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CARD READING DEVICE AND TABLETOP GAME SYSTEM

  • US 20130303277A1
  • Filed: 09/12/2011
  • Published: 11/14/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/14/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A card reading device comprising:

  • a card shoe part having a card container portion that contains a plurality of cards, a detachable cover disposed above the card container portion, and an opening through which the card can be taken out one by one from the card container portion;

    a card reading part in which information attached to the cards drawn out from the card container portion onto a game table is read from each of the cards;

    a control part that determines an outcome of a card game based on the information on the cards read in the card reading part;

    a display part that outputs the game outcome determined by the control part;

    a wireless output part that transmits, to an external device, via wireless communication, the information on the cards successively read in the card reading part and information on the game outcome determined by the control part together with an ID for identification of the card reading device; and

    a battery that supplies electric power to the control part, the display part and the wireless output part,wherein the card shoe part, the card reading part, the control part, the display part and the wireless output part can be placed on the game table by being integrally combined with each other, and the battery is detachably attached to the card reading device.

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