EP3022711A2

EP3022711A2 - Augmented reality lottery system

Info

Publication number: EP3022711A2
Application number: EP14767106.9A
Authority: EP
Inventors: Paul Lahmi
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 2013-07-17
Filing date: 2014-07-15
Publication date: 2016-05-25
Also published as: US20160148464A1; FR3008813B1; US10943431B2; FR3008813A1; WO2015008217A2; WO2015008217A3

Abstract

The invention involves creating lottery tickets of which the possible prize will be discovered by the holder of same via a Smartphone application which, depending on the image on the ticket, will make it possible to reach, on a remote computer site, the equivalent of a draw, that is preferably pre-recorded or pre-defined and will be displayed on the Smartphone in a form equivalent to a video, thus making it possible for the holder to be able to follow and experience the draw and thus find out if he has won and, in this case, what the prize is. The distribution of the prizes, the guarantee that the draw is unique and the "new" nature of the tickets are guaranteed and managed by the remote computer system. The invention makes it possible, in particular, to bring a novel appeal to lotteries based on scratchcard tickets, which are the main key to the success of this kind of lottery.

Description

LOTTERY SYSTEM WITH INCREASED REALITY

The invention consists in creating lottery tickets, the eventual lot of which will be discovered by its holder via a Smartphone-type application (smartphone) which, depending on the image on the ticket, will make it possible to reach a remote computer site. the equivalent of a pre-recorded or pre-defined print run, which will be displayed on the Smartphone in the equivalent form of a video, thus enabling the holder to follow and live this draw and thus discover if he has won and in this case what is the lot. The batch distribution management as well as the guarantee of uniqueness of the draw and the "new" character of the ticket is guaranteed and managed by the remote computer system. In particular, the invention makes it possible to create a new attraction to lotteries based on scratch-type tickets which is the main key to the success of this type of lottery. The first lotteries were based on the em ission of numbered tickets with a face value allowing to participate in a random draw distributing a certain number of batches be it material batches or lots in the form of a value. These lotteries had a great success in the past and required the purchase of tickets in advance and the waiting for the draw could occur a few days later to find out if the number on the ticket purchased was one of the winning numbers with partial matching possibilities for so-called consolation lots. We will call these lotteries: deferred drawing lotteries. One of the peculiarities of these lotteries is that the ticket is still potentially a winner as long as the draw has not taken place.

These delayed draw lottery systems require some patience from its owners (often days) and other types of lotteries that can be gambled in the more instant "games of chance" compete with these types of lotteries. Historically one of the oldest games of chance known is for example the horse race. It is difficult to say historically when the first bets on horse racing, but we can estimate that from the 19th century, they have experienced some growth. The main advantage is that the "draw" is relatively fast since it takes place generally less than half an hour after the bet or even a few minutes in the case of bets made on racetracks and during the day when the bet is made in specialized pharmacies. outside the racecourse. One of the advantages of these bets for the bettor and he chooses his horse or horses according to criteria that can be rational and that in this case, in case of victory of the chosen horses, he can claim the logic of his victory standing out pure chance. However, there are enough uncontrolled hazards in horse racing to make it anyway a game of chance that is to say that it is rare that a player can be assured of winning before the race has taken place.

In recent years, lotteries have adapted to allow the buyer of a ticket to quickly know if he won. For this, when tickets are issued, it is decided in advance whether the ticket is losing or winning and in the event that the ticket is winning what is the gain. We can assimilate this type of lottery short straw draw, in appearance all the straws are identical, but in fact only one in general is winning and it is once the straw has been selected that we know if it is losing or winning. The length of the straw is hidden in the hand of the one who proposes them to the different participants. A concealment of the same kind is obviously difficult to consider when lottery tickets are offered by a tobacconist for example. The buyer must be assured that nobody, at least in theory, could, before this one is acquired, determined the winning or losing character of the ticket.

