US 12,437,607 B2
Remote playing card game
Fabian Piorno, Plantation, FL (US)
Filed by Fabian Piorno, Plantation, FL (US)
Filed on Dec. 5, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/075,178.
Application 18/075,178 is a continuation in part of application No. 17/544,912, filed on Dec. 7, 2021, granted, now 11,521,467.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/122,256, filed on Dec. 7, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0096211 A1, Mar. 30, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G07F 17/32 (2006.01)
CPC G07F 17/3223 (2013.01) [G07F 17/3211 (2013.01); G07F 17/3276 (2013.01); G07F 17/3293 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of playing a remote-like playing card game comprising the steps of:
providing at least one deck of a plurality of physical playing cards having four suits each having varying ranks of physical playing cards associated therewith;
providing a plurality of electronic communication devices of a plurality of users, the plurality of electronic communication devices each having an electronic display;
providing a physical game table with a physical playing card surface, with a playing card shuffling assembly operably configured to randomize an order of the playing cards, with the plurality of electronic communication devices of the plurality of users coupled to the physical game table, and with at least one camera coupled thereto and with a lens oriented toward the physical playing card surface and a portion of the playing card shuffling assembly;
communicatively coupling the at least one camera with the plurality of electronic communication devices over a communications network and initiating a playing card game having the plurality of users associated with a player position depicted on the physical playing card surface;
dealing, after the initiating of the playing card game, a plurality of physical playing cards onto a game table layout on the physical playing card surface in accordance with a playing protocol associated with the initiated playing card game and with each player position having one of the physical playing cards proximal thereto;
capturing video of the dealing of the plurality of physical playing cards onto the game table layout on the physical playing card surface with the at least one camera in real-time and communicating the captured video of the dealing of the plurality of physical playing cards onto the game table layout to the electronic display for each of the plurality of electronic communication devices of the plurality of users; and
playing the playing card game initiated by the plurality of users in accordance with the playing protocol to determine at least one winner therefrom.