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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 1991
Filed:
Mar. 29, 1990
Jack A Soules, Shaker Heights, OH (US);
Bryan D Carpenter, Cleveland, OH (US);
Technical Systems Corp., Cleveland, OH (US);
Abstract
A deck of cards is coded by marking each card on its face with a bar code which is essentially invisible to the human eye, but can be read by a detector matched to the source of wavelength of the light used to irradiate each card as it is passed over the surface of a portable housing which houses the detector and the associated reading means. Appropriate hardware is also housed in the housing to process the coded information read. The software provided stores a number of predetermined 'hands' which are to be dealt. It can also deal a random deal, more random than can be dealt by human shuffling of the deck. A method is provided to deal a preselected 'deal' to a chosen number of players, typically four, the apparatus indicating to the human dealer to which location each card is to be dealt.