To do this, in recent years there are tickets that we will call scratch tickets that have the particularity that during their manufacture, an occulting layer is added to the part of the ticket allowing the player to discover if he has won in the scratching either with a piece or with the nail or any other suitable means. This term also includes this type of ticket in the context of our invention. This may also be, for example, a simple operculum to remove. The efforts of those who develop such tickets is to allow a certain progressivity in the discovery of the gain associated with the ticket: the player usually discovers first the gain he can expect on this ticket, then discovers one by one the elements of the ticket. a combination that determines whether the gain is effective or not. This is usually determined at the end of the discovery of the combination. Some tickets are cumulative, in the sense that they incorporate several prints presented as independent. The player can lose one or more draws materialized by the ticket and win on the same ticket one or more. Multiplying potential draws on the same ticket is primarily intended to keep the player's attention longer so that he gets "for his money" even if no winnings are won. In general, a large part of the "winning" tickets merely offer a win equal to or near the bet, thus encouraging the player to immediately reinvest this prize in the purchase of new tickets. This type of ticket is also perfectly suited to commercial events and in this case the ticket is distributed free of charge to an audience targeted by the issuer either when a real or potential customer goes to one of the stores whose brand is associated with the company. commercial transaction in progress or when it carries out a checkout in one of these signs. This example is obviously not exhaustive, there are many cases where such scratch tickets are emitted either with a designated purchase value or distributed free of charge or offered as part of a transaction or a defined action. Subsequently, we designate by player whoever acquires such a ticket, whether he has had to pay a sum of money or not for this acquisition, that the corresponding ticket is within the scope of the present invention or not.

Some companies that offer this type of ticket scratch try to create equivalent tickets on the internet, where the player by clicking on a virtual ticket triggers a virtual draw. However, in this case, the materiality of the ticket is lost losing part of the appeal to the player in the same way as if we removed the chips to Casinos in favor of a purely computer management of bets and winnings . In this case, the scratching and the draw are done on a single support, in this case the computer or the mobile terminal used whereas in our invention there is a transfer of the drawing of the ticket to the mobile terminal after scratching the ticket. This dichotomy is important, because supermarkets will be able to distribute scratch tickets during checkout that the customer can scratch later to view the draw on his mobile terminal.

Similarly, there are scratch tickets or equivalent that allow through an open code, either automatically or by entering a site remote type internet, download a game to his mobile. In this case, the ticket is just a means of payment of a game downloadable on a mobile while in our invention, the mobile terminal is an accessory that allows to materialize the draw already made during the acquisition of the ticket without possibility for the player to intervene on this one.

In recent years have developed smartphones ("smart phone") and today a very large proportion of individuals of all generations, has such a device. Added to this are the digital tablets which are the equivalent of a laptop without keyboard but generally very light and with a certain autonomy which facilitates the use in "nomadic" mode. These devices, smartphones or digital tablets, are called "mobile terminals" for the future.

One of the interesting properties of "mobile devices" is to have one or more lenses for either taking digital photos or taking digital videos or both. Apart from the classic use of these lenses for taking "souvenir" images or videos, they are often used by specific applications to target a bar code, often a two-dimensional barcode. . Thus a given application can, by exploiting the image or images resulting from a photo or video shooting, decode the target code and apply a treatment adapted to this code, the generated images have no use in outside this extraction. It is also possible from a multiplicity of images generated by an objective to create a single one by a computer process and to apply a code extraction process from this resulting image. The multiplicity of images can simply result from a conventional video capture or stemming from a capture of this multiplicity of photos by the application driving the objective. Subsequently, whatever the variants used, this operating mode is referred to as "flashing", and subsequently the fact of "flashing" with a mobile terminal a barcode or equivalent is to aim via one of the objectives of the one the barcode or equivalent to be processed so that the application that controls the "flashing" can both decode this code and apply an associated processing. This "flashing" can be controlled by the application, that is to say that the application will help the user to ensure that the code to be flashed is registered in a specific area on the screen of the mobile terminal. In the type of application using such flashing can mention those to identify an article by its barcode, those to reach a website in connection with a poster in which a 2d bar code has been inserted for this.

Our invention makes it possible to keep the "scratch ticket" as a material support for the materialization of the player's selection while proposing from this ticket a video transferred to the "mobile terminal" of the player who will aim in a first time, if necessary, to define the possible gain and then to allow to follow what corresponds to the draw so that the "player" on the one hand determines if he has won and when several gains are possible to know the gain in question. This draw may be preceded by the definition of the conditions for which the gain will be effective. Thus, if the draw is materialized by a horse race, it will be determined which horse defends the player's chances and what should be his ranking at the finish to expect a win, the gain can be modulated by the ranking obtained and by a rating associated with the horse. This rating may either be the actual odds on which the horse was offered during the actual race or a specific odds for that scratch ticket or for a set of scratch tickets. More complex draws can be planned, drawing on the many existing horse bets. The race materializing the draw can then be chosen in this case with respect to a real race chosen by a course promoting the emotion of the player such as for example a horse seeming to have lost race and who ends up winning or on the contrary a horse that leaves no chance to his opponents. In any case, the real names of the participants may have been kept or replaced to prevent the player guessing the outcome of the race too easily. In this case, the actual characteristics of the race may be revealed to the player either at the end of the draw sequence or in the manner of the bonuses of the mainstream videos via a complementary action of the player or when it is detected that the access to the video by the player is at least the second time. To materialize the draw, it may also be used a sporting sequence such as a cycling race or any competition giving rise to a classification or medal such as the Olympic Games event or a team sports meeting. It may also consist of the performance or not of a performance such as the achievement of a pre-established maximum time on a course for any sports activity or not, a number predetermined obstacles cleared unhindered or performance of any performance to be defined. It can also be used a casino game draw which unlike the current "scratch tickets" can actually be experienced by the player as if he were at the casino, since a real video clip will be submitted to him. There are of course many other possibilities of materializing the draw which have only limits the imagination of the designer who will implement our invention.

