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7429044 Scratch-ticket lottery and promotional games  
A scratch-ticket game card simulating a instant Texas Hold'Em Poker game card with multiple chances of winning for a player. The instant game card includes plurality sets of player hands and a set...
7410168 Poker style scratch-ticket lottery games  
A lottery instant win game card simulating a Hold'Em Poker styled card game with multiple chances of winning for a player. The instant game card includes at least two sets of player hands and at...
7377429 Item tracking and processing systems and methods  
Systems and methods are provided for processing one or more items. The systems involve a data acquisition device and a display device. At least one data acquisition device and the display device...
7349555 Documents and apparatus to encode documents  
The present invention relates generally to documents, e.g., such as legal tender, currency and identification documents, and apparatus for encoding documents. One claim recites: a physical document...
7330563 Documents, articles and authentication of documents and articles  
The present invention relates generally to physical articles, e.g., such as documents, and authenticating physical articles. One claim recites a method of determining authenticity of an analog form...
7213811 Extension to a lottery game for which winning indicia are set by selections made by winners of a base lottery game  
A system and method of playing an extension game to a lottery game is disclosed. A lottery game player enters a base game and receives a base game entry, and may elect to play a second lottery game...
7201316 Item tracking and processing systems and methods  
Systems and methods are provided for processing one or more items. The systems involve a data acquisition device and a display device. At least one data acquisition device and the display device...
7134959 Methods and apparatus for providing a lottery game  
A gaming apparatus may comprise a value input device and a controller operatively coupled to the value input device. The controller may comprise a processor and a memory, and may be programmed to...
7090134 System for projecting a handling instruction onto a moving item or parcel  
The invention includes a system for projecting a display onto an item or parcel using an acquisition device to capture indicia on each parcel, a tracking system, a controller or computer to select...
7063256 Item tracking and processing systems and methods  
Systems and methods are provided for processing one or more items. The systems involve a data acquisition device and a display device. At least one data acquisition device and the display device...
6878896 Synchronous semi-automatic parallel sorting  
The present invention reveals a sorting system for use in manual sorting, which presents a detached ephemeral display moving in a manner corresponding to the movement of the article, by which an...
6875105 Lottery ticket validation system  
A lottery ticket validation system validates a probability lottery ticket that has predetermined play rules and that includes a plurality of player removable material covering play spots that in...
6565003 Method for locating and reading a two-dimensional barcode  
Two-dimensional barcodes surrounded by a quiet zone of white space which may or may not include a border, each barcode having encoded digital information in a bitmap representing preferably...
6556722 Position determination  
In the preferred implementation, the position of an object, for example a studio camera is determined by means of a camera which views several markers disposed about a studio ceiling, the markers...
6491215 Electronic verification machine for documents  
Determination of the authenticity and integrity of various types of documents such as lottery tickets is accomplished by using an electronic verification machine to compare data contained in...
6435408 Electronic verification machine for documents  
Determination of the authenticity and integrity of various types of documents such as lottery tickets is accomplished by using an electronic verification machine to compare data contained in...
EP0664642B1 Image processing device for identifying an input image, and copier including same  
Abstract of EP0664642 The first object of this invention is to provide an image processing device which can reliably detect documents which may not be copied, which has a very small probability of...
6379742 Lottery ticket structure  
A method for forming a document includes the steps of (1) selecting a marking medium that has a pre-determined machine-readable characteristic, and (2) selecting a document substrate that is...
6371373 Method for reading a two-dimensional barcode  
Two embodiments of a method of decoding information stored in a two-dimensional barcode printed on a printed medium are introduced. Both embodiments provide an improved method of analyzing...
6289125 Image processing device and method for indentifying an input image, and copier scanner and printer including same  
An image processing device is disclosed which can reliably detect documents which may not be copied, which has a very small probability of false positives, and which can handle newly issued...
6236735 Two camera system for locating and storing indicia on conveyed items  
A two camera over-the-belt optical character recognition (OCR) system for reading the destination addresses on parcels carried on a conveyor belt. The parcels bear an orientation defining...
6122410 Method and apparatus for locating a two-dimensional symbol using a double template  
In a method and apparatus for locating the acquisition target of a two-dimensional symbol in a pixel image, the image is convolved with a double template. The position with the greatest correlation...
6082619 Method for locating and reading a two-dimensional barcode  
Two-dimensional barcodes surrounded by a quiet zone of white space which may or may not include a border, each barcode having encoded digital information in a bitmap representing preferably...
5982955 Optical image indexed document filer  
An image filing apparatus includes a reading unit for reading an image of a mark sheet. The mark sheet has a plurality of index areas on each of which an index image representing index information...
5845008 Image processing device and method for identifying an input image, and copier scanner and printer including same  
An image processing device is disclosed which can reliably detect documents which may not be copied, which has a very small probability of false positives, and which can handle newly issued...
5786583 Method and apparatus for locating and decoding machine-readable symbols  
A method and apparatus for locating and decoding machine-readable symbols is provided. The present invention stores an image of the symbol and locates all Jordan curves having an angular length...
