KR101968736B1 - Instant lottery printing method and apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

Disclosed are a lottery printing method and a device thereof. A lottery printing device generates a production dataset and a preliminary dataset composed of a plurality of groups, identifies a defective printing group while the production dataset is printed as a lottery image, prints a group of the preliminary dataset corresponding to the defective printing group, and removes the defective printing group.

Description

Technical Field [0001] The present invention relates to an instant lottery printing method and apparatus,

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention [0001] The present invention relates to a lottery printing method and apparatus thereof, and more particularly, to a lottery printing method and a printing apparatus in consideration of a printing failure of an instant lottery lottery.

The lottery can be roughly divided into draw and instant. A lottery lottery is a method to determine the winner by drawing lottery numbers such as "Lotto" every time, and the instant lottery lottery is a method in which the winning lottery ticket is determined in advance when the lottery ticket is generated. You can check whether you won.

FIG. 1 shows an example of a conventional instant lottery ticket.

Referring to FIG. 1, the instant lottery ticket 100 includes a lottery name, a lottery, a sales and payment machine, lottery identification information, and a game area 110 for confirming whether a lottery is won. The game area 110 of the instant lottery ticket 100 is coated with silver foil, and the purchaser can confirm whether or not this portion is scratched. The game area 110 may be represented in various forms for fun. The present embodiment proposes a plurality of numbers together with the lucky number and confirms whether or not the winning is possible based on whether the lucky number matches the remaining number. However, the game area 110 may be formed in various forms such as a bingo game form can do.

Since the instant lottery ticket (100) is confirmed as soon as it is purchased, there should be no error in the printing of the instant lottery ticket. For example, if the bar code of the verification number is distorted, the number of the game area is broken, or a part of the game area is printed in an invisible form, if there is a printing defect, the lottery ticket must be reprinted and issued. However, in the process of confirming the printing failure of the lottery and reprinting the lottery, the winner of the lottery is exposed to the printing related worker and the security of the lottery is not maintained.

Patent Registration No. 10-1673173 entitled " Electronic lottery release system and method "

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a lottery printing method and apparatus capable of maintaining the security of an additional issuing process for a printing lottery lottery.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of printing a lottery ticket, the method comprising: generating a production data set including a plurality of groups; Generating a spare data set comprising a plurality of groups; Printing the production data set as a lottery image; Identifying a printing defective group of the production data set; Printing a group of the spare data sets corresponding to the printing defective group; Wherein each group of the production data set and each group of the spare data set corresponds one to one, and the corresponding group of the production data set and the corresponding group of the spare data set The group winning structures are the same.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a lottery printing apparatus comprising: a database for storing a production data set and at least one spare data set; An inspection unit for detecting a printing failure of the production data set; A data selection unit for determining a group of the preliminary data sets corresponding to the group of the production data set in which a printing failure occurs; And an image generating unit for generating a group of the preliminary data set as a lottery image for printing.

According to the embodiment of the present invention, instead of reprinting the same lottery ticket as the printing defective lottery ticket, it is possible to print another lottery ticket having the same winning structure as the winning structure of the group in which printing defects belong, thereby enhancing the security. In addition, since the lottery ticket is not additionally printed in advance in case of printing failure, it is possible to prevent the accidental ejection of the additional printed lottery. Further, since the additional printing is performed using the spare group having the same winning structure as the winning structure of the group including the lottery where the printing failure occurs, it is possible to enhance the security because the winning of the lottery to be printed additionally is not exposed to the worker. In addition, it is possible to determine whether printing is defective in the lottery printing process and determine whether to print in real time, thereby minimizing the total lottery printing time. In addition, when the image is photographed through a camera or the like to determine whether or not a printing error has occurred, a virtual lottery image rather than an actual lottery image is used to determine whether the image is defective. .

1 is a view showing an example of a conventional instant lottery ticket,
FIG. 2 illustrates a concept of a production data set for lottery issuance according to an embodiment of the present invention; FIG.
3 is a view showing an example of a lottery printing method according to an embodiment of the present invention;
4 is a view showing another example of the lottery printing method according to the embodiment of the present invention,
FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing an example of a lottery printing method according to the example of FIG. 4,
6 is a diagram illustrating a method of generating a production data set according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 7 illustrates an example of a method of verifying a production data set according to an embodiment of the present invention.
8 is a view showing an example of a bad lottery ticket grasping method according to an embodiment of the present invention,
9 is a diagram showing an example of the configuration of the lottery printing apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, a lottery printing method and apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 2 is a view showing a concept of a production data set for lottery issuance according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 2, a production data set 200 is composed of a plurality of groups 210, 212, and 214, and each group 210, 212, and 214 includes a plurality of data 220. Each data 220 includes information about a winning rank. The information on the winning rank does not include rank information such as first rank, second rank, etc., but is identification information mapped with the rank of rank 1, rank 2, etc., and the rank of the data can not be known only by the data. For example, the data 220 includes " 123456789 " as the information about the winning rank, and the lottery printing device can store and manage '123456789' by mapping it with the rank information (first, second, etc.) . In addition, each data 220 may further include various information depending on the embodiment, such as verification number,

