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US 2023/0401928 A1Published application
Game apparatus for displaying information about a game
AssigneeCfph, LLC
InventorsHoward W. Lutnick, Dean P. Alderucci, Geoffrey M. Gelman, Stephen Merkel
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Abstract
Various embodiments may include an apparatus operable to determine a value of a statistic describing cards that have been dealt from a deck.
Claims1
An apparatus comprising:
- a rectangular enclosure with four vertical walls, a bottom surface, and a top surface, with a door in one wall and a thin horizontal opening in the opposite wall;
- three planar dividers, each having a vertical orientation, each retractable into the bottom surface, and each disposed parallel to the wall with the door and to the wall with the opening;
- three wheels, each wheel attached to the top surface of the enclosure via a separate retractable arm, and each wheel having its axis of rotation lying horizontally and parallel to both the wall with the door and to the wall with the opening, in which:
- the three wheels are each controlled by a separate motor;
- the first wheel is between the wall with the door and a first of the three dividers;
- the second wheel is between the first of the three dividers and a second of the three dividers;
- and
- the third wheel is between the second of the three dividers and a third of the three dividers;
- an imaging device embedded within the bottom surface;
- a memory;
- and
- a processor operable to:
- direct any of the motors controlling one of the three wheels to spin its respective wheel in either direction;
- direct any of the three retractable arms to extend or retract;
- direct any of the three dividers to rise or retract;
- and
- receive images from the imaging device.
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