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KR20170058674A
KR20170058674A KR1020150162563A KR20150162563A KR20170058674A KR 20170058674 A KR20170058674 A KR 20170058674A KR 1020150162563 A KR1020150162563 A KR 1020150162563A KR 20150162563 A KR20150162563 A KR 20150162563A KR 20170058674 A KR20170058674 A KR 20170058674A
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
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Abstract

The present invention discloses a card monitoring system. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the card monitoring system comprises: a case in which a plurality of cards are accommodated and an opening for ejecting the cards is formed on one side; a card recognition unit provided inside the case and recognizing types of the cards; and a data storage unit provided inside the case and storing an image and an order of the cards sensed by the card recognition unit. The present invention intends to provide a card monitoring system capable of recognizing an image of a discharged card and an order in which cards are discharged.

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Card monitoring system {CARD MONITORING SYSTEM}

The present invention relates to a card monitoring system, and more particularly, to a card monitoring system in which fluorescent materials emitting light when a light source is irradiated to each card used in a Baccarat game are formed in different patterns, To a card monitoring system capable of recording the type and order of a discharged card by recognizing a light emission pattern of a material.

The Baccarat game is well known as a casino game. Generally, when a game is started, a shoe start process is executed. Specifically, a dealer mixes a trump well into a card shoe. Then, the user wins a banker win, a player win or a tie, and the dealer takes the card out of the card shoe and determines the game result. In this process, the number of betting chips and the dividend for bets are executed. When the card is left in the card shoe, the game is repeated again. If the card is not left, the card shoe finishing process is executed and the game is terminated.

Casino games such as baccarat games are very profitable, but they are prone to fraud by players and casino dealers, and this misrepresentation causes casualty losses in casinos.

A card shoe used in a conventional baccarat game includes a card cradle and an entrance which is a card removal part. A lockable cover can be removably disposed over the card cradle, thereby preventing unauthorized access to the card.

In addition, the character and suit symbols can be read directly from the card to prevent and mitigate the profit loss in the conventional baccarat game, or the specialized data encoded on the card can be read in some ways. Current encryption techniques use bar codes on the edges of cards or ultraviolet (UV) response codes that are not visible to the naked eye. For example, a bar code is a good encryption method, but there is a problem of deteriorating the aesthetics of the card.

The present invention is to provide a card monitoring system capable of discharging a card used in a baccarat game and recognizing an image of a discharged card and an order in which the card is discharged.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a card monitoring system comprising: a case in which a plurality of cards are accommodated and an opening for ejecting the card is formed on one side; A card recognizing unit provided inside the case and recognizing the type of the card; And a data storage unit provided in the case and storing the image and the order of the card sensed by the card recognition unit.

The card recognizing unit may include an illuminating unit that illuminates the light source with the card, and a sensing unit that recognizes the type of the card by a light source illuminated by the illuminating unit.

Each of the cards may include a light emitting portion having a different pattern, and the light emitting portion may include at least a fluorescent material that emits light by the illumination portion.

The illumination unit may be an LED illumination unit that emits at least ultraviolet light.

The sensing unit may be a linear image sensor. When the ultraviolet rays are irradiated to the card by the illumination unit, the light emitting unit emits light, and the linear image sensor recognizes the pattern structure of the light emitting unit formed on the card .

The sensing unit may be a color sensor or a UV sensor. When the ultraviolet rays are irradiated to the card in the illumination unit, the light emitting unit emits light, and the color sensor or ultraviolet sensor is formed on the card It is possible to recognize a value that is on / off controlled according to the pattern structure of the light emitting portion.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a card monitoring system comprising: a case in which a plurality of cards are accommodated and an opening for ejecting the card is formed on one side; An illumination device provided in the case and irradiating the light source with the card to induce light emission; A sensor device which is provided inside the case and recognizes the type of the card that emits light by the illumination device; And a data storage unit provided in the case and storing an image and an order of the card sensed by the linear image sensor, wherein the sensor device is at least one of a linear image sensor, a color sensor, and an ultraviolet sensor .

According to the present invention, it is possible to store the order of the cards discharged in the baccarat game process and the images of the discharged cards, thereby preventing cheating by the player and the casino dealer.

Further, there is an advantage that an image of the card can be recognized using only the pattern structure of the light emitting portion formed on the card.

