Patent ID: 8505915

Claim:
A card game machine comprising: a machine base, a track unit arranged on said machine base, a displacement motor mounted on said machine base, two card-recovery slots, a video recognition device adapted for recognizing the types and spots of each individual playing card of a set of playing cards being arranged on said machine base, a slide coupled to and movable along said track unit, a transmission belt coupled between said slide and said displacement motor for enabling said slide to be moved by said displacement motor along said track unit, and a first pickup unit and a second pickup unit carried on said slide, each of said first pickup unit and said second pickup unit being controllable to run a playing card pickup step, a playing card recognition step, a playing card exhibition step and a playing card discarding step, said first pickup unit and said second pickup unit each comprising a reversible step motor, a swivel arm coupled to said reversible step motor and movable by said reversible step motor within a predetermined angle, an air cylinder coupled to said swivel arm, a vacuum mount mounted on a reciprocating rod of said air cylinder and controllable to pick up one playing card from said set of playing cards by vacuum suction.