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Apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for detecting, storing, and retrieving information about the composition of present and past hands of cards in a casino table game. The method includes causing a card-handling device to substantially automatically generate a plurality of hands wherein each hand includes one or more cards. Card information is identified that includes a rank and a suit of each card as the card moves through the card-handling device. A play history is maintained of a card composition of more than one round wherein the card composition of each round includes the cards in each hand of the round. The card information of at least one hand from at least one round may be displayed.

Apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for detecting, storing, and retrieving information about the composition of present and past hands of cards in a casino table game. The method includes causing a card-handling device to substantially automatically generate a plurality of hands wherein each hand includes one or more cards. Card information is identified that includes a rank and a suit of each card as each card moves through the card-handling device. A play history is maintained of a card composition of more than one round wherein the card composition of each round includes the cards in each hand of each round. The card information of at least one hand from at least one round may be displayed.

A card shuffler and method in which recovery from a card jam can be performed. Sensors detect a jam and a program directs jam recovery.

A system for promoting physical activity for video game players. A video game player wears an article of footwear with a physical activity monitor or “game pod” mounted thereon while exercising or performing some other type of physical activity. The game pod measures the amount of the player's physical activity, and records that amount in a memory. When the player desires to play a video game according to the invention, the player disengages at least the memory from the article of footwear, and then engages the memory with the computer hosting the video game through a computer interface. The computer then obtains the recorded amount of physical activity, and provides a computer function associated with the recorded amount of physical activity. The computer function may include the initiation of the video game itself, the instantiation of a specified gaming environment within the video game, the instantiation of one or more specified characteristics for the player's avatar within the video game, a lengthened playing time for the user's avatar, allowing the player to access data associated with the video game, or a combination of two or more of these functions.

The invention relates to a vehicle-mounted mobile terminal which comprises a signal strength detection module, a battery allowance detection module, an electric quantity management module, an audio and video playing module and an audio and video storage device, wherein the electric quantity management module is connected with the signal strength detection module, the battery allowance detection module, the audio and video playing module and the audio and video storage device and controls playing of audio and video contents in the audio and video playing module and storage of the audio and video contents in the audio and video storage device in a digital television program according to digital television signal strength detected by the signal strength detection module and the residual electric quantity of an automobile storage battery detected by the battery allowance detection module. With the vehicle-mounted mobile terminal, the electric quantity resources of the battery can be rationally distributed according to the quality of a detected digital television signal and the battery allowance of the automobile storage battery, and a scientific audio and video content playing strategy is made, so that the time of a user for watching the audio and video contents is relatively prolonged.

The invention discloses a restaurant self-help dish-ordering terminal with a mode change-over switch. A dish-ordering terminal is arranged on a base, the base is arranged on a dining table or is fixed on a building close to the dining table, the dish-ordering terminal is provided with a proximity switch, and the base is provided with a triggering device; and the triggering device on the base actuates the proximity switch on the dish-ordering terminal when the dish-ordering terminal leaves the base so that the dish-ordering terminal starts a dish-ordering mode, and the triggering device on the base drives the proximity switch on the dish-ordering terminal to act reversely when the dish-ordering terminal is arranged on the base so that the dish-ordering terminal starts an advertisement play mode or other modes. The restaurant self-help dish-ordering terminal with the mode change-over switch, disclosed by the invention, can immediately identify whether the dish-ordering terminal is arranged on the base or not, can prolong time of playing advertisements on the dish-ordering terminal and improve utilization efficiency of the dish-ordering terminal.