Systems, methods, and devices for monitoring card games, such as Baccarat
First Claim
1. A card hand-reader to read identifying data from each of a number of dealt playing cards forming a hand, wherein the number of dealt playing 1 cards are part of a deck of playing cards that includes more than the number of dealt playing cards, the card hand-reader comprising:
- a frame sized to receive a respective portion of three playing cards forming a hand and arranged to expose to a game participant a respective face carrying a respective human-readable symbol of each playing card received therein; and
at least one optical sensor providing a field of view encompassing an area sufficient to image a respective machine-readable symbol bearing portion of each of the playing cards received in the frame.
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Abstract
Gaming systems, methods, and devices for determining or verifying the outcome of a card game, for example the card game of Baccarat. The systems, methods, and devices can be used in conjunction with the card game to enhance security by optically imaging the hands of playing cards dealt or by optically reading a set of cards to determine the outcome of each game that can be played from that set of cards. The playing cards each have at least one encoded symbol comprised of machine-readable indicia. The gaming system can include a card shoe-reader alone, a card shoe-reader in combination with at least one card hand-reader, or various other embodiments to include other devices such as a discard reader or a bet recognition device. The optically imaged playing cards can be processed within a computing system to allow the authentication of the playing cards.
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36 Claims
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1. A card hand-reader to read identifying data from each of a number of dealt playing cards forming a hand, wherein the number of dealt playing 1 cards are part of a deck of playing cards that includes more than the number of dealt playing cards, the card hand-reader comprising:
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a frame sized to receive a respective portion of three playing cards forming a hand and arranged to expose to a game participant a respective face carrying a respective human-readable symbol of each playing card received therein; and at least one optical sensor providing a field of view encompassing an area sufficient to image a respective machine-readable symbol bearing portion of each of the playing cards received in the frame. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A method of operating a card identification system that determines an outcome of at least one card game, the at least one card game to be comprised of at least two hands of playing cards selected from a set of playing cards, the method comprising:
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prior to dealing any playing card in a set of playing cards from which at least two hands of playing cards will be dealt in a round of a card game, determining by the card identification system a not yet dealt playing card sequence of the set of playing cards from which the at least two hands of playing cards will be selected; evaluating by the card identification system the not yet dealt playing card sequence to determine an outcome of the at least one card game based at least on a set of card game rules and a dealing sequence that corresponds to at least a portion of the not yet dealt playing card sequence, the outcome of the at least one card game being determined for the at least one card game at any time before any playing card of the set of playing cards is dealt, but after the not yet dealt playing card sequence of the set of playing cards is determined; and activating an indicator, the indicator broadcasts information indicative of which one of the at least two hands of playing cards selected from the set of playing cards comprises a winning hand or whether the at least two hands of playing cards are a tie. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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26. A method of operating a card identification system that determines an outcome of a card game, the card game being selectable from a set of playing cards, the method comprising:
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determining by the card identification system a card sequence of at least four playing cards, but less than the entire set, within the set of playing cards from which the card game will be played prior to dealing any one of the at least four playing cards; evaluating the card sequence by the card identification system to determine the outcome of the card game based on a set of card game rules and a dealing sequence, the outcome of the card game being determined for the card game at any time before any playing card of the set of playing cards is dealt, but after the card sequence of the set of playing cards is determined; and activating an indicator after the card sequence is evaluated by the card identification system to determine the outcome of the card game and after at least the four playing cards, but not more than six cards, are removed from a card shoe-reader to assemble a first hand and a second hand, each hand having at least two playing cards, the indicator broadcasts information indicative of which one of the hands selected from the set of playing cards comprises a winning hand or whether the hands are a tie. - View Dependent Claims (27, 28, 29, 30)
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31. A method of determining an outcome of at least one card game, the card game being selectable from a set of playing cards, the method comprising:
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providing the set of playing cards to a gaming table; dealing a number of playing cards necessary to comprise at least two complete playing hands for the selected card game based on a set of card game rules; positioning each of the number of dealt playing cards comprising the respective playing hands into at least one card hand-reader; reading a respective machine-readable indicia from each of the dealt playing cards positioned within the card hand-reader with a playing card reader while the dealt playing cards are positioned within the card hand-reader; computationally evaluating the respective machine-readable indicia from each of the playing cards to determine the outcome of the card game based on the set of rules and independent of knowledge of a dealing sequence; and verifying that the outcome of the card game as determined by the card hand-reader corresponds to the outcome of the card game upon visually totaling the playing cards making up the respective playing hands. - View Dependent Claims (32, 33, 34, 35, 36)
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