US 12,086,675 B2
Cage system and chip management system
Yasushi Shigeta, Shiga (JP)
Assigned to ANGEL GROUP CO., LTD., Shiga (JP)
Appl. No. 18/009,854
Filed by ANGEL GROUP CO., LTD., Shiga (JP)
PCT Filed Jun. 8, 2021, PCT No. PCT/JP2021/021785
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 12, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/251391, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 16, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-102729 (JP), filed on Jun. 12, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0297790 A1, Sep. 21, 2023
Int. Cl. G06K 7/10 (2006.01); G07F 17/32 (2006.01)
CPC G06K 7/10366 (2013.01) [G07F 17/322 (2013.01); G07F 17/3241 (2013.01); G07F 17/3248 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A cage system for managing movement of gaming chips within a cage in a casino hall, the gaming chips each have an RFID tag that store a chip ID of the gaming chip, the cage system comprising:
a first reading device configured to read a chip ID from an RFID tag of a gaming chip moving between a plurality of locations;
a second reading device configured to read the chip ID of the gaming chip leaving the cage into the casino hall; and
a recording device configured to record the chip IDs read by the first and second reading devices as a movement history of the gaming chip,
wherein the cage is divided into the plurality of locations including a cashier, and
wherein the cage system is configured to store the movement history of the gaming chip in the RFID tag of the gaming chip.