KR102042472B1 - Security system and method for game device linked with camera image monitoring and game device screen auto saving function - Google Patents

Abstract

Disclosed is a game device security system incorporating a camera video surveillance and an automatic game device screen save function. A plurality of game devices on which the game is executed; A gaming video recorder (GVR) for recording a screen of a game executed in the game device; A plurality of surveillance cameras for capturing an image of a player using a game executed in the game device; A smart surveillance server (SSS) is configured to associate and store a video recorded by the surveillance camera and a screen recorded by the gaming video recorder. According to the game system security system and method linking the above-described camera video surveillance and the automatic storage of the game device screen, using the surveillance camera to record the behavior of the player operating the slot machine and to record the screen of the game played by the player And it is configured to link the surveillance camera image and the game screen, there is an effect that can be used as evidence by analyzing the suspicious behavior and game manipulation of the player.

Description

SECURITY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GAME DEVICE LINKED WITH CAMERA IMAGE MONITORING AND GAME DEVICE SCREEN AUTO SAVING FUNCTION}

The present invention relates to a game machine security system and method, and more particularly, to a game machine security system and method for linking camera video surveillance and automatic game device screen storage function.

Casino slot machines often have tens or hundreds of casino slots installed.

Like board games, various operations are being made in slot machines. Manipulate bets or games. A large amount of cash must be paid even if the jackpot is blown by this operation. However, due to the characteristics of the slot machine, it is difficult to individually monitor each player.

Surveillance cameras can monitor a player's suspicious behavior or manipulation, but it is difficult to determine how the suspicious behavior or manipulation is related to the slot machine game.

Therefore, it is necessary to secure reliable evidence by linking the suspicious behavior of the player using the casino slot machine with the corresponding game.

Patent Publication No. 10-2017-0038476 Patent Publication No. 10-2017-0048934

An object of the present invention is to provide a game device security system that links the camera video surveillance and automatic game device screen storage function.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a method for linking a camera video surveillance with the automatic storage of the game device screen.

According to the above-described object of the present invention, a game device security system for linking a camera video surveillance and a game device screen automatic storage function includes : a plurality of game devices on which a game is executed; A gaming video recorder (GVR) for recording a screen of a game executed in the game device; A plurality of surveillance cameras for capturing images of a player using a game executed in the game device; It may be configured to include a smart surveillance server (SSS) for storing the image of the player taken by the surveillance camera and the screen recorded by the gaming video recorder in association.

Here, the game device includes: a card reader for reading a card of a player to identify the player; A game controller executing a game and outputting the game through a game display; A player tracking system (PTS) for monitoring and tracking the game situation of the game device in association with the player identified by the card reader; Control to generate an event for the player and to send it to a video surveillance server in real time so that the player being monitored in the player tracking system can track which game device the player is playing based on the player. It may be configured to include a module.

Here, the gaming video recorder,

A video signal splitter for splitting game screen data of the game device; A video signal converter for converting game screen data split by the video signal splitter into a predetermined data format; And a game device interface board for interfacing with the video management server so as to transmit and store game screen data of the game device converted by the video signal converter to a video management server.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of linking a camera video surveillance function with an automatic storage of a game device screen, the method comprising: a game device executing a game; Recording a screen of a game executed in the game device by a gaming video recorder (GVR); Capturing an image of a player using a game executed in the game device by a surveillance camera; A smart surveillance server (SSS) may be configured to include storing an image of a player captured by the surveillance camera and a screen recorded by the gaming video recorder (GVR).

Here, the step of the game device to execute the game, the card reader (card reader) to read the player's card to identify the player; A game controller executing a game and outputting the game through a game display; A player tracking system (PTS) monitoring and tracking the game status of the game device in association with the player identified by the card reader; The control module generates an event for the player so that the player being monitored in the player tracking system is playing a game based on the player, and generates an event for the player in real time using a video surveillance server. It may be configured to include the step of transmitting.