Another advantage is that after the ticket has proved to be a winner or a loser, the player will have the possibility, according to a particular embodiment of the invention, of replaying the video sequence materializing the draw as many times as he wishes. especially if he is still in possession of the ticket. Another embodiment, allows once the draw made to the player to download on his "mobile terminal" o u t or other computer support the video ticket played. This may allow him, for example, to replay the draw which has earned him an important lot to friends or relationships which increases the appeal of the invention for those who buy tickets associated therewith.

The invention is particularly relevant for predetermined draws, that is to say that the ticket on its issue is either loser or winner and in this case the value of the winnings is also determined. However, it is possible to provide an embodiment where this determination takes place after the actual issuing of the ticket, in this case the association between the codes encoded graphically on the ticket and the "valued videos" is performed consecutively to this determination and therefore after the issue of the draw tickets.

Hereinafter, the process is described in a preferred embodiment, with a predetermined draw prior to the creation of the notes.

For simplicity, we consider that a draw allows to associate a gain to each ticket. The gain being defined as the value of the ticket after the draw, this gain may be zero (losing ticket) or of a value equal to or less than the purchase value of the ticket (consolation prize). It can obviously have a value higher than the purchase value of the ticket ("winning" ticket).

Before describing the process, we give some definitions: - A real video is a video sequence corresponding to a real past event whose outcome is revealed by its viewing. The events concerned are, for example, and in a non-exhaustive manner: all or part (s) of an equestrian race, all or part (s) of a sports race associated or not with an official competition, all or part (s) a match between several competitors such as a football or tennis match, all or part of a performance attempt or all or part (s) of an event of which a multiplicity of issues may be defined.

- A virtual video can be associated with the same types of events as a real video but is created via computer software allowing the creation of image sequences by taking support or not on real images.

Subsequently, a video will be free choice of the developer of the invention a real video, a virtual video or any combination of real video and virtual video, a virtual video in this case can be built by taking as support one or more "Real video".

For the future, it is necessary to distinguish "raw video" which is a succession of images materializing an event such as a horse race, whether or not this event actually existed, without a bet. This means that the "raw video" is neither winning nor losing, since it is not associated with one of the possible outcomes, it does not indicate for example which horse or what is the odds of a horse. If the video represents a roulette draw, it shows for example a draw in which the number 8 is out, but it does not indicate that it was bet on the 8 or on another number or on a category ( even / odd, red / black, etc ...) and does not indicate that a bet has been made.

Thus a raw video may be associated with several gains or losses. For example, for the roulette roulette draw that indicates the winning number as 8, we can associate the following gains and losses: - Wagering of 2 euros on odd, therefore loss ("gain" of 0 euros),

- Put 1 euro on first dozen so gain 3 euros,

- Put 100 euros on the 8, so gain 3600 euros, As a result a "gain" means the value of the ticket once the draw is done, this includes the value 0 (losing ticket), any value less than, equal to or greater than the purchase value of the ticket in the case where the ticket has a purchase value, as well as any material or non-material lot such as cash, equipment, car, voucher, travel, participation in a sporting or cultural event or "pipole". ..

A raw video associated with a bet as indicated above and therefore a specific "gain" and referred to as "enhanced video" for the rest, the raw video is then a non-valued video. From the technical point of view, different "valorised videos" can be based on identical resources, thus, taking the previous example, it is possible to create a first "video valorized" which corresponds to a bet of 1 euro on the 8 and another that corresponds to a stake of 5 euros on 8, for the skilled person who will create these two "valued videos" it is obvious that it can rely on common computing resources, the implementation can then be defined as an associated parameter external to these resources.

