Patent ID: 8210924

Claim:
A dice recognizing system for recognizing dice with radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, comprising: at least one dice body, each dice body being a regular cube with six faces, each two opposite faces of the six faces being parallel to each other, and at least one pip being disposed on each face; a plurality of the RFID tags disposed on any single pair of two opposite faces of the at least one dice body, each of the RFID tags having unique recognition information, one of the two opposite faces being disposed with at least one of the RFID tags within one pip of the respective face, the other one of the two opposite faces being disposed with the remainder of the plurality of the RFID tags within one or more pips of the respective face, and wherein there are no RFID tags disposed on the other four faces; at least one RFID reader disposed on a platform and having an antenna, the RFID reader emitting an electromagnetic wave to drive one or more of the plurality of RFID tags to emit one or more first signals, each first signal containing unique recognition information for one of the plurality of RFID tags, the antenna receiving the first signals emitted by the one or more RFID tags, the RFID reader emitting a second signal after the antenna receives the first signals; and at least one processing module receiving the second signal emitted by the RFID reader; wherein: the at least one dice body rolls and comes to rest on the platform; the height of an induction field formed by the RFID reader and the antenna is less than half the height of the dice body; when the dice body rests on the platform, the RFID reader emits the electromagnetic wave to drive one or more of the plurality of RFID tags resting within the height of the induction field to emit the first signals, such that the one or more RFID tags resting above the height of the induction field are not driven by the electromagnetic wave; the antenna receives the first signals emitted by the one or more RFID tags driven by the electromagnetic wave; the RFID reader emits the second signal to the processing module; and after receiving the second signal, the processing module records and analyzes the second signal to determine a number of pips which appear on an upper face of the at least one dice body resting on the platform, based on the first signals and a combination of the one or more RFID tags resting within the height of the induction field identified by their respective unique recognition information.