System including card game dispensing shoe with barrier and scanner, and enhanced card gaming table, enabling waging by remote bettors
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1. A game monitoring and display device for a card game comprising:
- a shoe including a housing having an outlet slot, said housing sized to store a plurality of playing cards and configured to dispense said cards one at a time through said outlet slot;
a scanner disposed in said housing to scan each said card dispensed through said outlet slot and to generate a scanner signal representative of identity of each said card;
a memory configured to store predetermined rules for said game;
a processor, coupled to said scanner and to said memory, configured to process said scanner signal and to identify therefrom each said card dispensed through said outlet slot;
a barrier disposed within said housing adjacent said outlet slot and operatively coupled to said processor, said barrier movable between a blocked position in which a card stored in said housing cannot be dispensed through said outlet slot, and an unblocked position in which said card can be dispensed through said outlet slot, wherein movement of said barrier is controlled by said processor according to said game rules.
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A card dispensing shoe includes a scanner system that discerns the value and suit of each card dispensed, and includes a mechanical barrier to prevent dispensing a card contrary to card game rules. A CPU system within the show executes software pre-programmed with game rules, and controls the barrier to ensure against wrongful dispensing of a card. The card game can be video broadcast along with an image of each scanned card, and the resultant data broadcast over the internet to remotely located bettors who can place bets on the game in progress.
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20 Claims
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1. A game monitoring and display device for a card game comprising:
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a shoe including a housing having an outlet slot, said housing sized to store a plurality of playing cards and configured to dispense said cards one at a time through said outlet slot;
a scanner disposed in said housing to scan each said card dispensed through said outlet slot and to generate a scanner signal representative of identity of each said card;
a memory configured to store predetermined rules for said game;
a processor, coupled to said scanner and to said memory, configured to process said scanner signal and to identify therefrom each said card dispensed through said outlet slot;
a barrier disposed within said housing adjacent said outlet slot and operatively coupled to said processor, said barrier movable between a blocked position in which a card stored in said housing cannot be dispensed through said outlet slot, and an unblocked position in which said card can be dispensed through said outlet slot, wherein movement of said barrier is controlled by said processor according to said game rules. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 20)
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15. A system to conduct an actual game of Baccarat and to elicit bets thereon from remote viewers of the game, the system comprising:
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a game surface whereon said game is played by human players;
a shoe including a housing having an outlet slot, said housing sized to store a plurality of playing cards and configured to dispense said cards one at a time through said outlet slot;
a scanner disposed in said housing to scan each said card dispensed through said outlet slot and to generate a scanner signal representative of identity of each said card;
a memory configured to store predetermined rules for said game;
a processor, coupled to said scanner and to said memory, configured to process said scanner signal and to identify therefrom each said card dispensed through said outlet slot;
a camera directed at said game surface to capture video images of said game played by said human players;
circuitry to create a combined image comprising an image of each card dealt from said shoe and scanned by said scanner with said video images;
means for live broadcasting said combined image over a medium to a plurality of remotely located bettors; and
means for receiving and settling bets made by at least some of said bettors, said bets made on an outcome of said card game played on said game surface.
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19. A method of securely dispensing cards for using in a card game according to rules of said game, the method comprising the following steps:
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(a) disposing said cards within a housing having an outlet slot though which said cards can be dispensed one at a time;
(b) scanning an image of each said card dispensed through said outlet slot;
(c) recognizing from said image value and suit of each said card dispensed through said outlet slot;
(d) providing a movable barrier adjacent said outlet slot;
said barrier movable between a blocked position in which a card stored in said housing cannot be dispensed through said outlet slot, and an unblocked position in which said card can be dispensed through said outlet slot; and
(e) moving said barrier according to rules of said card game such that a card can be dispensed through said outlet slot only when said rules permit.
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