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US 5,374,061 AGranted
Card dispensing shoe having a counting device and method of using the same
OwnerJim Albrechtinventor
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A system which uses a specially coded deck of cards indicating the value and suit of the card or a value related to the count of the card as well as whether the card belongs to a particular set of cards senses the code on the card and sends the detected signal to a processor. The processor determines a running count, a betting count, a true count or other information related to the profitability of a particular wager or particular action, such as an insurance bet as well as an indication of whether the card belongs to the particular set of cards assigned to the table. The counts are displayed centrally and/or remotely from the shoe which dispenses the cards. The electronics for the system may be internally included as part of the shoe or externally included as a separate unit in which the shoe is secured.
An apparatus for determining at least one count during dealing of a set of playing cards, comprising:
An apparatus for determining at least one count continuously incremented during dealing of a set of cards, said apparatus comprising:
A method for calculating at least one count or other indication of relative distribution relating to playing cards dealt from a set of coded playing cards during a game of blackjack, the method comprising the steps of:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.