Title:
SMART TABLE CARD HAND IDENTIFICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO2005009563
Kind Code:
A3
Abstract:
A method and apparatus determines an identity of at least each card in a card hand at a casino table card game. The method is performed automatically by a computerbased system that reads the rank and suit of each card that leaves a dealing shoe and then uses a smart discard tray that reads the discards as they are taken from the table. Play is practiced by dealing a hand to a player and dealing either a hand to a dealer or common cards to the table. It is optional and preferred to provide a signal to the computer of the presence of at least one card in the dealer's hand. Additional cards are dealt to hands (if required according to rules of the casino table card game. Exhausted hands are removed from the table and placed into a discard rack. Each card in each exhausted hand is read when placed in the discard rack to determine rank and suit of each placed card, and the computer reconciles cards placed in the discard rack with cards that left the dealing shoe.
Inventors:
GRAUZER ATTILA
SCHUBERT OLIVER M
KELLY JAMES V
STASSON JAMES B
SCHEPER PAUL
SCHUBERT OLIVER M
KELLY JAMES V
STASSON JAMES B
SCHEPER PAUL
Application Number:
PCT/US2004/022657
Publication Date:
September 22, 2005
Filing Date:
July 14, 2004
Export Citation:
Assignee:
SHUFFLE MASTER INC (US)
International Classes:
A63F1/00; A63F1/14; G06F19/00; A63F1/18; A63F; (IPC1-7): G06F19/00
Foreign References:
| US5605334A | 1997-02-25 |
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