When an unfair gaming currency is delivered to a dealer from a player, the currency is detected as unfair. The inspection system for inspecting the gaming currency, in which an RF tag is built, comprises: a gaming currency tray for housing the gaming currencies of the dealer in a casino game; an RF reader for reading the RF tags of the plural gaming currencies housed in the gaming currency tray; plural photosensors for detecting at least the number of the plural gaming currencies housed in the gaming currency tray at a constant time interval or always in a method other than RFID; and an inspection/alarm part for generating alarms when the number of the gaming currencies whose RF tags are read by the RF reader is not equal to the number of the gaming currencies detected by the plural photosensors.

A full-color protected document, printing method, and system secured by removable Scratch-Off Coatings where the protection against microscratch type attacks is provided by ensuring strategic placement of similarly colored and/or patterned variable indicia. By printing the variable indicia with similarly standards, usability and integrity of the printed indicia are achieved relative to the consumer's perspective while at the same time providing countermeasures to illicit microscratching attacks.

An inspection system 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, and a radio tag storing gaming chip information is embedded in each of the gaming chips. The gaming chips are stored in the case capable of containing a row of gaming chips stacked in a thickness direction, and the inspection system includes 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 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 is different from a maximum of the number of storable gaming chips.

A fraud detection system which detects fraud in a game of performing collection and redemption of chips in accordance with a win or lose result includes a camera which captures an image of chips contained in a chip tray of a dealer, an image analyzing apparatus which analyses the image captured by the camera to detect an amount of the chips contained in the chip tray, a card distribution device which determines a win or lose result of a game, and a control device which compares the win or lose result of the game and the amount of the chips contained in the chip tray before and after collection and redemption of the chips to detect fraud.

A table game management system according to the present invention includes a camera that images a game token placed on a game table, and a management control device that grasps a type of the game token placed on the game table based on a color of a side face of the game token imaged by the camera.

A system includes a card shoe that includes a housing for housing cards and an opening through which the housed cards can be drawn. The system includes a computer to detect whether there is any of the following predefined arrangements: (1) for each of a predefined number of consecutively drawn cards, the respective rank of the respective card is larger or smaller by one than an immediately preceding one of the cards drawn from the card housing; (2) a respective rank of each of a predefined number of consecutively drawn cards is the same; (3) a respective suit of each of a predefined number of consecutively drawn cards is the same; or (4) a same sequence in which a predefined number of the cards are consecutively drawn is repeated.

A fraud detection system which detects fraud in a game of performing collection and redemption of chips in accordance with a win or lose result includes a camera which captures an image of chips contained in a chip tray of a dealer, an image analyzing apparatus which analyses the image captured by the camera to detect an amount of the chips contained in the chip tray, a card distribution device which determines a win or lose result of a game, and a control device which compares the win or lose result of the game and the amount of the chips contained in the chip tray before and after collection and redemption of the chips to detect fraud.

Administrating a package of shuffled playing cards to prevent fraudulent card exchanges. The administrating system is configured to calculate places and a number of packages of shuffled playing cards at places of the backyard, the places of playing tables, places of carriers and the disposition place using information obtained by the loading step and unloading step and the administrating system calculates by every ID codes bases 1) places of packages registered by the registering step for registering to a data base of administrating system and a number of packages place by place from information obtained from the loading step and the unloading step. The administrating system is configured to recognize whether there is a lost package by comparing the information of all ID codes registered in registering steps with the ID codes at places of packages obtained at the calculating step from the loading step and the unloading step.

The present invention provides a table game system configured of: a predetermined number of a plurality of decks of cards 1; a package PA in which the plurality of decks of cards 1 are packed; a card shoe apparatus which includes a card accommodation portion 2 that accommodates the plurality of decks of cards 1 packed in the package PA, an opening that is configured to manually withdraw cards used in each time of games one by one from the card accommodation portion 2, and a card reading unit that reads at least ranks of the cards withdrawn from the opening one by one; a card feeding apparatus which is in contact with the cards present in the opening and includes a card feeding mechanism that feeds the cards forward one by one from the opening, a control apparatus that controls an operation of the card feeding mechanism, and an activation means for causing the control apparatus to operate the card feeding mechanism; a card stocker which receives the card fed from the card accommodation portion by the card feeding mechanism; and a management control unit which includes a storage apparatus that stores information on at least the rank of the card read by the card reading unit and is capable of calculating a number of cards for each of the ranks based on the information on at least the rank of each of the cards stored in the storage apparatus. The table game system is configured such that the control apparatus operates the card feeding mechanism so as to automatically feed all cards remaining in the card accommodation portion when the activation unit is activated at time of ending use of the plurality of decks of cards accommodated in the card accommodation portion according to a predetermined rule of a card game, the card feeding mechanism is not operated when a card is manually withdrawn from the card accommodation portion, the card reading unit reads at least the rank of the card fed out by the card feeding apparatus, and the management control unit is configured to have a processing function of calculating a total number of cards by adding a number of sheets for each rank of cards manually withdrawn from the card accommodation portion before ending the use of the plurality of decks of cards accommodated in the card accommodation portion according to the predetermined rule of the card game and a number of sheets for each rank of cards fed by the card feeding apparatus from the card accommodation portion after ending the use of the cards, and examining whether the total number of cards is excessive or insufficient when being compared with a number of cards for each rank that needs to be included in the predetermined number o

Administrating a package of shuffled playing cards to prevent fraudulent card exchanges. The administrating system is configured to calculate places and a number of packages of shuffled playing cards at places of the backyard, the places of playing tables, places of carriers and the disposition place using information obtained by the loading step and unloading step and the administrating system calculates by every ID codes bases 1) places of packages registered by the registering step for registering to a data base of administrating system and a number of packages place by place from information obtained from the loading step and the unloading step. The administrating system is configured to recognize whether there is a lost package by comparing the information of all ID codes registered in registering steps with the ID codes at places of packages obtained at the calculating step from the loading step and the unloading step.