Patent ID: 9630087
Date: 2017-04-25
CPC Classifications: A63F

Claim:
1. A card shooter apparatus comprising: a card shooter unit including a card housing which contains a plurality of cards and an opening, the plurality of cards used in playing a card game; a card reading unit which is provided with a card guide unit which guides the cards along a card guide surface pulled out one by one from the opening onto a game table, the card reading unit reads a rank of the cards pulled out from the card shooter; a control unit having a processing function to determine the result of the card game based on information about the cards, including the rank, sequentially read by the card reading unit; one or more card detecting sensors configured to detect the existence or non-existence of the cards and to output one or more signals; wherein the control unit further determines whether one or more of the cards has moved in an opposite direction along the card guide surface based on the one or more signals output from the one or more card detecting sensors; an output means configured to output the result determined by the control unit; and a display unit which indicates the result determined by the control unit; the card shooter unit, the card reading unit and the control unit integrated and able to be set on the game table, and the display unit includes a first display unit and a second display unit, wherein the first display unit is provided on a portion which is not adjacent to the second display unit and able to be seen only by the dealer and not by the player while the card shooter apparatus is set on the game table, and the second display unit is provided on the upper surface of the card shooter unit, the first display unit indicating at least the rank of the cards sequentially read by the card reading unit and the second display unit indicating the result of the card game wherein the determining of whether one or more of the cards has moved in an opposite direction along the card guide surface is based on the one or more signals output from the one or more card detecting sensors indicating whether one or more of the cards has moved in an opposite direction as compared to a direction in which the one or more of the cards are guided along the card guide surface pulled out one by one from the opening onto a game table.