CARD SHOE APPARATUS AND TABLE GAME SYSTEM

摘要

A card shoe apparatus includes a card reading unit for reading from a card a code when the card is drawn from the card housing unit, and a control unit that determines the winner/loser of a card game based on the number of the cards sequentially read by the card reading unit. The control unit further includes a memory that stores information on a predetermined number of cards read by the card reading unit, and has a function of detecting an irregularity of a shuffled playing card set.

主权项

1. A card shoe apparatus for storing shuffled playing cards on a game table and manually dealing the cards housed in the card shoe apparatus one by one onto the game table, the card shoe apparatus comprising:
a card housing unit for housing the shuffled playing cards; an opening unit for drawing out the shuffled playing cards from the card housing unit one by one; a card reading unit that reads, from drawn cards of the shuffled playing cards from the card housing unit, information provided in the drawn cards drawn; a control unit that stores rules of a card game, and determines a winner/loser of the card game according to said rules, based on information of the drawn cards read by the card reading unit, wherein the control unit has a shuffling checking function of storing the information of the drawn cards read by the card reading unit for a predetermined number of cards, detecting and outputting an irregularity of the shuffled playing cards housed in the card housing unit based on the information of the drawn cards read by the card reading unit, and outputting an irregularity alarm for indicating the irregularity of the shuffled playing cards, the irregularity of the shuffled playing cards being based on at least one of the following cases:
a case where a state in which a rank of a specific card of the drawn cards is larger or smaller by one than a card of the drawn cards preceding the specific card continues for a predetermined number of the drawn cards;a case where cards of the drawn cards with the same rank continues for a predetermined number of the drawn cards;a case where a same sequence is repeated throughout a predetermined number of the drawn cards;a case where cards of the drawn cards with a same suit continues for at least a predetermined number of the drawn cards;a case where an arrangement order of a predetermined number of cards of the drawn cards matches an arrangement order registered in advance;a case where a state in which a card of the drawn cards has a same suit and rank as a card that precedes the card of the drawn cards by 52 cards continues for a plurality of the drawn cards;a case that corresponds to a case that has been registered in advance as an irregular case;a case where cards of the drawn cards with a same rank and suit are drawn for at least a predetermined number of the drawn cards; and an output unit that outputs a result of the winner/loser determined by the control unit.