Each piece of data 220 included in each of the groups 210, 212 and 214 is converted into a lottery image 100 shown in FIG. 1 and printed. The number of data 220 included in each of the groups 210, 212, and 214 may be variously modified according to the embodiment. For example, 2000 data may be included in each group. According to the embodiment, the lottery images can be printed by each group 210, 212, 214.

The lottery ticket is issued according to the winning structure, which defines the winning bid and the winning amount each time. For example, the lottery ticket that is issued each time is determined by the number of winners and the amount of winnings such as the number of winners, such as 1 in 1, 2 in 2, 10 in 3, 1,000 in 4, and 100 in 5.

According to the embodiment, the winning structure may further include a distribution structure of the winning lottery ticket as well as the winning bid amount and the winning amount. In order to prevent the winning lottery ticket from being pushed to a certain position, the arrangement of the winning lottery ticket can be distributed in groups. For example, it is possible to make the winning lottery tickets included in each group (for example, first to third) be less than a predetermined number of pieces (for example, one piece) (GLEPS, Guaranteed Low-End Prize Structure), to ensure that the number of consecutive lottery tickets in each group is less than a certain number (MWT, Maximum Waiting Time) can do. In addition, various conditions for the generation of production datasets can be defined and used. An example of a production dataset generation process will be described with reference to FIG.

For security purposes, the production dataset shall not be overprinted, altered, or arbitrarily created. If the winning lottery is a lottery ticket that has a bad printing in the lottery printing process, it should be reissued because it affects the overall winning structure. In this case, if the data of the printing defective lottery ticket is reprinted as it is, there is a problem that the lottery winner may be exposed. In addition, when a lottery image is connected and printed in units of groups 210, 212 and 214 of the production data set 200, if a printing failure occurs, not only the printing lottery lottery but also all the data of the group should be re- There is a problem that the same lottery ticket is reprinted and the same lottery ticket is double-printed.

This embodiment is a method for solving such a problem, which includes a method of additionally printing a lot more than a predetermined number of copies (see FIG. 3) in consideration of a defect in printing a production dataset, And a method of real-time additional printing using the preliminary data set only when there is a printing defective lottery ticket (FIG. 4).

3 is a diagram showing an example of a lottery printing method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 3, the lottery printing device generates a production data set 300 and an additional data set 320, and then prints both of these data sets 300 and 320. The data of the production data set 300 and the data of the additional data set 320 do not overlap with each other. For example, the first prize winning data included in the production data set and the first prize winning data included in the additional data set are different from each other. To this end, the lottery printing device can pre-construct and store data sets that can be used for each rank. That is, one of the first-winning prize-winning data sets stored in advance can be given to the production data set 300 and the other one can be given to the additional data set 320.

The winning structure of each group of additional datasets 320 is the same as the winning structure of the group that includes the top winning lottery (e.g., the first to third place winning lottery) of the production dataset. For convenience of explanation, the win-win structure of each group is referred to as a group win-win structure by distinguishing it from the overall win-win structure of the production data set. For example, if the first group 310 of the production data set 300 comprises 20 first group winning structures such as 1, 4, 10, 5, and the second group 312 includes 3 The additional data set 320 includes a group including a first group winning structure and a second group winning structure, if the second group winning structure includes one, four, five, five, and twenty five second group winning structures. According to an embodiment, the additional data set 320 may include a plurality of groups including a first group winning structure. Here, the same group winning structure of two groups means that the number of winning lottery tickets included in each group from the top to bottom is identical, and the positions of the winning lottery tickets in each group may be the same or different from each other .

The lottery printing device prints both the production data set 300 and the additional data set 320 as lottery images. If there is a printing defect group 312 in the production data set 300, a group of additional data sets including the same group-winning structure as the defective printing group 312 is identified. In order to grasp the group winning structure of each group of the production data set 300 and the additional data set 320, structure identification information for identifying the group winning structure related to the number of the upper winning lottery tickets included in each group is given . In this case, the lottery printing device grasps the structure identification information of the group 312 in which the printing defective lottery exists and then identifies the same group as the printing defective group 312 based on the structure identification information of each group of the additional data set do.

