Patent ID: 11961355
Assignee: LNW GAMING, INC.
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 10:
11. The method of claim 1 wherein determining the physical location of the closest one of the plurality of gaming tables relative to the given shuffler device comprises:
electronically communicating, via an additional network, a first transceiver signal from the given shuffler device to any of the plurality of the gaming tables within a threshold range;
storing first timestamp data for the first transceiver signal;
receiving, in response to the first transceiver signal, one or more second transceiver signals transmitted by the any of the plurality of the gaming tables within the threshold range;
storing second timestamp data in response to receipt of the one or more second transceiver signals;
computing, based on analysis of the first timestamp data and the second timestamp data relative to a speed of light, a shuffler-device location, of the given shuffler, relative to the closest one of the plurality of gaming tables amongst the any of the plurality of the gaming tables within the threshold range;
assigning, by the processor based on a shuffler-device location, the given shuffler device to a known gaming-table location of the closest one of the plurality of gaming tables;
instructing, by the processor via the network in response to assigning the given shuffler device to the known gaming-table location, the environmental image sensors to capture the second image data, wherein the environmental image sensors are located in the gaming environment at the known gaming-table location, and wherein the second image data includes an image of the participant to whom the playing card was dealt.