WO2006065565A2 - Embedded optical signatures in documents - Google Patents
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- the present invention generally relates to systems and methods of document validation and authentication. More particularly, the present invention relates to the use of embedded optical signatures in documents primarily for the purposes of authentication, validation, and copy verification. [0004] 2. Description of the Related Art
- Another problem is that it is essential for an on-line lottery ticket to be proven both to exhibit authenticity (i.e., proof that it was created by the lottery system at the appropriate time) and integrity (i.e., that the ticket has not been modified by the player — it is in its original unmodified condition).
- Preprinted ticket stock and associated commercial barcodes simply prove that a ticket was printed at a given retailer during a given time period.
- mere proof of authenticity does not address the problem of an insider with knowledge of the winning ticket's number after a drawing simply acquiring ticket stock from the retailer and printing a fraudulent winning ticket indicia.
- the concept of authenticity is also important to the lottery customer as the customer is also protected from the lottery authority falsely denying that the ticket is authentic.
- the scratch-off ticket has an array of playing indicia covered with a removable covering, typically a layer of latex, and the player removes the scratch-off layer to determine if the ticket contains winning indicia.
- the system to validate the winning scratch-off ticket must determine if the scratch-off media has been substantially removed prior to awarding a prize. This step is necessary to ensure that the scratch-off ticket cannot be prescreened by the ticket retailers with only non-winning tickets sold to the general public; i.e., a ticket with a substantial amount of its scratch-off layer removed cannot be sold as a virgin (un-played) ticket.
- One method that attempted to allow authentication, integrity, and validation of scratch-off lottery tickets is through hiding a two-dimensional barcode under the ticket's scratch-off medium that can easily be scanned with the proper equipment.
- the equipment required dimensional bar code can be expensive.
- the hiding of a two-dimensional barcode under the ticket's scratch-off medium results in the same labor intensive problem for the retailer as players tend to not scratch-off the area of the latex covering the two-dimensional barcode because it is of no interest.
- a further method of authentication, integrity, and validation of scratch-off lottery tickets is to electrically scan the ticket for the presence of electrical signatures in the scratch-off printing ink as well as the ticket's substrate.
- this methodology also requires expensive equipment.
- the present invention is a method of embedding an optical signature in a document as either an identifying signature or as steganography data.
- the optical signature is an optical pattern that is generated from and represents a known mathematical value embodied as printed geometric relationships on the documents, and the same mathematical value can be generated from examination of the embedded optical pattern on a document.
- Other data such as cryptographic keys, may be required to generate the same mathematical value after examining the embedded pattern.
- the document can thus be validated, authenticated, or the determination of a valid copy of an original document with the embedded optical signature made through comparison of the known mathematical value and the mathematical value generated from the optical pattern on the document.
- the optical pattern can also be generated from other identification codes on the document, such as universal product codes (UPC) or other bar codes, as could be present on lottery tickets.
- the optical pattern can, in itself, carry extensive data which is not necessarily related to or cannot be created from other sources of data already on the ticket.
- Two exemplary optical patterns include Benday patterns and "star fields.” [0012] " " is a method of validating a document having an embedded optical signature including the steps of examining an optical pattern that is embedded on the document, where the optical pattern encodes a stored mathematical or other value such as alpha, pattern, geometric, trigonometric, size, phase or other variable.
- the invention also includes a document with a substrate having a detectable optical pattern embedded on the substrate where the optical pattern encodes a value.
- the invention therefore provides an industrial advantage in that it is a method for document validation embedded on the substrate of the document that is visible to equipment, and does not necessarily have to be visible to a person, which can be used to verify the authenticity of a printed document, such as a lottery ticket.
- the present method does not require a large surface area of view in order to provide the information requisite to validate or authenticate the document, which is particularly useful as a validating pattern under the scratch-off layer of scratch-off lottery tickets.
- the present invention can be used to ensure the authenticity of other documents, as well as placed in a document to prove or authenticate a copy of an original document.
- Fig. 1 A is a series of stacked sinusoidal lines that form a Benday pattern.
