Laser On Incorporated Hologram Patents (Class 283/86)
  • Patent number: 12151500
    Abstract: An optically variable security element for securing valuable articles, has a relief grid having a plurality of relief elements arranged in a grid pattern and at least one line grid arranged vertically above or below the relief grid and having a plurality of line elements that run substantially in the same direction and that are location-dependently modulated. The relief grid and the at least one line grid coact to produce for a viewer, through the location-dependent modulation of the line elements, a surface that, with respect to the area of the security element, jumps out and/or back in the form of a specified three-dimensional image motif.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: GIESECK+DEVRIENT CURRENCY TECHNOLOGY GMBH
    Inventors: Martin Imhof, Astrid Heine, Raphael Dehmel, Andrea Hofstetter
  • Patent number: 12043056
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a card comprising a transparent window. The window comprises a front side and a back side. The method comprises steps of printing a color picture on the back side of the window and laser engraving the front side of the window. Also provided is a device configured to carry out the above-described method and a card manufactured with the above-described method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: IAI industrial systems B.V.
    Inventor: Wilhelmus Gerardus Johannes Maria Hospel
  • Patent number: 11584151
    Abstract: Provided is an information display medium that can enhance a forgery prevention effect. An information display medium (100) includes a light reflection layer (20) made of a metal or a metallic oxide and partially or fully placed on one surface of a substrate, and the light reflection layer (20) includes a first region (30) where first information is displayed by either of or a combination of an outline shape and a shape of an uneven region, and a second information display region (21a) where identification information formed by partial material removal of the light reflection layer (20), the second information display region being set to partially or fully overlap with the light reflection layer (20) where the first information is displayed in the first region (30).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Soko Koda, Akihito Kagotani, Toshiki Toda
  • Patent number: 11361177
    Abstract: A composite information bearing device comprising an image pattern and a human readable data device. The human readable data device includes a set of human readable data symbols representing a first set of data. The first set of data includes a first data portion and a second data portion. The image pattern represents a second set of data and comprises a third data portion. One of the first or said second data portions is to form an identification code upon combination or concatenation with said third data portion, and the other one of said first or said second data portions not forming part of said identification code is to form a verification code, the verification code being related to said identification code by a scheme of operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: INFOTOO INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Tak Wai Lau, Wing Hong Lam
  • Patent number: 11077698
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a thin volume hologram sheet to be embedded sufficiently resistant to a mechanical stress such as a stress including a tensile stress, a shear stress and a compression stress at the time of processing even under a heating condition, a forgery prevention paper and a card using the same. The object is achieved by providing a volume hologram sheet to be embedded comprising a volume hologram layer, and a substrate disposed only on one side surface of the volume hologram layer using an adhesion means, wherein a peeling strength of the volume hologram layer and the substrate is 25 gf/25 mm or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobuko Oikawa, Minoru Azakami
  • Patent number: 11057644
    Abstract: A distribution system includes circuitry to: encrypt a part of each of a plurality of images constituting a video image, the part having an angle of view other than a normal angle of view; provide a decryption key to a receiving client terminal operated by an authorized viewer; decrypt the part of each of the plurality of images having the angle of view other than the normal angle of view by using the decryption key provided; and display the video image based on other part of each of the plurality of images that is not encrypted having the normal angle of view and the decrypted part of each of the plurality of images having the angle of view other than the normal angle of view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Horiuchi, Hideki Shiro, Hiroshi Hinohara, Ryo Ogawa
  • Patent number: 10792950
    Abstract: The invention relates to a multilayer body with a carrier film, a partial reflective layer, arranged on the surface of the carrier film, which is at least partially transparent in a first area and opaque in a second area, a partial decorative layer, arranged on a surface of the carrier film and/or the side of the decorative layer facing away from the carrier film, which is present in a third area and not present in a fourth area, wherein the first area overlaps the third area and the second area overlaps the third and the fourth areas. The invention furthermore relates to a method for producing such a multilayer body, a security element with such a multilayer body and a security document with such a security element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: OVD KINEGRAM AG
    Inventor: Andreas Schilling
  • Patent number: 10788792
    Abstract: According to one example, there is provided a visual security feature. The visual security feature comprises a security feature printed on a media. The security feature includes a security code printed on the media, and a holographic image is embossed on the printed security feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: HP Indigo B.V.
