Poker dealing device incorporated with digital recorder system

Abstract

A poker dealing device includes a housing and a card reader. The housing has a receiving cavity for receiving cards, and a dispensing slot communicating with the receiving cavity for allowing the cards to be dispensed therethrough in a one-by-one manner. The card reader is provided at the dispensing slot at a position out of the receiving cavity for reading a card value when the card is dispensed out of the receiving cavity through the dispensing slot. As a result, it is guaranteed that the card values of the cards in the receiving cavity would be kept in a secrete manner until the cards are dispensed out of the receiving cavity through the dispensing slot.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE PRESENT INVENTION [0001] 1. Field of Invention [0002] The present invention is related to a poker dealing device for dispensing playing cards, and more particularly to a poker dealing device capable of automatically reading the value of the playing card that is being dispensed through a dispensing slot of the poker dealing device for further processing for management purposes. [0003] 2. Description of Related Arts [0004] Card games have a long history as an entertainment, and many of them are potentially suitable for gambling. Poker, baccarat and blackjack are among the most popular mean of gambling in casinos. In spite of their own rules, they all based on a standard deck of playing cards, which includes fifty-two cards separated into four suits, clubs, spades, hearts and diamonds. The cards are ranked from high to low in the order of Ace, King, Queen, Jack, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3 and 2. Sometimes, more than one deck of cards is used for certain card games. Accor...

AI Technical Summary

Benefits of technology

"The present invention provides a poker dealing device that can automatically read the value of the playing card being dispensed through a dispensing slot in order to prevent cheating in a card game. The device also has the ability to dispense special playing cards with card indicators representing the value of the card, making it easier to recognize the cards. The device can transmit signals representing the values of the cards to a remote location for further processing and management purposes. Additionally, the invention includes a card dealing system with a poker dealing device and a central management unit for recording and processing the values of the cards dispensed in a card game. The system can also determine the winners and losers and calculate odds and rewards for each player in a card game."

Problems solved by technology

All the abovementioned card games require extensive dealing of cards and lengthened procedure of betting, in which some game participants may be able to gain illegitimate advantages by cheating.

In other words, no one is able to learn the value the dispensed card by a quick glance.

Although the card dealing shoe helps reduce cheating for card games, it is not perfect.

For example, the dealer may conspire with a player and intentionally commits certain technical faults in dealing the cards.

These are the forms of cheating that the traditional dealing shoe is not capable of remedying.

The scanner is disposed in the housing of card dealing shoe, so that there is a chance that the card received in the housing would be scanned by the scanner, either accidentally or intentionally.

As a result, there is a light risk of cheating with the card dealing shoe.

The image recognition process is time-consuming and computing-resource-demanding.

Further, it is not unusual that the results of the image recognition would be incorrect.

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