Patents by Inventor Hugues Souparis
Hugues Souparis has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11042792Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for encoding an illustration, which involves writing the illustration in greyscale or in color, encoding a message in the form of a two-dimensional barcode comprising a set of blocks, each block encoding a fragment of the message and comprising a set of (M) rows and (N) columns, and each block comprising a set of encoding sub-blocks, each subblock comprising a set of bits. It is essentially characterized in that the encoding step comprises defining or identifying a set of remarkable points on the source illustration, calculating a set of attributes according to certain remarkable points, selecting, among the set of attributes, at least one attribute making it possible to define a digital fingerprint, optionally compressed, optionally sign the digital fingerprint, record in the message one of at least one attribute, the digital fingerprint, optionally compressed, the signed digital fingerprint in compressed or non-compressed form.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2018Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Assignee: SURYSInventors: Marc Pic, Mohammed Amine Ouddan, Hugues Souparis
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Publication number: 20200210795Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for encoding an illustration, which involves writing the illustration in greyscale or in color, encoding a message in the form of a two-dimensional barcode comprising a set of blocks, each block encoding a fragment of the message and comprising a set of (M) rows and (N) columns, and each block comprising a set of encoding sub-blocks, each subblock comprising a set of bits. It is essentially characterized in that the encoding step comprises defining or identifying a set of remarkable points on the source illustration, calculating a set of attributes according to certain remarkable points, selecting, among the set of attributes, at least one attribute making it possible to define a digital fingerprint, optionally compressed, optionally sign the digital fingerprint, record in the message one of at least one attribute, the digital fingerprint, optionally compressed, the signed digital fingerprint in compressed or non-compressed form.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2018Publication date: July 2, 2020Inventors: Marc Pic, Mohammed Amine Ouddan, Hugues Souparis
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Patent number: 10290167Abstract: A method for making an object secure comprises creating a multi-layer graphic signature by superposing, in partial or total transparency, a first random graphic element on a first layer to a second graphic element on a second layer, and storing the graphic signature on or in the object. The method is essentially characterized in that the relative position of the first graphic element and of the second graphic element is random.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2010Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: HOLOGRAM INDUSTRIESInventors: Hugues Souparis, Kristen Le Liboux
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Patent number: 10076921Abstract: A description is given of a document with a hologram as a security feature, in particular an identity card (12), consisting of a polycarbonate card body (10), which has a volume hologram label (2, 9) embedded therein. A description is additionally given of a method for producing the document, in which volume hologram labels (2) arranged on a carrier sheet are brought into contact with adhesive regions (4) on a thermoplastic sheet (5.1), the adhesive surfaces are cured and the carrier sheet is then removed. A second plastics sheet (5.2) is then adhesively bonded onto the first plastics sheet (5.1), bearing the hologram labels, using a second adhesive (7) in the region of the hologram labels (2) to form a two-layered sheet composite (6) which, finally, is laminated, together with further thermoplastic sheets, in a card-lamination press, under the action of pressure and temperature, to give a card body (10), individual identity cards (12) being punched out.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2011Date of Patent: September 18, 2018Assignee: HOLOGRAM INDUSTRIES RESEARCH GMBHInventors: Irina Menz, Andreas Wanke, Günther Dausmann, Philippe Huet, Hugues Souparis
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Patent number: 9770935Abstract: An optical security component designed to be observed in a spectral observation band of between 380 nm and 780 nm by direct reflection, comprising an observation face and identifiable information, the component successively including, starting from the side opposite the observation face, a first support layer, identification elements obtained by printing an absorbent material in at least part of the visible spectrum, with a low refractive index, to reproduce at least part of the identifiable information, at least part of the identification elements being structured on one of their faces opposite the face across from the support layer, to form a first subwavelength grating, a second layer, with a high refractive index, covering the first support layer and the identification elements, and a third layer, with a low refractive index, transparent in the observation spectral band of the component.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2013Date of Patent: September 26, 2017Assignee: Hologram.IndustriesInventor: Hugues Souparis
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Patent number: 9583026Abstract: The invention relates to a prefabricated secure foldable multilayer label intended to be adhered onto a substrate, including built-in security means (13, 23), characterized in that it includes a first flap (1) and a second flap (2), each including a transparent substrate layer (11, 21), said flaps being separated by a folding line and capable of overlapping and being adhered along a first surface (61, 62) of said flaps (1, 2). According to one advantageous aspect, the prefabricated label includes a removable printable sheet (4), which can be used e.g. as a receipt. The invention also relates to the manufacture of said secure label.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2012Date of Patent: February 28, 2017Assignee: HOLOGRAM INDUSTRIESInventors: Fabio Tremolada, Hugues Souparis, Georges Houston
