Patent ID: 9126104
Filing Date: 2015-09-08
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
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 cards, of the plurality of cards, pulled out one by one from the opening onto a game table and reads numbers of the cards pulled out from the card shooter; a control unit having a processing function to determine win or lose of the card game based on information about the number of the cards sequentially read by the card reading unit; one or more card detecting sensors configured to detect the existence or non-existence of the cards; a measurement validity/invalidity determining means configured to determine whether the readings of the cards are valid on the basis of outputs of the one or more card detecting sensors; a card normality/abnormality determining means configured to determine, when the readings of the cards are determined to be valid by the measurement/validity means, whether the cards are normal when there is a match from the information stored in the control unit and readings of the card reading unit and whether the cards are abnormal when there is not a match from the information stored in the control unit and the readings of the card unit; an output means configured to output results determined by the card normality/abnormality determining means; and a display unit which indicates a 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 which is provided on a side part of the housing and a second display unit which is provided on an upper part of the housing, the first display unit indicating information on readings of the cards and the second display unit indicating a win or lose of the card game.