    Inventors: Gideon Amir, Mark Sandler, Shai Lior, Dror Kella
  • Patent number: 10787020
    Abstract: A method for producing a security device (1) comprising a first colour pattern (A) visible along an associated viewing axis (??) and at least one second colour pattern (B) visible along an associated viewing axis (??), comprising the following steps:—assembling an image layer (4) suitable for forming at least one colour pattern (A, B) by laser etching, on a support (3),—laser etching the first colour pattern (A) in the image layer (4), along the associated viewing axis (??) of same, in such a way that it can be seen through a lens array (7),—for each of said at least one second colour pattern (B), laser etching said at least one second colour pattern (A) in the image layer (4), along the associated viewing axis (??) of same, in such a way that it can be seen through a lens array (7). A security device (1) obtained by said method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: IDEMIA FRANCE
    Inventors: Benoit Berthe, Coralie Vandroux
  • Patent number: 10783576
    Abstract: In some embodiments, exemplary user interfaces for provisioning an electronic device with an account are described. In some embodiments, exemplary user interfaces for providing usage information of an account are described. In some embodiments, exemplary user interfaces for providing visual feedback on a representation of an account are described. In some embodiments, exemplary user interfaces for managing the tracking of a category are described. In some embodiments, exemplary user interfaces for managing a transfer of items are described. In some embodiments, exemplary user interfaces for managing an authentication credential connected with an account are described. In some embodiments, exemplary user interfaces for activating a physical account object are described. In some embodiments, exemplary user interfaces for managing balance transfers are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Marcel Van Os, Charles Tesan Ahn, Jae Woo Chang, Teofila Connor, Jarad Fisher, Nicholas V. King, Pedro Mari, Mischa McLachlan, Ashish Nagre, Glen W. Steele, Alan C. Dye
  • Patent number: 10444704
    Abstract: A holographic film is encoded on a pixel-by-pixel basis by sequentially irradiating each pixel using a movable laser that directs light against a suitable object that in turn deflects the light toward the film. The film can then be used as a display for playing back demanded images using a laser or in some cases LEDs to irradiate each pixel on a pixel-by-pixel basis according to the demanded image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Jeffrey R. Stafford
  • Patent number: 10192155
    Abstract: Light-modifying elements of a multi-dimensional barcode are arranged along first and second directions that are orthogonal to each other in a pattern that stores first and second quantities of information stored in the barcode. Some of the elements have different elevations along a third direction that is orthogonal to the first and second directions to store a third quantity of the information. Some of the elements are colored to store a fourth quantity of the information. A surrounding medium at least partially encases at least some of the elements. The surrounding medium has a characteristic that stores a fifth quantity of the information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Zortag, Inc.
    Inventors: Satya Prakash Sharma, Joseph Marino
  • Patent number: 10174203
    Abstract: Magnetic pigments containing a transparent flaky homogeneously composed substrate having two parallel major surfaces and a coating containing maghemite, a process for the production of said pigments as well as their use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Kaiman Shimizu, Tamio Noguchi, Fumiko Sasaki, Yukitaka Watanabe, Masahiko Yazawa
  • Patent number: 10139639
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a curved substrate having a first curvature and a curved grating layer corresponding to the curved substrate and having a second curvature, wherein, light that is emitted into the display panel is converged by means of the curved substrate having the first curvature and the curved grating layer corresponding to the substrate and having the second curvature, so as to reduce crosstalk between view images. Further, focusing effect of the view images viewed can be improved such that stereoscopic effect of the view image viewed is much more excellent as the distance between each point of the curved substrate and each point of the curved grating layer along the viewing direction is equal to the focal length for the grating structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wei Wei
  • Patent number: 10115324
    Abstract: A security element, in particular for security labels or adhesive strips, includes the following layers: a) a carrier substrate; b) a reflective layer or a layer with a high refractive index; c) a partial separating lacquer layer; and d) an all-over adhesive coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: HUECK FOLIEN GES.M.B.H.