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Patent number: 9550390Abstract: An optical security component intended to be checked in reflection in a checking spectral band includes a layer that is reflective in the checking spectral band. The layer exhibits a structured zone that includes microstructures distributed spatially in a uniform manner over a whole of the structured zone so as to form an optical structure that is at least partially scattering in the checking spectral band. The microstructures have heights that are distributed according to a random function, modulated over the structured zone by a modulation function so as to form, after illumination of the optical security component at a given angle, an image identifiable by observation in reflection.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2013Date of Patent: January 24, 2017Assignee: Hologram.IndustriesInventors: Hugues Souparis, Valéry Petiton, Vincent Tollet
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Patent number: 9235948Abstract: A device for checking a secured object provided with at least one security element for generating sequential or dynamic optical effects according to the orientation thereof and/or the movements applied thereto, has a display screen, a position and/or motion sensor and a device for generating and displaying on the screen a simulation of the nominal security element associated with the secured object, the display depending on the orientation of the device as determined by the position and/or motion sensor, so as to be able to compare the security element of the object to be checked and the simulation according to the respective orientations or movements thereof. A method for checking the secured object is by means of such a device.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2010Date of Patent: January 12, 2016Assignee: HOLOGRAM INDUSTRIESInventor: Hugues Souparis
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Publication number: 20150251480Abstract: An optical security component designed to be observed in a spectral observation band of between 380 nm and 780 nm by direct reflection, comprising an observation face and identifiable information, the component successively including, starting from the side opposite the observation face, a first support layer, identification elements obtained by printing an absorbent material in at least part of the visible spectrum, with a low refractive index, to reproduce at least part of the identifiable information, at least part of the identification elements being structured on one of their faces opposite the face across from the support layer, to form a first subwavelength grating, a second layer, with a high refractive index, covering the first support layer and the identification elements, and a third layer, with a low refractive index, transparent in the observation spectral band of the component.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2013Publication date: September 10, 2015Applicant: Hologram.IndustriesInventor: Hugues Souparis
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Publication number: 20150084327Abstract: An optical security component intended to be checked in reflection in a checking spectral band includes a layer that is reflective in the checking spectral band. The layer exhibits a structured zone that includes microstructures distributed spatially in a uniform manner over a whole of the structured zone so as to form an optical structure that is at least partially scattering in the checking spectral band. The microstructures have heights that are distributed according to a random function, modulated over the structured zone by a modulation function so as to form, after illumination of the optical security component at a given angle, an image identifiable by observation in reflection.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2013Publication date: March 26, 2015Inventors: Hugues Souparis, Valéry Petiton, Vincent Tollet
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Publication number: 20140333058Abstract: The invention relates to a prefabricated secure foldable multilayer label intended to be adhered onto a substrate, including built-in security means (13, 23), characterized in that it includes a first flap (1) and a second flap (2), each including a transparent substrate layer (11, 21), said flaps being separated by a folding line and capable of overlapping and being adhered along a first surface (61, 62) of said flaps (1, 2). According to one advantageous aspect, the prefabricated label includes a removable printable sheet (4), which can be used e.g. as a receipt. The invention also relates to the manufacture of said secure label.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2012Publication date: November 13, 2014Inventors: Fabio Tremolada, Hugues Souparis, Georges Houston
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Publication number: 20130241190Abstract: A description is given of a document with a hologram as a security feature, in particular an identity card (12), consisting of a polycarbonate card body (10), which has a volume hologram label (2, 9) embedded therein. A description is additionally given of a method for producing the document, in which volume hologram labels (2) arranged on a carrier sheet are brought into contact with adhesive regions (4) on a thermoplastic sheet (5.1), the adhesive surfaces are cured and the carrier sheet is then removed. A second plastics sheet (5.2) is then adhesively bonded onto the first plastics sheet (5.1), bearing the hologram labels, using a second adhesive (7) in the region of the hologram labels (2) to form a two-layered sheet composite (6) which, finally, is laminated, together with further thermoplastic sheets, in a card-lamination press, under the action of pressure and temperature, to give a card body (10), individual identity cards (12) being punched out.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2011Publication date: September 19, 2013Applicant: HOLOGRAM INDUSTRIES RESEARCH GMBHInventors: Irina Menz, Andreas Wanke, Gunther Dausmann, Philippe Huet, Hugues Souparis
