System and method for digital branding of lottery tickets
AssigneeScientific Games, LLC
InventorsThomas Zink, Alwin Brakebusch
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Abstract
A method and system generate an image of a lottery ticket with a branding mark indicating that the lottery ticket was presented for redemption and is thereafter void, wherein the lottery ticket is presented by a patron at a terminal having a digital image capture device. At the terminal, a digital image of the lottery ticket is generated with the digital image capture device and presented on a display. The image is modified on the display to include a branding mark indicating that the lottery ticket has been presented for redemption and is thereafter void. At the terminal, a copy of the modified digital image of the lottery ticket is printed and presented to the patron.
Claims14
A method for generating an image of a lottery ticket with a branding mark indicating that the lottery ticket was presented for redemption and is thereafter void, wherein the lottery ticket is presented by a patron at a terminal having a digital image capture device, the method comprising:
- at the terminal, capturing a digital image of the lottery ticket with the digital image capture device and presenting the digital image of the lottery ticket on a display;
- modifying the digital image of the lottery ticket on the display to include a branding mark indicating that the lottery ticket has been presented for redemption and is thereafter void;
- at the terminal, printing a copy of the modified digital image of the lottery ticket;
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- presenting the printed copy of the modified digital image of the lottery ticket to the patron.
A system for generating a branded image of a lottery ticket presented by a patron for redemption, the system comprising:
- a terminal, the terminal having a digital image capture device, a display, and a printer in communication with the digital image capture device;
- a controller in communication with the display and the digital image capture device, the controller configured to enable:
- capturing a digital image of the lottery ticket with the digital image capture device and presenting the digital image of the lottery ticket on the display;
- modifying the digital image of the lottery ticket on the display to include a branding mark indicating that the lottery ticket has been presented for redemption and is thereafter void;
- and
- printing a copy of the modified digital image of the lottery ticket that is presented to the patron.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.