CN1256779A

CN1256779A - Printed sound profile

Info

Publication number: CN1256779A
Application number: CN99800200.3A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 斯特凡·许布纳
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1998-02-28
Filing date: 1999-02-25
Publication date: 2000-06-14
Also published as: CA2288738A1; HUP0003168A2; DE19808562A1; WO1999044193A1; PL336472A1; WO1999044193B1; JP2002506556A; IL132559A0; EP0979507A2

Abstract

The invention relates to a sound profile for storing and reproducing short sound messages. Said profile is produced using a printing technique and is especially suitable for manual reproduction and for integration into printed products.

Description

The sound profile of printing

The present invention relates to a kind of sound profile that is used to store and reappear brief sound information.Said sound profile produces by using a kind of printing technology, and is adapted to reappear by hand and be integrated into print product especially.

A kind of such sound profile can be known by US 695,159 (device that is used for sound reproduction).Have flat striped (" sound curve clause ") on one side, they have perpendicular to the projection of radial direction stretching, extension and recessed.It can scan with a carriage that serves as pick-up, thereby, produce the realizable mechanical vibration of the sense of hearing.Produce profile by the pin that is connected with film with engraving or cutting.Described another kind of method is to carry out embossment by the embossment cylinder of carving in advance.

US 2,164, and 663 disclose a kind of similar device, but it is that nail is replaced special carriage as scanner.

U.S. Pat 2,997,306 (" books that the page or leaf of talking is arranged ") disclose a book, and the page or leaf of this book has the sound profile of lengthening.Scan this sound profile by a kind of scanning object, people have been set as page or leaf can audiblely to have vibrated.This acoustic information that is stored on the sound profile is relevant with the visual information described on this page in terms of content.Described production method is an embossment.People also can directly apply to this sound profile embossment in the page or leaf on page or the sound profile striped that preferably is made of plastics.

Further, US 4,121,835 (" producing suction pipe sound ") disclose a kind of when pressing the beverage cup lid opening, produce the suction pipe of the sound profile of sound vibration, the method that produces is to take turns with two embossments that generate the sound profile egative films, when leaving extruder than the rear end, the profile embossment to suction pipe.

People wish acoustic information is integrated into a large amount of print products in many aspects, and for example magazine wraps up, books, and can be integrated into securities, banknote, I.D. etc.This allows to realize visual information by acoustic information.But the known sound curve of this usefulness striped comes cheap a large amount of production to run into difficulty, because they need extra careful operation, for example production of embossment and mould is as sound curve striped adheres on the print product.

Prior art further discloses the various printing process that allow surperficial burr to produce.Intaglio and serigraphy are two kinds of known processes.

In intaglio, to compare with non-printing, the printing of this printed panel is depressed.This depressing by engraving and etching produces.Behind the China ink, people make non-print surface not have printing ink on to printed panel.In printing operation, the printing ink of staying recess is transferred on the printing carrier, and still as a projection.Intaglio is used for for example producing banknote, and is used for business card and letter paper.

In serigraphy, the non-printing ink of dusting cover produces part and is covered by masterplate.In printing process, printing ink is forced into the opening portion of the net on printing carrier.Printing ink is still as projection.Serigraphy is used in commercial art designing especially and is used for printing package article.

From prior art, the sound profile that the standard procedure that the present invention is based on provides a kind of application popularization can produce.In addition, this sound profile should be integrated into large-tonnage product, particularly print product easily.It should be adapted to manual scanning further.

According to the present invention, by the feature of claim 1, this problem is solved.Acoustic information is with the height profile curve coding that constitutes like this, so that can easily produce by printing process.This just makes that sound reproduction device is simple and it is cheap to produce.Further, can apply it on many objects by printing process, on these objects, acoustic information can be useful and can desirably be integrated, but there because actual cause and/or cost, this is infeasible so far.

Coded acoustic information be a string very brief, by the intelligent tone of handling---tune-or even verbal information for example.Its continuity is for a moment approximately up to one second.

Sound profile of the present invention can be particularly useful as reliability characteristic, securities for example, check form, I.D., admission ticket and banknote.It also can be used on the software and other products often palmed off and their packing on.

Therefore, people utilize burr (relief) feature to be difficult to the fact of being faked by classic method.This feature can be easily checked by manual scanning under the special help need not by the layman.When the reliability characteristic with other combined, additional top all information all was useful, if the latter is only based on visual sense feeling especially, as hologram, watermark is had an X-rayed register, variegated optical fiber, safe clue etc.

, realize reappearing perpendicular to having the outstanding bar scanning sound profile that stretches the edge of angle or sharp scanning object by the user.A large amount of every-day objects is suitable for as sweep volume, for example check, IC-card, business card, stamp and coin.Particularly, burr also can enough nail scanning.

