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7597623 |
Smart discard rack for playing cards
A discard rack moves and reads suit and rank of individual cards. The cards are provided to a card in-feed area and moved to a card collection area. Both both suit and rank of each card is read in...
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7594660 |
Automatic card shuffler
An automatic card shuffler includes a card input unit, card ejection unit, card separation and delivery unit and card collection unit. A card ejection unit ejects cards in a singular fashion from a...
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7593544 |
Manual dealing shoe with card feed limiter
A playing card delivery shoe is used in the play of the casino table card game of baccarat or blackjack or any game where cards are pulled one at a time from the shoe. The apparatus comprises a...
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7591728 |
Online gaming system configured for remote user interaction
The present invention provides systems and methods relating to a physical gaming system that may host remote players. According to one embodiment of the invention, physical cards are utilized in a...
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7584963 |
Pre-shuffler for a playing card shuffling machine
The invention comprises a pre-shuffler that receives a quantity of cards to be shuffled, such as nine decks of cards. One embodiment of the pre-shuffler includes a horizontal moveable box having,...
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7584962 |
Card shuffler with jam recovery and display
A card shuffler and method in which recovery from a card jam can be performed. Sensors detect a jam and a program directs jam recovery.
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7575234 |
Wireless monitoring of playing cards and/or wagers in gaming
Playing cards carry conductive material which may be wirelessly interrogated via radio frequency transmission to identify a rank and/or suit for monitoring a card game. Chips carry conductive...
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7556266 |
Card shuffler with gravity feed system for playing cards
A card feed system for feeding cards into a card handling system is disclosed. The system includes a card input department with a playing card support surface, a front wall, a rear wall and two...
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7556197 |
Card stack reader, card thereof, card case, method for manufacturing card, game machine using the same, computer-readable storage medium on which game program is recorded
Embodiments describe a card stack reader having an imaging unit which reads an image from a peripheral side portion of a stack of cards, each card having a read code along a peripheral side edge...
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7537216 |
Method, apparatus and article for computational sequence generation and playing card distribution
A computationally generated playing card sequence (e.g., pseudo-random, non pseudo-random, or partially pseudo-random) allows shuffled distribution of playing cards. Playing cards may be organized...
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7523937 |
Device for use in playing card handling system
A playing card handling system includes a pivoting pair of jaws to retrieve playing cards from a playing card receiver, for example a carousel. The rotational or angular velocity of a picker may be...
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7523935 |
Card shuffling apparatus with integral card delivery
A card shuffling device includes a top surface, a card receiving area for receiving an initial set of playing cards, a randomizing system for randomizing the initial set of playing cards, a...
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7510194 |
Playing cards with separable components
The present discussion generally describes separable playing cards that can be reassembled, methods of separating and reassembling the playing cards, and methods of using the playing cards in a...
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7510186 |
Systems, methods and articles to facilitate delivery of playing cards
A playing card output receiver that is mounted for movement includes a floor that slopes downward toward a back wall, which may, for example, assist in retaining playing cards in the playing card...
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7500672 |
Automatic shuffling and dealing machine
An automatic shuffling and dealing machine has a shuffling wheel and a card-input device mounted adjacent to the shuffling wheel. The card-input device is provided for putting a stack of playing...
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7472906 |
Automatic card shuffler and dealer
An automatic system for shuffling and distributing cards includes two embodiments. One embodiment includes fixed and rotating plates on which a deck of cards is supported. The device according to...
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7464932 |
Shuffler device for game pieces
The present invention relates to a shuffler device including a tub for receiving one or more game pieces. The game pieces can be, for example, revealer devices, cards, and dice or Mah Jongg tiles....
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7461843 |
Automatic card shuffler
An automatic card shuffler includes a card input unit, card ejection unit, card separation and delivery unit and card collection unit. A card ejection unit ejects cards in a singular fashion from a...
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7448626 |
Systems, methods and articles to facilitate playing card games
A card receiver to receive playing cards includes a substantially circular base having an outer periphery and an inner portion radially spaced from the outer periphery. A plurality of partitions...
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7434805 |
Intelligent baccarat shoe
A playing card delivery shoe is used in the play of the casino table card game of baccarat. The shoe may comprise a) an area for receiving a first set of playing cards useful in the play of the...
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7413191 |
Device and method for forming and delivering hands from randomly arranged decks of playing cards
The present invention provides an apparatus and method for moving playing cards from a first group of cards into plural hands of cards, wherein each of the hands contains a random arrangement of...
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7407438 |
Modular dealing shoe for casino table card games
A playing card delivery shoe is used in the play of the casino table card game of blackjack is disclosed. The shoe may comprise a) an area for receiving a first set of playing cards useful in the...
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7384044 |
Card shuffling apparatus with automatic card size calibration
A card shuffling device includes a top surface, a card receiving area for receiving an initial set of playing cards, a randomizing or arranging system for the initial set of playing cards, a...
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7374170 |
Playing card dealing shoe with automated internal card feeding and card reading
A distinct dealing shoe having no shuffling functionality receives shuffled, randomized or ordered group of cards. The cards may be mechanically moved one at a time from a receiving area for the...
