chips being stored or used in a game hall, and the determining unit may have a function of analyzing the information of the radio tag acquired by the reading device and issuing a signal when information obtained from the radio tag coincides with information of a radio tag of a gaming chip placed in a different place in the game hall.
- According to the present embodiment, since the gaming chips are stored in the case in which the number of storable gaming chips is decided, and the number of gaming chips is determined, it is possible to perform the inspection so that it is possible to detect whether or not the radio tag is broken.
- The second embodiment will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.
FIG. 29 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of an inspection system according to the second embodiment. Aninspection system 51 includes acase 5100 that contains gaming chips in a stacked state and an inspectingdevice 5200 that inspects a plurality of gaming chips contained in thecase 5100 in the stacked state in a state where the gaming chips are contained in thecase 5100.- The
case 5100 has a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape and is made of transparent resin. Thecase 5100 contains disc shaped gaming chips C in a stacked state. In thecase 5100, fivecolumns 5100C each containing20 gaming chips C are formed, and a total of100 gaming chips C can be contained. Thecase 5100 can be carried (portable) in a state where the gaming chips C are contained. Thecase 5100 includes anupper portion 5101 and alower portion 5102 which are separable, and when theupper portion 5101 and thelower portion 5102 are separated, the gaming chips C can be contained in thecase 5100, and the gaming chips C can be withdrawn from thecase 5100. - The inspecting
device 5200 includes areceiving unit 5210 and amain body portion 5220. The inspectingdevice 5200 can accept thecase 5100 through the receivingunit 5210. The receivingunit 5210 has a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape in which an upper surface and a front surface are opened as a whole, and thereceiving unit 5210 is formed by left andright side walls 5211, abottom portion 5212, and aninner wall 5213 and has a width, a height, and a depth in which thecase 5100 can fit exactly. - The
main body portion 5220 is installed behind theinner wall 5213 of thereceiving unit 5210 and includes areading device 5221, a determiningunit 5222, and adisplay unit 5223. - The
reading device 5221 and thedisplay unit 5223 are connected to the determiningunit 5222. Aradio tag antenna 5224 is connected to thereading device 5221. Theradio tag antenna 5224 extends from thereading device 5221 and extends spirally in the left andright sidewalls 5211. In other words, the spiral shapedradio tag antenna 5224 is laid in each of the left andright sidewalls 5211, and eachradio tag antenna 5224 is connected to thereading device 5221. - The
display unit 5223 includes a liquid crystal panel. A touch sensor may be installed on the liquid crystal panel, and thedisplay unit 5223 may be configured as a touch panel. FIG. 30 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of the inspectingdevice 5200. The inspectingdevice 5200 includes abar code reader 5228 and acommunication unit 5229 in addition to thereading device 5221, the determiningunit 5222, thedisplay unit 5223, and theradio tag antenna 5224 illustrated inFIG. 29 . The determiningunit 5222 is configured with a processor (not illustrated), a memory, and the like and functions as an identifyingunit 5230 and an identificationcontent determining unit 5231 when the processor executes an inspection program.- A radio tag system is configured with the
reading device 5221, theradio tag antenna 5224, and aradio tag 5503 embedded in the gaming chip C. The gaming chip information of the gaming chip C stored in theradio tag 5503 embedded in the gaming chip C is read out by thereading device 5221 in a non-contact manner and used for a process in the determiningunit 5222. - The
bar code reader 5228 reads the bar code BC attached to thecase 5100 and acquires the case identification information. Thedisplay unit 5223 displays a determination result of the identificationcontent determining unit 5231 of the determiningunit 5222. Thecommunication unit 5229 communicates data with amanufacturing management device 5302 installed in the factory F or aninformation database 5303 installed in the game hall P. FIG. 31 is a perspective view of thecase 5100. Thecase 5100 is formed by combining theupper portion 5101 and thelower portion 5102. In the present embodiment, theupper portion 5101 and thelower portion 5102 are made of transparent resin. In the present embodiment, thecase 5100 has a sealed structure including theupper portion 5101 and thelower portion 5102, but the light transmission portion may be in a perforated state.- As described above, the
