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US 12,409,378 · App. 18/441,442 · Granted Sep 9, 2025

Card show apparatus and table game system

Inventor: Yasushi Shigeta (Shiga, JP)
Assignee: ANGEL GROUP CO., LTD.
A63F1/14A63F1/12A63F1/18A63F2009/2419A63F2009/2451A63F2009/2457A63F2250/58
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Patent No.
US 12,409,378
App. No.
18/441,442
Granted
Sep 9, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A system includes a card shoe that includes a housing for housing cards and an opening through which the housed cards can be drawn. The system includes a computer to detect whether there is any of the following predefined arrangements: (1) for each of a predefined number of consecutively drawn cards, the respective rank of the respective card is larger or smaller by one than an immediately preceding one of the cards drawn from the card housing; (2) a respective rank of each of a predefined number of consecutively drawn cards is the same; (3) a respective suit of each of a predefined number of consecutively drawn cards is the same; or (4) a same sequence in which a predefined number of the cards are consecutively drawn is repeated.

Claims (11)

1. A shuffle check system for shuffled playing cards, the shuffle check system comprising:

a card reader that is configured to read rank or suit information from a card of the shuffled playing cards; and

a computer including a memory, the computer configured to detect whether there is a special arrangement of the shuffle playing cards based on rank or suit information of one or more cards of the shuffled playing cards,

wherein the special arrangement of the shuffle playing cards includes:

a case where the rank goes up or down one by one in order for a predetermined number of cards,

a case where the same rank continues at a predetermined number of cards,

a case where the same suit continues at a predetermined number of cards,

a case where the cards repeat the same sequence at a predetermined number of cards, or

a case where the arrangement order of a predetermined number of cards matches an arrangement order registered in advance.

2. The shuffle check system according to claim 1 , wherein an alarm is output when the special arrangement of the shuffle playing cards occur consecutively at a predetermined number of cards.

3. The shuffle check system according to claim 2 , wherein a wired or wireless communication means is used as a means to output the alarm.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 15, 2024
From: SHIGETA, YASUSHI
To: ANGEL PLAYING CARDS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 066600/0904 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Feb 15, 2024
From: ANGEL PLAYING CARDS CO., LTD.
To: ANGEL GROUP CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 066610/0030 →
Priority Claims (2)
JP 2012-227444 · Sep 25, 2012 · national
WO PCT/JP2012/006230 · Sep 28, 2012 · international
Continuity (6)
Continuation 18103959 · Jan 31, 2023
Continuation 17230258 · Apr 14, 2021
Continuation 16409319 · May 10, 2019
Continuation 15456322 · Mar 10, 2017
Continuation 14431239
Related Publication 20240181332A1 · Jun 6, 2024
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