Printing process generally is used to the design surface that presents in diagrammatic form.The present invention utilizes this fact, and that is exactly some printing process with such method transmission printing ink, so that these printing ink are still stayed on the printing carrier in the burr.This has just produced described height sound profile on printing carrier.In addition, use can be by the high resolving power of some such process acquisitions.For example the high resolving power intaglio adapts to.Line image on print format both can produce by direct engraving, can produce by etching again.But people also can utilize modern high resolving power screen printing process.

In the field of photomechanical printing and computer printing technology, employed new printing process also adapts to now.In hot wax transfer printing, make the colored wax fusing by heating element, and wax is transferred to print carrier, wax at print carrier and solidify again.In the wax spray printing, the wax of fusing by nozzle ejection to print carrier.

People can use any printable material as print carrier, and not just paper, cardboard, plastics and metal foil film.

To describe the present invention in detail with reference to following accompanying drawing, in the accompanying drawing:

Fig. 1 represents to have as a kind of carrier (1) banknote of the sound profile of the present invention (2) of reliability characteristic.Except sound profile, image (3), hologram (4) and numeral (5) have also been shown as reliability characteristic.This contour curve (2) comprises many parallel strips (6) perpendicular to radial direction (=direction of scanning) extension;

Fig. 2 represents that the amplitude Characteristics (7) of voice signal converts printing height contour curve (8,9) to.The cross section of representing contour curve along the direction of scanning.Bar height (6) by being printed on the carrier (10) causes binary contour curve (8), and no matter at carrier (10) where, amplitude surpasses by certain represented threshold value of straight line (11) this bar height, all can cause binary contour curve (8).Three grades of profile curves (9) allow the contour curve process to produce again more accurately.It is to be caused by two-layer (13,14) that are printed on another.

Fig. 3 with the mode of side view (not with real ratio) expression as the finger of scanning object (15) how on the direction of scanning (16) scan contour curve of the present invention (2).

In a preferred embodiment, as shown in Figure 1, altitude curve comprises parallel strip (2), raises bar (6).Bar (6) extends perpendicular to radial direction on the whole width of bar, and has different distances each other, also has different width usually.All bars (6) have identical height, so that can be easy to generate contour curve, and one-step print.Bar is several centimetres to several decimeters long, has 8 mm wides at least in all positions, so that user's scanning profile curve very cosily.Scanning object (15) is preferably pointed.

Just one scan is just set printing carrier (1) for the concussion state, and is used as the concussion film that concussion is amplified.Therefore, scanning carrier (1) can be, for example, the page or leaf of book or magazine, banknote also can be box or other the empty body made by cardboard or plastics.Under the situation of back, box serves as resonant cavity in addition, and this cavity has improved the quality of reproducing.

If scanning object (15) is the flat articles (for example, check card) with enough surface areas, it also is used as the concussion film.Under these circumstances, can not carry out the object that shakes the film function and also be fit to be used as printing carrier (1).

In the graphic designs of sound reproduction device of the present invention, wish to guarantee maximum degree of freedom.In the possible exploitation of the present invention, therefore with transparent white ink printed strip (6).Therefore they can be affacted by on the carrier of common process (for example, offset printing) with the light colour printing, by the colored printing of contour curve identification carrier.

Yet, in graphic designs, also can imagine to obtain obviously comprising consciously bar (6).Therefore they can be represented independently visual or they are inserted in such image.

In order to suppress interference noise, in a preferred embodiment of the invention, people select a kind of printing ink for producing, and this printing ink produces the most smooth surface.In addition, people preferably use a kind of printing ink with high abrasion resistance, even so that after using repeatedly, sound reproduction device still can be worked satisfactorily.Particularly suitable printing ink is known to the expert from safety and banknote printing aspect.

If information encoded is simple a string tone, this is just enough, even contour curve (2) comprises wide but not equidistant each other bar (6).Represent that the distance between the bar (6) of a string tone is directly proportional with the wavelength of specific tone.

If information encoded can be directly changed into the latter height profile curve (8,9) with the form appearance of amplitude Characteristics (7).Under the simplest situation, people's select to encode binary of amplitude Characteristics (7) is represented,, no matter wherein as long as amplitude surpasses certain threshold value (11), bar height (6) just occurs that is.This threshold value preferably is not the zero line of amplitude Characteristics (7), but above or below it about 2%-5%.In time-out, this has just suppressed background noise.Obtain amplitude Characteristics by the expert by known method, for example, make the acoustic information digitizing by means of commercial multimedia PC.

If the information encoded more complicated, as verbal information, people just need the more real expression of amplitude Characteristics (7).The following examples have just been considered this point.

In special embodiment, have the sound profile that is printed on the multistage cross section of multilayer (13,14) on another by by execution, further improve the expression quality.Select level profile curve (9) so that be suitable for the reproduction of the amplitude Characteristics (7) of acoustic information best.

In an embodiment of the present invention, by corresponding filtering, amplify frequency content important concerning acoustic information is decrypted, that is, characteristic information at definite height profile curve (8,9) before, suppresses unessential frequency content.The expert will find that frequency content of specific sound be have distinctive.