This invention is particularly relevant for being implemented from a "mobile terminal". These devices have the particularity of possessing a computer intelligence comparable to that of a personal computer, to generally have a network connection, to have at least one photo and / or video lens as well as at least one screen for viewing videos as well as built-in speakers and / or a headphone jack in order to listen to sound, especially the sound associated with the video footage viewed. In general, the "mobile terminals" have largely sufficient characteristics for the implementation of the invention whether

- in terms of network access (via telephony - 3G and beyond for example - or WI FI, bluetooth ...) in order to access remote websites allowing among other things to download sequences of images or to to watch continuously ("streaming"), in terms of computing power and storage capacity as well as for integrating specific applications such as that provided for in the context of the invention,

in terms of the quality of the photo and / or video lens for flashing conventional or 2D barcodes or the like,

- in terms of the quality of the screen to view videos,

- in terms of the quality of the sound device to listen to the sound associated with a video, the sound is recommended in the context of our invention but not essential, These characteristics are also expected to improve over time: future models will probably the performance of the current models in all the aforementioned areas is tenfold.

If the invention is particularly intended for "mobile terminals" described above, it can be implemented also on any non-mobile computer system or any assembly of computer or similar elements that incorporates the equivalent of a photo lens and / or video, the equivalent of a screen, and a network connection; the whole being driven by a computer intelligence. Any device thus constituted may be used in the context of the invention in place of a "mobile terminal". We also define one of the current modes of visualization of videos called "streaming", English term of the verb "stream" which literally means "to stream" and which defines a mode of visualization of the distant videos without really downloading them, only a small part of that it is stored temporarily in a buffer zone in order to allow the reading action performed by the user. Buffer storage makes it possible, among other things, not to interrupt the reading in the event of a temporary and limited anomaly in the network transfer. In fact, in the following, we define two modes of playing a distant video:

- Play via download: that is, the video is first downloaded to the mobile terminal before being accessed for playback. This mode allows, if the application which visualizes this video authorizes it to revisit later this one without accessing again the remote website on which this video was stored. In some cases Viewing by this mode is possible before the entire video is downloaded. In this case, it is desirable that the remainder of the download is sufficient to ensure that the current view is not interrupted. Subsequently we call "download playback", any current or future mode that allows viewing a remote video on a mobile terminal retaining the cel csurle "mobile terminal" in order to be viewed again, if this is authorized, without having to access the website from which it comes.

- Streaming Playback: The video is played so that it is completely downloaded. We include in this mode any method to view a remote video without it being previously downloaded to the mobile terminal and requiring a new remote access if the video is to be viewed again, the video is not kept on the "Mobile terminal" after viewing at least in appearance. For the rest, we call "play via streaming" any current or future mode that allows viewing a remote video on a mobile terminal without having the vocation to keep it on it. Any viewing of this video again, once the first login session with the website from which it warns interrupts, a new connection to this site is necessary, if allowed, to view this video again.

One of the preferred embodiments of the invention is a method which consists of

to create a downloadable or downloadable application on a mobile terminal which interfaces with at least one of the photo and / or video objective of said "mobile terminal" so that an image or a collection of images can be created when the user of said "mobile terminal""flashes" the area of a ticket created within the scope of the invention which integrates a computer type code encoded graphically in said area in order to extract the code, the image capture (s) ) and extracting the code from the generated image or images produced is either performed using a process external to the application of said "mobile terminal" or performed using a process specifically integrated with said application or by combining these processes. o Interfaces with the screen of the mobile terminal or at least one of the screens thereof in the case of multiple screens in order to allow the reading of the draw videos. This interface can also be used to optimize the detection of the code to be extracted on the ticket or to assist the user in this image capture, os' interface with a site is such a website to search for the associated video to the flashed ticket, o interfacing with the processor or any equivalent intelligence of the "mobile terminal" in order to sequence the treatments provided for in the context of the invention, to define a draw consisting in the definition of the tickets to be issued of their eventual nominal value, the definition of the gains and their distribution with respect to the collection of tickets to be created, the tickets are produced by printing or equivalent operation on material supports such as cardboard and / or plasticized and / or metallized or equivalent, to define a certain number of valued videos, ie videos that define: o A theoretical bet in correspondence or not with the value of the ticks kets to emit, o a v ideo se quence that materializes the course of an event with several possible outcomes but only one of which is materialized by the video, o a bet that associates one or more potential gains with one or more possible outcomes of the video sequence, the determination of the outcome of the event revealed by the playback of the video, o Determination or possible confirmation of the real gain associated with the ticket if necessary,

