Angel Playing Cards Co., Ltd. Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20160023092 | CARD DISPOSAL SYSTEM FOR TABLE GAME - A card disposal system for a table game is provided that is capable of assuring the disposal of all of cards corresponding to a predetermined number of decks that are used at a game table without any deficiency and without any fraudulent diversion being made over such cards. | 01-28-2016 |
20150375097 | CARD READER - A card shooter apparatus including a card shooter unit including a card housing which contains a plurality of cards and an opening, a card reading unit that reads the number of the card 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, and a display unit which indicates a result determined by the control unit, wherein the card shooter unit, the card reading unit and the control unit are integrated and are able to be set on the game table, and the display unit includes a first display unit which is provided on an upper part of the housing and a second display unit which is provided on a side part of the housing. | 12-31-2015 |
20150375095 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DELIVERING PLAYING CARDS - A method of delivering cards from a card housing unit during a card game including automatically detecting, using one or more processors, at least one of a card being held within an opening in the card housing unit for a period of time longer than a predetermined period of time or an attempt to manually draw a card from the opening after the card game ends, and based on the automatic detection, controlling, using one or more processors, operation of a lock member to restrict movement of the card relative to the opening in the card housing unit. | 12-31-2015 |
20150290527 | TABLE GAME SYSTEM - A table game system is provided that includes a plurality of association tables, each of which makes it possible to obtain the correlation between codes attached to shuffled playing cards and the ranks thereof, and prevents the correlation between the codes of the shuffled playing cards and the ranks thereof from being known by a person who intends to commit cheating by changing the association table used as appropriate. | 10-15-2015 |
20150265908 | TABLE GAME SYSTEM - A table game system is provided capable of identifying shuffled playing cards used at the time of the occurrence of a problem in a card shoe apparatus, thereby enabling an investigation of the cause thereof or the taking of countermeasures therefor. A card shoe apparatus | 09-24-2015 |
20150238849 | CARD SHOE APPARATUS AND TABLE GAME SYSTEM - A card shoe apparatus includes a card reading unit for reading from a card a code when the card is drawn from the card housing unit, and a control unit that determines the winner/loser of a card game based on the number of the cards sequentially read by the card reading unit. The control unit further includes a memory that stores information on a predetermined number of cards read by the card reading unit, and has a function of detecting an irregularity of a shuffled playing card set. | 08-27-2015 |
20150196835 | CARD DISPOSAL SYSTEM FOR TABLE GAME - A card disposal system for a table game of the present invention includes a discharge opening for disposal of cards after a game, a disposed card receiving board for receiving the cards from the discharge opening, a disposed card information acquiring means that acquires information on the number (rank) of the card placed in the discharge opening, a group information acquiring means that acquires group information of the card disposed of, a card counter serving as a number counting means that counts the number of cards that are placed in the discharge opening for disposal, a deck examination means that determines whether cards to be disposed of includes all the cards within a predetermined number of decks, and an output means that outputs a result of the determination. | 07-16-2015 |
20150190707 | CARD SHOOTER DEVICE AND METHOD - A card shoe apparatus includes a card guide unit that guides cards that are manually drawn out one by one from a card housing unit onto a game table, a code reading unit that, when a card is drawn out from the card housing unit, reads from that card a code that indicates a rank (number, rank) of that card, a authenticity determination unit that determines the authenticity of the card based on the information of the authenticity of the card, a winning/losing determination unit that determines the winning/losing of a card game based on the ranks of the cards sequentially read by the code reading unit, and an output unit that outputs the results of the determination made by the winning/losing determination unit. The card guide unit includes a card entry/exit restriction unit or that restricts the entry/exit of the card to/from the card housing unit. | 07-09-2015 |
20150151192 | SHUFFLED PLAYING CARDS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - The present invention provides shuffled playing cards which eliminate the need for a game host to shuffle cards before games by taking a lot of time as well as eliminate the possibility of cheating. A shuffled playing cards ( | 06-04-2015 |
20150151191 | SHUFFLED PLAYING CARDS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - The present invention provides shuffled playing cards which eliminate the need for a game host to shuffle cards before games by taking a lot of time as well as eliminate the possibility of cheating. A shuffled playing cards ( | 06-04-2015 |