    Inventors: Georg Aigner, Johann Hilburger
  • Patent number: 10099503
    Abstract: A forgery prevention structure, in one configuration, includes a relief forming layer, a first reflection layer, a functional thin film layer, a second reflection layer and a protection layer in this order. In this configuration, the relief forming layer has a relief structure comprising a first relief and a second relief; each of the reliefs has an uneven surface, a surface area of the uneven surface of the first relief being smaller than a surface area of the uneven surface of the second relief; the first reflection layer and the functional thin film layer each are provided along a whole of the uneven surfaces of the reliefs and each has uneven surfaces corresponding respectively to the uneven surfaces of the reliefs; and the second reflection layer and the protection layer each has an uneven surface corresponding to the uneven surface of the first relief.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Yashiki
  • Patent number: 10086592
    Abstract: A label 1 includes a first colored layer 10, a second colored layer 20 having a different color from the first colored layer 10, and an indicating layer 30 having a different color from the first colored layer 10 and the second colored layer 20. The indicating layer 30 is fitted into the first colored layer 10 so as to have an exposed surface on one surface of the first colored layer 10. The second colored layer 20 is laminated on the other surface F2 of the first colored layer 10. The curing shrinkage ratio of the first colored layer 10 is larger than that of the indicating layer 30.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: NIPPON CARBIDE INDUSTRIES, CO., INC.
    Inventors: Satoshi Kyoda, Shogo Nakada
  • Patent number: 10059981
    Abstract: The invention provides methods for increasing the recoverability of taggants from an object. The methods include the steps of incorporating a taggant into a solution; mixing the solution including the taggant with a perturbant to form a first perturbant taggant solution; mixing the first perturbant taggant solution with a polymer to form a second perturbant taggant polymer solution; and applying the second perturbant taggant polymer solution to at least a portion of the object to form a taggant-coated object. Methods for authentication of a taggant marked object are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: APDN (B.V.I.) INC.
    Inventors: Lawrence Jung, MingHwa Benjamin Liang, James A. Hayward
  • Patent number: 9922935
    Abstract: A semiconductor package including a marking film and a method of fabricating the same are provided wherein a marking film including a thermoreactive layer may be applied to a molding layer to protect a semiconductor chip under the molding layer and to efficiently perform a marking process. The thickness of the molding layer may thereby be reduced so the entire thickness of the semiconductor package may be reduced. Also, it is possible to prevent warpage of the semiconductor package through the marking film, provide the surface of the semiconductor package with gloss and freely adjust the color of the surface of the semiconductor package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yeongseok Kim
  • Patent number: 9789726
    Abstract: An optically variable areal pattern has a reflection layer and a micromirror arrangement comprising a plurality of semitransparent micromirrors developed on the reflection layer. The micromirrors are inclined with respect to the reflection layer, such that, by specular reflection, light incident on the micromirror arrangement is reflected on the semitransparent micromirrors. The incident light is reflected partly in a first direction and partly in a second direction that is different from the first direction, in that it passes through the semitransparent micromirrors, impinges on the reflection layer, and is reflected there and, thereafter, again passes through the semitransparent micromirrors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: GIESECKE+DEVRIENT CURRENCY TECHNOLOGY GMBH
    Inventor: Christian Fuhse
  • Patent number: 9550390
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: Hologram.Industries
    Inventors: Hugues Souparis, Valéry Petiton, Vincent Tollet
  • Patent number: 9483719
    Abstract: The invention relates to improvements in substrates and in particular to new substrates having magnetic and visual security features, which provide security against imitation. A security substrate comprising a transparent polymer carrier layer bearing indicia formed from a plurality of opaque and non-opaque regions and a transparent magnetic layer supported by the carrier layer containing a distribution of particles of a hard magnetic material of a size and distributed in a concentration at which the magnetic layer remains transparent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: De La Rue International Limited