- to create a specific computer code for each ticket of the draw: o this code may depending on the nature of the draw be common to several tickets, o this code must allow to associate the ticket a "valued video" among those selected for the draw,

- graphically encode this code on a dedicated area of the ticket and cover this area with a blackout layer that must be eliminated by scraping or equivalent action appropriate by the player to be able to flash this area under the control of the application of its "mobile terminal Defined in the context of the invention,

- allow the payment of the winnings to the player when the winnings are not zero either by exchanging the ticket with an associated pharmacy or by crediting the winnings on an account designated by the player.

Schemes:

- Figure 1 illustrates a scratch ticket (1),

- Diagrams 2 and 3 illustrate a scratch ticket (1) after scraping or equivalent operation,

FIG. 4 illustrates the mode of flashing or equivalent by a mobile terminal (7) of the zone deviolated (2) by the scraping operation or equivalent,

FIG. 5 illustrates the unrolled video (10) on the mobile terminal (7) resulting from flashing or the equivalent of the zone unveiled by scratch operation or equivalent,

- Figure 6 illustrates a scratch ticket (1) having a complementary security bar code (1 1). Diagram 1 shows in a very synthetic way a scratch ticket (1): it is mainly composed of a variable format material support generally ranging from the approximate format of a credit card to A5 (half page A4) or equivalent formats for complex tickets with multiple draws, that is to say, several chances of winning cumulative or not . Any format outside these limits obviously remains compatible with our invention. In the same way the support classically cardboard type is free: it can be chosen any type of support incorporating paper, plastic, metal and all simple or complex support already known or future to insert a graphics area encoding a computer value such , in a nonlimiting manner, a conventional bar code or a 2D bar code. The choice of support materials is mainly determined by:

- marketing constraints aimed at the attraction of the ticket,

- Physical constraints related to the strength of the ticket, so it is quite possible to choose as support for the paper of low weight, but in this case, the ticket will be fragile and can easily be damaged. However, this fragility may not be an obstacle in the case of the organization of certain draws such as those associated with fairs.

security constraints such as the opacity of the ticket so that it is not exploitable by transparency or the insertion of technical control zones when the value of the potential gains justifies it,

- legal constraints such as the one aimed at informing the player.

The area (2) to be scratched is either inserted simultaneously with the printing of the other areas of the ticket or by a separate process. This zone uses any graphic or equivalent technique allowing the encoding of a computer value that makes it possible to link this ticket to its associated video whatever the indexation method chosen. The encoding may for example use a bar code one or two dimensions among existing codes is specifically defined in the context of the invention for a particular print or a plurality of prints. It is also possible to use a method of watermarking allowing the encoding of this value by using a graph predetermined, that this graphic is the same for all the tickets of the same draw or that it is associated with a subset of these tickets.

In addition to the support itself, an occulting layer is added so that the code can not be exploited before the removal of this layer by any suitable method. In the context of certain draws where for example the potential gains are not of great importance, this blackout layer may not be affixed. Similarly, if the distribution of tickets is performed before the remote site to access the video is active, it may also not be affixed blackout layers since in this case decryption of the code does not identify the associated gain as long as this site is not active. It can be the same if a security device allows the player to know if the ticket has already been used or not.

Figure 2 illustrates a scratch ticket (1) when the blackout layer has been removed by a scraping action or equivalent or the same ticket without blackout layer. In the case of this scheme, the code associated with the ticket and for viewing the associated video sequence by flashing via a mobile terminal is materialized by a 2D bar code (3). However, any encoding method is satisfactory as soon as it can be decoded via the image or the collection of images that a mobile terminal is able to flash by taking a photo, a video scan or any equivalent operation and thus reach the video associated with the ticket. Thus in diagram 3, the discovery zone is an image (4) which is also capable of integrating a suitable encoding by any method of watermarking or equivalent.