Then, the lottery printing device registers all data belonging to the printing defective group (312) as defective and prevents the lottery of the printing defective group (312) from being taken out and used. In addition, both the defective print group 312 and the additional print groups 324 and 326 that are not used are removed.

In this embodiment, at least one additional data set 320 for the group including the upper winning lottery is created and further printed in the production data set 300, so that the unused additional printing groups 324 and 326 are unloaded Lt; / RTI > In addition, there is a disadvantage in that additional cost is incurred due to additional printing, and the entire lottery printing time is lengthened. In addition, in the process of searching for a group of the additional data set 320 having the same group winning structure as the group 312 in which the bad lottery has occurred, the group including the winning data may be exposed. Figure 4 presents a method for solving this.

4 is a diagram showing another example of the lottery printing method according to the embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 4, there is a production data set 400 and at least one spare data set 410. The production data set 400 is as shown in FIG. Although the present embodiment shows one spare data set 410 for convenience of explanation, a plurality of spare data sets 410 may exist according to the embodiment.

Each of the groups 412, 414, 416, 418 of the preliminary data set 410 corresponds one-to-one with each of the groups 402, 404, 406, 408 of the production data set 400. In addition, the group winning structure of each group 412, 414, 416, 418 of the preliminary data set 410 is the same as the group winning structure of each group 402, 404, 406, 408 of the corresponding production data set 400. The lottery printing device stores and manages mapping relations (420, 422, 424, 426) corresponding to each other of the production data set 400 and the standby data set 410. 3, structure identification information is assigned to each of the groups 310, 312, 314, 322, 324 and 326 in order to grasp the group winning structure of the production data set 300 and the additional data set 320. However, none. For example, the lottery printing device may sequentially map each group (402, 404, 406, 408) of the production data set 400 and each group 412, 414, 416, 418 of the preliminary data set 410. Or the lottery printing device may provide any identification information (e.g., sequential increasing order) to each group (402,404,406,408) of the production data set (400) and each group (412,414,416,418) Information), and then mapping and storing two pieces of identification information of the corresponding group.

3, the lottery printing device prints both the production data set 300 and the additional data set 320 as a lottery image. However, in this embodiment, the lottery printing device only prints the production data set 400, . When the lottery printing device finds a defective lottery ticket in the printing process of the production data set 400, the lottery printing device grasps and prints a group 416 of additional data sets corresponding to the group 406 to which the defective lottery ticket belongs. This embodiment additionally prints the group 416 including the same group winning structure for the group 406 in which the bad lottery ticket has been issued, so that there is no additional printing lottery ticket 324 or 326 to be removed unlike FIG. It can be prevented at the source.

5 is a flowchart showing an example of a lottery printing method according to the example of FIG.

Referring to FIG. 5, the lottery printing device generates a production data set and a spare data set (S500, S510). The lottery printing device assigns the winning data to the production data set so as to satisfy the predefined winning structure. An example of a data assignment method of a production data set is shown in Fig.

The lottery printing device assigns data to each group of the preliminary data set corresponding to each group of the production data set to be the same group winning structure as the group winning structure of each group of the production data set. For example, in the example of FIG. 4, the first group 402 of the production data set 400 is a first group winning structure including a first winning prize lottery, and the second group 404 is a prize winning And the third group 406 is a third group winning structure including a third winning prize lottery ticket, the lottery printing device receives the first group prize structure of the first data set 410 Winning data is given to each group of the preliminary data set so that the group winning structure of the third group (412, 414, 416) is the same as the first group winning structure to the third group winning structure.

When the generation of the data set as shown in FIG. 4 is completed, the lottery printing device prints the lottery image of the production data set (S520). The lottery printing apparatus identifies the group to which the lottery which is defective in printing belongs (S530), and recognizes the group of the preliminary data set corresponding to the defective group (S540). The lottery printing apparatus can determine whether or not the print image on the front side and the back side of each lottery is defective based on whether or not the print image is the same as the previously stored reference image. The reference image is a normal lottery image. In another embodiment, a virtual lottery image may be used to prevent exposure of a game area (refer to 110 in FIG. 1) of a lottery ticket to increase security when the lottery ticket is normalized through image comparison. This will be discussed again in FIG.

