Image capturing card shuffler
First Claim
1. A card shuffling apparatus comprising:
- a housing, a card input receptacle located on said housing adapted to receive at least one deck of unshuffled playing cards, a shuffling device adapted to receive the cards from said card input receptacle and for selectively shuffling the cards for at least two different card games having different card shuffling requirements, and a controller disposed within said housing, an image capturing means disposed within said housing for obtaining image data of a playing card, a display means located on said housing for displaying images captured by said image capturing means, and a card output bin adapted to discharge shuffled playing cards.
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Abstract
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 memory. This image is sorted in the format of a bitmap image. The operator of the machine would be able to recall through the use of a key pad, the images of the cards that comprised the individual hands in the previous game. This feature allows for verification of a winning hand after a game has been completed. Thereby, a quick recheck of hands before paying a winning hand is performed. The face value of each card is determined by character recognition software. These card values would be stored in memory for archival access for use in monitoring the randomness of the game and determining the number of winning hands.
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16 Claims
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1. A card shuffling apparatus comprising:
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a housing, a card input receptacle located on said housing adapted to receive at least one deck of unshuffled playing cards, a shuffling device adapted to receive the cards from said card input receptacle and for selectively shuffling the cards for at least two different card games having different card shuffling requirements, and a controller disposed within said housing, an image capturing means disposed within said housing for obtaining image data of a playing card, a display means located on said housing for displaying images captured by said image capturing means, and a card output bin adapted to discharge shuffled playing cards. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A method for shuffling and dealing playing cards for card games, said method comprising the steps of:
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a) providing a card shuffler having a housing, a card input receptacle located on said housing adapted to receive at least one deck of unshuffled playing cards, a shuffling device adapted to receive the cards from said card input receptacle and for selectively shuffling the cards for at least two different card games having different card shuffling requirements, and a controller disposed within said housing said controller having a microprocessor, a non-volatile memory storage means for storing images of said playing cards, an image processing means for processing the image data collected by said image capturing means, an image capturing means disposed within said housing for obtaining image data of a playing card, a display means located on said housing for displaying images captured by said image capturing means, and a card output bin adapted to discharge shuffled playing cards;
b) receiving unshuffled cards in the input receptacle, c) shuffling said cards in random order for selective card games having at least two different game requirements and shuffling modes, d) obtaining an image of each of said playing cards before being output to the output bin, e) processing said images, and f) displaying said images on said display means. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16)
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