- Fig. 1 B is a series of stacked, segmented sinusoidal lines that form a Benday pattern.
- Fig. 2A is an example of a scratch-off lottery ticket with a Benday pattern printed on the document under the scratch-off layer.
- Fig. 2B is a picture of the scratch-off lottery ticket of Fig. 2A with filtering of all objects larger than the Benday pattern.
- Fig. 2C is a picture of filtering eliminating the background of the scratch-off lottery ticket of Fig. 2B by keying on the color difference between the Benday pattern and the substrate. [0020]"" Fig. ZDl ' s'trTdgniffed ⁇ i ⁇ -ot the filtered Benday pattern of Fig. 2C. [0021] Fig. 2E illustrates a mask that can be extracted from the lottery ticket's validating device memory and used to only allow a certain area of the relevant image to be displayed.
- Fig. 2F illustrates a one-to-one relationship between the scanned Benday pattern pixels and the mask pixels with the scanned image oriented the same way as the digital mask so that they are overlaid.
- Fig. 3 is a star field which can be used as the pattern creating an optical signature.
- Fig. 4 is a scratch-off ticket with the scratch-off layer partially removed revealing an embedded star field thereunder.
- Fig. 5A is an exemplary scan of a star-field from a document.
- Fig. 5B is a close-up grouping of stars from the scan of Fig. 5A.
- Fig. 6A is a grid of weighted pixel values that can be overlaid upon a star.
- Fig. 6B is the grid of Fig. 6A overlaid on a scanned image of a star.
- Fig. 6C is the grid of Fig. 6B shifted in position over the scanned star.
- Fig. 6A is an exemplary scan of a star-field from a document.
- Fig. 5B is a close-up grouping of stars from the scan of Fig. 5A.
- Fig. 6A is a grid of weighted pixel values that can be overlaid upon a star.
- Fig. 6B is the grid of
- FIG. 7A is an illustration of a monochromatic scanned image with human readable text as noise and a star field in the background.
- Fig. 7B is the same image as Fig. 7A with all overall pseudo grayscale candidate stars with a weighting value greater than 72 highlighted in color.
- Fig. 8A is a grid of stars scanned in raw-image form.
- Fig. 8B is the grid of stars of Fig. 8A with only the darkest of the pixels illustrated.
- Fig. 8C is the final filtered pixels of the grid of stars of Figs. 8A and 8B.
- Fig. 9 is an exemplary printed on-line lottery ticket.
- Fig. 10 is a printed on-line lottery ticket with the background modified with star- field data comprising an optical pattern.
- Fig. 11 is a predefined set of pieces or blocks of stars that can be used to tile background areas of a document.
- Fig. 12 is the lottery ticket of Fig. 10 with the various star-field blocks highlighted from the background area.
- Fig. 13 illustrates a guide star with a guide cluster star-field.
- Fig. 14 is a guide cluster of stars, with three corners of the guide cluster identified by guide stars.
- Fig. T51IIU'str ' ates' l a" l stalf'-THed galaxy comprised of a set of blocks grouped around a guide cluster of stars.
- Fig. 16A is an exemplary printed on-line lottery ticket with a star-field universe in the background and a reference grid overlaid thereupon.
- Fig. 16B is a grid of stars from the lottery ticket of Fig. 16A with several guide stars illustrated.
- Fig. 17A is an X-Y coordinate grid that determines the position of various stars that encode the optical signature.
- Fig. 17B is the X-Y grid of Fig. 17A with 3 stars added to reflect the value of
- Fig. 17C is the X-Y grid of Fig. 17B, with the axes rotated but still reflecting the value of "107".
- Fig. 18 is one embodiment of the dimensions of the X-Y coordinate grid.
- Fig. 19 is one embodiment of an array of stars in individual X-Y grids that here comprise a square inch.
- Fig. 20 shows the X-Y grid of Figs. 17B and 17C with a proper series of confusion stars that can be used to mask the grid.