    Inventors: Roland Isherwood, James Snelling, Alan Brown
  • Patent number: 9459385
    Abstract: A film and a process for its production includes a light-permeable replication lacquer layer with a diffractive relief structure formed in a first side of the replication lacquer layer, a light-permeable color lacquer layer, formed only in areas, arranged on the relief structure, and a reflective layer, formed at least in areas, arranged on the first side of the replication lacquer layer. In areas of the film where the color lacquer layer and the reflective layer overlap, the color lacquer layer is arranged between the replication lacquer layer and the reflective layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: LEONHARD KURZ STIFTUNG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Ludwig Brehm, Hans Peter Bezold, Dieter Geim
  • Patent number: 9007669
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a security element (12) for protecting valuable articles, having a thin-film element (30) that has a color-shift effect and that includes an absorber layer (36) having gaps (38) in the region of which no color-shift effect is perceptible, and a relief pattern (26) that is arranged only in gapped absorber layer regions (38) below the thin-film element (30).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbH
    Inventor: Manfred Heim
  • Patent number: 8998264
    Abstract: An identification document (10) comprises a personalized first visual marking (14) that is arranged in a first region (12) of the identification document (10), the first region (12) being configured in such a way that, upon laser irradiation of the same, local darkenings of the optical impression of the identification document (10) are produced, resulting from material transformations. The identification document (10) further exhibits a second visual marking (26) that produces the optical impression of a copy of the first visual marking (14) and is arranged in a second region (22) of the identification document (10), the second region (22) being configured in such a way that, upon laser irradiation of the same, local lightenings of the optical impression of the identification document (10) are produced, resulting from material transformations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbH
    Inventors: Walter Dorfler, Alfons Assfalg
  • Patent number: 8957761
    Abstract: A higher forgery prevention effect is realized. A display includes a first interface section provided with a relief-type diffraction grating constituted by a plurality of grooves, and a second interface section provided with a plurality of recesses or projections arranged two-dimensionally at a center-to-center distance smaller than the minimum center-to-center distance of the plural grooves, and each having a forward tapered shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Toppan Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiki Toda, Akira Nagano, Shingo Maruyama
  • Patent number: 8941904
    Abstract: A main object of the present invention is to provide a hologram observation sheet with a transmission type hologram formed integrally with other members, to be attached with various members for the use as for example an advertising medium or a decoration member. To achieve the object, the invention provides a hologram sheet comprising: a transparent substrate, a hologram layer formed on the transparent substrate and having a transmission type Fourier transform hologram region having the function of transforming a light beam incident from a point light source to a desired optical image, and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Eto, Yasuyuki Oyagi, Mitsuru Kitamura, Masachika Watanabe
  • Patent number: 8912118
    Abstract: A method of color laser marking an article having a polymeric foil with at least one colorless layer containing an infrared absorber, a polymeric binder and a color forming compound; including the steps of:—laser marking the colorless layer with an infrared laser using a first laser operation mode to generate a blue or cyan color; and—laser marking the same colorless layer with an infrared laser using a second laser operation mode to generate a black color, wherein the first laser operation mode applies less energy to the colorless layer than the second laser operation mode. Also disclosed is an article, such as a security document, including a polymeric foil and a colorless layer containing laser marked graphical data having a blue or cyan color and laser marked information having a black color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert N.V.