The lottery printing device prints a group of spare data sets corresponding to the defective group (S550). The lottery printing device can print a group of spare datasets immediately upon detection of a bad group or print a group of spare datasets corresponding to a bad group after all of the production dataset has been printed.

The lottery printing device registers data belonging to the defective group in the database and discards the lottery of the defective group (S560).

6 is a diagram illustrating a method of generating a production data set according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 6, the data generating unit of the lottery printing apparatus first grants unquoted data 600 to all the data elements of the production data set including the plurality of groups 210, 212, and 214. The data generation unit of the lottery printing device assigns unquoted data to all the data elements of the production data set, rather than assigning the unquoted data to the data element at the specific position.

The data generating unit of the lottery printing apparatus overwrites the lowest winning data (N winning data) 610 with data elements at random positions in the production data set. The lottery printing device then assigns the next winning data (winning data, such as (N-1)) to the data element at random locations in the production dataset. In this way, the data generating unit of the lottery printing device repeatedly performs the process of randomly assigning the lowest winning data 610 to the highest winning data 620 to each data element of the production data set.

The lottery printing device assigns each winning data to an arbitrary position of the production data set and prevents the position of the winning data from being exposed because the data element or the position of the winning data is not separately stored and managed.

By arranging the winning data of each rank at an arbitrary position, it is possible that another winning data may be given again to the data element to which the winning data is assigned. For example, if 1st prize winning data is given again to the data element to which second prize winning data is assigned, the number of second prize winning lottery tickets is reduced. In this case, the winning structure of the production dataset may differ from the pre-defined winning structure. Therefore, after producing the dataset for production, a verification process may be required to verify that the winning structure satisfies the predefined winning structure.

FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating an example of a method of verifying a production data set according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 7, the lottery printing device reads each data of the production data set to grasp the overall winning structure. As shown in FIG. 6, the lottery printing device randomly places the winning data in the production data set without separately storing the information about the data element to which each winning data is given, Read all of the data to determine the number of each rank and understand the overall winning structure. Further, if there is a condition such as GLEPS, the lottery printing apparatus grasps the condition satisfying the condition.

The lottery printing device re-creates the production dataset of FIG. 6 if the winning structure of the production dataset does not match the predefined winning structure. In the lottery printing device, it is possible to determine whether the number of winning data from the top winning data to the number of the winning winning data coincides with the predetermined winning structure. However, in this case, since the number of iterations of the generating process may increase, , Winner data of the third place or higher), the winning structure can be defined as being consistent.

8 is a view illustrating an example of a bad lottery ticket grasping method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

8, when the lottery printing device prints each group 810 of the production data set or the spare data set as a lottery image, it prints a fake lottery image at the first and last positions of each group (hereinafter, ) 820 and 822 are added and printed.

The lottery printing apparatus compares the image obtained by photographing the printed matter of the virtual lottery images 820 and 822 located at the beginning and the end of each group 810 with the reference image of the normal state stored in advance,

9 is a diagram showing an example of the configuration of the lottery printing apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention.

9, the lottery printing apparatus 900 includes an image generating unit 910, a printing control unit 920, an inspection unit 930, a data selection unit 940, a database 950, and a removal unit 960 do.

The database 950 includes a production dataset and a preliminary dataset. The lottery printing apparatus can generate a production data set and a preparatory data set using the method described in FIGS. 4 to 7 and store them in the database 950.

The image generation unit 910 generates a lottery image for each piece of data in the production dataset of the database. For example, the image generation unit 910 may add the data of the data set for lottery production to the predefined lottery image layout according to a predefined game method to generate a lottery image. Referring to FIG. 1, in the case where any data in the production data set is 1000 won-worth data as shown in FIG. 1, the image generation unit 910 generates an image for winning 1000 won in the game area 110 of the lottery image layout Create and display an array of numbers. As another example, the image generating unit 910 may add the virtual lottery images 820 and 822 described in FIG. 8 at the beginning and the end of each group when generating the data of each group of the production data set as a lottery image. Instead of storing the lottery image for printing in advance in the database, the image generating unit 910 generates characters, numbers, pictures, etc. corresponding to the data of the production data set in the game area of the lottery image layout at the printing time So that a real-time lottery image can be generated.

The print control unit 920 prints the lottery image generated by the image generation unit 910 through the printer. The print control unit 920 can stop the lottery printing of the group if the inspection unit 930 is notified of the discovery of the bad lottery ticket.

The inspection unit 930 grasps the printing defective lottery ticket through the optical inspection apparatus. For example, the inspection unit 930 can automatically grasp the printing defects or the like based on whether the front and back images match the reference image stored after the front and back images of the lottery card 980 are shot through the camera. If the defective lottery ticket is found, the inspection unit 930 registers the data of the group to which the defective lottery ticket belongs in the database 950 as bad.

