EP2108414B1 - Procédé de production d'un ensemble de données d'une suite aléatoire de cartes de jeu et dispositif d'exécution du procédé - Google Patents

Procédé de production d'un ensemble de données d'une suite aléatoire de cartes de jeu et dispositif d'exécution du procédé Download PDF

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EP2108414B1
EP2108414B1 EP09003948A EP09003948A EP2108414B1 EP 2108414 B1 EP2108414 B1 EP 2108414B1 EP 09003948 A EP09003948 A EP 09003948A EP 09003948 A EP09003948 A EP 09003948A EP 2108414 B1 EP2108414 B1 EP 2108414B1
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63F—CARD, BOARD, OR ROULETTE GAMES; INDOOR GAMES USING SMALL MOVING PLAYING BODIES; VIDEO GAMES; GAMES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
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  • the invention relates to a method for generating a record of a random sequence of playing cards and to an apparatus for carrying out this method.
  • card mixing devices are known. Such a device is used for example in US2005 / 0093231 A1 described. In this device, the playing cards are mixed by means randomly controlled by microprocessors.
  • Card games with playing cards are increasingly carried out today computer-aided. In such a virtual card game, no material playing cards are used; Rather, in an electronic data processing device virtual playing cards generated and the card players displayed on a monitor connected to this electronic data processing device.
  • a particularly popular, virtual card game is online poker.
  • the card players sit on different, connected to this network monitors and play against each other.
  • a critical point of any card game is the game's initial mixing of the playing cards. For the course of the card game is crucial that the playing cards are brought by mixing in a random, by any card player predictable order.
  • the order of the virtual playing cards is randomized by an algorithm of software.
  • the invention has for its object a method for generating a record of a random sequence of playing cards in an electronic data processing device to provide; in which the randomness of the order of the playing cards granted during mixing and much easier to understand than in the prior art presented above. Furthermore, the record of the random order of playing cards produced by this method should not be manipulatable after the mixing process.
  • Another object of the invention is to provide an apparatus for carrying out such a method.
  • the first object is achieved by the provision of a method for generating a record of a random sequence of playing cards in an electronic data processing device having the following features according to claim 1.
  • the basic idea of the invention is first to mix real, physical playing cards by a card shuffling apparatus in a random order, to detect this sequence of playing cards by a data acquisition device and to record those concerning the randomly mixed order of the playing cards from the data acquisition device Transfer data to an electronic data processing device.
  • a significant advantage of this method is that a manipulation of the playing cards, the randomness of mixing the playing cards and mixing order can be virtually eliminated.
  • the playing cards can be entered under supervision into the card shuffling apparatus, and the card shuffling in the shuffling apparatus can also be done under supervision, for example.
  • the card shuffling apparatus can be protected from unauthorized access, for example, stored in a lockable container, so that manipulation of the cards and the blending operation is precluded.
  • the random mixing order in which the cards have been mixed by the card shuffling device is maintained until the end of a card game, so that after completion of the card game, the mixing order of the playing cards can optionally be checked again.
  • the playing cards in the method according to the invention can be mixed in a random order by any mechanical card mixing device known from the prior art.
  • a mechanical card shuffling device is off WO 01/78854 A2 known.
  • the method according to the invention can be carried out on the basis of any card mixing device known from the prior art.
  • a known card mixing device is solely a device for data acquisition, by the order of the playing cards is detected, and means for forwarding the data acquired by the data acquisition device to an electronic data processing device.
  • the cards mixed by the card mixing device in a random order are preferably stored in a fixed order, so that the mixing order of the playing cards, as already shown above, can optionally be checked again after completion of the card game.
  • the playing cards are stored in a fixed order in the form of a deck of cards.
  • the order of the playing cards is detected by the data acquisition device just before the playing cards are deposited by the card shuffling device in this fixed order.
  • the advantage of this method step is, inter alia, that the random order of the cards is then no longer changed after the order of the playing cards has been detected by the data acquisition device.
  • the playing cards are each detected individually by the device for data acquisition.
  • the playing cards of the data acquisition device are each presented individually by the card mixing device, that is, for example, individually guided past the data acquisition device.
  • the playing cards or the sequence of playing cards are particularly easy and reliable detected by the device for data acquisition.
  • the order of the playing cards can be detected by any device for data acquisition.
  • the device for Data acquisition alone has to be capable of detecting the individuality of each individual playing card, so that the order of the playing cards, after being mixed by the card shuffling apparatus, can be detected by the data acquiring apparatus.
  • a device for data acquisition may be provided in the form of a device for optoelectronic data acquisition.
  • a device for optoelectronic data acquisition the visual appearance or an optical component of each game card can be detected and converted into electronic or digital data.
  • a device for data acquisition in the form of a device for optoelectronic data acquisition of playing card symbols of the playing cards can be provided.
  • the playing-card symbols of the individual playing cards that is to say for example "PIK-AS" can then each be detected by the device for optoelectronic data acquisition and converted into electronic or digital data.
