US 10,500,477 B2Granted

Table game system

AssigneeAngel Playing Cards Co., Ltd.

InventorYasushi Shigeta

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Abstract

A card shoe apparatus of the table game system of the present invention includes a barcode reader and RFID that reads a barcode or RFID provided in a shuffled playing card set, thereby reading a shuffled card ID that uniquely identifies the shuffled playing card set. The control unit has a function of identifying an exposition of the cut card by the card reading unit. The information of the exposition of the cut card is at least used for identifying an end of the current game using the shuffled playing cards set currently set in the card shoe apparatus. A control unit further includes a function of identifying specified events that occur during the use of set of the shuffled playing cards at a game table, and of reporting these occurrences of the specified event in connection with a shuffled card ID.

Claims10

Dependent claims

A system for use with a plurality of sets of decks of playing cards, each of the sets being shuffled in a unique order and having a cut card, the system comprising:

a card shoe apparatus including:
a card housing unit configured to house respective ones of the sets of shuffled playing cards and the cut card, wherein which of the sets is housed in the card housing unit is changed over time;
an opening configured to enable a drawing of the cards from the card housing unit one by one;
and
a card reading unit configured to read card information from each of the cards;
a display unit configured to display a result of a card game;
and
a control unit comprising at least one processor configured to, for each of the sets housed in the card housing unit:
identify, based on information from the card reading unit, drawings of the cut card to determine a respective period during which the respective one of the sets is used with the card shoe apparatus until the respective set is replaced by another of the sets;
and
determine and output a respective average game time of all games played during the respectively determined period.

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Facts

Application: 14/438,211Filed 9 Aug 2013
Priority: JP 2012-24672923 Oct 2012
Published: US 2015/0265908 A124 Sep 2015
Granted: 10 Dec 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification11 codes

A63F 1/14
Card game appurtenances: card dealers
A63F 1/12
Card game appurtenances: card shufflers
A63F 1/18
Card game appurtenances: scoring or registering devices; Indicators
G07F 17/3241
For games, toys, sports, or amusements: security aspects of a gaming system, e.g. detecting cheating, device integrity, surveillance

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