Brightstar Global Solutions Corporation

Igt Global Solutions Corporation

Igt Global Soulutions Corporation

Brian Ingram

Kenneth E Irwin, Jr

Joseph Brandimore

Walter Gaddy

Samantha Oles

Cleo Andersen-Tarnell

Systems, methods, and machines for automatically verifying the authenticity and integrity of a ticket such as an instant lottery ticket, a draw lottery ticket, a passive lottery ticket, and/or a Ticket In Ticket Out (Tito) ticket. The systems, methods, and machines verify the authenticity and integrity of a ticket by capturing a first image of the ticket, verifying that the first captured image does not show an apparent steganographic pattern, processing the first captured image to produce a second image, and then verifying that the second image does show an apparent steganographic pattern.

Automated fraudulent altering and photocopying detection utilizing steganographic pattern detection

The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and devices for automatically verifying the authenticity and integrity of documents such as but not limited to instant lottery tickets.

Lottery ticket

A printed security-enhanced document, printing method, and system for ensuring that any printing defects present in the variable indicia also occur in the background on the document protected. By ensuring that random printing defects in the variable indicia also appear in the same document's background, detection of the printing defects becomes more readily apparent.

Printed documents readily identifying indicia printing defects

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Murphy, NC, United States of America

Brian Ingram