EP0024053A1 - Method of testing the rate of soiling of record carriers - Google Patents
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- the invention relates to a method for checking the degree of wear of banknotes that are at least partially printed with colors that are transparent to light in a non-visible spectral range.
- Unprinted areas of the banknote surface such as the edge (DE-OS 23 10 882) or also unprinted areas within the banknote area (US Pat. No. 2,950,799) are generally used for testing. If unprinted areas on the banknote are not available or only to a sufficient extent, the check must be carried out within the printed image of the banknote. In contrast to the examination of unprinted areas, it must be taken into account that the light reaching the photodiodes is modulated by the print pattern present along the scanning track.
- a test method is mentioned in DE-OS 27 52 412, which is based, among other things, on the basic idea that an uncontaminated bank note along a track running in printed areas has a certain number of contrast jumps of a certain height along the track in accordance with the existing print pattern add up the track as signal values to form a standard signal. If a banknote is dirty, the contrast drops, so that the test level added up on this note deviates more or less from the standard level of a clean note, depending on how dirty it is. The difference can be used as a measure of the pollution.
- the method delivers good results as long as the track used to form the standard signal is exactly adhered to in subsequent tests.
- the photodiode scans a more or less strongly changed print pattern in the vicinity of the original track, which inevitably leads to changes in the test level regardless of the contamination.
- the test level is therefore within a scatter range when scanning several banknotes of the same soiling or also multiple scans of the same banknote, as a result of which a tightly tolerated assessment of the degree of soiling, which is divided into several stages, is excluded.
- the object of the invention is therefore to propose a method and a device for checking the degree of wear of banknotes, in which even when checking printed areas of the note, the test results of notes with the same contamination lie within wide limits regardless of track deviations within a narrow range.
- the object is achieved in that the recording medium is irradiated with light, which contains components from the invisible spectral range and the remitted component of this light is recorded along one or more measurement tracks and the resulting measurement signal is evaluated.
- banknotes When designing securities and thus banknotes, several printing techniques are often used to increase security against falsification and counterfeiting. For example, in banknotes there are surface areas which are executed using the very complicated and complex steel intaglio printing technique, while other surface areas, for example for the design of background patterns, are printed using planographic printing technology.
- the received signals are generally large freed from the modulation normally resulting in visible light from the print pattern.
- the test level can be kept within a narrow range even if there are deviations from the test track with the same contamination, but possibly with a different print pattern, and with a track deviation. Since that If the print pattern is eliminated, the test track can also lead from the unprinted area of a banknote into the printed area, which gives a high degree of flexibility in the selection of test tracks for different banknotes.
- Testing within the invisible spectral range is not limited to the IR range.
- Printing inks that are translucent in other spectral ranges of the invisible spectrum can of course also be used for testing in the sense of the invention.
- Fig. 1 shows a banknote 1, the printed image is arranged so that a narrow edge of the note remains unprinted.
- the areas 2 hatched twice within the printed image - in this example indiscriminately arranged - be printed with the appropriate colors opaque to IR light.
- 4 is an indiscriminately selected test track, which alternately overflows with areas printed with IR-permeable and with IR-impermeable ink.
- the marked areas B1, B 2 or B 3 are basically suitable for checking dirt. However, it is sufficient to admit only one of the areas, for example B 2, for testing.
- the check can also be carried out along the other areas (B 1 + B 2 ), although the check track runs partly in the completely unprinted area of the banknote. Even if the test device does not always scan a precisely adjusted test track due to mechanical inadequacies, the scatter of the measured values can be kept within narrow limits because the influence of the locally widely varying print image is eliminated and the contamination is generally evenly distributed over large areas.
- FIG. 2 shows an example of a test device with which the method according to the invention can be carried out.
- the bank note 1 transported past the testing device 7 in the direction of the arrow 6 is in the area of the Test track illuminated with light with the aid of two tungsten lamps 8, which has a high IR component beyond the visible range.
- the light remitted from the banknote passes through a diaphragm 9 to a lens arrangement 12.
- a filter 10 is connected into the beam path of the optical system, which filter only allows the IR portion of the remitted light to reach a photodiode 15, which in a known manner Changes lighting fluctuations due to contamination into corresponding electronically evaluable signals.
- the measurement signal which is modulated depending on the contamination, is added up along the scanned area and the total values are compared with a target value after passing through the measurement track.