Figure 4 illustrates the mode of acquisition of the code revealed by a "mobile terminal" (7) or equivalent. In this case, a specific application has been previously loaded or downloaded to the "mobile terminal", whether this application is specific to a draw or common to a multiplicity of draws and / or that this application makes it possible to process other unrelated codes. to our invention. When this application is activated from the mobile terminal, the image perceived (9) by the lens of the mobile terminal is displayed on the screen (8) thereof. In the case of multiple objectives, one or more of its objectives can be used in the context of the invention. Viewing the perceived image (9) by the lens on the screen (8) of the mobile terminal (7) makes it possible to frame the coded zone (2), when the latter is flashed (6) by the mobile terminal (7), who was under the occulting layer in the case of pre-existence of this occulting layer. Depending on the application available, it will be required for it to be exploited, whether the entire coded area is written on the screen of the mobile terminal or in a particular area thereof that this area is materialized or not by the application used. Thus in a particular embodiment, the flashed zone (2) is not materialized on one of the screens of the "mobile terminal", the application in this case directly exploits the image or the images generated by the objective as soon as these are satisfactory for exploitation by said application. The visualization of the image on the screen of the mobile terminal will be either the image resulting directly from the video taken (6) or photo (6) of the lens used either an image or a series of images obtained by a process specific managed by the application used. Thus, this application can use the various parameters related to the movement of the mobile terminal and / or positioning with respect to the ticket operated that all of these parameters is obtained by specific sensors of the mobile terminal or by specific functions or by combination of these elements. The link to the associated video can be automatically performed as soon as the application has been able to decode the flash code (2) or as soon as it determines to have a satisfactory image or image collection to obtain this decoding. The link can also be made by a complementary action of the player when he considers that the framing performed is satisfactory for the application to proceed with the decoding relying or not on the signals provided by the application. Thus, when the link is established, according to a particular embodiment of the invention, the video is initialized on one of the screens of the mobile terminal, according to another particular embodiment of the invention, the initialization of this video requires a specific action of the player.

FIG. 5 illustrates the viewing of the video (10) on one of the screens (8) of the "mobile terminal" (7) following the successful flashing (6) of the encoding (2) present on the ticket (1). C ette v ideo (10) is triggered either automatically as soon as the application of the "mobile terminal" (7) has succeeded in decoding the registered code (2) on the ticket (1) following the flashing operation (6) either following an action of the player after flashing (6) succeeded after possibly being invited by the application loaded on the mobile. The first phase of the video defines, if necessary, the characteristics of the draw by indicating all or part of the following elements - nature of the event that competes in the draw: sports confrontation, horse race, casino game, ... To add to the appeal of the game, it may be indicated the specificity of the event that it is real or fantasy: track and field event of the last Olympic Games, match ball of a big Tennis event, record attempt approved ...

- condition for there to be a non-zero gain: horse designated in the first three, match ball successful, record set ... bet and potential gain: it may be indicated that the setting of this ticket is 100 euros even if the purchase value is anything else like for example 1 euro, this bet is called "fictitious bet" for the rest. For the gain, there may be a non-zero gain possible or more. Gain 5 times the "fictional bet" if the match ball is successful. Gain 10 times the "fictional bet" if the record is set. Gain 1 0 times the "dummy bet" if the designated horse is prime, twice if he is second, and once if he is third, gain 0 if the horse is q uatrièm e or p l u s. C o nth e endurance test, such as for example an object that must remain in equilibrium for more than 10 seconds, the gain will be once the bet per second elapsed beyond that 1 0 seconds, the potential gain may be displayed as time passes beyond the established threshold.

- Mini video presentation of actors related to performance. For example, it will be possible to show the horse that defends the player's chances in the presentation round, the tennis player who defends the chances of the player warming up. This mini video can integrate or merge the other elements of this first phase of the video such as definition of the "fictional bet" and the conditions of gain. At the end of this first phase automatically or driven by the player, the video materializing the draw is viewed on one of the screens of the "mobile terminal". In the diagram in reference, we simulated an athletics race. On this video, in the case of a race for example, the competitor defending the player's chances may be materialized specifically: for example by an added arrow. The video may be associated with a comment, such as that of the speaker of an equestrian race, this comment may be general or specific to the fate of the competitor defending the player's chances. Certain phases of the draw, especially those that determine the gain, may be dealt with specifically, so that the passage of the pole in an equestrian race or the finish line in an athletics race may be viewed in slow motion. It is also possible to link the viewing of the event with a "replay" of the final phase with artifices such as slow motion and / or precise materialization of the finish line and / or display of the arrival as and when measure of the crossing of it. The application may allow video viewing to be controlled by the user of the mobile term inal with conventional actions on videos such as "pause", "slow motion", "fast", "backspace", "zoom" As well as any possible action, existing or future, on the progress of a video.