- Fig. 21 shows the X-Y grid of Figs. 17B and 17C with an improper series of confusion stars that will confuse the reading of the correct X-Y grid.
- the present invention provides a method of embedding an optical signature into a document requiring authentication or verification, such as the scratch-off lottery ticket 20 in Fig. 2A.
- a detectable optical pattern is embedded on the substrate of the document.
- the optical pattern encodes a mathematical value that can be reliably reproduced upon proper observation. Two examples of such optical patterns are Benday patterns and star-fields.
- the optical signature can be embedded over a large area of the document and viewing only a small portion of the pattern can provide enough of the signature to allow validation.
- the optical signature preferably does not interfere with the actual image on the document.
- a Benday process is a method for adding tone or shading in drawings or pictures by the overlay of patterns of lines or dots on the documents.
- Various types of specific Benday patterns are possible, to include sinusoidal waveform lines.
- the optical pattern can be generated with sinusoidal lines that embody a periodic function, and which produce shaded Benday background areas on the document to De "pr ⁇ te'ctedf-lt srr ⁇ urd De noted that other periodic functions and different applications can be employed with similar results.
- Figs. 1A-1 B Examples of sinusoidal Benday patterns are shown in Figs. 1A-1 B. Both wavelength and amplitude can be used as part of a sine wave Benday pattern, thus forming two levels of identity. And in order to embed the sine wave over a large area and at the same time add more distinctiveness, multiple in-phase sine waves can be stacked as shown in the array 10 of sinusoidal lines in Fig. 1A. The lines have wavelength 12 and thus capture of the specific data comprising the wave and computation will yield a consistent mathematical value. It should be noted that the optical signature need not be restricted to only geometric or trigonometric patterns.
- a third level of identity can be added to the Benday pattern by varying the spacing between the stacked sine waves, and a fourth level of identity can be added to by breaking up the composition of the sine wave into a series of line segments with spacing and size becoming variables rather than a single continuous line.
- Fig. 1 B illustrates an array 14 of spaced apart and segmented sinusoidal lines that can comprise a Benday pattern.
- various sine waves can overlap or intersect at various angles, and the phase relationship of various waveforms and the cycles within a single waveform can all be varied with their mathematical value determined by viewing them. Accordingly, through printing sine waves in the background of a document and specifying each of the above parameters (i.e., amplitude, wavelength, stack spacing, phase, and line segmenting) a unique optical signature becomes a part of the document.
- FIG. 2A shows a scratch-off lottery ticket 20 with a Benday pattern 22 printed on the document under the scratch-off layer 24 and a method for capturing the Benday pattern and authenticating the lottery ticket 20.
- the image of the scratch-off lottery ticket 20 is digitized as shown in Fig. 2B, and then applied to various digital processing techniques to extract the embedded optical signature for validation.
- Optical scanning equipment as is known in the art, such as image capture CCDs and cameras, can be used to capture the initial picture of the scratch-off lottery ticket 20.
- the image 30 is first digitally filtered by eliminating all objects in the scanned image that are larger than the expected size of the optical pattern pixels 32 or dots. Then, as shown in Fig. 2C, the next filtering eliminates the background by keying on tnex ⁇ jor c ⁇ rrere ⁇ ce' oetwee ⁇ 1 tne optical pattern and the substrate shown in picture 40. Then the optical pattern is magnified to the appropriate size, as shown in picture 42 in Fig. 2D, such the Benday pattern 44 can clearly be viewed and interpolated (if necessary). Finally, as shown in Fig.
- a mask 50 can be extracted from the validating device's memory to focus a comparison on the relevant portion of the scratch-off lottery ticket 20.
- the mask can be tied to other information on the lottery ticket 20, such as a UPC barcode or other serial number on an instant ticket.
- a one-to-one relationship between the scanned optical pixels 52 and the mask pixels 54 is assumed as shown in Fig. 2F, and the scanned image is oriented the same way as the digital mask such that the two can be virtually overlaid on top of each other.
