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US 12,380,769 B2Granted
Card game with fixed rules
AssigneeCfph, LLC
InventorsHoward W. Lutnick, Geoffrey M. Gelman, Dean P. Alderucci
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Abstract
Disclosed herein is a gaming table with detectors for tracking a game.
Claims16
A gaming table comprising:
- a surface;
- a gaming chip detector;
- a card detector;
- a display screen;
- a memory to store gaming rules;
- at least one processor to:
- store gaming rules in the memory;
- detect a respective value of each gaming chip placed on the surface of the table using the gaming chip detector;
- detect a respective symbol of each card on the surface of the table using the card detector;
- compare characteristics of each card and the value of each chip on the surface;
- store the respective value of each gaming chip and the respective symbol of each card in the memory;
- calculate a result of a game having multiple turns based on the respective value of each gaming chip, the respective symbol of each card, and the gaming rules;
- in response to calculating the result of the game, for every turn of a player of the game:
- accessing the stored gaming rules in the memory to determine one or more possible actions that are permissible based on the detected cards disposed on the surface of the gaming table, and the calculated result;
- display the determined one or more possible actions for the player of the game, as detected based on the detected entirety of the cards and the calculated result, and
- for each of the displayed one or more possible actions, retrieve and display applicable game rules on which each of the displayed one or more possible actions is based from among the stored gaming rules;
- determine whether a participant of a game is required to raise in order to continue the game based at least in part on the gaming rules stored in the memory and at least one first card characteristic of a first set of cards;
- in response to determining that the participant is required to raise, facilitate, by the at least one processor, a first raise in the game based on ranking of the player's hand;
- determine whether the participant wins the game based on at least one second card characteristic of at least one of the first set of cards;
- and
- display the result on the display screen.
18 more elements
A method, comprising:
- storing, by at least one processor, gaming rules in a memory;
- detecting, by at least one processor, a respective value of each gaming chip placed on a surface of a table using a gaming chip detector;
- detecting, by at least one processor, a respective symbol of each card on the surface of the table using a card detector;
- comparing, by at least one processor, characteristics of each card and the value of each chip on the surface;
- storing, by at least one processor, the respective value of each gaming chip and the respective symbol of each card in the memory;
- calculating, by at least one processor, a result of a game having multiple turns based on the respective value of each gaming chip, the respective symbol of each card, and the gaming rules;
- in response to calculating the result of the game, for every turn of a player of the game:
- accessing, by at least one processor, the stored gaming rules in the memory to determine one or more possible actions that are permissible based on the detected cards disposed on the surface of the table, and the calculated result;
- displaying, on a display screen, the determined one or more possible actions for the player of the game, as detected based on the detected entirety of the cards and the calculated result, and
- for each of the displayed one or more possible actions, retrieving, by at least one processor, and displaying, on the display screen, applicable game rules on which each of the displayed one or more possible actions is based from among the stored gaming rules;
- determine, by at least one processor, whether a participant of a game is required to raise in order to continue the game based at least in part on the gaming rules stored in the memory and at least one first card characteristic of a first set of cards;
- in response to determining that the participant is required to raise, facilitating, by the at least one processor, a first raise in the game based on ranking of the player's hand;
- determining, by at least one processor, whether the participant wins the game based on at least one second card characteristic of at least one of the first set of cards;
- and
- displaying the result on the display screen.
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