According to the game system security system and method linking the above-described camera video surveillance and the automatic storage of the game device screen, using the surveillance camera to record the behavior of the player operating the slot machine and to record the screen of the game played by the player And it is configured to link the surveillance camera image and the game screen, there is an effect that can be used as evidence by analyzing the suspicious behavior and game manipulation of the player.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a game device security system in which a camera video surveillance and a game device screen automatic storage function are linked according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a detailed configuration diagram of a gaming video recorder storing an image in a game device according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a flowchart illustrating a method of associating a camera video surveillance with a game screen automatic saving function according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As the inventive concept allows for various changes and numerous embodiments, particular embodiments will be illustrated in the drawings and described in detail in the written description. However, this is not intended to limit the present invention to specific embodiments, it should be understood to include all modifications, equivalents, and substitutes included in the spirit and scope of the present invention. In describing the drawings, similar reference numerals are used for similar elements.

Terms such as first, second, A, and B may be used to describe various components, but the components should not be limited by the terms. The terms are used only for the purpose of distinguishing one component from another. For example, without departing from the scope of the present invention, the first component may be referred to as the second component, and similarly, the second component may also be referred to as the first component. The term and / or includes a combination of a plurality of related items or any item of a plurality of related items.

When a component is referred to as being "connected" or "connected" to another component, it may be directly connected to or connected to that other component, but it may be understood that other components may be present in between. Should be. On the other hand, when a component is said to be "directly connected" or "directly connected" to another component, it should be understood that there is no other component in between.

The terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular example embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention. Singular expressions include plural expressions unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. In this application, the terms "comprise" or "have" are intended to indicate that there is a feature, number, step, operation, component, part, or combination thereof described in the specification, and one or more other features. It is to be understood that the present invention does not exclude the possibility of the presence or the addition of numbers, steps, operations, components, components, or a combination thereof.

Unless defined otherwise, all terms used herein, including technical or scientific terms, have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art. Terms such as those defined in the commonly used dictionaries should be construed as having meanings consistent with the meanings in the context of the related art and shall not be construed in ideal or excessively formal meanings unless expressly defined in this application. Do not.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a game device security system in which a camera video surveillance and a game device screen automatic storage function are linked according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, a game device security system 100 linking a camera video surveillance and an automatic game device screen storage function according to an embodiment of the present invention may include a game device 110 and a video management server (VMS). 120, video surveillance server (VSS) 130, surveillance camera 140, digital video recorder (DVR) 150, smart surveillance server (SSS) ( 160, a casino management server (CMS) 170 may be configured.

Hereinafter, the detailed structure is demonstrated.

The game device 110 may be various game devices of a casino. Any device operated electronically and identified through a display may be applicable. Representatively, it may be a slot machine.

The game device 110 includes a card reader 111, a banknote recognition module 112, a ticket in ticket out (TITO) 113, a game controller 114, and a game key. It may be configured to include an input module 115, a game display 116, a control module 117, a player tracking system 118, and a gaming video recorder 119.

Hereinafter, the detailed structure is demonstrated.

The card reader 111 is a component for identifying a player. The player identification information recognized by the card of the player in the card reader 111 may be provided to the game controller 114 and the control module 117.

The bill recognition module 112 may be configured to recognize the amount of bills to be input. The amount of money that can be played in the game by the amount of money recognized by the banknote recognition module 112 may be provided to the game controller 114 and the control module 117.

The ticket input / output device 113 may be configured to recognize a voucher corresponding to the game money and perform a printout.

The game controller 114 may be configured to execute a game of the game device 110. Slot machine games may be an example.

The game key input module 115 may be configured to receive a player's input value for the game executed by the game controller 114 and deliver the input value to the game controller 114 in real time. The game controller 114 may be configured to proceed with the game according to an input value input by the game key input module 115.

The game display 116 may be configured to output a game played by the game controller 114.

The control module 117 is configured to output data and events for monitoring the game screen output value of the player and the player's behavior to the outside. The control module 117 can be configured to control the player tracking system 118 and the gaming video recorder 119.

Player tracking system 118 monitors events relating to the player to control the configuration and control module 117 to monitor and track in connection to the player the game state of the game device 110 based on the player video It may be configured to transmit in real time to the server 130. The video surveillance server 130 may monitor in real time which player is playing the game.