- the number of scanned image pixels 52 that fall inside and outside of the overlaid mask pixels 54 determined how closely the scanned optical pattern matches the a priori mask. Accordingly, a large number of image pixels 52 outside the mask pixels 54 with a small number of pixels inside would constitute a failure, and the converse being a successful validation.
- the inverse of the above technique can be used, i.e.
- an inverse mask can be used such that the number of pixels that fall inside the mask can be the pixels that contain the data of interest.
- the present invention is particularly advantageous in use under the scratch-off layer 24 of a scratch-off lottery ticket 20. This allows any area removed by the player to be subjected to embedded optical signature validation. And for added security, the optical signature validation data can then be compared to the lottery ticket's barcode data (typically printed on the back of the ticket) allowing the lottery ticket to be validated without any added scratch-off medium removal.
- the scanning equipment required for optical signature validation is inexpensive, requiring, in this embodiment, a Video Graphics Array (VGA) with optical capabilities of 16 colors at 640 X 480 pixel resolution.
- VGA Video Graphics Array
- a reduced-labor alternative method of validation is to maintain a virtual ticket serial number in the vending terminal's memory (not shown) that is issuing the on-line lottery ticket.
- the virtual ticket serial number can be based upon a pseudorandom starting! value that was passed encrypted to the Lottery entity at the start of the day.
- the virtual ticket serial number would increment either by a unit or pseudo randomly via a Linear Congruential Geilefatdr ⁇ (LB'G : ).
- lr " fE Ffife's6"ge'nferaftors use a method similar to folding schemes in chaotic maps.
- a, c and m are pre-selected constants: a is known as the multiplier, c is the increment, and m is the modulus.
- the resulting virtual ticket number would then be used to generate an optical signature pattern that would be printed realtime in the background of the on-line lottery ticket. To the player or retailer this optical signature would appear to be gray shading, but when a winning ticket was presented for optical scanning of its barcode, an optical scanner can detect the optical signature in addition to the barcode and be able to automatically correlate the two at the time of redemption.
- Another use of the present invention is copyright protection or proof of copying of images.
- any illegal copies would contain the optical signature as well as the image.
- a sufficiently large number of pseudorandom optical patterns are possible in the same document, and moreover, and the optical signature can be embedded in images in a manner not detectable by a human observer. Therefore, it would be very difficult to remove the optical signatures from the optically signed original document.
- Another embodiment of the optical pattern for the optical signature is using a "star field" technique. As shown in Fig. 3 on substrate 60, the optical signature is created by placing a large number of stars 62 (or dots) in the background of a document.
- background stars 62 can be digitally isolated from the rest of a scanned image with the trigonometric and/or geometric relationships between the various stars becoming the salient mathematical parameter of the optical signature. The knowledge of the spatial relationship of the stars 62 in the background of the document is then stored in an a priori database for validation.
- the background stars 62 can be automatically created by a star field generator that pseudo-randomly places the stars on an image under specified geometric constraints and multiple star fields (with the same geometric constraints) can be tiled next to each other providing coverage for large image areas. Through varying the angles between the stars 62 and the associated distances, millions of different optical patterns are possible.
- Fig. 3 shows triangular star patterns which are created by a pseudorandom star field generator [0064] " " rh bri'e stars 62 are defined as any pixel with a surrounding high contrast halo approximately four pixels deep. This high contrast ratio between a star and its associated halo can be achieved through varying methodologies, e.g., color, intensity, least significant bit (for digital images), and the like. For example, in printed documents, a star can be a 240 dpi inkjet drop or a 120 dpi thermal printer dot with a background halo free of drops/dots.
- the star field 76 can be used in a scratch-off lottery ticket 70 under the scratch-off layer 72.
- the series of stars 78 will be obscured until a player scratches-off a portion 74 of the scratch-off layer 72 and then an adequate amount of the star field 76 is exposed such that image capture can allow the verification of the scratch-off lottery ticket.
- An inexpensive (e.g., Video Graphics Array — VGA) camera or linear sensor can be used to scan the scratch-off lottery ticket 70 printed document, and preferably, a one-to-one ratio between the printed stars 78 and the sensor's pixels are maintained.
