Patent ID: 8167700

Claim:
A gaming device, comprising: (a) a plurality of stations which can be played by respective ones of a plurality of players; (b) a display section which displays an image for a game and a BET image corresponding to a respective one of the stations; (c) a detection section which detects a motion of the player when the player who is present at a respective one of the stations makes a BET operation for the BET image displayed at the display section; (d) an image acquisition section which is capable of acquiring an image of the player who is present at the respective one of the stations; (e) a notification section which performs notification, based upon a predetermined condition; and (f) a controller which can be communicated with the plurality of stations, the controller being configured to: (i) receive acceptance information of a game from the plurality of stations; (ii) cause the display section to display the BET image corresponding to the respective one of the stations; (iii) perform a first judgment process of judging a movement of a player's hand at a time of making a BET operation of at least one gaming medium for a BET image that is displayed on the display section by sensing the player's hand from a back side of the display section by employing a sensor unit of the detection section that is provided inside the display section, and then, judging a state of the BET operation of the player; (iv) perform a second judgment process of acquiring an image of the player who is present at the respective one of the stations, processing the acquired image information as an image, and then, judging a play state of the player, with referring to the information that is obtained by the image processing and reference information that is stored in advance; (v) perform a third judgment process of judging whether or not the notification section notifies that there is an illegal act or a mistaken operation, based upon a result of the first judgment process of judging the BET operation state of the player in the process (iii) and result of the second judgement process of judging the play state of the player in the process (iv); and (vi) cause the notification section to perform notification in accordance with a judgment result of the third judgment in the process (v).