The gaming video recorder 119 may be configured to record in real time a game screen output through the game display 116 under the control of the control module 117. The game screen recorded by the gaming video recorder 119 may be transmitted to the video management server 120 through the game device interface board 119c in real time under the control of the control module 117. The video management server 120 may store and manage a game screen in real time in association with a corresponding player.

On the other hand, it may be configured to deliver the game screen received in real time by the gaming video recorder 119 to the remote video management server 120 via the network.

The video management server 120 may be configured to store and manage game screens for each player by player and game device 110. In this case, the game screen data may be configured to hold time information for each frame or a predetermined frame.

The video surveillance server 130 may be configured to control the surveillance camera 140 and the digital video recorder 150. When the video surveillance server 130 receives an event including the identification information about the player playing the game and the game device 110 identification information from the control module 117, the game device 110 when receiving the event Control the surveillance camera 140 to photograph the player of 110.

The surveillance camera 140 may be configured to monitor and photograph the player of the specific game device 110 under the control of the video surveillance server 130. It is configured to closely capture a player's tricks or manipulations while playing the game, and may be configured to change the angle, zoom in / zoom out, etc., as well as track shooting of the corresponding player.

The surveillance camera 140 may be a CCTV camera or an IP camera.

The digital video recorder 150 may be configured to store recording data photographed by the surveillance camera 140.

The video surveillance server 130 may be configured to manage the recording data stored in the digital video recorder 150 in association with the game device 110 and the player. The recording data may be configured to hold time information for each frame or for each predetermined frame.

The smart surveillance server 170 may be configured to monitor the game screen data of the video management server 120 and the recording data of the video surveillance server 130 in association with each other. It may be configured to monitor in conjunction with each other by using identification information of the game device 110, player identification information, and time information linked to the game screen data and the recording data, respectively. Thus, at the same time, the game screen of the specific game device 110 and the behavior of the corresponding player may be simultaneously monitored.

The casino management server 170 may remotely process various setting information about the game device 110, and monitor data by the smart monitoring server 170 to a display (not shown) or a terminal (not shown) of the monitoring agent. It can be configured to provide remote.

2 is a detailed block diagram of a gaming video recorder 119 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 2, the gaming video recorder 119 may be configured to include a video signal splitter 119a, a video signal converter 119b, and a game device interface board 119c. have.

Here, the gaming video recorder 119 is configured to transmit game screen data output through the game display 116 of the game device 110 to the remote video management server 130 for storage.

In FIG. 2, the game screen data output from the game display 116 of each game device 110 is first divided into a video signal splitter 119a and a video signal converter. The converter 119b converts the data into a predetermined data format and inputs the same.

Meanwhile, the game device interface board 119c may be configured to transmit and store game screen data converted by the video signal converter 119b to a remote video management server 120 through a network.

And the game device interface board 119c and the video management server 130 to transmit and store the game screen data of the game device 110, which is converted by the video signal converter 119b to the video management server 130 of the remote location; It may consist of performing interfacing.

The game device interface board 119c includes a video signal input unit, a video encoder, a video storage, a secure socket shell module, a crypto processing module, a network time module ( network time module, real time streaming module, file transfer protocol / secure file transfer protocol module.

Hereinafter, the detailed structure is demonstrated.

The video signal input unit may be configured to convert a game screen image input from the video converter 119b into digital image data, and the video encoder may be configured to encode / compress and secure digital image data in video storage.

The secure socket shell module may be configured to remotely connect to the video management server 120 using the secure socket shell protocol as a remote access shell for secure connection.

The crypto processing module may be configured to perform encryption processing on game screen data.

The network time module may be configured to perform time synchronization between the gaming video recorder 119 and the video management server 120 connected to the network.

The real time streaming module may be configured to transmit the game screen data in real time to the video management server 120.

The file transfer protocol / secure file transfer protocol module may be configured to transmit game screen data to the video management server 120 according to the file transfer protocol or the secure file transfer protocol.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a method of associating a camera video surveillance with a game screen automatic saving function according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 3, the game device 110 executes a game (S101).