    Inventors: Paul Callant, Ingrid Geuens, Bart Waumans, Hubertus Van Aert
  • Patent number: 8896647
    Abstract: A method is described for producing a character, pattern, symbol and/or image (8) on a substrate (2) by way of pigment particles (1) which are arranged thereon and lose their color effect under the action of a laser (23), wherein different pigment particles (1) with at least three different color effects are arranged on and/or in the substrate (2). The invention is distinguished by the following method steps: (a) production of a color chart (14), in which the individual color effect of individual pigment particles (1) or individual clusters of pigment particles is contained as a function of their spatial coordinate on and/or in the substrate (2); (b) spatially resolved irradiation, which changes the color effect of only individual pigment particles (1) or individual clusters of pigment particles, by way of a laser (23) at a single frequency on the basis of the color chart (14) in order to produce a resulting color effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: U-NICA Technology AG
    Inventors: Rainer Goldau, Klaus Schafer
  • Patent number: 8865374
    Abstract: A package that has at least one hologram on its exterior surface is formed from a paper, paperboard or thermoplastic substrate material that has an inner surface and an outer surface. The outer surface has a radiation curable particulate metal containing coating. This coating is cured and zero to one or more ink containing coatings are applied to the radiation curable particulate metal containing coating in areas that are not to have a hologram. Each of these ink containing coatings are cured, and a substantially transparent radiation curable coating is applied to the areas deficient in the zero to one or more ink coatings. This substantially transparent radiation curable coating is contacted with a substantially transparent holographic shim in an area not having thereon ink containing coatings while curing radiation is applied to the substantially transparent radiation curable coating and the substantially transparent shim.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventor: John A. Sarnataro
  • Patent number: 8857856
    Abstract: A security foil includes two or more carrier substrates which have at least one optically active structure and at least two metal layers. The security foil is composed as follows: a) a first carrier substrate, b) a first radiation-curable lacquer layer into which an optically active structure is incorporated, c) a first metal layer, d) a protective lacquer layer, e) an adhesive layer, f) a second carrier substrate, g) a second radiation-curable lacquer layer, h) a second metal layer, i) optionally a protective lacquer layer, and k) optionally an adhesive coating. The adhesion between the layers g) and h) or f) and g) is significantly lower than the adhesion between the remaining layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Hueck Folien Ges.m.b.H.
    Inventor: Marco Mayrhofer
  • Patent number: 8861056
    Abstract: A major object of the present invention is to provide a volume hologram transfer foil that gives a volume hologram laminate higher in antiforgery function. The present invention achieves the object by providing a volume hologram transfer foil comprising: a substrate, a volume hologram layer carrying a recorded volume hologram that is formed on the substrate, and an image forming layer carrying a formed image and a heat seal layer containing a thermoplastic resin that are formed on the volume hologram layer, and comprising no reflective layer having a function to reflect light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Eto, Minoru Azakami, Kazutoshi Awano, Kenji Ueda
  • Patent number: 8801043
    Abstract: A method of creating a substrate containing multiple holographic images. The method includes dividing the substrate into a plurality of equally sized print surfaces and placing a holographic image on each of the print surfaces. Wherein the holographic image is placed at substantially the same location on each of the print surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Hazen Paper Company
    Inventor: John Hazen
  • Patent number: 8778834
    Abstract: A multi-layer card-shaped data carrier has a marking layer containing a hidden marking, and a thermochromic cover layer arranged over the marking layer at least in the area of the hidden marking. The thermochromic cover layer is opaque below its change temperature, hides the marking, and is translucent or transparent above its change temperature, enabling viewing of the marking. The thermochromic cover layer is pervious to radiation outside the visible spectral range and the marking layer absorbs radiation energy outside the visible spectral range, so that the hidden marking can be incorporated into the marking layer through the thermochromic cover layer by laser radiation of a wavelength outside the visible spectral range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbH
    Inventors: Günter Endres, Tobias Salzer
  • Patent number: 8755121
    Abstract: An optical device projecting one or more synthetically magnified images that has been laser marked with one or more static two dimensional (2D) images is provided. The static 2D image(s) laser marked on or within this device and the synthetically magnified image(s) projected by this device help determine the authenticity of a document (e.g., passport data page) or product that employs it. Several embodiments of the inventive device also offer increased resistance to tampering or alteration and wear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignees: Crane & Co., Inc., Crane AB, Visual Physics, LLC
    Inventors: Samuel M. Cape, Jonathan D. Gosnell, Kaj Markkus Helminen, Gregory R. Jordan, Scott K. Palm, Giles D. Prett, Timothy W. Schneider, Anthony J. Zucchero
  • Patent number: 8743459