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7367561 |
Card shuffler
A card shuffler has a drivable shuffling storage means ( 2 ′) which is provided with compartments ( 69 ) for receiving cards ( 13 ). The storage means is associated with an input apparatus for...
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7341510 |
Casino poker game table that implements play of a casino table poker game
An apparatus and a method of play in the practice of the present invention that are described below. An apparatus supporting the play of a casino table card game according to the present invention...
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7338044 |
Card shuffler with user game selection input
The present invention provides an apparatus and method for moving playing cards from a first group of cards into plural hands of cards, wherein each of the hands contains a random arrangement of...
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7322576 |
Device and method for continuously shuffling and monitoring cards
The present invention provides an apparatus and method for moving playing cards from a first group of cards into a second group of cards, wherein the second group of cards is randomly arranged or...
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7316396 |
Card game machine
A card game machine using plural cards on front surface sides of which distinctive information for identifying itself from others is displayed and designs of back sides of which have a commonality...
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7300056 |
System and methods for randomizing playing instruments for use in online gaming
Aspects of the present invention provide systems and methods relating to online gaming utilizing virtual playing instruments generated from physical playing instruments. According to one aspect of...
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7278923 |
Smart discard rack for playing cards
A discard rack moves and reads suit and rank of individual cards. The cards are provided to a card in-feed area and moved to a card collection area. Both suit and rank of each card is read in the...
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7264241 |
Intelligent baccarat shoe
A method of controlling the game of baccarat is disclosed, the method including the steps of providing a card delivery shoe equipped with a sensor capable of reading at least a rank of each card; a...
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7261294 |
Playing card shuffler with differential hand count capability
A programmable card handling machine with a display and appropriate inputs for adjusting the machine to any of a number of games comprises inputs including a number of cards per hand selector, a...
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7222852 |
Method, apparatus and article employing multiple machine-readable indicia on playing cards
A stacked set of playing cards are supported to expose an information bearing portion bearing a first machine-readable indicia and an information bearing portion bearing a second machine-readable...
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7137627 |
Device and method for continuously shuffling and monitoring cards
The present invention provides an apparatus and method for moving playing cards from a first group of cards into a second group of cards, wherein the second group of cards is randomly arranged or...
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7114718 |
Smart table card hand identification method and apparatus
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 computer-based system that reads the rank...
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7073791 |
Hand forming shuffler with on demand hand delivery
The present invention provides an apparatus and method for moving playing cards from a first group of cards into plural hands of cards, wherein each of the hands contains a random arrangement of...
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7066464 |
Automatic card shuffler
Method of optimizing shuffling of cards with a shuffling machine relying on random ejection technology. Deterministic ejection of cards, verifying card stack position and number of cards remaining...
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7059602 |
Card shuffler with staging area for collecting groups of cards
A method and apparatus delivers subsets of randomly mixed playing cards from a first group of playing cards. At least one first group of multiple playing cards is provided to a playing card...
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6991540 |
Playing card supply method and apparatus
A method for supplying playing cards ( 12 ) in which indicia carried by the cards ( 12 ) is derived or selected randomly and applied to the cards ( 12 ) prior to dealing. The indicia carried by the...
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6964612 |
Method, apparatus and article for evaluating card games, such as blackjack
A system reads an identifier from a hand of cards to identify the cards. For example, the system can read an identifier from a pair of cards forming the initial hand in blackjack, where the one...
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6913262 |
Card game with numbered cards
A method of dealing a card game is taught wherein cards representing dice having a least four sides are utilized using variations of rules for games such as 1) traditional craps game, 2) Four The...
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6902163 |
Games and associated device and methods
A word game includes displaying a first and a second letter from which players form an answer word. A winner is determined when an answer word conforming to an established rule set is submitted. A...
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6886829 |
Image capturing card shuffler
The present invention features a playing card shuffling device, which through the use of a small image capturing means, captures an image of the face value of each card and stores the image in...
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6726205 |
Inspection of playing cards
A playing card integrity checker utilises a blue light source to illuminate the playing face of each card to use template matching to identify the value and suit of each card based on stored...
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6719288 |
Remote controlled multiple mode and multi-game card shuffling device
The present invention features a card shuffling machine having a controller that can be operated remote from the shuffling machine. A remote control unit is provided for remotely communicating...
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6676127 |
Collating and sorting apparatus
A card handling device having either a vertical stack of compartments or a carousel of compartments is used to receive individual cards from a card supply. The compartments may be moved relative to...
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6659460 |
Card shuffling device
A card shuffler is disclosed having a card output portion that is easily connectable to either a first output card receiver or a second output card receiver. The first output card receiver enables...
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6626435 |
Automatic Pai Gow table system
The automatic Pai Gow table system for playing a Pai Gow game with pieces, having a playing table section with a piece inlet port and a piece outlet port, a plurality of leg members supporting the...
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6588750 |
Device and method for forming hands of randomly arranged decks of cards
The present invention provides an apparatus and method for moving playing cards from a first group of cards into plural hands of cards, wherein each of the hands contains a random arrangement of...
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