Card shooter device

Abstract

A card shooter device (1) is equipped with a card shooter part (3), which is equipped with a card storage part (10) and an opening (11), a card guide (15) that guides a card (C) drawn from the opening (11) onto a table (T), a card reader (4) that reads the number of cards drawn from the card shooter part (3), a win/lose judgment part (28) that determines whether a card game has been won or lost based on the card number information that has been read, and a communication terminal (8) that transmits the card number information. The card number information that has been read is temporarily stored in a memory (25). The temporarily stored card number information is transmitted to a supervisor when the transmission thereof has been enabled by means of an enable-transmission button (9), whereby the timing with which the card number information is transmitted can be controlled so that the supervisor is unable to know the contents of the cards (C) before the player. Thus, a card shooter deviceis provided that is able to prevent cheating by cooperation between the game supervisor and the player.

Description

technical field [0001] The present invention relates to a card reading device for reading playing cards (playing cards, hereinafter simply referred to as cards), and more particularly to a device suitable for use in a card game using a card dealer. Background technique [0002] Conventionally, card reading devices suitable for card games played in casinos and the like have been proposed. For example, Japanese Special Table No. Ping 10-508236 (page 12, figure 1 ) discloses a card reading device of a card dealer. In this device, a CCD image sensor and related optical system components are built in the card dealer. Moreover, a card reading window is arranged at the outlet of the card dealer, and when the cards pass through the outlet of the card dealer, the cards are read through the reading window. [0003] And, the reading result of the cards read in this way is sent to a control device and a display device located in a game monitoring area outside the card dealer or a cen...

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Problems solved by technology

[0004] However, in conventional devices, since the card reading result is sent immediately after the card reading processing operation is completed, it may be sent to the game monitoring area or the center before the players at the game table know the outcome of each game. The control unit in the monitoring room sends the reading data

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