Gaming equipment for professional use of table games with playing cards and gaming chips, in particular for the game of "black jack"
CA 2195329 C · Owner: Order, Michail · Inventors: Order, Michail
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The object of the invention is to create a games system for use in professional card or token table games such as "blackjack" with automated monitoring and automatic recording and evaluation of all moves in a game. This is achieved by providing a card dispenser with a recognition device to recognise the value of a drawn card (by optical sensing of the card value mark (31) and reflection of it into an image sensor based on a charge-coupled device); a games table with photodiodes (52) positioned underneath the baize (51) which, for each set field (53, 54) for the tokens (41) and each laying field (55, 56) for the cards (3), register the attenuation of the ambient casino light …
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- Filed October 5, 1995 and granted August 8, 2000. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 5, 2015.
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