5726435 Optically readable two-dimensional code and method and apparatus using the same  
A two-dimensional code 1 consists of three positioning symbols 2, a data region 3, timing cells 4 and an apex detecting cell 5. The shape of the whole code 1 is a square having the same number of...
5719386 High efficiency multi-image scan method  
A high efficiency multi-image scanning method is disclosed. It involves the use of a special scanning window, or panel, containing a plurality of rectangular fields provided therein. The scanning...
5691961 Ribbon conservation in thermal printing  
A method of improving ribbon usage, i.e. reducing ribbon waste, in a non-impact color printer of the type that employs a continuous ribbon having panels of transfer material is described. The...
5691527 Two dimensional code reading apparatus  
A two-dimensional code reading apparatus including a CCD sensor that captures an image including a two-dimensional code attached on an article being conveyed, for example. The two-dimensional code...
5686718 Recording method, decoding method, and decoding apparatus for digital information  
There is provided a method for recording digital information that, when digital information is recorded as a two-dimensional pattern on a planar recording surface, the digital information can be...
5682030 Method and apparatus for decoding bar code data from a video signal and application thereof  
A new technology in bar code scanning and digitizing is provided where a bar code within a composite video signal may be detected and decoded. In a preferred embodiment, the composite video signal...
5612524 Identification symbol system and method with orientation mechanism  
The present invention is a symbol 10 that includes a square array 12 of data cells 14 surrounded by a border 30 of orientation and timing data cells. The border 30 can be surrounded by an external...
5607187 Method of identifying a plurality of labels having data fields within a machine readable border  
An identification system involves the labeling then tracking of grouped items such as logs, shipping containers, or packets of mail and reporting the current location of identified items during...
5591956 Two dimensional data encoding structure and symbology for use with optical readers  
A two dimensional (2D) matrix symbology for use with bar code and other optical readers. A finder structure includes a center square and a plurality of nested squares having centers that...
5515447 Method and apparatus for locating an acquisition target in two-dimensional images by detecting symmetry in two different directions  
A system and method are disclosed for locating an acquisition target consisting of a plurality of concentric rings of alternating levels of reflectivity (bull's-eye pattern) in two-dimensional...
EP0664642A2 Image processing device and method for identifying an input image, and copier scanner and printer including same.  
The first object of this invention is to provide an image processing device which can reliably detect documents which may not be copied, which has a very small probability of false positives, and...
5415604 Start ratio selection control system and method  
A control system and method for a semi-automatic mechanical transmission system (10) is provided for allowing operator request for a direct upshift and/or downshift into a preselected start ratio,...
5395181 Method and apparatus for printing a circular or bullseye bar code with a thermal printer  
A method and apparatus for converting bar code information into a circular barcode from a linear format using a graphics generator are disclosed. Data representative of a user selected barcode are...
5345091 Barcode identification system  
A barcode identification system is shown that includes a user operable personal computer for creating print jobs. The personal computer is coupled to a number of printers for printing the data for...
EP0350933B1 Image signal processing apparatus for bar code image signal  
Abstract of EP0350933 An apparatus for receiving input data values representing an array of picture elements of a source image containing one or more bar code regions, whereby the input data...
5288986 Binary code matrix having data and parity bits  
An optically readable matrix (100) has four intersecting sides of approximately equal length defining a perimeter and includes a binary code formed from light and dark squares of substantially...
5262623 Method and apparatus for distinguishing a preferred bar code or the like  
A bar code reader utilizing a two dimensional image capture optical system, includes a method and apparatus for distinguishing a preferred bar code out a plurality of bar codes within the field of...
5241166 Low resolution target acquisition  
A label and a process are provided for encoding target acquisition information and data information on an optically readable label at different resolutions. A multiplicity of cells is arranged in a...
EP0533893A1 VEHICLE HORN WITH ELECTRONIC SOLID STATE ENERGIZING CIRCUIT.  
Abstract not available for EP0533893 Abstract of corresponding document: US5293149 A vehicle horn with an electronic solid state energizing circuit is described. The horn has an electromagnet for...
5199084 Apparatus and method for locating characters on a label  
Locating and recognizing characters on a machine produced label, for example, is accomplished faster and more accurately by searching for first and second identifiable objects within first and...
5198642 Response form processing system  
A response form processing system (22) is provided which allows for the processing of response forms (10) which comprise a group code (20), questions (12) and (14), response prompts (16) and...
5140139 Preparing mark/read documents with markable boxes and locating the boxes from the document scan data  
A "mark read" document is prepared with a pattern of boxes within which marks may selectively be entered, together with printed characters for instructions or other informational purposes. The...
5134272 Image signal processing apparatus for bar code image signal  
An apparatus for receiving input data values representing an array of picture elements of a source image containing one or more bar code regions, whereby the input data values are converted to...
5129014 Image registration  
A technique for rapidly and efficiently registering binary images, contemplates incorporating one or more reference features, referred to as fiducials, into the binary image at a known displacement...
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