A last phase allows the display of the gain. This last phase is either chained directly from the previous phase corresponding to the actual draw or triggered from a specific action of the player. In addition to the display of the gain, additional options may be offered to the player:

- Cashing. The application can then propose to directly cash the gain on an account already defined by the player or to define in the rest of the course of the application that this account is a bank account independent of the organizer of the draw or a special account managed by the latter,

- Memorization of the video. The player may want to keep the video relating to the draw especially in the case where it corresponds to a ga in, in that ca sl ication may propose u te l memorization or on the "mobile terminal" accessible freely or via a specific application under specific conditions either on a dedicated account such as an email address, an electronic vault address or equivalent.

Watch again all or part of the video. Figure 6 illustrates a scratch ticket (1) according to the invention to which is added a complementary code (1 1) called "control code" thereafter. This code (1 1) did not need to be hidden. The exploitation of this code (1 1) by a specific application named for the "control application" suite, possibly merged with the previous application for managing prints on "mobile terminal" makes it possible to make a diagnosis on the fact that the ticket has already been used or not. It can be practical at the time of the acquisition of the ticket to check if the ticket (1) has not given rise to any viewing to avoid any fraud. In this case the ticket (1) has a unique reference that is managed on a remote server. On this server, this reference possibly makes it possible to know all or part of the associated information such as the identification of the print associated with the ticket, its acquisition value, its date of issue, its limited date of use, the date of issue. pharmacy from which it is distributed. However, this reference does not make it possible to know the gain associated with the ticket (1). According to a particular embodiment, this information can be reached from this code (1 1) but only from a specific "control application" to restricted infusion, this embodiment is however rather suitable for draws not associated with large lots as may be certain commercial animations or draws associated with fairs. In order for the usage information to be accessible, or for the first visualization of the video associated with the ticket, or for each of these, a storage of the display is performed either in a precise manner: time, date, identity or equivalent of the player , geolocation, etc. .., be done binary: viewed at least once or never viewed. The number of views can also be managed. From this management, it is therefore possible for the "control application" specific to identify whether the ticket (1) is blank, that is to say that it has never been used or on the contrary s' it has already been so, and in this case, if the management associated with the perm and the "control application" also specifies, that they have been the characteristics of these uses. This specific "control application" may either be available to the player to check his ticket (1) at the time of acquisition or the manager of the dispensing dispensary to verify the virginity of the ticket at the time of the Deliverance of this one is accessible to both. Activation of the "control application" may itself be managed so as to avoid, for example, the player's protesting the "virginity" of his ticket (1) during his acquisition. This type of control is adapted to the mode of disclosure of the gain of tickets in the context of our invention, it can be usefully completed by all existing or future security on this type of ticket as the control code revealed by a complementary scraping usable, under pain of nullity, only by a population identified as the personnel of certain pharmacies.

On the other hand in a general way:

The fact of being able to visualize several times the video associated with a ticket may be subject to limitations, be it in the number of visualizations or in the definition of the authorized viewing period. It is also possible to define limitations depending on the geographical area: a ticket can only be activated in a given country or geographical area, or, on the contrary, it can not be activated in certain countries or geographical areas, particularly for compliance with local or national laws. In this case the application downloaded to the mobile terminal can use a geolocation system.

If the ticket is associated with a cashable gain, it can be obtained either manually by exchange the winning ticket from a dedicated office which can then have an application to verify the gain associated with the ticket. This application called "payment application" for the suite can be activated by flashing the bar code 2 D or equivalent of devoi le by the player, the application being content in this case to seek the value of the gain payable and allow the l recording the payment when it is done so that the ticket can not allow a new receipt either from the same office or from another office with the same ticket or a copy thereof. This mechanism is also suitable if the gain is of a material or immaterial nature.

Claims

Lottery process consisting of:

- to create a loadable or downloadable application on a mobile terminal which

interfaces with at least one image sensor of said mobile terminal so that at least one image or collection of images can be created when the user of said mobile terminal flashes a specific area of a ticket, the area comprising a code encoded graphically, in order to extract the code,

- interfaces with at least one screen of said mobile term inal allowing the reading of the draw videos,

- interface with a remote site such as a website to search for the video associated with the flashed ticket,

define a draw, a step comprising the definition of the tickets to be issued, their possible par value, the definition of the winnings and their distribution with respect to the collection of tickets to be created, the tickets being produced by printing on material media such as cardboard and / or plasticized and / or metallized or equivalent substrates,

- to define a certain number of valued videos, ie videos that define:

- a theoretical bet in correspondence or not with the value of the tickets to be issued,

a video sequence that materializes the course of an event with several possible outcomes but only one outcome is materialized by the video,

a bet that associates one or more potential winnings with one or more possible outcomes of the video sequence,

the determination of the outcome of the event revealed by the reading of the video,

possibly determining or possibly confirming the actual gain associated with the ticket,

to create a specific computer code for each ticket of the draw which makes it possible to associate said ticket with a valued video among those selected for the draw, - Encode this code graphically on a dedicated area of the ticket and cover this area with a blackout layer that must be removed by scraping or equivalent action appropriate by the player to be able to flash this area under the control of the application of his mobile terminal,

Lottery method according to Claim 1, characterized in that the application loaded or downloaded on the mobile terminal extracts the code encoded graphically on the ticket from the image or images produced by the flashing operation of this code via a sensor of the mobile terminal by a specific extraction process.

Lottery method according to Claim 1, characterized in that the application loaded or downloaded on the mobile terminal extracts the code encoded graphically on the ticket from the image or images produced by the flashing operation of this code via a sensor of the mobile terminal by an extraction process integrated into the mobile terminal independent of said application.

Lottery method according to Claim 1, characterized in that the application loaded or downloaded on the mobile terminal extracts the code encoded graphically on the ticket from the image or images produced by the flashing operation of this code via a sensor of the mobile terminal by a combination of at least one extraction process integrated into the mobile terminal independent of said application and at least one extraction process specific to said application.

Lottery process according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that, during the flashing of the ticket area incorporating the graphically encoded code, the flashed area is displayed on a screen of the mobile terminal in order to assist the user. user to facilitate the detection and decoding,

Lottery method according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the code encoded graphically on the ticket may be common to several tickets of the same draw,

Lottery method according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the code encoded graphically on the ticket is not obscured by an occulting layer when it is produced and / or distributed,

A method according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the event which served as a support for the definition of the video associated with the ticket is accessed complementary to the end of the draw or during a new viewing of the video associated with the draw.

Lottery method according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the video associated with a ticket can be downloaded to the mobile terminal or to another computer medium so that it can be viewed again independently of the draw linked to said ticket.

10. Lottery method according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the determination of the gain associated with a ticket is defined after its issuance, the association between the codes encoded graphically on tickets and valued videos is performed. consecutively to this determination and therefore after the issue of the draw tickets.

1 1. Lottery method according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the video associated with a ticket consists of all or part of the video of a real event.

12. Lottery method according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the video associated with a ticket is created via computer software taking support or not on real images.

13. A lottery method according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the video associated with a ticket is a combination of video sequences from one or more real events and video sequences created by computer software taking support or not on real images.

14. Lottery method according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that several valued videos are produced from the same non-valued video.

15. Lottery method according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the viewing of the video associated with a ticket is accompanied by a soundtrack.

16. Lottery method according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the operation of the ticket is performed from an assembly of computer elements comprising at least one sensor, at least the equivalent of one screen and a network connection, all driven by a computer intelligence in place of a mobile terminal.

17. A lottery method according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the video attached to the ticket is downloaded to the mobile terminal in order to be displayed, the display being able to start before the complete download thereof, and, if allowed, the video can be viewed again on the handheld without the need for new network access to the server from which the video was downloaded.

18. Lottery method according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the video attached to the ticket is displayed in streaming mode.

19. A lottery scheme according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the encoding on the ticket is done using a conventional or 2D bar code. 20. Lottery method according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the encoding on the ticket is performed by a watermarking based on an image.

21. Lottery method according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the flashing of the zone encoded on the ticket is performed without visualization of control on a screen of the mobile terminal.

22. Lottery method according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the video attached to the ticket is initialized on display on the mobile terminal with or without triggering by the player after the successful flashing operation. 23. Lottery method according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the visualizations of a video attached to a ticket are subject to management on a dedicated server, this management allowing at least to identify if the corresponding ticket has been used at least once to view the associated video.

Lottery method according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that a control code is encoded on the ticket complementary to the code to access the associated video, this code can also use any type of encoding such as conventional bar codes or 2D.

25. A lottery method according to claim 24, characterized in that a dedicated application is created independently of the application of exploitation of the main code or integrated therewith allowing adapted reading of the additional control code to verify that the ticket has already been exploited without the need to reveal the main code if it is obscured.

26. Lottery method according to claim 25, characterized in that the application that exploits the control code establishes its diagnosis by interfacing with a server managing access to the associated videos by exploiting the main code of the ticket incorporating the code of security.