1 is a perspective view of a card monitoring system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a perspective view showing the inside of a card monitoring system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 3 is a view showing a form in which a linear image sensor is provided in a card recognition unit provided in a card monitoring system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4 is an enlarged view of a part of a card monitoring system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 5 is a view showing a mode in which a color sensor or an ultraviolet sensor is provided in a card recognition unit of a card monitoring system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
6 is a perspective view illustrating a mode in which a color sensor or an ultraviolet sensor is provided in a card recognition unit provided in a card monitoring system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
7 is an enlarged view of a form in which a color sensor or an ultraviolet sensor is provided in a card recognition unit of a card monitoring system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, specific embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. However, the spirit of the present invention is not limited to such embodiments, and the spirit of the present invention may be proposed differently by adding, modifying and deleting constituent elements constituting the embodiment, .

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a card monitoring system according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing the interior of a card monitoring system according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. FIG. 4 is an enlarged view of a part of a card monitoring system according to an embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG.

1 to 4, a card monitoring system 1 according to an embodiment of the present invention may include a case 10, a card recognition unit 20, and a data storage unit 30. [

A plurality of cards c can be accommodated in the case 10, and an opening 11 for discharging the card c can be formed on one side. At this time, the case 10 may further include a card cradle (not shown) formed at an oblique angle so that the card c can be discharged through the opening 11. Further, it is possible to further include a pressing means (not shown) for pressing the card c to be discharged through the opening 11.

The opening 11 formed in the case 10 may be formed in a reversed U-shape (see FIG. 1), but it is not limited thereto and may be variously formed in a reversed V-shape. For example, the dealer can discharge the card c through the opening 11.

The card recognition unit 20 can be provided inside the case 10 and can recognize the type of the card c. More specifically, the card recognizing section 20 may be provided on the bottom surface 12 of the case 10 and may be provided near the opening 11 so as to recognize the type of the card c discharged through the opening 11. [ As shown in FIG.

The card recognition section 20 may include an illumination section 21 for irradiating the light source with the card c and a sensing section 22 for recognizing the type of the card c by the light source irradiated by the illumination section 21 . At this time, each of the cards c may be provided with light emitting portions F having different patterns.

For example, the light emitting portion F may be formed of a fluorescent material that emits light by the illumination portion 21. The fluorescent material is capable of generating visible light by emitting light emitted from the illumination unit 21.

The illumination unit 21 may be provided with LED illumination. The LED illumination has advantages of processing speed, power consumption, and life due to the characteristics of semiconductor. For example, an ultraviolet LED (UV LED) device that emits ultraviolet light among LED lights may be used. The ultraviolet LED has an advantage in that it is more efficient, has a longer life, and is environmentally friendly as compared with a conventional ultraviolet mercury lamp. For example, the fluorescent material included in the card (c) can emit ultraviolet energy by irradiating light from the illuminating unit (21).

When the sensing unit 22 is provided as a linear image sensor (see FIG. 3), when the ultraviolet rays are irradiated to the card c by the illuminating unit 21, the fluorescent material absorbs ultraviolet energy to emit light And the linear image sensor recognizes the pattern structure of the light emitting portion F formed on the card c, thereby discriminating the type of the card.

The linear image sensor is a linear image sensor. The linear image sensor includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements (not shown) for detecting the pattern structure of the light emitting portion F provided on the card c, And an output terminal for reading the signal. The detection signal from the linear image sensor can be sequentially output to the data storage unit 30 through the signal output terminal and stored.

For example, the type and pattern of the card c can be formed in a rectangular array of two rows and three columns of a light emitting portion (F) pattern in a diamond A as shown in FIG. In this case, the linear image sensor can recognize that the type of the card (c) is diamond A by recognizing the second row and third column itself, which is the pattern structure of the light emitting portion (F).

The data storage unit 30 may be provided inside the case 10 and may store the image and the order of the card c sensed by the card recognition unit 20. [ The ultraviolet rays are irradiated from the illuminating unit 21 of the card recognizing unit 20 to the card c when the arbitrary card c of the plurality of cards c is discharged through the opening 11 and passed through the card recognizing unit 20. [ The linear image sensor can recognize the pattern structure itself of the light emitting portion F formed on the card c by illuminating the light emitting portion F provided on the card c by irradiation.

FIG. 5 is a view showing a mode in which a color sensor or an ultraviolet sensor is provided in a card recognition unit of a card monitoring system according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 6 is a block diagram of a card monitoring system according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 7 is a perspective view showing a state in which a color sensor or an ultraviolet sensor is provided in a card recognition unit of a card monitoring system according to an embodiment of the present invention. Fig.

