Method of checking lottery ticket numbers
OwnerMartin G. Mederinventor
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Abstract
The invention allows a purchaser of lottery tickets to scan multiple lottery tickets at once, send the resulting image to a web site, where the web site will indicate to the purchaser whether any of the tickets are winners and also highlight on the image for the purchaser the location of a winning ticket in the image and also highlight where on the ticket the winning number is. The method for checking lottery tickets comprises the steps of digitizing at least one lottery ticket comprising lottery numbers to form an image, performing optical character recognition on the image to obtain the lottery numbers, comparing the lottery ticket lottery numbers to at least one winning lottery number and reporting the winning status of the at least one lottery ticket.
Claims20
An Internet-based method comprising the following steps:
- providing a web site having a user interface;
- receiving at the web site a user input of a digitized image of at least one lottery ticket comprising at least one lottery number;
- performing optical character recognition on the digitized image of the at least one lottery ticket to obtain the at least one lottery number;
- comparing the at least one lottery number to at least one winning lottery number;
- and
- reporting to the user whether the at least one lottery ticket contains a winning lottery number.
A computer-readable storage medium containing computer executable code for instructing a computer to operate as follows:
- receive a user input of a digitized image of at least one lottery ticket comprising at least one lottery number;
- perform optical character recognition on the at least one lottery ticket to obtain the at least one lottery number;
- compare the at least one lottery number to at least one winning lottery number;
- and
- report to the user whether the at least one lottery ticket contains a winning lottery number.
An Internet-based method comprising the following steps:
- providing a web site having a user interface;
- performing optical character recognition on the digitized image of at least one lottery ticket to obtain at least one lottery number;
- receiving at the web site a user input of at least one lottery number;
- comparing the at least one lottery number to at least one winning lottery number;
- and
- reporting to the user whether the at least one lottery ticket contains a winning lottery number.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.