  • a device for optoelectronic data acquisition in the form of a scanner is provided. For example, immediately before the card shuffling apparatus deposits the playing cards mixed in a random order in a fixed order, the playing cards are passed and thereby detected by the scanner, so that the order of the playing cards as a whole is detected by the data acquiring apparatus.
  • the playing cards can also have, for example, an optically detectable code, for example a barcode.
  • an optically detectable code for example a barcode.
  • a device for data acquisition in the form of a device for optoelectronic data acquisition of the codes, for example a bar code reader may be provided.
  • the playing cards can also have any other means which individualize the respective playing card and which can be detected by a device for data acquisition.
  • the playing cards may have electronic or digital transmitting means that can be received and detected by the data acquisition device.
  • the playing cards are each provided with a transponder, wherein the device for data acquisition is designed for reading out the signals transmitted by the transponders and detects the corresponding received signals.
  • the playing cards can each be provided with passive transponders, since they do not require their own power supply and can therefore be arranged particularly simply and favorably on the playing cards.
  • the order of the playing cards is detected by the data acquisition device and the corresponding detected data is forwarded to an electronic data processing device.
  • This electronic data processing device for example a computer or a server, may be part of a network, for example a computer network, for example also the "World Wide Web".
  • the data forwarded to the electronic data processing device is the order of the playing cards in the electronic data processing device processed and made available for a virtual card game.
  • a virtual card game can be carried out on the basis of the data of the order of the playing cards.
  • Card players can be shown the game sales via monitors connected to the electronic data processing device; Through data input devices connected to the electronic data processing device, the card players can influence the course of the game.
  • the card mixing device and the data acquisition device may be configured as described above.
  • the means for transmitting the sequence of playing cards detected by the data acquisition device to an electronic data processing device may be any means known in the art. For example, it may be data cables and / or means for Radio transmission of corresponding data act. It may, for example, also be provided to provide portable storage means for transferring data to electronic data processing devices. For example, provision may be made for forwarding data having a sequence of playing cards acquired by the data acquisition device to a portable storage means, this storage means initially not connected to an electronic data processing device. For transferring the data recorded on the portable storage device, the storage device can then be connected to an electronic data processing device.
  • a portable storage medium may be a digital memory stick or a portable hard disk storage.
  • Playing cards 1 are mixed by a card shuffling device 3 in a random order and stored in this random order in a deck of cards 2.
  • the card mixing device 3 and the data acquisition device 5 embodied as an integral part thereof are arranged in a closable container 9.
  • the detected by the device for data acquisition 5 order of the playing cards 1 in the card stack 2 is, indicated by the arrow 10, transmitted to an electronic data processing device 11.
  • This data transmission takes place via a data cable, which is connected to the device for data acquisition 5 and leads out of the container 9.
  • the record of the order of the playing cards is processed and made available for a virtual card game.
  • a monitor 13 and a data input device 15 are connected to the electronic data processing device 11.
  • a card player can track the gameplay and take over the data input device 15 influence on it.
  • the data processing device 11 is part of a network of several data processing devices, indicated by the dashed outline of another electronic data processing device 17.
  • this network of several electronic data processing devices 11, 17 several card players can participate in a virtual card game, in which the record of a random sequence of playing cards for this card game has been generated by the inventive method.
  • FIG. 2 illustrated embodiment of a device 101 for carrying out the method according to the invention has a central box 103 for receiving playing cards.
  • a central box 103 for receiving playing cards.
  • two side boxes 105, 107 are arranged for receiving game cards.
  • the middle box 103 On the two sides of the middle box 103, which are adjacent to the two side boxes 105, 107, the middle box 103 each have a bottom slot 109, 111 for performing one or more playing cards.
  • the middle box 103 and the two side boxes 105, 107 can be raised and lowered by a lifting / lowering device in each case in an upper and in a lower position.
  • the middle box 103 is raised to the upper position and lowered the two side boxes 105, 107 in the lower position.
  • the middle box 103 and the two side boxes 105, 107 are arranged in a closable by a lid 113 container 115.
  • the middle box 103 and the two side boxes 105, 107 are open at the top, wherein the middle box 103 is disposed below a closable by the lid 113 opening of the container 115.
  • the lid open 113 first in the middle box 103, which in this case in the in FIG. 2 is in the upper position, with its playing card symbol facing downwards, and the lid 113 of the container 115 is then closed. Then, one or more playing cards are ejected alternately into the side boxes 105, 107 through the bottom-side slots 109, 111 of the middle box 103, respectively.
  • the middle box 103 in the region of the bottom-side slots 109, 111 each have two rollers 117 which slightly project beyond the bottom of the middle box 103 upwards, so that these rollers 117 take one or more playing cards during a rotary movement and out of the bottom slots 109, 111 lead out.
  • the side boxes 105, 107 are each arranged so slightly below the bottom-side slots 109, 111 that the playing cards carried out of the slots 109, 111 fall into the side boxes 105, 107 with the playing-card symbols still pointing downwards.