- a Contact Image Sensor may also be used to scan the ticket.
- one of the image's primary color channels searches for any repeating star pattern 74.
- the selected color channel is then digitally filtered by eliminating all objects in the scanned image that are larger than the expected stars, as shown with respect to the Benday pattern in Fig. 2B.
- the triangular star patterns are digitally normalized from the orientation of the document to the a priori database.
- the relative distance and angles between the stars are measured and calculated. These measurements are the optical signature with their trigonometric and/or geometric values applied to an a priori database for validation.
- the spacing of the actual stars 78 should be such that any significant removal of the scratch-off covering 72 will reveal an adequate amount of stars 78 for validation to be possible.
- the present invention can also be implemented in a monochromatic manner.
- monochrome the pixels are represented as either a "0" or an "1".
- a monochrome method presents special problems in that a single star overlapping two sensor pixels could be interpreted as two or more individual stars clustered together.
- the moire nature of the scans can cause different portions of the same ticket to exhibit different star morphing effects. Consequently, due to the "hit or miss" nature and the distribution of the star codes across a document, it is difficult to isolate ancTldt ⁇ fe'artifltiMd ⁇ l star” dsiflg-a monochromatic scanner.
- the present invention can utilize a "pseudo gray scale" in monochromatic scans of a document containing a star-field optical pattern to both isolate and locate printed stars.
- a "star” can be a printed dot or number of dots.
- the expected shape to be scanned in a monochromatic bitmap is also a circle.
- the printed circle typically bleeds beyond its normal one pixel radius on its substrate, for example a thermal printer wherein the heat from the print head causes the printed dot to occupy a larger area than the imager head.
- Fig. 5A illustrates typical scans of printed 200 dpi stars on an actual terminal. This set of scanned pixels is far from ideal and the specific location of a given star is ambiguous.
- a grouping of 5x5 pixels can be arbitrarily made, as is shown in Fig. 5B, which is a grouping from the pixels of Fig. 5A.
- Figs. 6A-6C if the scanned pixels from a given star, such as grouping 92, were overlaid on a grid 10, with the center of the grid coinciding with the theoretical center 102 of the star, one can identify the true center as well as the intensity of the star.
- the pixels immediately surrounding the center 102 of the grid are given higher weighting values;
- the center 102 of the grid 100 carries a weighting factor of "17" with the pixels orthogonally oriented to center receiving the highest surrounding value of "16" and the pixels diagonally oriented, i.e. upper right, upper left, lower right, and lower left, the lower value of "8".
- This process is repeated with the next outer layer of pixels with the orthogonal and diagonal pixels receiving lesser weightings, i.e., "4" and "2" respectively.
- the weighting factors are calculated to produce a pseudo grayscale for each pixel as well as the star's overall weight.
- ' defile? illustration would receive an overall gray weighting value of "101" with the individual pixels carrying weights of "17, 16, 8, and 4".
- this embodiment uses the overall pseudo grayscale weighting values to differentiate individual stars from background noise.
- the pseudo grayscale weighting of an individual scanned pixel receives its own grayscale value based on the weighting factor grid. The higher the value assigned to a given scanned pixel, the darker the pseudo grayscale. Through such pixel weighting an excellent representation of the location of each star can be achieved.
- Fig. 7A provides an illustration of a monochromatic scanned image with human readable text as noise and a star field in the background.
- Fig. 7B is the same image as Fig. 7A with all overall pseudo grayscale candidate stars with a weighting value greater than 72 highlighted in color.
- any bitmap image other than black would be eliminated from the bitmap, leaving only the true stars of the star- field.
- Fig. 8A shows a grid of stars 110 in raw data form, and when the methodology of eliminating all but the darkest pixel(s) in a given grid is applied to the scanned pixels, the background pixel noise is reduced resulting in the image illustrated in Fig. 8B.
- Fig. 8B shows only the darkest of the pixels 112 in each star.
