Card show apparatus and table game system
AssigneeAngel Group Co., Ltd.
InventorYasushi Shigeta
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Abstract
A system includes a card shoe that includes a housing for housing cards and an opening through which the housed cards can be drawn. The system includes a computer to detect whether there is any of the following predefined arrangements: (1) for each of a predefined number of consecutively drawn cards, the respective rank of the respective card is larger or smaller by one than an immediately preceding one of the cards drawn from the card housing; (2) a respective rank of each of a predefined number of consecutively drawn cards is the same; (3) a respective suit of each of a predefined number of consecutively drawn cards is the same; or (4) a same sequence in which a predefined number of the cards are consecutively drawn is repeated.
Claims20
A shuffle check system for shuffled playing cards, the shuffle check system comprising:
- a card reader configured to read rank or suit information from a card of the shuffled playing cards;
- and
- a computer including a memory, the computer configured to detect whether there is a special arrangement of the shuffle playing cards based on rank or suit information of one or more cards of the shuffled playing cards read by the card reader,
- wherein the special arrangement of the shuffled playing cards includes:
- a case where the rank goes up or down one by one in order for a first predetermined number of cards,
- a case where the same rank continues at a second predetermined number of cards,
- a case where the same suit continues at a third predetermined number of cards, or
- a case where the shuffled playing cards repeat the same sequence at a fourth predetermined number of cards.
A method comprising:
- reading, at a card reader of a shuffle check system, rank or suit information from a card of shuffled playing cards;
- and
- detecting, by a computer of the shuffle check system including a memory, whether there is a special arrangement of the shuffle playing cards based on rank or suit information of one or more cards of the shuffled playing cards read by the card reader, the computer including a memory, and
- wherein the special arrangement of the shuffled playing cards includes:
- a case where the rank goes up or down one by one in order for a first predetermined number of cards,
- a case where the same rank continues at a second predetermined number of cards,
- a case where the same suit continues at a third predetermined number of cards, or
- a case where the shuffled playing cards repeat the same sequence at a fourth predetermined number of cards.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.