Automated Card Handling System for Casino Game Composition Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current card handling systems for table games with playing cards lack efficient methods to randomize and sort cards while ensuring secure and quick delivery, particularly in casino environments where speed and security are crucial.
Innovation Solution
A system that determines the composition of playing cards based on desired theoretical hold, game rules, and bonus parameters, incorporating standard and bonus cards with specific rank and suit symbols, and includes a processing subsystem to automatically allocate wagers to a bonus jackpot pool, facilitating secure and efficient card distribution.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If playing cards are manually shuffled by riffling or interleaving corners of two stacks, then randomization is achieved, but the process is time-consuming and lacks security control
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces manual mechanical shuffling with an automated card handling system that uses mechanical devices to riffle, interleave, and deal cards. This substitution eliminates the time-consuming nature of manual shuffling while incorporating security features such as enclosed card paths and controlled access points to prevent cheating and ensure integrity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary automated card handling device that acts as a mediator between the card decks and the players. This intermediary system performs shuffling, sorting, and dealing functions while maintaining security through controlled mechanisms, thus resolving the contradiction between speed and security by providing both automated efficiency and secure control.
2Ease of operation
If cards are delivered in a highly aligned stack for quick access, then ease of operation is improved, but security may be compromised if cards are easily accessible
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by providing different card delivery configurations for different locations in the system. Cards are kept in secure, enclosed paths during shuffling and storage, then delivered in aligned stacks only at the dealing point where accessibility is needed. This localized approach to alignment ensures ease of operation at the point of use while maintaining security throughout the rest of the system.
Solution Approach 2:
The automated card handling device serves as an intermediary that maintains cards in secure configurations during storage and shuffling, then provides aligned stacks only when needed for dealing. This intermediary function resolves the contradiction by controlling when and where cards are made accessible, thus maintaining both security and ease of operation at appropriate times and locations.
3Adaptability or versatility
If bonus playing cards are added to create bonus games with desired theoretical hold, then game versatility is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses parameter changes by allowing the composition of card decks to be dynamically adjusted based on desired game parameters such as theoretical hold percentages. The system can incorporate different ratios of bonus cards to standard cards, and can modify deck compositions to achieve specific game characteristics, thus providing versatility without permanently increasing physical device complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies dynamics by making the card deck composition adjustable and reconfigurable rather than fixed. The automated card handling system can dynamically sort and distribute cards to create different deck compositions suitable for various bonus games and theoretical hold requirements, providing game versatility while managing complexity through software control rather than fixed mechanical configurations.
Data Source
AI summary
A composition of a set of playing cards employing a plurality of standard playing cards and bonus playing cards may be determined, resulting in a desired theoretical hold or advantage for the gaming establishment. The composition identifies the number of each of a variety of bonus playing cards to include in a set of playing cards to achieve the theoretical hold. The composition may be based on a desired theoretical hold, rule(s), and/or bonus parameters.