Imaging video frames on documents
AssigneeIGT Global Solutions Corporation
InventorKenneth E. Irwin, Jr.
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Abstract
Security-enhanced documents and methods of forming security-enhanced documents having indicia under a Scratch-Off Coating (SOC), and more particularly including digitally imaging video frames onto the display area and/or back of the documents. In certain embodiments, portions of digitally imaged video frames are also utilized as game play variable indicia.
Claims20
A method for producing multiple security layered Scratch-Off Coating (SOC) protected documents with variable indicia, said method comprising:
- creating video frame data based on a video including multiple frames that is received from an external video source, wherein each of the frames comprises a scene from the video, wherein creating the video frame data comprises:
- (i) selecting a plurality of video frames from the video,
- (ii) converting each selected video frame into a separate video frame file in a format compatible with a Raster Image Processor (RIP), and
- (iii) saving each separate video frame file in a video frame database such that each separate video frame file is uniquely identified via a separate metadata tag;
- associating separate imaging data with each document, which comprises for each document:
- (i) creating an unique inventory control and validation numbers for the document,
- (ii) generating variable indicia for the document,
- (iii) assigning a separate one of the video frame files to the inventory control and/or validation number for the document, and
- (iv) flattening the variable indicia, inventory control and/or validation numbers, and selected video frame file into an overall image file for the document;
- printing, with a digital imager and associated RIP, each document using the overall image file for the document;
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- for each document, forming a scratch off coating on top of at least a portion of the variable indicia of the document while leaving a display portion of the document uncovered.
A method for creating video frame data based on a video including multiple frames that is received from an external video source, wherein each of the frames comprises a scene from the video, wherein the video frame data is configured to be used to produce multiple security layered Scratch-Off Coating (SOC) protected documents with variable indicia, said method comprising:
- selecting a plurality of video frames from the video;
- converting each selected video frame into a separate video frame file in a format compatible with a raster image processor;
- saving each separate video frame file in a video frame database such that each separate video frame file is uniquely identified via a separate metadata tag;
- and
- associating and storing separate imaging data with each document, which comprises for each document:
- creating an unique inventory control and validation numbers for the document,
- generating variable indicia for the document,
- assigning a separate one of the video frame files to the inventory control and/or validation number for the document, and
- flattening the variable indicia, inventory control and/or validation numbers, and selected video frame file into an overall image file for the document.
A method for producing multiple security layered Scratch-Off Coating (SOC) protected documents with variable indicia, said method comprising:
- accessing video frame data for each document, the video frame data based on a video including multiple frames, wherein each of the frames comprises a scene from the video, wherein the video frame data is created by:
- (iv) selecting a plurality of video frames from the video,
- (ii) converting each selected video frame into a separate video frame file in a format compatible with a Raster Image Processor (RIP), and
- (iii) saving each separate video frame file in a video frame database such that each separate video frame file is uniquely identified via a separate metadata tag;
- accessing separate imaging data associated with each document, which comprises for each document:
- (iv) an unique inventory control and validation numbers for the document,
- (ii) generated variable indicia for the document,
- (iii) an assigned separate one of the video frame files for the inventory control and/or validation number for the document, and
- (iv) flattened variable indicia, inventory control and/or validation numbers, and selected video frame file in an overall image file for the document;
- printing, with a digital imager and associated RIP, each document using the overall image file for the document;
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- for each document, forming a scratch off coating on top of at least a portion of the variable indicia of the document while leaving a display portion of the document uncovered.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.