Patent ID: 8277310

Claim:
A medium position determination apparatus comprising: a gaming table on which a gaming medium is placed; a reading unit that electromagnetically reads information stored in a gaming medium placed on each region formed on the gaming table; an identification information identifying unit that identifies identification information of a gaming medium placed on each region formed on the gaming table based on information of the gaming medium read by the reading unit; a tentative position identifying unit that, when the same gaming medium is identified by the identification information identifying unit in two or more regions formed on the gaming table, identifies an intermediate position of the two or more regions as a tentative position of the gaming medium; a same region determining unit that determines whether or not gaming media are placed on the same region based on a distance between tentative positions of the gaming media and dimensions of the gaming media; and a medium position determining unit that, determines that, when a gaming medium is identified by the identification information identifying unit in one region formed on the gaming table, the gaming medium is placed on a center position of the one region, determines that, when the same region determining unit determines that gaming media are not placed on the same region, the gaming media are placed on tentative positions of the gaming media, and determines that, when the same region determining unit determines that gaming media are placed on the same region, the gaming media are placed on an intermediation position of tentative positions of the gaming media.