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Publication number: 20130002713Abstract: A method for making an object secure comprises creating a multi-layer graphic signature by superposing, in partial or total transparency, a first random graphic element on a first layer to a second graphic element on a second layer, and storing the graphic signature on or in the object. The method is essentially characterized in that the relative position of the first graphic element and of the second graphic element is random.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2010Publication date: January 3, 2013Applicant: HOLOGRAM INDUSTRIESInventors: Hugues Souparis, Kristen Le Liboux
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Publication number: 20120269402Abstract: A device for checking a secured object provided with at least one security element for generating sequential or dynamic optical effects according to the orientation thereof and/or the movements applied thereto, has a display screen, a position and/or motion sensor and a device for generating and displaying on the screen a simulation of the nominal security element associated with the secured object, the display depending on the orientation of the device as determined by the position and/or motion sensor, so as to be able to compare the security element of the object to be checked and the simulation according to the respective orientations or movements thereof. A method for checking the secured object is by means of such a device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2010Publication date: October 25, 2012Applicant: HOLOGRAM INDUSTRIESInventor: Hugues Souparis
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Patent number: 8246081Abstract: A security marking system for producing a secure marking label includes a support sheet, such as a silicon-containing sheet, having two separate flaps on a first folding line, the first flap supporting, on the recto side, a first holographic component whereof the surface contacting the support sheet is coated with an adhesive film. The second flap supports, on the same recto side, a second component formed by a film whereof the surface contacting the support sheet is coated with an adhesive film and the opposite surface bears personalizing indicia. The first flap includes a second folding line that is substantially parallel to the first folding line.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2006Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: Hologram IndustriesInventor: Hugues Souparis
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Patent number: 7875338Abstract: A component for authenticating a document or a product including a plastic film having at least one embossed surface, a metallization layer at least partially covering the embossed surface, the film and the metallized layer forming an embossed film having a first zone producing a rainbow effect according to a first orientation of the component in relation to a lighting direction, the rainbow effect disappearing when the component is oriented substantially perpendicularly to the first orientation, and a second zone which has been partially demetallized and remetallized with a dielectric material producing an effect of being colored by a first color for the first orientation of the component and by a second different color for the orientation substantially perpendicular to the first orientation.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2002Date of Patent: January 25, 2011Assignee: Hologram Industries (S.A.)Inventor: Hugues Souparis
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Publication number: 20080252067Abstract: The invention concerns a security marking system for producing a secure marking label, comprising a support sheet (1) such as a silicon-containing sheet having two separate flaps (4, 5) on a first folding line (2), the first flap (4) supporting on the recto side a first holographic component (6) whereof the surface contacting the support sheet is coated with an adhesive film (7). The second flap (5) supports on the same recto side a second component formed by a film (8) whereof the surface contacting the support sheet is coated with an adhesive film (9) and the opposite surface bears personalizing indicia (10), and the first flap comprises a second folding line (3) substantially parallel to the first folding line.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2006Publication date: October 16, 2008Inventor: Hugues Souparis
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Publication number: 20080106090Abstract: An identity document including a support; and a transparent protective film laminated on the support to seal personal information of the individual, wherein the protective film includes inscription of a first unique identification datum of the film among a plurality of films.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2007Publication date: May 8, 2008Applicant: Hologram Industries, a corporation of FranceInventors: Andre Pustel, Hugues Souparis
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Publication number: 20060035066Abstract: A process for producing an optical security component including stamping a transparent film with a matrix having a first type of zone whose surface state is matte, and a second type of zone whose surface state has cuttings/slits for forming a diffraction network; depositing a layer of dielectric material with a high optical index on an entire surface, under a vacuum, on the film; partial metallization of the film by depositing a layer of metal on only part of the zones of each types whereas the other part remains transparent; and applying an adhesion layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2005Publication date: February 16, 2006Applicant: Hologram Industries, a corporation of FranceInventors: Hugues Souparis, Thierry Sevegrand
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Patent number: 6943952Abstract: An optical security component for authenticating a document or a product including a transparent plastic film embossed to form an embossed surface and to have at least one diffraction grating; a layer of dielectric material of high optical index at least partially coated on the embossed surface and producing a colored effect of a first color for a first orientation of the component and a second different color for orientation perpendicular to the first orientation; a low optical index layer coated on a side opposite the viewing direction of the dielectric material; and a colored contrast layer having transparent zones and colored zones on the low optical index layer.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2004Date of Patent: September 13, 2005Assignee: Hologram Industries (SA)Inventor: Hugues Souparis