ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,627, issued on May 6, was assigned to ANGEL GROUP Co. LTD. (Shiga, Japan).
"Chip recognition system" was invented by Yasushi Shigeta (Shiga, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, provided is a chip recognition system that recognizes a chip on a gaming table in an amusement place having the gaming table, the chip recognition system including: a game recording apparatus that records, as an image, a state of chips stacked on the gaming table, using a camera; an image analysis apparatus that performs an image analysis on the recorded image of the state of chips; a plurality of chip determination apparatuses in...