  • the middle box 103 After all playing cards have been conveyed from the middle box 103 in the two side boxes 105, 107, the middle box 103 are moved by the lifting / lowering device in the lower and the two side boxes 105, 107 in the respective upper position , In this position, the playing cards from the side boxes 105, 107 are transported back into the middle box 103.
  • the side boxes 105, 107 on the bottom side each have a slot 119, 121 on their side facing the middle box 103, through which the playing cards can be conveyed back into the middle box 103.
  • the transport of the playing cards takes place in accordance with the transport out of the middle box 103, in turn, in each case via rollers 123, 125 which project beyond the bottom of the lateral boxes 105, 107 in the region of the bottom-side slots 119, 121.
  • the middle box 103 is in this position correspondingly slightly below the bottom-side slots 119, 121 of the side boxes 105, 107 arranged, so that the out of the slots 119, 121 out promoted playing cards with the down pointing playing card symbols fall into the middle box 103.
  • the middle box 103 are again moved into the upper and the two side boxes 105, 107 in the respective lower position.
  • the mixing process shown above can be carried out one or more times.
  • the randomness of the playing cards ejected by the rollers 117, 123, 125 out of the slots 109, 111, 119, 121, respectively, is produced by the rollers 117, 123, 125 not having a round but a non-circular cross section.
  • the rollers may have a nonuniform serrated or otherwise non-uniform cross section.
  • the rollers 117, 123, 125 may for example be rubberized and / or spring-loaded rollers, so that the playing cards can be easily gripped by these rollers 117, 123, 125 and moved out of the respective bottom-side slots 109, 111, 119, 121.
  • a device for data acquisition in the form of a scanner 133 is arranged, which detects the card symbol of the respective playing card 131, which is moved through this slot. The moving through this slot game cards then fall into one of the side boxes 105, 107th
  • the scanner 133 detects not only the order, but also the number of playing cards that are passed to it. This makes it possible to control whether all cards of the card game were actually mixed in a random order by the card shuffling apparatus 101.
  • the scanner 133 is connected to an electronic data processing device via a data cable 135, so that the sequence of the playing cards detected by the scanner 133 can be transmitted to this electronic data processing device.
  • the middle box 103 has a second, correspondingly formed slot between its side wall opposite the aforementioned side wall and the cover 113.
  • a first part of the playing cards are passed through the one slot and the remaining part of the playing cards through the other slot; This makes a so-called "take off" of the mixed playing cards feasible.

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  1. Procédé pour générer un ensemble de données d'un ordre de succession aléatoire de cartes à jouer dans un dispositif électronique de traitement de données présentant les caractéristiques suivantes:
    1.1 les cartes à jouer (1) sont mélangées par un dispositif de mélange de cartes (3) dans un ordre de succession aléatoire ;
    1.2 l'ordre de succession des cartes à jouer (1) est enregistré par un dispositif de saisie de données (5) ;
    1.3 l'ordre de succession des cartes à jouer (1), qui est saisi (10) par le dispositif de saisie de données (5), est transmis à un dispositif électronique de traitement de données (11) ;
    1.4 l'ensemble de données de l'ordre de succession des cartes à jouer, qui est transmis au dispositif électronique de traitement de données, est traité dans le dispositif électronique de traitement de données et mis à disposition pour un jeu de cartes virtuel.
  2. Procédé selon la revendication 1 avec un dispositif de saisie de données sous forme d'un dispositif de saisie optoélectronique de données.
  3. Procédé selon la revendication 1 avec un dispositif de saisie de données sous forme d'un dispositif de saisie optoélectronique de données de symboles des cartes à jouer.
  4. Procédé selon la revendication 2 ou 3 avec un dispositif de saisie optoélectronique de données sous forme d'un scanner.
  5. Procédé selon la revendication 1, dans lequel les cartes à jouer présentent des codes pouvant être saisis visuellement.
  6. Procédé selon la revendication 5 avec un dispositif de saisie de données sous forme d'un dispositif de saisie optoélectronique de données des codes.
  7. Procédé selon la revendication 1, dans lequel les cartes à jouer présentent des transpondeurs.
  8. Procédé selon la revendication 1 avec un dispositif de saisie des données sous forme d'un dispositif pour la saisie de données des transpondeurs.
  9. Dispositif pour la mise en oeuvre du procédé selon la revendication 1 avec les caractéristiques suivantes :
    9.1 un dispositif de mélange de cartes (101), par lequel des cartes à jouer peuvent être mélangées dans un ordre de succession aléatoire ;
    9.2 un dispositif de saisie de données (133), par lequel l'ordre de succession des cartes à jouer peut être saisi ;
    9.3 des moyens (135) pour la transmission de l'ordre de succession des cartes à jouer, saisi par le dispositif de saisie de données (133), à un dispositif électronique de traitement de données par lequel les données de l'ordre de succession des cartes à jouer, qui sont transmis au dispositif électronique de traitement de données, peuvent être traitées et mises à disposition pour un jeu de cartes virtuel.
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