Patent ID: 9656155
Date: 2017-05-23
CPC Classifications: A63F

Claim:
1. A method of delivering cards from a card shooter during a card game, comprising: automatically reading, using one or more processors of the card shooter, a rank of the cards as the cards are sequentially taken out from a card guide unit in the card shooter along a dealing direction to a game table and storing results of the reading; determining, using one or more processors of the card shooter, whether or not the card game is ended and results of the card game based on the reading of the rank of the cards; automatically detecting, using an object detecting sensor of the card shooter disposed at the card guide unit, movement of a card manually drawn along the dealing direction and movement of a card in an opposite direction, by optically sensing the card; and generating a signal, using one or more processors of the card shooter, based on the automatic detection of card movement.