- the present invention method of using an embedded star-field can use the concept of different shaped blocks to build a data matrix (a "galaxy") that occupies only the available background areas (such as white space) of a document, such as an on-line lottery ticket.
- a data matrix such as white space
- this embodiment can be used with the pseudo gray scale methodology described above to align the stars properly.
- the "shaped" stars can completely fill a fixed area using predefined pieces.
- the present method can use whatever shaped background area (white space) is available to squeeze as much data as practical on the ticket.
- FIG. 9 An exemplary printed on-line lottery ticket 120 is shown in Fig. 9.
- on-line lottery tickets tend to print data in groups of information that usually leaves sufficient white space 122 for multiple "galaxies of redundant data" that comprise an optical pattern.
- multiple galaxies 126 of stars can be printed in the otherwise unused white space. Because of the odd layout of the white space, the stars can assume odd shapes when filling in the star field.
- a predefined set of pieces or blocks can be used to tile the open areas (white space) of the on-line lottery ticket, such as shown in Fig. 10.
- the utilization of these blocks the star fields on the lottery ticket of Fig. 10 are highlighted to show the star-fields in Fig. 12.
- Fig. 12 it can be seen that one of the primary aspects that differentiates the star codes from a traditional one or two- dimensional barcode is that the star-field can be modified in shape to fit within the available background area of a ticket rather than require a reserved space for a fixed rectangle or square, as is necessary in extant bar codes.
- red areas 130 denote keep-out zones of the lottery ticket.
- the method first establishes a reference point by searching the scanned "universe" of one or more star-fields for "guide stars.” Once a set of three guide stars is identified, the information in the associated guide cluster is decoded to determine the orientation and configuration of the "galaxy," or the particular star-field of data.
- guide stars are not exclusive to the block methodology as one can use guide stars in the other embodiments to determine star orientation or to pass other key information to the scanner.
- the "star" is the most fundamental unit that can be utilized to encode data in a binary sense, i.e. 0 or 1.
- a star can be represented as a single high-contrast pixel in the universe.
- printers especially ink jet and thermal
- a better alternative is to a priori classify a star to be a predefined grouping of pixels such that a dropout of any one pixel will not impact the ability to decode the data.
- a grouping of pixels defining a star can help allow the system and method to discriminate against background noise.
- an arrangement of five printed pixels in a plus sign (+) configuration provides a highly reliable star grouping with minimal use of space. With plus sign groupings, the dropout of any three pixels will still allow the accurate determination of the intended center of the star.
- Fig. 13 illustrates a guide star 140 (highlighted in red and gray) in the lower left-hand corner of a partial guide cluster 142.
- the guide star 140 differs from the regular data stars (each shaped as a plus sign "+") to allow the ready differentiation of a guide star 140 from a data star as well as determine the orientation (i.e., rotation) of the cluster 142 or data set of stars.
- the top part of the guide star 140 (red highlight) identifies the normal orientation of the universe, i.e., which direction is the top of the universe as originally imaged. Since the star field images can be scanned in any rotation, the guide stars pointing to the top of the universe allow the scanned image to be oriented to the a priori universe properly.
- the guide stars are always imaged in sets of three; identifying three corners of a guide cluster 150, such as shown in Fig. 14.
- the guide cluster 150 holds information on how a galaxy is configured.
- the galaxy always orbits its guide cluster and, in this embodiment, can be comprised of up to eighteen different blocks of stars, as shown in Fig. 11.
- the information contained in the guide cluster 150 describes the configuration of the galaxy or complete set of data which is important to determine 'as'-themfa ⁇ gemen't ⁇ T tne clocks will automatically vary from the available white space from ticket-to-ticket.
- Hamming code error correction stars included in the guide cluster 150 to compensate for any noise or dropouts in the scanned image.
- Hamming codes for error correction are well known in the art and require the use of a small number of stars.
- a Hamming code is an error-detecting/ error-correcting system, used in data transmission, which can: (a) detect all single- and double-bit errors and (b) correct all single-bit errors.
