Automatic poker machine

• US 8,444,148 B1
• Filed: 10/27/2011
• Issued: 05/21/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/27/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tzu-Hsiang Tseng
• Original Assignee: Tzu-Hsiang Tseng
• Inventors: Tseng, Tzu-Hsiang
• Primary Examiner(s): Layno, Benjamin
• Application Number:
  US13/282,583
• Publication Number:
  US 20130106054A1
• Time in Patent Office: 572 Days
• Field of Search: 273/149.R, 273/149.P, 273/309
• US Class Current: 273/149.R
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 1/12 Card shufflers
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 1/14 Card dealers

Abstract

An automatic poker machine includes a mechanical arm using a suction disk for picking up a poker card, a video recognition device adapted for recognizing the card suit and card value of the poker card carried by the mechanical arm, a display screen for displaying the card suit and card value of each recognized poker card and two card shufflers alternatively used for shuffling poker cards.

Claims

1. An automatic poker machine, comprising:

a mechanical arm comprising a suction disk for picking up a poker card;

a video recognition device adapted for recognizing the card suit and card value of the poker card carried by said mechanical arm;

a display screen for displaying the card suit and card value of each recognized poker card; and

two card shufflers for shuffling poker cards, each said card shuffler comprising a card-dispensing slot, two card-collecting slots at two opposite lateral sides of said card-dispensing slot, two card carriers respectively set in said two card-collecting slots for holding poker cards, two presser arms respectively pivotally disposed in said card-collecting slots above the respective card carriers, two impression rollers respectively pivotally mounted at respective free ends of said presser arms in said card-collecting slots for holding poker cards on the respective card carriers, two motor-driven card-transfer wheels respectively controllable to transfer poker cards from said card-collecting slots into said card-dispensing slot, and a lifting card holder vertically movably mounted in said card-dispensing slot and adapted for receiving poker cards transferred by one of said motor-driven card-transfer wheels from one of said two card-collecting slots.