20150097335 | CARD-READING DEVICE AND TABLE-GAME SYSTEM - A card shooter apparatus of a table game system is provided with a card shooter unit having a card housing unit that stores a plurality of cards in a horizontally stacking manner, and a control device configured with a program storage unit, a computer device, etc. is arranged at a lower part of the card shooter apparatus. A lid is provided at an upper part of the card housing unit, and an optical sensor that receives reflected light of light irradiated to end surfaces of the plurality of cards stored in the card housing unit is arranged under the lid. The card shooter apparatus and the table game system make it possible to inspect that the plurality of cards complete a predetermined number (for example, 416 cards in the case of eight decks) in a state of being present in the card shooter apparatus. | 04-09-2015 |
20150084279 | TABLE GAME SYSTEM - A table game system comprises a predetermined number of decks of game cards ( | 03-26-2015 |
20150081063 | SHUFFLED PLAYING CARDS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - The present invention provides shuffled playing cards which eliminate the need for a game host to shuffle cards before games by taking a lot of time as well as eliminate the possibility of cheating. A shuffled playing cards ( | 03-19-2015 |
20150042042 | METHOD FOR ADMINISTRATING A PACKAGE OF SHUFFLED PLAYING CARDS - Administrating a package of shuffled playing cards to prevent fraudulent card exchanges. The administrating system is configured to calculate places and a number of packages of shuffled playing cards at places of the backyard, the places of playing tables, places of carriers and the disposition place using information obtained by the loading step and unloading step and the administrating system calculates by every ID codes bases 1) places of packages registered by the registering step for registering to a data base of administrating system and a number of packages place by place from information obtained from the loading step and the unloading step. The administrating system is configured to recognize whether there is a lost package by comparing the information of all ID codes registered in registering steps with the ID codes at places of packages obtained at the calculating step from the loading step and the unloading step. | 02-12-2015 |
20140353913 | SIMPLE SHUFFLING DEVICE - A shuffling device ( | 12-04-2014 |
20140346733 | PLAYING CARDS AND SYSTEM - With conventional playing cards, when a game player holds together cards (the hand) in his/her hand during a game, if the cards are held shifted from each other, the indexes of all the cards in the corners thereof can be seen. If someone commits cheating (peeking) for the purpose of fraud, such third person can know all the cards held by the game player. Playing cards of the present invention can prevent fraudulent acts such as peeking in card games. | 11-27-2014 |
20140319772 | CARD READING DEVICE AND CARD GAME FRAUD DETECTION DEVICE - A card used in a card game includes a code including at least two sets of code elements printed in UV-luminous ink on a surface of the card, the sets of code elements provided on one side of the surface of the card along a reading direction of a code reader. | 10-30-2014 |
20140309006 | CARD GAME SYSTEM AND A METHOD OF A TABLE GAME - A table game system capable of providing a table game to provide a chance to bet more higher paid off odds and additional wagering opportunities during the play in a way that is not complicated is provided. | 10-16-2014 |
20140077453 | CARD READER - A card shooter apparatus including a card shooter unit including a card housing which contains a plurality of cards and an opening, a card reading unit which is provided with a card guide unit which guides cards pulled out one by one from the opening onto the game table and reads the number of the card 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, and a display unit which indicates a result determined by the control unit, wherein the card shooter unit, the card reading unit and the control unit are integrated and are able to be set on the game table, and the display unit includes a first display unit which is provided on an upper part of the housing and a second display unit which is provided on a side part of the housing. | 03-20-2014 |
20140033660 | PACKING BOX OF PLAYING CARDS - A packing box for packaging of playing cards has, in an assembled state, a shape of a rectangular parallelepiped with six faces including front and rear faces, right and left side faces, and top and bottom faces. The packing box includes cut lines in two locations at a predetermined interval in parallel with a longitudinal direction of the rectangular parallelepiped, and a central band in a portion defined by the cut lines provided in the two locations. The right and left side faces of the packing box can be removed along the cut lines such that side edges of the playing cards within the packing box are exposed. | 02-06-2014 |
20130307215 | CARD DISPOSAL SYSTEM FOR TABLE GAME - A card disposal system for a table game is provided that is capable of assuring the disposal of all of cards corresponding to a predetermined number of decks that are used at a game table without any deficiency and without any fraudulent diversion being made over such cards. | 11-21-2013 |