For example, when virtual lottery images 820 and 822 are added at the beginning and end of each group of the production data set, the checking unit 930 photographs the virtual lottery images 820 and 822, compares the images with the reference image, .

As another example, the checking unit 930 may check the back side image of each of the lotteries 812, 814, and 816 through the camera and compares the back side image with the reference image for the back side, It is determined whether the number, character, or picture displayed in the game area 822 is the same as the reference image for the virtual lottery image previously stored. When the silver coating on the game area 813 of the lottery ticket is completed, the inspection unit 930 shoots the image of the front face of each lottery 812, 814, 816 coated with silver foil with the camera, .

When the data selection unit 940 receives the identification information on the group in which the bad lottery occurred, the database 950 identifies the group of the preliminary data set corresponding to the bad lottery group. The data selection unit 940 transfers the group of the preliminary data sets to the image generation unit 910. The image generation unit 910 converts the group of the preliminary data set into a lottery image using the lottery image layout.

The removal unit 960 removes the defective lottery ticket through a document destruction device or the like after moving the group in which the defective lottery ticket has been generated to a separate storage via the conveyor belt 970. [

The present invention can also be embodied as computer-readable codes on a computer-readable recording medium. A computer-readable recording medium includes all kinds of recording apparatuses in which data that can be read by a computer system is stored. Examples of the computer-readable recording medium include ROM, RAM, CD-ROM, magnetic tape, floppy disk, optical data storage, and the like. The computer-readable recording medium may also be distributed over a networked computer system so that computer readable code can be stored and executed in a distributed manner.

The present invention has been described with reference to the preferred embodiments. It will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes in form and details may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims. Therefore, the disclosed embodiments should be considered in an illustrative rather than a restrictive sense. The scope of the present invention is defined by the appended claims rather than by the foregoing description, and all differences within the scope of equivalents thereof should be construed as being included in the present invention.

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In the lottery printing method performed by the lottery printing device,
Generating a production dataset comprising a plurality of groups;
Generating a spare data set comprising a plurality of groups;
Printing the production data set as a lottery image;
Identifying a printing defective group of the production data set;
Printing a group of the spare data sets corresponding to the printing defective group; And
And removing the printing defective group,
Wherein each group of the production data set and each group of the spare data set correspond one to one,
Wherein the group-winning structure of the corresponding group of the production data set and the group of the preliminary data set are identical to each other. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein generating the production dataset comprises:
Assigning unrequited data to each of the groups;
And a step of assigning the winning data to an arbitrary position of the production data set in the order of the lowest winning data to the highest winning data,
Wherein generating the preliminary data set comprises:
And providing the winning data to the group of the spare data set corresponding to the group of the production data set to which the winning data is given. The method according to claim 1,
Reading the data assigned to each group of the production data set to grasp the winning structure;
Verifying that the winning structure is within a predetermined winning structure; And
Further comprising the step of generating the production dataset and the preliminary data set again if the winning structure does not match the predefined winning structure. The method of claim 1, wherein printing the lottery image comprises:
Printing a virtual lottery image at a first position and a last position of each group; And
Capturing the image of the virtual lottery ticket and comparing the image with the pre-stored reference lottery image to determine whether the printing lottery is invalid or not. A database for storing a production dataset and at least one or more spare datasets;
An inspection unit for detecting a printing failure of the production data set;
A data selection unit for determining a group of the preliminary data sets corresponding to the group of the production data set in which a printing failure occurs;
And an image generating unit generating the group of the preliminary data set as a lottery image for printing. 6. The method of claim 5,
And removing the group of the production data set in which a printing failure has occurred. The apparatus according to claim 5,
Photographing a virtual lottery image printed at the first position and the last position of each group of the production data set; And
And comparing the photographed virtual lottery image with a pre-stored reference lottery image to determine whether the printing is defective. 6. The method of claim 5,
The process of giving unpurchased data to the production data set and the preparatory data set and giving the winning data to an arbitrary position of the production data set is performed from the lowest winning data to the highest winning data, Further comprising: a data generation unit for giving the winning data to the group of the spare data set corresponding to the group of the production data set to which the data is given. 6. The method of claim 5,
And a verifying unit for reading the data assigned to each group of the production data set and verifying whether the winning structure is within a predetermined winning structure. A computer-readable recording medium having recorded therein a code for carrying out the method according to any one of claims 1 to 4.

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