case 5100 has a shape in which the fivecolumns 5100C in which20 gaming chips C are stacked and contained are formed in parallel, and in the example ofFIG. 31 , a cross section of each column is polygonal (octagonal) so that theupper portion 5101 and thelower portion 5102 substantially follow the shape of the gaming chip C. Eachcolumn 5100C has a shape in which21 or more gaming chips C are unable to be contained. FIG. 32 is a perspective view of acase 5100′ according to a modified example, andFIG. 33 is a plan view of thecase 5100′. Thecase 5100′ also includes of anupper portion 5101′ and alower portion 5102 made of a transparent resin. In the present modified example, the upper surface of theupper portion 5101′ facing the camera is formed as a plane surface. Since the surface facing the camera is a plane surface, a linear shadow caused by a corner of a polygon cross section of thecase 5100′ does not appear on the camera as illustrated inFIG. 33 , and it is possible to accurately identify information of the side surface of the gaming chip C in image analysis on a captured image of the camera.FIG. 34 is a side sectional view of the gaming chip C of the present embodiment. The gaming chip C has a multi-layer structure in which a plurality of plastic layers having different colors are stacked, a designated color layer5501 (a colored layer) is arranged at least in the middle, and a common color layer (a white or light-colored layer)5502 are stacked on both sides of the designatedcolor layer 5501 in the middle.- As illustrated in
FIG. 34 , the designatedcolor layer 5501 may be formed by a plurality of layers colored in the designated color (three layers inFIG. 34 ). Since a plurality of layers colored in the designated color (three layers inFIG. 34 ) are thermocompression bonded to each other, the three-layer structure is not visible as illustrated inFIG. 34 , andFIG. 34 illustrates the three layers of the designatedcolor layer 5501 for the sake of description. Further, a partial hollow B is formed in a middle layer among the three layers of the designatedcolor layer 5501, and aradio tag 5503 is installed in the partial hollow B. - The
inspection system 51 inspects the gaming chips C each having theradio tag 5503 storing the gaming chip information therein and including acolor 5501 or adisplay 5507 indicating a value on the outer surface in a state where the gaming chip C is stored in thecase 5100 in which a maximum of the number of gaming chips to be stored is limited. The gaming chips C are stored in thecase 5100 capable of containing a row of gaming chips C stacked in a thickness direction, and theinspection system 51 includes areading device 5221 that reads theradio tag 5503 of the gaming chip C in thecase 5100 and acquires the gaming chip information of the gaming chip C and the determiningunit 5222 that compares the gaming chip information acquired by thereading device 5221 with a maximum of the number of gaming chips storable in the case5100 (it is set to a maximum of100 in the present embodiment) and determines an abnormality of the gaming chip C in thecase 5100 when the number of gaming chips C obtained from the gaming chip information acquired by thereading device 5221 is different from a maximum of the number of storable gaming chips (100). - The
inspection system 51 further includes aninformation database 5303 of theradio tag 5503 which can refer to the information of theradio tag 5503 embedded in the gaming chip C, and the determiningunit 5222 is configured to compare the gaming chip information of the gaming chip C read by thereading device 5221 with theinformation database 5303 of theradio tag 5503 and detect an abnormality of a gaming chip C of an inspection target. Theinformation database 5303 stores information of all theradio tags 5503 of the gaming chips used in the game hall in advance. - The determining
unit 5222 has a function of comparing, when it is determined that there is an abnormal gaming chip C among the gaming chips C in thecase 5100, the information of theradio tags 5503 of all the gaming chips C in thecase 5100 with theinformation database 5303 of theradio tag 5503 registered in advance and specifying the presence of anabnormal radio tag 5503 which is not stored in the information database of theradio tag 5503. - The determining
unit 5222 has a function of specifying, when it is determined that there is an abnormal gaming chip C among the gaming chips C in thecase 5100, the presence of an abnormal gaming chip C in which information from theradio tag 5503 is unable to be obtained among the gaming chips C in thecase 5100. - The
display unit 5223 displays an abnormality when it is determined that there is an abnormal gaming chip C described above. - As illustrated in
FIGS. 36 and 37 , a pass/failresult display screen 5800 includes a total of the number ofdetections 5801 which is the number of pieces of information of theradio tag 5503 read out from the gaming chip C by the identifyingunit 5230 and the number of unauthorizedgaming chips C 5803. FIGS. 36 and 37 are diagrams illustrating an example of the pass/fail result display screen illustrating a result of determining the abnormality of the gaming chip in the identificationcontent determining unit 5231. The pass/fail result display screens are generated on the basis of the result of determining the abnormality of the gaming chip in the identificationcontent determining unit 5231 by the determiningunit 5222 and displayed on thedisplay unit 5223.FIG. 36 illustrates an example of a display screen in the case of “pass”, andFIG. 