US 12,290,745 B2
Card-handling devices and related methods, assemblies, and components
Paul K. Scheper, Bloomington, MN (US); Colin A. Helsen, Arundel (AU); Ronald R. Swanson, Otsego, MN (US); and Peter Krenn, Neufeld (AT)
Assigned to SG Gaming, Inc., Las Vegas, NV (US)
Filed by SG Gaming, Inc., Las Vegas, NV (US)
Filed on Jun. 22, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/808,255.
Application 17/808,255 is a division of application No. 16/457,357, filed on Jun. 28, 2019, granted, now 11,376,489.
Application 16/457,357 is a continuation in part of application No. PCT/US2019/027460, filed on Apr. 15, 2019.
Application 16/457,357 is a continuation in part of application No. 16/132,090, filed on Sep. 14, 2018, granted, now 11,896,891.
Prior Publication US 2022/0314106 A1, Oct. 6, 2022
Int. Cl. A63F 1/12 (2006.01); A63F 1/10 (2006.01); A63F 1/14 (2006.01)
CPC A63F 1/12 (2013.01) [A63F 1/10 (2013.01); A63F 1/14 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of altering an orientation of cards being shuffled in an automatic card shuffler, comprising:
providing an automatic card shuffler with a user display; a card intake, a card outlet, a card shuffling apparatus, a card path between the card intake and the card outlet, a card-imaging system, at least one processor configured to control the card-imaging system, the user display, and to operate the card shuffler, wherein the card shuffling apparatus comprises multiple compartments;
receiving a plurality of cards in the card intake, the cards arranged in a stack wherein cards are arranged with card faces in a face to back orientation;
automatically feeding each card individually from the stack along the card path and inserting the card into one of the multiple compartments of the card shuffling apparatus;
reading card face information of each card as the card is being fed with the card-imaging system;
identifying unreadable cards, wherein unreadable cards include cards that lack card face information from the card-imaging system;
inserting the unreadable cards into at least one designated compartment in the card shuffling apparatus;
randomly inserting each card not identified as unreadable into a randomly selected compartment;
unloading all cards except the cards in the at least one designed compartment into the card outlet, forming a stack of cards, wherein each card in the stack of cards is oriented in the face-to-back orientation;
unloading the unreadable cards from the at least one designated compartment and adding the unreadable cards to an end of the stack after unloading all other cards;
causing the user display to display an alert indicating that at least one card in the outlet requires at least one of inspection or reorientation;
accepting at least one reoriented card from the card outlet in the card intake;
automatically feeding each card of the at least one reoriented card in the card intake into the card shuffler;
unloading the at least one reoriented card in the card shuffler to the card outlet; and
combining the at least one reoriented card with the stack of cards in the card outlet to form a shuffled set of cards in the face-to-back orientation.