Patent Document ID: 9908034
Application ID: 15165973
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A card-handling apparatus for determining at least one of rank and suit of playing cards, comprising: a motive apparatus positioned and configured to move playing cards past an image capture device to generate the card face data; the image capture device comprising an illuminator positioned and configured to illuminate faces of playing cards moved therepast with electromagnetic radiation and a complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor positioned to receive reflected electromagnetic radiation from the faces to generate card face data; logic circuitry operatively connected to the image capture device, the logic circuitry configured to convert the card face data into binary values; and a nontransitory memory device operatively connected to the logic circuitry, the nontransitory memory device storing reference data representing a correlation between binary values of card face data and at least one of a rank and suit corresponding to each respective binary value of the card face data; wherein the logic circuitry is configured to compare the binary values from generated card face data to the reference data and determine at least one of the rank and suit of each playing card moved past the image capture device.