- the inclusion of certain stars will be added to other stars for at least simple parity, and alternately, combination to a Hamming code word, as is known the art.
- a star-field galaxy contains a complete set of data. There is always one galaxy per guide cluster, with the associated galaxy orbiting its guide cluster 162, as shown in the "star galaxy" 160 of Fig. 15. Each galaxy is comprised of a variable number of blocks depending on the shape of the available white space, the amount of data encoded, and the level of error correction employed. In this level, Reed-Solomon error correction can be employed. It should be noted that the methodologies can be used in Tandem or separately, e.g. Hamming codes can be used for error correction for guide clusters and Reed-Solomon for error correction in galaxies.
- Reed-Solomon error correction is a coding scheme, which works by first constructing a polynomial from the data symbols to be transmitted and then sending an over-sampled plot of the polynomial instead of the original symbols. Because of the redundant information contained in the over-sampled data, it is possible to reconstruct the original polynomial, and thus, the data symbols even in the face of transmission errors, up to a certain degree of error.
- Multiple galaxies 172 are clustered together on a single scanned image to comprise an universe as shown in the optical pattern of the on-line printed lottery ticket 170 in Fig. 16A. These multiple galaxies 172 allow for full redundant data to be placed on an image wherever white space is available. Since each galaxy is defined by its associated guide cluster 174, only one galaxy need be decoded for all of the data to be recovered, such as the galaxy with guide cluster 174 shown in Fig. 16B. Thus, the present invention achieves a very high level of reliability through independent data sets (a.k.a. star-field galaxies) with their own error correction with the added redundancy of multiple data sets.
- independent data sets a.k.a. star-field galaxies
- the disclosed embodiments of the optical signature can be encoded from a random mathematical value, other identification codes embedded on the substrate, such as UPC codes on Lottery tickets, can be used to generate the optical signature or used in validation of the document.
- the optical pattern can then be encoded from a mathematical value based upon only or partially on the identification code.
- the optical pattern can be readily visible to a viewer, such as the Benday pattern shown in Fig. 1-2F, or can be invisible to a viewer, such as printed in ink only viewable to a certain wavelength of light, such as ultraviolet light.
- FIG. 17A shows the axes 180 and 182 that are used to align the marks. Note that the value "zero" is offset by one space from the point where X and Y cross. A star is placed at the intersection, with the mark shown here in contrast. The axes are not printed on the document itself. Stars that define a specific value are then added to the grid, such as the 3 'stars' shown in Fig. 17B that represent the number '107': 1 by star 184; 0 by star 186, and 7 by star 188. As shown in Fig.
- the axes 180,182 can be rotated with no effect upon the numerical value.
- the stars do not need to occupy significant space on the ticket. For example, as shown in the embodiment of Fig. 18, each star requires a square measuring 0.008" on a side and each space is 0.012", and consequently, the maximum dimensions required (for the number '999) would be .408" x .204". Thus, if these 4 stars are placed such that no other star on the a document is closer than 10 spaces away, then there are approximately 24 stars in 1 square inch, as is shown in Fig. 19.
- N the number of stars. With 4 stars, there are a maximum of 6 lines but with 9 stars as shown in Fig. 21 , there are a maximum of 36 lines.
- the present invention provides, in one aspect, a method for validating/authenticating a document, such as scratch-off lottery ticket 20, having an embedded optical signature, such as Benday pattern 22, star field 76, or X-Y coordinate grid (Figs. 17A-C).
- the method includes the steps of examining an optical pattern on the document, such as shown in Figs. 2A-2F, wherein the optical pattern encodes a stored mathematical value, then generating a mathematical value from the optical pattern on the document, retrieving a stored mathematical value (from the a priori database), and comparing the stored mathematical value with the generated mathematical value from the optical pattern on the document, as is shown in Fig. 2F, to determine if the mathematical values are the same thereby indicating the document is valid/authentic.
- the method further includes the steps of examining the identification code on the document; and then generating a mathematical value from the optical pattern and the identification code.
- the step of examining an optical pattern can be examining either a visible or invisible optical pattern.
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