In another embodiment, equally at definite height profile curve (8,12) before, corresponding to about 0.2-0.7 times of level height, best 0.5 times noise mixes with amplitude Characteristics with amplitude.In the preferred case, this is by in order to understand acoustic information important frequency range being carried out the white noise that bandwidth filtering is limited.Concerning vowel, such frequency range be for example based on this vowel at 500Hz to 4, between the 000Hz, concerning some consonants, 4,000Hz to 8 also has important frequency between the 00Hz.

Further, by the compression method according to known Hi-Fi technique, people can improve sound quality, and the subjective sensation volume.With respect to magnanimity information, therefore amplify the soft composition of the acoustic information that will generate.

The bar (6) that some printing process allow to produce has various height.By means of steel engraving intaglio flat board, by different carving depths, just can simple realization.In the wax jet printing,, can influence the height of the contour curve on said point by measuring the wax spray amount of set point.This allows production very tiny levelization, subcontinuous height profile curve (2).

The described method that is used to improve the quality certainly is bonded to each other, and combines with other method.

By a large amount of printing process, sound profile of the present invention can be applied on the carrier.That is to say that people can utilize mechanical printing process, or the ray machine printing process.Preferably people utilize to make and photogravure serigraphy, the sound profile of heat transfer printing or ink jet process.Employed ink jet process can be, for example the hot melt ink jet process.Be suitable for the intaglio process that sound profile of the present invention applies on the carrier is particularly taken turns the commentaries on classics intaglio, steel is carved embossment intaglio (steel engraving reliefintaglio), the profile intaglio, static is kept intaglio, the ink roller intaglio.Preferably sound profile of the present invention is applied on the carrier by the embossment printing.The embossment printing process that is fit to is that above-mentioned all steel are carved or the printing of punching block burr.By the intaglio process, rather than steel embossment printing process at quarter, carve as copper coin engraving and steel engraving, or the line intaglio, sound profile of the present invention is applied on the carrier.

Above-mentioned ink-jet and heat transfer printing process are electronic processes.Their particularly suitables apply to single individual sound contour curve on the carrier.

Claims

Modification according to the 19th of treaty

1, a kind of carrier (1) that applies to upward and by means of the edge or the tip of scanning object (15) scans the burr sound profile (2) that produces the machinery concussion to it, send this machinery concussion as sound concussion (7) by scanning object (15) and/or carrier (1), it is characterized in that sound profile (2) being applied to carrier (1) by printing process.

2, sound profile according to claim 1 is characterized in that edge and most advanced and sophisticated scanning burr by scanning object, and burr produces the concussion of feature machinery.

3,, it is characterized in that it comprises line (6) parallel, that raise according to the described sound profile of above-mentioned any one claim.

4,, it is characterized in that it being applied to (1) on the carrier by the printing process of machinery or ray machine according to the described sound profile of above-mentioned any one claim.

5,, it is characterized in that it being applied to (1) on the carrier by intaglio, serigraphy, heat transfer printing or ink jet process according to the described sound profile of above-mentioned any one claim.

6, sound profile according to claim 6 is characterized in that by the engraved copper-plate printing printing process it being applied to (1) on the carrier.

7,, it is characterized in that it being applied to (1) on the carrier by the embossment printing process according to the described sound profile of above-mentioned any one claim.

8,, it is characterized in that institute's canned data is the tone of a string single-tone or multitone according to the described sound profile of above-mentioned any one claim.

9,, it is characterized in that it is integrated in the image or constitutes such image according to the described sound profile of above-mentioned any one claim.

10,, it is characterized in that carrier (1) is the object that will protect, applies to this object with burr as a reliability characteristic according to the described sound profile of above-mentioned any one claim.

Claims

1, a kind of burr sound profile is characterized in that applying on the carrier by printing process.

3,, it is characterized in that by the concussion of sounding of scanning object and/or carrier according to the described sound profile of above-mentioned any one claim.

4,, it is characterized in that it comprises line parallel, that raise according to the described sound profile of above-mentioned any one claim.

5,, it is characterized in that it being applied on the carrier by the printing process of machinery or ray machine according to the described sound profile of above-mentioned any one claim.

6,, it is characterized in that it being applied on the carrier by intaglio, serigraphy, heat transfer printing or ink jet process according to the described sound profile of above-mentioned any one claim.

7, sound profile according to claim 6 is characterized in that by the engraved copper-plate printing printing process it being applied on the carrier.

8, according to the described sound profile of above-mentioned any one claim, it is characterized in that it being applied on the carrier by the embossment printing process.

9,, it is characterized in that institute's canned data is the tone of a string single-tone or multitone according to the described sound profile of above-mentioned any one claim.

10,, it is characterized in that it is integrated in the image or constitutes such image according to the described sound profile of above-mentioned any one claim.

11,, it is characterized in that carrier is the object that will protect, applies to this object with burr as a reliability characteristic according to the described sound profile of above-mentioned any one claim.