Patent ID: 8622796

Claim:
A gaming system that executes a card game, comprising: a plurality of stations; a control unit that transmits and receives information related to a card game with the plurality of stations, and controls advancement of the card game; a game portion that has a flat surface and has a plurality of card placement areas on which cards required to determine a winning of the card game are placed, the plurality of card placement areas being placed in front of a position at which a dealer stands and including a plurality of first card placement areas for a player and a plurality of second card placement areas for a banker, wherein the game portion further includes a plurality of illuminating indicators, wherein an illuminating indicator of the plurality of illuminating indicators is provided in each card placement area among the first card placement areas for the player and the plurality of second card placement areas for the banker, wherein each of the plurality of illuminating indicators corresponds to the card placement area in which it is provided; an image input device that captures an image of the game portion including the plurality of card placement areas, and transmits captured image to the control unit; a card shoe that accommodates cards used in the card game; and memory that stores a game advancement program related to advancement of the game, and stores captured images of card placement areas of the game portion and comparative images for performing image recognition processing, wherein the control unit includes a controller that executes processing of: (a) starting the card game based on the game advancement program, (b) executing image recognition processing for the image of the card placement area captured by the image input device, and (c) calculating a score of the card game according to the game advancement program stored in the memory based on a result of the image recognition processing, wherein executing the image recognition processing includes (b1) determining whether the captured image of the card placement area includes a face on which a numeral or a symbol of a card is marked, and (b2) comparing the captured image of the card placement area with the comparative images stored in the memory when the captured image of the card placement area includes the face, and wherein after a certain card is placed on any one of the plurality of card placement areas, the controller illuminates the illuminating indicator which corresponds to the card placement area on which a next card is to be placed among the plurality of first card placement areas for the player and the plurality of second card placement areas for the banker.