TABLE GAME SYSTEM

• US 20150290527A1
• Filed: 07/08/2013
• Published: 10/15/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/08/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Angel Group Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Angel Playing Cards Co Ltd
• Inventors: SHIGETA, Yasushi
• Granted Patent: US 9,802,112 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 1/02 Cards; Special shapes of cards card-printing methods B41K, B41M
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 1/10 Card holders
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 1/12 Card shufflers
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 1/14 Card dealers
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 1/18 Score computers; Miscellaneous indicators time-testing devices G07C
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2001/001 Bridge or baccarat
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2009/242 Bar codes
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2009/2439 the input being a code, e.g. ID
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/322 Casino tables, e.g. tables having integrated screens, chip detection means
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3241 Security aspects of a gaming system, e.g. detecting cheating, device integrity, surveillance computer security G06F21/00

Abstract

A table game system is provided that includes a plurality of association tables, each of which makes it possible to obtain the correlation between codes attached to shuffled playing cards and the ranks thereof, and prevents the correlation between the codes of the shuffled playing cards and the ranks thereof from being known by a person who intends to commit cheating by changing the association table used as appropriate.

A card shoe apparatus 2 of the table game system of the present invention includes a barcode reader 100 that reads a barcode 3 attached to a shuffled playing card set 1s, and thereby reads a shuffled card ID that can uniquely identify the shuffled playing card set 1s. The shuffled card ID of the shuffled playing cards to be used is subjected to a process of association to identify one of association table numbers (T1 to T10) or database numbers, and the rank and the suit of a card 1 that are attached to the card 1 are identified based on a code C with an association table (T3). If the code C does not match a code defined in the association table (T3), an error occurs and it is determined that cheating may be committed.

Claims

1. A table game system comprising:

shuffled playing cards composed of playing cards made up of a plurality of number of decks shuffled to have a unique arrangement order, a uniquely identifiable shuffled card ID being attached to the shuffled playing cards as an ID code; and

a card shoe apparatus that includes a barcode reader capable of identifying the shuffled card ID, and houses the shuffled playing cards such that the said shuffled playing cards can be manually dealt one by one onto a game table,

wherein each card of the shuffled playing cards is given a code concerning a rank of the card,

the card shoe apparatus comprises;

a card housing unit for housing the shuffled playing cards;

an opening for drawing cards from the card housing unit one by one;

a card reading unit that reads from the card the code attached to the card concerning the rank thereof; and

a control unit that stores rules of a card game and includes a winner/loser determination unit that determines the winner/loser of the card game based on the information on the ranks of the cards read by the card reading unit,

the control unit includes a memory for storing a plurality of association tables, each of which makes it possible to obtain the rank of each card based on the code of each card of the shuffled playing cards,

each shuffled playing cards composed of playing cards on which code are attached by using specific association table,

code group based on one association table which is selected from the plurality of association tables is used in the shuffled playing cards,

the shuffled card ID attached to the shuffled playing cards contains information for identifying the specific association table which is selected from the plurality of association tables, and

as a result that the specific association table is identified from the shuffled card ID, the control unit identifies the rank of each card based on the specific association table which is identified from the code read out by the card reading unit from the card when the card is drawn.

2. The table game system according to claim 1, wherein a group code is printed on each card of the shuffled playing cards, and the shuffled card ID is associated with the group code, and the card reading unit reads the group code attached to the card, and the control unit examines whether that group code read matches the group code identified based on the shuffled card ID.

5. The table game system according to any one of claims 1 to 4 further comprising a transmission apparatus that, if the group code read by the card reading unit or the code that represents a rank does not match the group code identified based on the shuffled card ID read by the barcode reader or a code that is defined in the association table or the database identified and that represents a rank, externally transmits such mismatch with the shuffled card ID.

6. The table game system according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein an input means for information that identifies the shuffled card ID is included instead of the barcode reader for identifying the shuffled card ID, and the shuffled card ID is obtained by a communication means via the input means.

3. A table game system comprising:

shuffled playing cards composed of playing cards made up of a plurality of number of decks shuffled to have a unique arrangement order, a uniquely identifiable shuffled card ID being attached to the shuffled playing cards as an ID code; and

a card shoe apparatus that includes a barcode reader capable of identifying the shuffled card ID, and houses the shuffled playing cards such that the said shuffled playing cards can be manually dealt one by one onto a game table,

wherein a group code is printed on each card of the shuffled playing cards, and the shuffled card ID is associated with the group code,

the card shoe apparatus comprises;

a card housing unit for housing the shuffled playing cards;

an opening for drawing cards from the card housing unit one by one;

a card reading unit that reads from the card information attached to the card concerning the rank thereof; and

a control unit that stores rules of a card game and includes a winner/loser determination unit that determines the winner/loser of the card game based on the information concerning the ranks of the cards read by the card reading unit, and

the card reading unit reads the group code attached to the card, and the control unit examines whether that group code read matches the group code identified based on the shuffled card ID.

4. The table game system according to claim 3,

wherein each card of the shuffled playing cards is provided with a code concerning the rank of the card,

a memory is included that stores a plurality of association tables or a plurality of databases, each of which makes it possible to obtain the rank of each card based on the code of the card, and

each association table or database is recorded in association with the shuffled card ID, and one of the plurality of association tables or databases is identified by identifying the shuffled card ID with the barcode reader, and based on the association table or database identified, the card reading unit reads the code when each card is drawn from the card housing unit and the control unit identifies the rank of the card based on that code.