37 illustrates an example of a display screen in the case of “fail”.FIG. 38 is a diagram illustrating an inspectingdevice 5400 according to another modified example. The inspectingdevice 5400 inspects the gaming chip C having theradio tag 5503 storing the gaming chip information therein and including acolor 5501 or adisplay 5507 indicating a value on the outer surface. The inspectingdevice 5400 includes an inspection table5427 capable of inspecting the gaming chip in a state where the gaming chips C are stacked in a row in the thickness direction, and a maximum of the number of stackable gaming chips is limited, areading device 5421 that reads theradio tags 5503 of a row of gaming chips C and acquires the gaming chip information of a row of gaming chips C and a determiningunit 5422 that compares the gaming chip information acquired by thereading device 5421 with a maximum of the number of stackable gaming chips of the inspection table5427 (which is set to a maximum of 20 in the present embodiment) and determines the abnormality of the gaming chip C placed on the inspection table5427 when the number of gaming chips C obtained from the gaming chip information acquired by thereading device 5421 is different from a maximum of the number of stackable gaming chips (20).- The inspecting
device 5400 includes anumber control plate 5425 that limits the maximum of the number of stackable gaming chips in the state in which the gaming chips C are placed in a row. - An
optical sensor 5426 is installed in the inspectingdevice 5400 and determines a physical number of individual gaming chips C. The determiningunit 5422 has a function of determining that there is an abnormal gaming chip C among the gaming chips C placed in the inspection table5427 when the gaming chip information of the gaming chip acquired by thereading device 5421 does not coincide with the physical information of the gaming chip C and outputting a determination result. FIG. 39 is a diagram for describing an example of a use state of theinspection system 1 along with the distribution of the gaming chips C. The gaming chip C is manufactured by amanufacturing device 5301 of a factory F (s1), and 100 gaming chips C are contained in the case5100 (s2). Thecase 5100 is sealed with a seal at the factory F after the gaming chips C are contained. Further, the bar code BC indicating the case identification information uniquely identifying thecase 5100 is affixed to the side surface of the case5100 (s3).- At this time, the case identification information of the bar code BC affixed to the
case 5100 is input to themanufacturing management device 5302 in the factory F (s4). Further, thecase 5100 containing the gaming chips C is transferred to the inspectingdevice 5200, the gaming chip information (to be described later in detail) assigned to the gaming chip C is read, and the pass/fail inspection is performed. The gaming chip information read from the gaming chip C contained in thecase 5100 is transferred to the manufacturing management device5302 (s5) and associated with the case identification information through themanufacturing management device 5302. Themanufacturing management device 5302 may be a personal computer. - The
case 5100 determined to be pass in the inspectingdevice 5200 of the factory F is conveyed from the factory F to a game hall P (s6). Thecase 5100 is first stored in a storage R in the game hall P (s7). The inspectingdevice 5200 is installed in the storage R, and thecase 5100 that arrived from the factory F is inspected through the inspectingdevice 5200. - Meanwhile, the case identification information and the gaming chip information associated with the case identification information are transmitted from the
manufacturing management device 5302 in the factory F to theinformation database 5303 in the game hall P. Theinformation database 5303 acquires the case identification information and the gaming chip information associated with the case identification information from themanufacturing management device 5302 for each of a plurality ofcases 5100 containing the gaming chip C and includes a storage unit that stores the acquired information for eachcase 5100. Theinformation database 5303 may be a personal computer. - In the inspection performed by the inspecting
device 5200 in the storage R, an inspection is performed using the information stored in theinformation database 5303. Thecase 5100 determined to be pass in the inspection in the storage R is carried to a game table T (s9) or carried to a cashier CA (s10). Each of the game table T and the cashier CA includes the inspectingdevice 5200, and thecase 5100 containing the gaming chip C is inspected by the inspectingdevices 5200 in a sealed state. In the game table T and the cashier CA, thecase 5100 containing used gaming chips C is also inspected, and the inspectingdevice 5200 is also used for the inspection. In the inspection in the three inspectingdevices 5200 in the game hall P, the case identification information transmitted from themanufacturing management device 5302 and stored in theinformation database 5303 and the gaming chip information associated with the case identification information are referred to. - Further, in the above embodiment, the gaming chip C includes the identification information and/or the value information as the radio tag information. Here, the identification information is information uniquely specifying each gaming chip C, whereas the value information is information that can overlap each other in a plurality of gaming chips C and can be regarded as information (group information) indicating a group to which each gaming chip belongs. In the present embodiment, as the group information of the associated group, instead of the value or in addition to the value, for example, information of a gaming chip manufacturing time, a manufacturer, and/or a game hall in which a gaming chip is used may be employed.
