Shuffled playing cards and manufacturing method thereof
AssigneeAngel Playing Cards Co., Ltd.
InventorYasushi Shigeta
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Abstract
Systems and methods for monitoring shuffled playing cards. A shuffled card ID is associated with the one or more shuffled decks of playing cards. Each card delivered by a card feeder from the one or more shuffled decks of playing cards is inspected. It is determined whether there is a defect in the arrangement of the one or more shuffled decks of playing cards. Upon a condition that a shuffled deck of playing cards is determined to be defective, at least one of discarding the defective shuffled deck of playing cards or preventing a recurrence of a defect found within the defective shuffled deck of playing cards.
Claims26
A method of inspecting one or more shuffled decks of playing cards, wherein each of the one or more shuffled decks of playing cards are shuffled at random, the method comprising the steps of:
- associating, by a process control system having one or more processors, a shuffled card ID with the one or more shuffled decks of playing cards, wherein the shuffled card ID is unique for the one or more shuffled decks of playing cards packaged in an individual package and the shuffled card ID comprises information about a manufacture or delivery of the one or more shuffled decks of playing cards;
- inspecting, by at least one of a card sensor and a camera, each card delivered by a card feeder from the one or more shuffled decks of playing cards;
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- determining whether there is a defect in an arrangement of the one or more shuffled decks of playing cards, wherein the step of determining whether there is a defect in the arrangement of the one or more shuffled decks of playing cards comprises determining whether there is a special arrangement in a shuffling of the one or more shuffled decks of playing cards.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.