Electronic Ticketing Visual Pattern Verification
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing electronic ticketing systems face verification challenges due to the inefficiency of barcode scanners with LCD screen displays, leading to increased processing time and potential errors, making it impractical for large crowds.
Innovation Solution
An electronic ticketing system that uses a validating visual object, such as patterns, animations, or images, which can be displayed on a user's device without the need for a scanner, ensuring human-perceivable verification and incorporating security protocols to prevent piracy, including dynamic code execution and time-limited displays.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Extent of automation
If barcode scanners are used to verify electronic tickets displayed on LCD screens, then ticket verification can be automated, but the verification time increases significantly and errors occur due to poor scan reliability
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the mechanical/optical barcode scanning system with a human-visual verification system. Instead of using barcode scanners to read tickets on LCD screens, the system generates visual patterns (such as optical illusions or distinctive graphical displays) that can be directly perceived by human ticket takers, eliminating the need for scanning hardware and significantly reducing verification time.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs visual patterns that utilize color variations and optical properties to create distinctive displays that are easily distinguishable by the human eye. These visual patterns may include color shifts, luminance variations, or optical illusion effects that allow rapid visual verification without requiring mechanical scanning, thus resolving the time loss issue while maintaining automation benefits.
2Extent of automation
If barcode scanners are used to verify electronic tickets, then verification can be performed without manual inspection, but the scanning process is fraught with error and reliability is poor
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the unreliable barcode scanning mechanism with a human-visual verification system based on distinctive graphical patterns. These patterns are designed to be clearly distinguishable to the human eye, eliminating the scanning errors that occur when reading tickets from LCD screens, thereby improving verification reliability while maintaining automation.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses visual patterns with distinct color and luminance characteristics that are easily distinguishable by human observers. These patterns may incorporate optical illusion effects or color variations that make them resistant to copying and easily verifiable by sight, thus improving reliability without requiring complex scanning hardware.
3Loss of time
If traditional paper ticket verification is used (looking at ticket and tearing in half), then verification is fast and simple, but the system cannot support electronic ticketing needs
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the physical paper ticket system with an electronic display system that uses visual patterns for verification. The visual patterns serve the same function as physical ticket features (such as security elements or unique identifiers) but in an electronic format that can be displayed on screens, thus enabling electronic ticketing while maintaining fast verification speeds similar to paper tickets.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs visual patterns with distinct color and luminance properties that can be rendered on electronic displays. These patterns provide the same verification functionality as physical ticket features but in an electronic format, enabling the system to support electronic ticketing needs while maintaining the speed and simplicity of traditional verification methods.
4Loss of time
If visual patterns are used for ticket verification instead of barcodes, then verification speed increases and errors are reduced, but additional security measures are needed to prevent piracy
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses visual patterns with distinct color and luminance characteristics that are difficult to reproduce without proper authorization. These patterns may incorporate optical illusion effects or color variations that serve as inherent security features, reducing the need for additional complex security protocols while maintaining fast verification speeds.
Data Source
AI summary
This invention discloses a novel system and method for distributing electronic ticketing to mobile devices such that the ticket stored on the device is checked for its integrity from tampering and the device periodically reports on ticket usage with a central server.