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Card dispensing shoe with scanner

  • US 5,722,893 A
  • Filed: 10/17/1995
  • Issued: 03/03/1998
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/17/1995
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A card delivery shoe for use in dealing playing cards for the playing of a card game comprising:

  • an elongated housing having a chute for supporting a deck of playing cards for movement toward one end of the housing, said housing having an outlet opening near the front thereof whereby the cards of the deck are removed manually one-by-one out of the housing during the play of a game along the chute in the housing;

    means for scanning indicia on each of the cards as they move along said chute whereby a signal is generated which represents the value and suit of the cards as they move one-by-one out of the housing; and

    means for coupling the scanner to a host computer for processing the signal for determination of the trends in the play of the game in accordance with the way in which the cards are played relative to a card count system, wherein the scanner includes a feed forward neural-network which is trained using error back-propagation to recognize the possible card suits and card values of the cards of a card deck supported on the chute.

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