    Abstract: The present invention provides for a diffractive element comprising a diffractive optical microstructure consisting of a modulated structure of a diffractive type which upon illumination by diffused ambient light creates a two-dimensional image to be viewed by an observer upon tilting or rotating the device or by varying lighting direction, wherein the diffractive modulated structure of the device consists of various generally parameterised special optical elements with specifically prescribed groove shapes, wherein each groove shape, position, center(s), and line thickness, are described by functions describing those dependencies which are variables of the positional coordinate of the optical element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Inventors: Libor Kotacka, Petr Vizdal, Vladimir Kolarik, Lukas Danek
  • Publication number: 20140131990
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method of processing a security item 1. The security item comprises a holographic security feature 2 having at least one metallised layer. The holographic security feature 2 is applied to the reverse of a substantially transparent film through which the holographic security feature is viewed in use of the security item. The transparent film protects the holographic security feature from the environment in the finished security item. The method includes the step of applying laser radiation to the metallised layer of the holographic security feature through the transparent film to remove a portion of the metallisation to define a pattern of identifying information on the holographic security feature. The method has the advantage that the hologram can be customised with identifying information after manufacture of the security item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2012
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: Andrews & Wykeham Limited
    Inventor: Maxim Zolotukhin
  • Patent number: 8622433
    Abstract: The invention relates to a value document, such as bank note, passport or the like, which has a security paper and a marking produced with the help of a laser, the security paper having at least one partial area with a coating, and the marking extending over the border area between coating and security paper. Further, the invention relates to a security paper and methods for producing an inventive value document and security paper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbH
    Inventors: Georg Depta, Karlheinz Mayer, Christof Baldus, Peter Franz, Max Voit, Walter Dörfler
  • Patent number: 8573650
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a security feature for a security element, a security paper or a data carrier that exhibits a substrate into which at least one through opening and at least one marking in registration with the through opening are to be introduced. The method includes the steps of providing a substrate with a laser-modifiable marking substance at least in the region of the marking to be produced and, in the same operation, introducing at least one through opening into the substrate by the action of laser radiation at higher laser power and modifying the laser-modifiable marking substance in the marking region by the action of laser radiation at a lower laser power to produce at least one marking in registration with the through opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbH
    Inventors: André Gregarek, Manfred Heim, Bernhard Wiedner
  • Patent number: 8562026
    Abstract: The invention concerns a security element (3?) having a top side and an underside and a process for the production thereof. The security element has a transparent layer (33?) with a non-homogenous refractive index, in which a plurality of Bragg planes are formed by a refractive index variation. The transparent layer (33?) is of a layer thickness of between 5 ?m and 200 ?m and the transparent layer (33?) has a plurality of first zones (41) of a smallest dimension of less than 300 ?m, which are arranged in accordance with a first grid raster in a one-dimensional or two-dimensional succession in mutually adjacent relationship and in which the Bragg planes of the transparent layer are respectively shaped to provide a respective transmissive optical imaging function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: OVD Kinegram AG
    Inventors: Wayne Robert Tompkin, Michael Scharfenberg, Ludwig Brehm, Andreas Schilling
  • Patent number: 8559084
    Abstract: A major object of the present invention is to provide a volume hologram transfer foil that gives a volume hologram laminate higher in antiforgery function. The present invention achieves the object by providing a volume hologram transfer foil comprising: a substrate, a volume hologram layer carrying a recorded volume hologram that is formed on the substrate, and an image forming layer carrying a formed image and a heat seal layer containing a thermoplastic resin that are formed on the volume hologram layer, and comprising no reflective layer having a function to reflect light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Eto, Minoru Azakami, Kazutoshi Awano, Kenji Ueda
  • Patent number: 8556299
    Abstract: This invention provides an information recording patch that allows accurate authenticity discrimination, a printed sheet, and an authenticity discrimination method therefor. An information recording patch includes a protective layer (1), intermediate layer (2), metal layer (3), and adhesive layer (4). The protective layer (1) made of a material having a predetermined dielectric constant is arranged at the uppermost layer. The intermediate layer (2) made of a material having a predetermined dielectric constant has, on its surface, a three-dimensional pattern corresponding to the design of a hologram forming layer including the intermediate layer and the metal layer. The metal layer (3) made of a material having a predetermined conductivity is arranged on the three-dimensional surface of the intermediate layer to form a conductive film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: National Printing Bureau, Incorporated Administrative Agency
