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Image capturing card shuffler

A technology for image capture and card shuffling, applied in the field of card shuffling systems

Inactive Publication Date: 2006-05-10
SHUFFLE MASTER
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[0010] None of the aforementioned patents teach or suggest shuffling playing cards in a random order, capturing images of playing cards prior to output, manipulating the images of the cards, and displaying the images of the cards (all of the above in a shuffling machine within the range of) shuffling device

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[0023] The disclosure of the present invention is filed under the impetus of the legislative purpose of the United States Patent Act "to promote the advancement of science and applied technology" (Title 1, Section 8).

[0024] According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, a card shuffler is described which eliminates one of the most important security problems of cheating by changing cards. These security issues are more prevalent in certain poker games such as but not limited to Pai Gow poker. The nature of these games provides the possibility of interaction between the poker players and / or poker calculators, thereby manipulating the outcome of winning or losing. Because of the need for new ways to enhance game security, the present invention provides the ability to capture images of playing cards being dealt (typically as figure 1 Shown) features to address this requirement.

[0025] figure 1 A diagrammatic or schematic depiction of the card shuffling syst...

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The present invention features a playing card shuffling device (20), which through the use of a small image capturing means (30), captures an image of the face value of each card and stores the image in memory. This image is sorted in the format of a bit map image. The operator of the machine would b e able to recall through the use of a key pad (44), the images of the cards th at comprised the individual hands in the previous game. This feature allows for verification of a winning hand after a game has been completed. Thereby a quick recheck of hands before paying a winning hand is performed. The face value of each card is determined by character recognition software. These ca rd values would be stored in memory for archival access for use in monitoring t he randomness of the game and determining the number of winning hands.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to certain shuffling devices for use in live poker games, and more particularly, the present invention relates to a computer-controlled shuffling system that captures images, stores, tracks and provides random playing cards, and displays the cards Image. Background technique [0002] A shuffler is an electromechanical device designed to reorder one or more decks of playing cards in the game of casino poker. More recently, games have been developed that require a single deck of cards to be shuffled into a random order, and each player is provided with a hand of cards. The hands are removed from the machine by the operator and given to each player. Some game strategies require that players be presented with different numbers of each hand of cards depending on the game selected. For example, each hand may have 3, 5, 7 or more cards in each different game. For safety reasons, some shufflers count the number of cards in the...

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IPC IPC(8): A63F9/24A63F1/12
CPCA63F1/12A63F1/18A63F2009/2404A63F2009/2425A63F2009/2457A63F2009/246
Inventor 林恩·赫莘丹尼尔·马奥尼史蒂文·J.·布拉德汤普森·贝克尔
Owner SHUFFLE MASTER
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