Table game system
AssigneeAngel Group Co., Ltd.
InventorYasushi Shigeta
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Abstract
A table game system is provided capable of identifying shuffled playing cards used at the time of the occurrence of a problem in a card shoe apparatus, thereby enabling an investigation of the cause thereof or the taking of countermeasures therefor. A card shoe apparatus of the table game system of the present invention includes a barcode reader that reads a barcode provided in a shuffled playing card set, thereby reading a shuffled card ID that uniquely identifies the shuffled playing card set. A sensor for detecting the opening/closing of the lid is provided under the lid to detect the opening/closing of the lid, thereby detecting replacement of the shuffled playing card set. A control unit further includes a function of storing security items in connection with a shuffled card ID.
Claims6
A table game system comprising:
- a plurality of shuffled playing cards made up of a plurality of decks shuffled to have a unique arrangement order;
- a shuffled card ID given to the shuffled playing cards as an ID code;
- a means capable of obtaining the shuffled card ID;
- a control unit for storing the shuffled card ID obtained by the shuffled-card-ID-obtaining means;
- a card shoe apparatus from which shuffled playing cards are manually dealt one by one onto a game table, the card shoe apparatus comprising:
- a card housing unit for storing the shuffled playing cards;
- an opening through which the shuffled playing cards are drawn from the card housing unit to the game table one by one;
- a card reading unit for reading information on rank from each of the shuffled playing cards drawn from the card housing unit onto the game table;
- a winner/loser determination unit for determining a winner/loser of a card game based on the information read by the card reading unit, and
- a display unit for outputting a result of the winner/loser determination by the winner/loser determination unit, and
- a database being accessibly connected to the card shoe apparatus,
- wherein the control unit identifies a card set of shuffled playing cards, which is used in a current card game with the shuffled card ID,
- wherein the database contains game table information, which indicates that one of the game tables on which the identified card set is currently used,
- wherein the database further contains information on at least one of the following items:
- (1) information concerning a pit or a card room where the identified shuffled playing cards are managed;
- and
- (2) information on a purchase or a procurement of the identified shuffled playing cards.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.