- In other words, the radio tag information may include the identification information identifying the gaming chip or may include the group information indicating the group to which the gaming chip belongs.
- As described above, the
case 5100 is sealed with a seal after a predetermined number of gaming chips C are contained. The seal is broken when the case is opened to allow the contained gaming chips to be withdrawn. The inspectingdevice 5200 may include a detecting unit that detects an unbroken seal affixed to thecase 5100. The detecting unit may detect the seal optically or magnetically. In this case, when an unbroken seal is not detected by the detecting unit, the identificationcontent determining unit 5231 determines that a plurality of gaming chips C contained in thecase 5100 are fail. - In the above embodiment, all the components of the inspecting
device 5200 are arranged in a single device as illustrated inFIG. 30 , but the components may be distributedly arranged. For example, some or all of the determiningunit 5222, thedisplay unit 5223, and thecommunication unit 5229 may be implemented by a personal computer connected to the inspectingdevice 5200. The distributedly arranged components may be connected to be able to perform wired or wireless communication or may be connected via a network such as the Internet. - In the above embodiment, the example in which the
display unit 5223 is configured with a liquid crystal panel has been described, but thedisplay unit 5223 may be a lamp that simply indicates only whether it is pass or fail or may be a lamp that performs digital display of the total of the number ofdetections 5801, the number of authorizedgaming chips C 5802, and the number of unauthorizedgaming chips C 5803. - As described above, the identification
content determining unit 5231 of the above embodiment can specify the number of each of the values of a plurality of gaming chips C contained in thecase 5100. In this regard, the identificationcontent determining unit 5231 may calculate a total amount of the values of a plurality of gaming chips C contained in thecase 5100 further on the basis of the number of each value. The calculated total amount may be displayed on the pass/fail result display screen (seeFIGS. 36 and 37 ) displayed on the display unit5233.
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1. An inspection system that inspects gaming chips each having a color or a display indicating a value on an outer surface in a state where the gaming chips are stored in a case in which a maximum of the number of gaming chips to be stored is limited, a radio tag storing gaming chip information being embedded in each of the gaming chips,
the gaming chips being stored in the case capable of containing a row of gaming chips stacked in a thickness direction, the inspection system comprising:
a reading device that reads the radio tag of the gaming chip in the case and acquires gaming chip information of the gaming chip; and
a determining unit that compares the gaming chip information acquired by the reading device with a maximum of the number of gaming chips storable in the case and determines an abnormality of the gaming chip in the case when the number of gaming chips obtained from the gaming chip information acquired by the reading device is different from a maximum of the number of storable gaming chips.
2. The inspection system according toclaim 1 , wherein the determining unit has a function of comparing a physical characteristic of the case or physical information of the gaming chip obtained from a physical measurement means other than the reading device with the number of physical information of the gaming chip obtained from the gaming chip information acquired by the reading device, determining that there is an abnormal gaming chip among the gaming chips contained in the case when both pieces of information do not coincide with each other, and outputting a determination result.
3. The inspection system according toclaim 1 , wherein the physical information is a number or height which is obtained optically or a weight which is obtained by measurement.
4. The inspection system according toclaim 1 or2 , further comprising a radio tag information database which is able to refer to information of the radio tag embedded in the gaming chip, wherein the determining unit is configured to compare the gaming chip information of the gaming chip read by the reading device with the information of the radio tag information database and detect an abnormality of a gaming chip of an inspection target.
