Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image processing unit for detecting roulette wheel bias
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Application No.: US16069441Application Date: 2017-01-12
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Publication No.: US10657765B2Publication Date: 2020-05-19
- Inventor: Janis Krastin{hacek over (s)} , Tania Johannisone-Melkvista , Sne{hacek over (z)}ana Lipovska
- Applicant: EVOLUTION MALTA LTD
- Applicant Address: MT
- Assignee: EVOLUTION MALTA LTD
- Current Assignee: EVOLUTION MALTA LTD
- Current Assignee Address: MT
- Agency: DeWitt LLP
- Agent Joseph T. Leone, Esq.
- Priority: com.zzzhc.datahub.patent.etl.us.BibliographicData$PriorityClaim@7912cee1
- International Application: PCT/EP2017/050536 WO 20170112
- International Announcement: WO2017/121783 WO 20170720
- Main IPC: G07F17/32
- IPC: G07F17/32 ; A63F5/00 ; G06T7/70 ; G06T7/00 ; H04N5/232 ; G06K9/00

Abstract:
Image processing unit (3), and method (300), for detecting event data during a game round of a roulette wheel (1) via a camera (2), thereby enabling detection of a roulette wheel bias. The roulette wheel (1) comprises a ball track (11A), upon which a roulette ball (14) is brought into rotation around the roulette wheel (1), and a sloping lower ball track (11B) comprising ball deflectors (13, 15), encircling a rotor (7). The image processing unit (3) is configured for: receiving a captured image of the roulette ball (14) from the camera (2); detecting that the roulette ball (14), under influence of gravity, reaches an imaginary circle (17) encircling the ball deflectors (13, 15) of the lower ball track (11B); and determining a position where it is detected that the roulette ball (14) reaches the imaginary circle (17); and storing the determined position in a database (6).
Public/Granted literature
- US20190012877A1 ROULETTE WHEEL BIAS TRACKING Public/Granted day:2019-01-10
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