Abstract: A method for generating an at least partial fluorescent property in a material is provided. The method comprises providing the material, providing a laser, arranging the material in a beam path of the laser such that the laser can selectively section wise irradiate the material, and at least section wise irradiating a surface of the material with the laser. The at least sectionwise irradiating of the surface of the material with the laser is performed until visible traces of smoke are formed on the irradiated areas of the surface of the material, whereby a fluorescent property is generated in the irradiated areas.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for storing geofencing information within a SIM card. The geofencing information within the SIM (subscriber identity module) card is updated using an OTA (over the air) Update Server. Such geofencing information for a particular enterprise network is pushed to the SIM within a UE (user equipment) upon detecting that the UE is near, or within, the campus of an enterprise network. In some embodiments, the UE requests an update from the OTA Update Server.

Abstract: In a method for manufacturing a multi-layered card body with a metallic core layer and at least one cover layer for a contactless or dual-interface chip card an adhesive is applied to at least one side of the metallic core layer in such a manner that a slot in the metallic core layer is filled with the adhesive. The metallic core layer is subsequently laminated with the cover layer by means of the adhesive. As a result, no short-circuit can occur in the slot, e.g. by metal chips remaining in the slot, because the slot has already been filled with the adhesive.

Abstract: It is disclosed a security element comprising a substantially flat substrate including first and second areas, wherein the first area displays a first motif and generates a first color movement effect to be seen in the first motif while the substrate gets tilted over a first angular tilting range, the second area displays a second motif and generates a second color effect to be seen in the second motif and within a second angular tilting range, the first and second angular tilting ranges are different, and the first area comprises either a micro-mirror structure or a print of magnetically oriented pigments and the second area comprises the other one of the micro-mirror structure and the print of magnetically oriented pigments.

Abstract: A security feature for a value document, into which markings are introduced by at least one laser beam, includes at least one laser-sensitive recording layer which is transparent in the visible spectral range, light-diffracting or light-refracting structures arranged on a first side of the recording layer, at least one first marking which is introduced into the at least one recording layer by a laser beam from at least one direction through the light-diffracting or light-refracting structures into the at least one recording layer and is visible when viewed from the same direction from a second side, at least one second marking which is introduced into the at least one recording layer with a laser beam from the second side of the recording layer and is visible when viewed from the first and the second side.

Abstract: A sensor and a method for checking value documents are provided, each having a luminescent sheet-like substrate and a luminescent feature applied to a partial surface of the substrate, and to a value document processing apparatus. From the spectral vectors obtained for a plurality of measurement points and characterizing the intensity of the luminescent radiation of the value document detected in at least two spectral ranges, substrate intensity values and feature intensity values are determined, based on which a pure substrate mask is determined, which contains only those measurement points which reliably lie outside the feature. From the spectral vectors of the measurement points contained in the pure substrate mask, a mean substrate vector is determined, based on which corrected substrate intensity values and corrected feature intensity values and/or a spectral signature of the substrate and/or of the feature are or is, respectively, determined from the spectral vectors.

Abstract: A card body for a chip card, includes a module opening for receiving a chip module having a coil, a metal layer having a slot which extends from an outer edge of the metal layer to the module opening, and a plastic layer which is applied to one side of the metal layer. The module opening has a blind hole cut out of the plastic layer and the metal layer and an outer area which surrounds the blind hole which is cut out of only part of the height of the plastic layer. A further slot is provided in the outer region in the metal layer.

Abstract: A chip card has a flexible inlay including chip card contacts on an upper face of the inlay and which supports an integrated circuit and an antenna, both of which are spaced apart from the contacts. The chip card further includes a top layer with a recess in which the contacts are placed, and a metal layer which is located below the inlay and includes a slit that extends from a peripheral surface of the metal layer to the area of the recess and extends through the entire thickness of the metal layer.

Abstract: A method is for determining a value of an electromagnetic field strength by means of a chip card, having the steps of: providing a chip card having a coil and an integrated circuit; calibrating the chip card by means of different values of an electromagnetic field strength, wherein a power of the integrated circuit is determined in each case for a specific value of the electromagnetic field strength; correlating the different values of the electro-magnetic field strengths with a corresponding power of the integrated circuit in each case; applying an electromagnetic field strength of an unknown value to the chip card; determining a power of the integrated circuit; and determining the value of the electromagnetic field strength corresponding to this power by means of the correlation.

Abstract: A method for activating a chipcard includes: assigning a unique identifier to the chipcard; assigning the unique identifier to a chipcard record assigned to a designated holder of the chipcard; detecting the unique identifier by a personal device of the card holder; sending, by the personal device, an activation request of the chipcard to an activation server; sending, by the activation server, activation information and request to a chipcard issuer server; activating, by the chipcard issuer server, the chipcard; sending, by the chipcard issuer server, an activation response to the activation server; and sending, by the activation server, an activation confirmation to the personal device. A personal device is described that initiates steps for activating a chipcard.