5 to 7, the card recognition unit 20 of the card monitoring system 1 according to an embodiment of the present invention may include an illumination unit 21 and a sensing unit 22, 22 may be provided with at least a color sensor or an ultraviolet sensor (UV sensor).

The light emitting portion F provided on the card c can emit light by absorbing ultraviolet energy when the card c illuminates the card c at the illumination portion 21. The color sensor or the ultraviolet sensor can emit light, Off-controlled value according to the pattern structure of the light-emitting portion F formed in the light-emitting portion F, thereby discriminating the type of the card.

For example, the ON / OFF control value according to the pattern structure of the light emitting portion F is as follows.

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When the pattern structure of the light emitting portion F is as described above and the sensing portion 22 is provided with the color sensor or ultraviolet sensor, each sensor can recognize a value that is on / off controlled by a step pulse have. For example, when the card c is discharged through the opening 11, the light emitting portion F that has absorbed the ultraviolet energy and emits light can pass through the card recognizing portion 20. [ Each of the sensors can recognize a value of '1', that is, a value that is turned on by the step pulse, in the area where the light emitting unit F is present, and the light emitting unit F ) Of the card c can be discriminated by recognizing a value of '0', that is, a value which is turned off by the step pulse.

If the illuminating unit 21 irradiates a light source other than ultraviolet rays, a separate filter (not shown) may be provided so that only the ultraviolet rays can be irradiated from the illuminating unit 21 to the card c.

Therefore, only the ultraviolet rays are irradiated to the card c from the illuminating unit 21, so that the light emitting unit F provided on the card c can emit light, and the color sensor or the ultraviolet sensor can emit light By recognizing the on / off controlled value according to the pattern structure of the portion F, the order of the card c and the image of the card discharged through the opening 11 can be known.

Hereinafter, the operation of the card monitoring system 1 according to the embodiment of the present invention will be described.

In the Baccarat game, the dealer is supposed to fetch the card (c). The dealer may insert the card (c) randomly mixed into the case (10) and eject the card (c) one by one when the game starts.

The card monitoring system 1 may include a separate card recognition unit 20 and a data storage unit 30 so as to recognize and store the images and the order of the cards c discharged by the dealer.

The card recognizing unit 20 discriminates the information on the image of the card c by recognizing the pattern structure of the fluorescent material formed differently for each card c or the ON / OFF control value according to the pattern structure, Can be output to the storage unit 30 and stored. For example, the sensing unit 22 for recognizing the pattern of the fluorescent material formed for each card c in the card recognizing unit 20 may be provided as any one of a linear image sensor, a color sensor, and an ultraviolet sensor.

Therefore, when the card monitoring system 1 according to the present invention is used, there is an advantage that the order of the card c discharged in the baccarat game process and the image of the discharged card c can be stored.

1: Card monitoring system
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12: bottom surface 20: card recognition section
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A case in which a plurality of cards are accommodated and an opening for ejecting the card is formed on one side;
A card recognizing unit provided inside the case and recognizing the type of the card; And
A data storage unit provided inside the case and storing an image and an order of the card sensed by the card recognition unit;
The card monitoring system comprising: The method according to claim 1,
Wherein,
An illuminating unit for illuminating the light source with the card;
And a sensing unit for recognizing the type of the card by a light source irradiated by the illumination unit. 3. The method of claim 2,
Wherein each of the cards is provided with a light emitting portion having a different pattern, and the light emitting portion is made of a fluorescent material that emits light by at least the illumination portion. The method of claim 3,
Wherein the illumination unit is an LED illumination that irradiates at least ultraviolet light. 5. The method of claim 4,
The sensing unit may be a linear image sensor,
Wherein the light emitting unit emits ultraviolet light when the illumination unit irradiates the card, and the linear image sensor recognizes the pattern structure of the light emitting unit formed on the card itself. 5. The method of claim 4,
The sensing unit may be a color sensor or an ultraviolet sensor,
When the ultraviolet rays are irradiated to the card in the illumination unit, the light emitting unit emits light,
Wherein the color sensor or the ultraviolet sensor recognizes a value that is on / off controlled according to a pattern structure of a light emitting portion formed on the card. A case in which a plurality of cards are accommodated and an opening for ejecting the card is formed on one side;
An illumination device provided in the case and irradiating the light source with the card to induce light emission;
A sensor device which is provided inside the case and recognizes the type of the card that emits light by the illumination device; And
A data storage unit provided inside the case and storing an image and an order of the card sensed by the linear image sensor;
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Wherein the sensor device is provided as at least one of a linear image sensor, a color sensor, and an ultraviolet sensor.
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