Scannerless venue entry and location techniques
AssigneeFlash Seats, LLC
InventorsSamuel Gerace, Michael Rojas, Matthew Servant
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Abstract
When attending an event at a venue, the attendee typically presents ticket information that is scanned by a venue scanner. The process associated with scanning can be dispensed with, which can improve attendee experiences, reduce costs associated with managing a venue, as well as other advantages. For example, instead of scanning a ticket at a point of ingress to the venue, a device of the user can self-scan the ticket, and then present indicia that indicates this process has occurred. The indicia can be presented to a guest services representative, who can verify that a valid ticket was redeemed by merely observing the indicia and without scanning.
Claims21
A venue computer system associated with a venue, comprising:
- a computing device;
- an imaging device positioned at a point of ingress;
- a radio frequency transmitter;
- non-transitory computer-readable memory that stores computer readable instructions that when executed by the computing device are configured to cause the venue computer system to perform operations comprising:
- wirelessly transmit, using the radio frequency transmitter, proximity data comprising time data to an attendee device sensor of a first attendee that causes ticket data associated with an attendee to be redeemed and that causes the attendee device to present verification indicia, the verification indicia comprising dynamically generated, non-reusable indicia configured to prevent copying or forwarding, wherein presentation of the verification indicia enables access to the venue;
- receive an image of a second attendee from the imaging device at the point of ingress;
- perform image processing and recognition techniques on the image of the second attendee to generate ID data;
- determine, using the generated ID data, whether the second attendee has a privilege to enter the venue;
- at least partly in response to determining that the second attendee has a privilege to enter the venue, instruct an access limiting mechanism to allow entry to the venue by the second attendee.
A computer implemented method, the method comprising:
- wirelessly transmitting, using a radio frequency transmitter at a venue, proximity data to an attendee device sensor of a first attendee that causes ticket data associated with an attendee to be redeemed and that causes the attendee device to present verification indicia, the verification indicia comprising dynamically generated, non-reusable indicia configured to prevent copying or forwarding, wherein presentation of the verification indicia enables access to the venue;
- receiving an image of a second attendee from an imaging device at a second point of ingress;
- performing image processing and recognition techniques on the image of the second attendee to generate ID data;
- determining, using the generated ID data, whether the second attendee has a privilege to enter the venue;
- at least partly in response to determining that the second attendee has a privilege to enter the venue, instructing an access limiting mechanism to allow entry to the venue by the second attendee.
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed, are configured to cause a computer system comprising one or more processing devices to perform operations, comprising:
- wirelessly transmit, using a radio frequency transmitter at a venue, proximity data to an attendee device sensor of a first attendee that causes ticket data associated with an attendee to be redeemed and that causes the attendee device to present verification indicia, the verification indicia comprising dynamically generated, non-reusable indicia configured to prevent copying or forwarding, wherein presentation of the verification indicia enables access to the venue;
- receive an image of a second attendee from an imaging device at a second point of ingress;
- perform image processing and recognition techniques on the image of the second attendee to generate ID data;
- determine, using the generated ID data, whether the second attendee has a privilege to enter the venue;
- at least partly in response to determining that the second attendee has a privilege to enter the venue, instruct an access limiting mechanism to allow entry to the venue by the second attendee.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.