Imaging video frames on documents
Security-enhanced documents and methods of forming security-enhanced documents having indicia under a Scratch-Off Coating (SOC), and more particularly including digitally imaging video frames onto the display area and/or back of the documents. In certain embodiments, portions of digitally imaged video frames are also utilized as game play variable indicia.
1. A lottery ticket for a lottery game, the lottery ticket comprising:
a substrate comprising a variable indica portion and a display portion;
variable indicia on the variable indicia portion of the substrate;
a scratch-off coating over the variable indicia;
an image from a video on the display portion, the image being one of a plurality of different images of a plurality of different frames of the video, wherein the plurality of different images form a plurality of scenes of the video; and
a code on the substrate, the code associated with a chronological time associated with the frame of the plurality of different frames that comprises said image from the video that is on the display portion.
2. The lottery ticket of claim 1 , wherein the image from the video on the display portion is formed as a process color image.
3. The lottery ticket of claim 1 , wherein the code comprises a barcode.
4. The lottery ticket of claim 1 , wherein the code comprises a Quick Response (QR) code.
5. The lottery ticket of claim 1 , wherein the code comprises a link to an Internet site configured to provide a portion of the plurality of different frames of the video based on the chronological time of the frame comprising the image from the video on the display portion.
6. The lottery ticket of claim 1 , wherein the code comprises a link to metadata saved with a separate video frame file for the lottery ticket in a database.
7. The lottery ticket of claim 1 , wherein the chronological time is one of: a chronological time of one of the frames of the video before the frame comprising the image from the video, a chronological time of the frame comprising the image from the video, and a chronological after one of the frames of the video after the frame comprising the image from the video.
8. The lottery ticket of claim 1 , wherein the variable indica portion and the display portion of the substrate are detachable from each other, wherein the variable indica portion is redeemable for obtaining an award associated with the lottery ticket based on the variable indica, and wherein the display portion does not need to be provided to redeem the lottery ticket.
9. A lottery ticket for a lottery game, the lottery ticket comprising:
a substrate comprising a redeemable variable indica portion and a collectable display portion, wherein the redeemable variable indica portion and the collectable display portion of the substrate are detachable from each other;
variable indicia on the redeemable variable indicia portion of the substrate;
a scratch-off coating over the variable indicia; and
an image on the collectable display portion, the image taken from one of a plurality of frames of a video, the image being part of one of a plurality of different scenes of the video,
wherein the redeemable variable indica portion is redeemable for obtaining an award associated with the lottery ticket based on the variable indica, and wherein the collectable display portion does not need to be provided to redeem the lottery ticket.
10. The lottery ticket of claim 9 , wherein the image on the collectable display portion is formed as a process color image.
11. The lottery ticket of claim 9 , wherein the variable indicia are thematically related to the image on the collectable display portion.
12. The lottery ticket of claim 9 , wherein the variable indicia represent an object contained in the image.
13. The lottery ticket of claim 9 , wherein the variable indicia represent multiple different objects contained in the image.
14. The lottery ticket of claim 9 , which comprises a perforation connecting the redeemable variable indica portion and the collectable display portion, wherein the redeemable variable indica portion and the collectable display portion are detachable from each other along the perforation.
15. A lottery ticket for a lottery game, the lottery ticket comprising:
a substrate comprising a variable indica portion and a collectable display portion, wherein the redeemable variable indica portion and the collectable display portion of the substrate are detachable from each other;
variable indicia on the variable indicia portion of the substrate;
a scratch-off coating over the variable indicia;
an image from a video on the collectable display portion, the image being one of a plurality of different images of a plurality of different frames of the video, wherein the plurality of different images form a plurality of scenes of the video; and
a code on the substrate, the code associated with a chronological time associated with the frame of the plurality of different frames that comprises said image from the video.
16. The lottery ticket of claim 15 , wherein the image on the collectable display portion is formed as a process color image.
17. The lottery ticket of claim 16 , wherein the code comprises one of a barcode and a Quick Response (QR) code.
18. The lottery ticket of claim 17 , wherein the chronological time is one of: a chronological time of one of the frames of the video before the frame comprising the image from the video, a chronological time of the frame comprising the image from the video, and a chronological after one of the frames of the video after the frame comprising the image from the video.
19. The lottery ticket of claim 18 , wherein the variable indica portion is redeemable for obtaining an award associated with the lottery ticket based on the variable indica, and wherein the display portion does not need to be provided to redeem the lottery ticket.
20. The lottery ticket of claim 19 , which comprises a perforation connecting the redeemable variable indica portion and the collectable display portion, wherein the redeemable variable indica portion and the collectable display portion are detachable from each other along the perforation.