US 12,115,438 B2Granted

Card discarding device for tabletop game

AssigneeAngel Group Co., Ltd.

InventorYasushi Shigeta

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Abstract

A card disposal apparatus, including an ejection port for disposing of cards after the game, a disposal card receiving board that receives the cards from the ejection port, disposal card information acquisition means that acquires information about number (rank) from the cards put in the ejection port, group information acquisition means that acquires group information from the cards to be disposed of, a counter for the cards as number count means that counts the number of the disposal cards put in the ejection port, deck check means that checks whether all cards to be disposed of are complete in terms of 52×8 decks=416 in the case of a set of 8 decks of cards, and output means that outputs a check result. Void holes are provided on the cards to be disposed of, and ensure that the cards are perfectly disposed of without being unfairly reused.

Claims22

Dependent claims

A card disposal apparatus comprising:

a main body including an ejection port configured to receive cards of one or more sets of cards for disposal, the one or more sets of cards including a first set of cards, each set of cards of the one or more sets of cards includes a plurality of decks of cards for use during an individual game, wherein the ejection port:
receives a first portion of the cards from a dealing shoe, the first portion of the cards corresponding to one or more cards dealt during a game play, and
receives a second portion of the cards from the dealing shoe, the second portion of the cards corresponding to additional cards not dealt during the game play;
a disposal card stocker configured to be detachable from the main body and including multiple pockets partitioned by multiple partitions, each pocket of the multiple pockets configured to receive, while positioned in a receipt position, a particular set of cards of the one or more sets of cards from the ejection port, the multiple pockets of the disposal card stocker configured to be movable such that, while a first pocket of the multiple pockets is positioned in the receipt position, the other pockets of the multiple pockets are out of the receipt position;
a reading device configured to read a bar code on a package corresponding to the first set of cards, wherein the first set of cards comprises cards that have been shuffled;
and
a processor configured to:
based on a result of the reading device of reading the bar code on the package, identify that one or more cards received by the ejection port belong to the first set of cards;
and
for the first set of cards of the one or more sets of cards:
obtain, from at least one sensor, information corresponding to each card of the first set of cards received by the ejection port;
store, based on the obtained information, a count of received cards that the ejection port received, wherein the count of received cards is associated with a combination of a first portion of the first set of cards and a second portion of the first set of cards received by the ejection port;
and
compare the count to a number of cards of a predetermined number of decks.

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A card disposal apparatus comprising:

a body;
an ejection port coupled to the body and configured to, for each set of cards of one or more sets of cards:
receive, one at a time, dealt cards of the set of cards, the dealt cards dealt from a dealing shoe of a game table for use in a game, and
subsequent to receipt of the dealt cards, receive undealt cards of the set of cards, the undealt cards remaining in the dealing shoe without being dealt in the game;
a disposal card stocker including multiple pockets configured to be detachable from the body and partitioned by multiple dividers, each pocket of the multiple pockets configured to receive, from the ejection port and while positioned in a receipt position, a particular set of cards of the one or more sets of cards, each set of cards of the one or more sets of cards including a plurality of decks of cards for use during an individual game, the disposal card stocker configured to be movable such that, while a first pocket of the multiple pockets is positioned in the receipt position, the other pockets of the multiple pockets are out of the receipt position;
and
a reading device configured to read a bar code on a package corresponding to a first set of cards of the one or more sets of cards, wherein the first set of cards comprises cards that have been shuffled;
a processor configured to, for the first set of cards of the one or more sets of cards:
based on a result of the reading device of reading the bar code on the package, identify that one or more cards received by the ejection port belong to the first set of cards;
obtain, from at least one sensor, information corresponding to dealt and undealt cards of the first set of cards received by the ejection port;
store, based on the obtained information, a count of the dealt and undealt cards of the first set of cards that the ejection port received, wherein the count is associated with a combination of the dealt cards of the first set of cards and the undealt cards of the first set of cards received by the ejection port;
and
compare the count to a card count of first set of cards that was loaded into, and was associated with, the dealing shoe.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.