METHOD OF LOCATING RANK AND SUIT SYMBOLS ON CARDS
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Abstract
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 reader or an imager that scans lines bisecting the image at spaced intervals. The scanning occurs on playing cards in at least the region where suit and rank symbols are provided. The scanner output is a series of voltages that are converted to binary information. This binary information is compared to stored binary information to determine rank and suit. The upper surface of the output end of the shoe contains a partial barrier for cards being scanned. The partial barrier has an elevated surface and limits a size of a pathway so that only one card can be removed at a time.
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49 Claims
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1-34. -34. (canceled)
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35. A method of reading rank and suit of a card, comprising:
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providing a card handling device, the card handling device having a card storage area and a card scanning area; placing cards into the card storage area; moving cards individually from the card storage area into the card scanning area; determining a location of rank and suit symbols printed on cards to be scanned by means of column sums; and determining the card rank and suit of each card by inputting information outputted from the scanner into a hardware component, extracting data from the scanner output, comparing the extracted data to stored data and determining rank and suit from correlating the extracted data to stored data. - View Dependent Claims (36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49)
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