5. The inspection system according toclaim 4 , wherein the determining unit has a function of comparing, when it is determined that there is an abnormal gaming chip among the gaming chips in the case, the information of the radio tags of all the gaming chips in the case with the radio tag information database registered in advance and specifying the presence of an abnormal radio tag which is not stored in the radio tag information database.
6. The inspection system according toclaim 1 or2 , wherein the determining unit has a function of specifying, when it is determined that there is an abnormal gaming chip among the gaming chips in the case, the presence of an abnormal gaming chip in which information from the radio tag is unable to be obtained among the gaming chips in the case.
7. The inspection system according toclaim 1 or2 , wherein the determining unit has a function of analyzing the information of the radio tag acquired by the reading device and issuing a signal when two or more gaming chips having the same information obtained from the radio tag are contained in the case.
8. The inspection system according toclaim 5 , wherein
the radio tag information database is an information database of radio tags of gaming chips being stored or used in a game hall, and
the determining unit has a function of analyzing the information of the radio tag acquired by the reading device and issuing a signal when information obtained from the radio tag coincides with information of a radio tag of a gaming chip placed in a different place in the game hall.
9. An inspecting device that inspects gaming chips each having a color or a display indicating a value on an outer surface, a radio tag storing gaming chip information being embedded in each of the gaming chips, the inspecting device comprising:
an inspection table capable of inspecting the gaming chips in a state where the gaming chips are stacked in a row in a thickness direction, and a maximum of the number of stackable gaming chips is limited;
a reading device that reads the radio tags of the row of gaming chips and acquires the gaming chip information of the row of gaming chips; and
a determining unit that compares the gaming chip information acquired by the reading device with a maximum of the number of stackable gaming chips of the inspection table and determines an abnormality of the gaming chip placed on the inspection table when the number of gaming chips obtained from the gaming chip information acquired by the reading device is different from a maximum of the number of stackable gaming chips.
10. The inspecting device according toclaim 9 , wherein the determining unit has a function of determining, when the gaming chip information of the gaming chip acquired by the reading device does not coincide with physical information of the gaming chip, the presence of an abnormal gaming chip among the gaming chips placed on the inspection table and outputting a determination result.
11. The inspecting device according toclaim 10 , wherein the physical information is a number or height which is obtained optically or a weight which is obtained by measurement.
12. The inspecting device according toclaim 9 or11 , further comprising a radio tag information database which is able to refer to information of the radio tag embedded in the gaming chip, wherein the determining unit is configured to compare the gaming chip information of the gaming chip read by the reading device with the information of the radio tag information database and detect an abnormality of a gaming chip of an inspection target placed on the inspection table.
13. The inspecting device according toclaim 12 , wherein the determining unit has a function of comparing, when it is determined that there is an abnormal gaming chip among the gaming chips on the inspection table, the information of the radio tags of all the gaming chips on the inspection table with the radio tag information database registered in advance and specifying the presence of an abnormal radio tag which is not stored in the radio tag information database.
14. The inspecting device according toclaim 9 or10 , wherein the determining unit has a function of specifying, when it is determined that there is an abnormal gaming chip among the gaming chips in the case, the presence of an abnormal gaming chip in which information from the radio tag is unable to be obtained among the gaming chips in the case.
15. The inspecting device according toclaim 9 or10 , wherein the determining unit has a function of analyzing the information of the radio tag acquired by the reading device and issuing a signal when two or more gaming chips having the same information obtained from the radio tag are contained in the case.
16. The inspecting device according toclaim 12 , wherein
the radio tag information database is an information database of radio tags of gaming chips being stored or used in a game hall, and
the determining unit has a function of analyzing the information of the radio tag acquired by the reading device and issuing a signal when information obtained from the radio tag coincides with information of a radio tag of a gaming chip placed in a different place in the game hall.
17. A gaming chip that is inspectable by the inspection system according to any one ofclaims 1 to3 in a state where the gaming chip is stored in a case in which a maximum of the number of gaming chips is limited, a radio tag storing gaming chip information embedded in the gaming chip, a color or a display indicating a value being arranged on an outer surface of the gaming chip.
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