Abstract: A smart card, has a central area and an edge area surrounding the central area including a first protection layer, a function layer and a second protection layer which are sequentially stacked. The function layer comprises: a read-write module and a light-emitting module. The smart card facilitates the user to know a use state of the smart card, thereby largely avoiding the user from making payment or repeating payment without knowledge, which facilitates ensuring property safety.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method for singling value documents involve a feeding device adapted to feed a respectively uppermost value document of a stack of value documents to a picking device adapted to pick the value document from the stack. A conveying device is adapted to receive the stack and to convey it relative to the feeding device. A distance sensor is adapted to detect at least one distance of the respectively uppermost value document of the stack received by the conveying device relative to the feeding device and generate at least one corresponding distance sensor signal. A control device is adapted to control the conveying of the stack relative to the feeding device and the location of the feeding device relative to the stack based on the distance sensor signal.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing the security element transfer material, a method for the register-accurate transfer of security elements from the security element transfer material to a value document substrate, and a value document which was equipped with a security element while employing the security element transfer material, wherein the security element transfer material has a temporary carrier material and a plurality of security elements and a plurality of register mark elements which are arranged on a main area of the temporary carrier material and have a layered composite structure. Each register mark element represents a register mark or contains a register mark, and each register mark is assigned to at least one security element. Apart from the security elements and the register mark elements, the temporary carrier material is free from layered composite material.

Abstract: A method for producing a chip card, such that the chip card includes a card body and a chip module arranged thereon. The method has the steps of providing a card body; producing a cavity for receiving the chip module; producing at least one component opening for each of one or more electronic components in an overlap region, which is covered by the chip module arranged later; applying soldering material onto the electronic component(s), into the at least one component opening, and/or onto a lower face of the chip module; placing the electronic component(s) in the at least one component opening; introducing the chip module into the cavity; and heating the soldering material.

Abstract: An identification card includes a ceramic substrate with opposite surfaces, and an accommodating part. A marking joint part is arranged in the accommodating part, and the orthogonal projection of the accommodating part on the ceramic substrate covers the orthogonal projection of the marking joint part on the ceramic substrate. The marking joint part includes a bearing layer and a marking part arranged on the bearing layer. The bearing layer and the marking part are of an integrated structure. The ceramic substrate is provided with an accommodating part for setting a marking joint part to ensure the flatness of the identification card, and the orthogonal projection of the accommodating part on the ceramic substrate covers the orthogonal projection of the marking joint part on the ceramic substrate.

Abstract: A value document system, a method for identifying a value document of a value document system, and a luminescent substance set, wherein the value document system includes at least a first value document and a second value document. The first value document has a security feature composed of a combination of at least a first and a second luminescent substance of a first or a second substance class. The second value document has a security feature with at least a first luminescent substance of the first or second substance class. The security feature of the first value document has at least a different intensity ratio of the emission, a different decay time ratio and/or a different decay time sum in two adjacent spectral ranges compared with the security feature of the second value document.

Abstract: The invention disclose a method, an apparatus, a device and a storage medium for detecting a card surface picture. The method comprises the following steps of: identifying region information of an image to be shown in a target picture; generating a picture to be detected according to the region information of the image to be shown; synthesizing the picture to be detected and a preset picture to obtain a synthesized picture; and in response to that it is detected that a fourth pixel value is contained in the synthesized picture, determining that the target picture is unqualified, which improves the efficiency of picture review and further improves the efficiency of card fabrication.

Abstract: A semi-finished product method with a liquid crystal security feature includes unrolling and transporting a continuous film in a transporting direction and providing on the film a liquid crystal layer containing a substance whose absorption of polarized light depends on its orientation. The method includes at least one of (A) arranging a lacquer layer on the film and embossing it for a first alignment structure, and at least partly covering it with the liquid crystal layer, the first alignment structure able to cause liquid crystal molecules of the liquid crystal layer to align only in a first direction in first regions and only in a second direction, in second regions, and (B) embossing the liquid crystal layer while the liquid crystal layer is uncured providing a second alignment structure to cause liquid crystal molecules to align only in a third direction in third regions and only in a fourth direction, in fourth regions.

Abstract: A card body for a chip card, having two metal layers, between which a nonconductive central layer is arranged, wherein a module opening for receive a chip module is already produced in one metal layer and in the aforementioned metal layer or can still be produced in a module opening zone, and two slots, one of which extends from the peripheral surface of the card body to the module opening or to the module opening zone in a metal layer and severs each of the metal layers at a respective height. The entry angle of the two slots into the metal layer does not equal 90° relative to the surface of the metal layer in each case, and the two slots have opposite inclinations relative to a surface normal of the surface of the metal layer.