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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 12, 2010
Atilla Grauzer, Las Vegas, NV (US);
Oliver M. Schubert, Las Vegas, NV (US);
James V. Kelly, Las Vegas, NV (US);
James B. Stasson, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Feraidoon Bourbour, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Paul K. Scheper, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Atilla Grauzer, Las Vegas, NV (US);
Oliver M. Schubert, Las Vegas, NV (US);
James V. Kelly, Las Vegas, NV (US);
James B. Stasson, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Feraidoon Bourbour, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Paul K. Scheper, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
SHFL entertainment, Inc., Las Vegas, NV (US);
Abstract
A multiple-mode card shuffling and/or card verification device includes a top surface, a card receiving area for receiving an initial set of playing cards, a randomizing or arranging system for the initial set of playing cards that can be disabled, a card collection surface in a card collection area for receiving randomized playing cards, the card collection surface receiving cards positioned so that all cards collected are below the top surface of the device, a card imaging system and an elevator for raising the card collection surface so that at least some randomized cards are elevated above the top surface of the device. The processor is programmed such that cards can be verified without changing an order of cards present in the card receiving area, verified during randomization, and randomized without card verification.