Here, step S101 can be configured as follows in detail.

First, the card reader 111 may be configured to read the player's card to identify the player. The game controller 114 may be configured to execute a game and output the game through the game display 116. When the game is executed, the player tracking system 118 may be configured to monitor and track the game situation of the game device 110 in association with the player identified by the card reader 111. In addition, the control module 117 generates an event for the player so that the player being monitored in the player tracking system 118 can track which game device 110 is playing based on the player. It may be configured to transmit in real time to the monitoring server 130.

Next, the gaming video recorder (GVR) 119 records the screen of the game executed in the game device 110 (S102).

Next, the surveillance camera 140 captures an image of the player (player) using the game executed in the game device 110 (S103).

Next, a smart surveillance server (SSS) 170 stores the video recorded by the surveillance camera 140 and the screen recorded by the gaming video recorder 119 in association with each other (S104).

Although described with reference to the above embodiments, those skilled in the art can understand that the present invention can be variously modified and changed without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention described in the claims below. There will be.

110: game machine 111: card reader
112: banknote recognition module 113: ticket input and output device
114: game controller 115: game key input module
116: game display 117: control module
118: player tracking system
119: gaming video recorder 119a: video signal splitter
119b: Video Signal Converter 119c: Game Machine Interface Board
120: video management server 130: video surveillance server
140: surveillance camera 150: digital video recorder
160: smart monitoring server 170: casino management server

Claims (5)

A plurality of game devices 110 on which games are executed;
A gaming video recorder (GVR) 119 for recording a screen of a game executed in the game device 110;
A plurality of surveillance cameras 140 for capturing an image of a player using a game executed in the game device 110;
And a smart surveillance server (SSS) 160 for storing the video recorded by the surveillance camera 140 and the screen recorded by the gaming video recorder 119 in association with each other.
The game device 110,
A card reader 111 for reading a player's card to identify the player;
A game controller 114 which executes a game and outputs it through a game display 116;
A player tracking system (PTS) 118 for monitoring and tracking the game situation of the game device 110 in association with the player identified by the card reader 111;
The video surveillance server generates an event for the player so that the player monitored in the player tracking system 118 can track which game device 110 is playing the game based on the player. Control module 117 for real-time transmission to (130),
The gaming video recorder 119,
A video signal splitter 119a for splitting game screen data of the game device 110;
A video signal converter (119b) for converting game screen data split by the video signal splitter (119a) into a predetermined data format;
A game device interface for interfacing with the video management server 120 to transmit and store game screen data of the game device 110 converted by the video signal converter 119b to the video management server 120 at a remote location. A board 119c,
The game device 110 is a bill recognition module 112 for recognizing the amount of bills input to the game device 110,
Ticket input and output device 113 for recognizing the voucher (voucher) corresponding to the game money and prints the ticket,
A game key input module 115 which receives a player's input value for the game executed by the game controller 114 and delivers it to the game controller 114 in real time;
It further comprises a game display 116 for outputting a game executed by the game controller 114,
When the video surveillance server 130 receives an event including the identification information on the player playing the game and the game device 110 identification information from the control module 117, the game device 110, To control the surveillance camera 140 to shoot the player,
Further comprising a casino management server 170 for remotely providing the monitoring data by the smart monitoring server 160 to the display or the terminal of the monitoring personnel,
The game device interface board 119c includes a video signal input unit for converting a game screen image input from the video signal converter 119b into digital image data;
A video encoder that encodes and stores digital video data and stores it in video storage.
Secure socket shell module for remote access to the video management server 120 using a secure socket shell protocol as a remote access shell for a secure connection,
A crypto processing module that performs encryption processing on game screen data,
A network time module that performs time synchronization between the gaming video recorder 119 and the video management server 120 connected to the network;
Real-time streaming module for transmitting the real-time streaming game screen data to the video management server 120,
And a file transfer protocol / secure file transfer protocol module for transmitting game screen data to the video management server 120 according to a file transfer protocol or a secure file transfer protocol. Game device security system to link the.
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