20130303277 | CARD READING DEVICE AND TABLETOP GAME SYSTEM - A card reading device includes a card shoe part in which cards are housed, a card reading part that reads information on the cards drawn out, a control part that determines the outcome of a game based on the read information on the cards, and display parts that display the determined outcome of the game. In a tabletop game system, the information on the cards read by the card reading part and information on the game outcome determined by the control part are transmitted from the card reading device to a main computer apparatus via wireless communication. The card reading device includes a battery that supplies electric power to the control part, the display parts and a wireless output part. The card reading device, as such, is capable of facilitating moving the card reading device in a participatory tabletop game. | 11-14-2013 |
20130207344 | CARD READING APPARATUS AND TABLE GAME SYSTEM - A card shooter apparatus ( | 08-15-2013 |
20130147113 | SHUFFLED PLAYING CARDS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - The present invention provides shuffled playing cards which eliminate the need for a game host to shuffle cards before games by taking a lot of time as well as eliminate the possibility of cheating. A shuffled playing cards ( | 06-13-2013 |
20130134673 | SHUFFLED PLAYING CARDS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - The present invention provides shuffled playing cards which eliminate the need for a game host to shuffle cards before games by taking a lot of time as well as eliminate the possibility of cheating. A shuffled playing cards ( | 05-30-2013 |
20110210175 | CARD READING DEVICE AND CARD GAME FRAUD DETECTION DEVICE - A card used in a card game includes a code including at least two sets of code elements printed in UV-luminous ink on a surface of the card, the sets of code elements provided on one side of the surface of the card along a reading direction of a code reader. | 09-01-2011 |
20110034243 | TABLE GAME SYSTEM - A table game system comprises a plurality of playing cards and a card shooter apparatus. The cards include an ultraviolet-ray reaction code comprising at least two sets of code elements that are arranged along one side of a face of the card. The code represents at least the number of a card. The card shooter apparatus includes a card housing for containing the cards, a card guide unit that guides cards pulled out one by one from the card housing, one or more card detecting sensors that detect the existence or non-existence of a card pulled out along a card guiding direction of the card guide unit, and one or more black light sensors that read the ultraviolet-ray reaction code from the card guided by the card guide unit. | 02-10-2011 |
20100327525 | SHUFFLED PLAYING CARDS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - The present invention provides shuffled playing cards which eliminate the need for a game host to shuffle cards before games by taking a lot of time as well as eliminate the possibility of cheating. A shuffled playing cards ( | 12-30-2010 |
20100133754 | PLAYING CARDS AND TABLE GAME SYSTEM - The present invention provides playing cards which allow a code to be read reliably from the cards shot out at various speeds. Playing cards ( | 06-03-2010 |
20100130288 | RFID-INCORPORATED GAME TOKEN AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - An RFID tag incorporated game token that does not allow the RFID tag to be easily removed and hardly has failures in the RFID tag during manufacturing or in use is implemented. In the game token, an RFID covered with flexible cover sheets is held between laminate resin films or plates, and these elements are thermally press-bonded, so that the RFID tag is incorporated in a body. The material of the cover sheet is paper, vinyl chloride, polyethylene terephthalate or the like. | 05-27-2010 |
20100113118 | RFID-INCORPORATED GAME CARD AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - An RFID tag-incorporated game card having no irregularities on its surface layers is provided. In a card, an intermediate layer having an RFID tag incorporated therein with an appropriately uniform thickness is held between at least two sheets. The intermediate layer includes the RFID tag and at least two base films arranged to hold the RFID tag between them. The base films are preferably colored black. Alternatively, it is also preferable that the intermediate layer and the sheets are adhered to each other using a black adhesive. | 05-06-2010 |
20100105486 | RFID-INCORPORATED GAME TOKEN AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A RFID tag incorporated game token that does not allow the RFID tag to be easily removed and hardly has failures in the RFID tag during manufacturing or in use is implemented. A game token ( | 04-29-2010 |
20090286597 | TABLE GAME SYSTEM - A table game system comprises a plurality of playing cards and a card shooter apparatus. The cards include an ultraviolet-ray reaction code comprising at least two sets of code elements that are arranged along one side of a face of the card. The code represents at least the number of a card. The card shooter apparatus includes a card housing for containing the cards, a card guide unit that guides cards pulled out one by one from the card housing, one or more card detecting sensors that detect the existence or non-existence of a card pulled out along a card guiding direction of the card guide unit, and one or more black light sensors that read the ultraviolet-ray reaction code from the card guided by the card guide unit. | 11-19-2009 |