    Inventors: Noriyuki Suto, Kenichi Kimura
  • Patent number: 8551673
    Abstract: An optically variable magnetic stripe assembly includes a magnetic layer, an optically variable effect generating layer over the magnetic layer, and an electrically non-conductive reflective layer between the magnetic layer and the optically variable effect generating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: De La Rue International Limited
    Inventors: Brian William Holmes, Malcolm Robert Murray Knight, David Allen Stone
  • Patent number: 8542442
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an isotropic zero-order diffractive color filter, to a method to manufacture an embossing tool and to a method to manufacture such a filter. The zero-order diffractive color filter comprises diffractive microstructures and a wave-guiding layer, wherein the diffractive microstructures possess a short range ordering over at least four times the period of the microstructures, and the diffractive microstructures possess a long range disordering over length scales of more than 100 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique SA—Recherche et Developpement
    Inventors: Nicolas Blondiaux, Mickaël Guillaumee, Raphaël Pugin, Ross Stanley, Alexander Stuck, Harald Walter
  • Patent number: 8517427
    Abstract: An information page (1) and method are provided for a security document. The information page includes: an information part (3), and an attachment part (2) for attaching the information part to the security document. In order to make forgery visually detectable, the information part (3) is provided with a unique identifier (5), and the attachment part (2, 2?) is provided with the same unique identifier (5) as the information part (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Setec Oy
    Inventors: Jari Herlin, Mika Holmberg, Maila Korhonen, Taru Syrjänen, Ari Vairola
  • Patent number: 8498033
    Abstract: An optical device exhibiting a color shift upon rotation is disclosed. The optical device has a textured surface having a relief structure finer than a human eye resolution but large enough not to exhibit diffraction effects. The textured surface is coated with an interference thin film that exhibits a color shift with tilt. A uniform color seen at one angle of rotation changes to another uniform color when the optical device is rotated in its own plane. A method of manufacturing of such an optical device, as well as the use of the optical device as an optical security and authentication element, is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: JDS Uniphase Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew R. Witzman, Jason Satern, Roger W. Phillips, Oleg Bouevitch
  • Patent number: 8474874
    Abstract: A moiré pattern display sheet is defined by a surface, with the surface being configured to be curved. A first layer has a pattern printed thereon. The pattern comprises a series of visual elements in a first row that have been distorted at least in a first direction. At least some of the series of visual elements are printed to approximately follow an arc having a sweep angle associated therewith. A light steering optical layer overlays the first layer. The light steering optical layer comprises a plurality of parallel optical features which each have a width and which change the direction of the light and thereby provide a depth effect of the visual elements to a viewer looking through the light steering optical layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Travel Tags, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony Lynn Hoffman, John Tomczyk, Alain Yves Abdelkader
  • Patent number: 8472095
    Abstract: A method for producing true three dimension imagery includes positioning an object to be imaged and directing imaging laser beams to impinge upon the object. Splitting the imaging laser beams after the imaging laser beams have impinged upon the object is then accomplished, while redirecting the split imaging beams to a recording substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Hazen Paper Company
    Inventors: Keith R. McCrodden, John H. Hazen
  • Patent number: 8456722
    Abstract: A forgery prevention medium includes a volume hologram layer on which an interference pattern is recorded after being exposed to an emitted laser beam; a digital watermarking information layer that can be interpreted by emitting a light beam with a predetermined wavelength; and an adherend that has the digital watermarking information layer and is attached to the volume hologram layer, wherein the information layer is of a different color from the volume hologram layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Yamauchi, Mitsuru Kitamura, Makio Kurashige, Tomoki Yasuda
  • Patent number: RE44890
    Abstract: An authenticity indicator is difficult to be forged and has an authenticity that can be confirmed easily and accurately. The authenticity of the authenticity indicator can be checked by making light enter the authenticity indicator from front side and observing the light emerging from the front side or rear side. The authenticity indicator includes a polarized-light selectively reflecting layer that reflects a specified polarized component of incident light, and a transmission volume hologram layer disposed on the front side of the polarized-light selectively reflecting layer. According to this authenticity indicator, its authenticity can be checked accurately by making use of its first authenticity recognition function attributed to the diffracting action of the transmission volume hologram layer and its second authenticity recognition function attributed to the polarized-light selectivity of the polarized-light selectively reflecting layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tomoko Kumasawa