- Fig. 2 shows the possibility of decoupling the IR portion only on the receiver side.
- IR light-emitting diodes can be maintained to compensate for the influence of extraneous light.
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Die Erfindung betrifft ein Verfahren zur Prüfung des Abnutzungsgrades von Banknoten, die wenigstens teilweise mit Farben bedruckt sind, die für Licht in einem nicht sichtbaren Spektralbereich durchlässig sind.The invention relates to a method for checking the degree of wear of banknotes that are at least partially printed with colors that are transparent to light in a non-visible spectral range.
Die Bestimmung des Abnutzungsgrades von Banknoten ist aus einer Vielzahl von Schriften bekannt. Dabei werden in der Regel unbedruckte Bereiche der Banknoten-Oberfläche, wie beispielsweise der Rand (DE-OS 23 10 882) oder auch unbedruckte Gebiete innerhalb der Banknotenfläche (US-PS 2,950,799) zur Prüfung herangezogen. Sind unbedruckte Gebiete auf der Banknote nicht oder in nicht ausreichendem Maß vorhanden, muß die Prüfung innerhalb des Druckbildes der Banknote durchgeführt werden. Dabei ist im Gegensatz zur Untersuchung unbedruckter Gebietezu berücksichtigen, daß das auf die Fotodioden gelangende Licht durch das entlang der Abtastspur vorhandene Druckmuster moduliert wird. In diesem Zusammenhang wird in der DE-OS 27 52 412 ein Prüfverfahren erwähnt, das u.a. von dem Grundgedanken ausgeht, daß eine nicht verschmutzte Banknote entlang einer in bedruckten Bereichen verlaufenden Spur entsprechend dem vorhandenen Druckmuster eine bestimmte Anzahl von Kontrastsprüngen bestimmter Höhe aufweist, die entlang der Spur als Signalwerte aufsummiert der Bildung eines Standardsignals dienen. Ist eine Banknote verschmutzt, sinkt der Kontrast, so daß der bei dieser Note aufsummierte Prüfpegel je nach Verschmutzung mehr oder weniger stark von dem Standardpegel einer sauberen Note abweicht. Die Differenz kann als Maß für die Verschmutzung herangezogen werden.The determination of the degree of wear of banknotes is known from a large number of documents. Unprinted areas of the banknote surface, such as the edge (DE-OS 23 10 882) or also unprinted areas within the banknote area (US Pat. No. 2,950,799) are generally used for testing. If unprinted areas on the banknote are not available or only to a sufficient extent, the check must be carried out within the printed image of the banknote. In contrast to the examination of unprinted areas, it must be taken into account that the light reaching the photodiodes is modulated by the print pattern present along the scanning track. In this connection, a test method is mentioned in DE-OS 27 52 412, which is based, among other things, on the basic idea that an uncontaminated bank note along a track running in printed areas has a certain number of contrast jumps of a certain height along the track in accordance with the existing print pattern add up the track as signal values to form a standard signal. If a banknote is dirty, the contrast drops, so that the test level added up on this note deviates more or less from the standard level of a clean note, depending on how dirty it is. The difference can be used as a measure of the pollution.
Das Verfahren liefert gute Ergebnisse, solange die zur Bildung des Standardsignals herangezogene Spur auch bei nachfolgenden Prüfungen exakt eingehalten wird. Kommt es jedoch zu Abweichungen von der Spur, was grundsätzlich nicht immer vermeidbar ist, dann tastet die Fotodiode ein mehr oder weniger stark verändertes Druckmuster in der Umgebung der ursprünglichen Spur ab, was zwangsläufig unabhängig von der Verschmutzung zu Änderungen im Prüfpegel führt. Je nach Stärke der Abweichungen liegt der Prüfpegel daher bei der Abtastung mehrerer gleichverschmutzter Banknoten oder auch bei Mehrfachabtastungen derselben Banknote innerhalb eines Streubereiches, wodurch eine eng tolerierte und in mehrere Stufen unterteilte Beurteilung des Verschmutzungsgrades ausgeschlossen ist.The method delivers good results as long as the track used to form the standard signal is exactly adhered to in subsequent tests. However, if there are deviations from the track, which is fundamentally not always avoidable, the photodiode scans a more or less strongly changed print pattern in the vicinity of the original track, which inevitably leads to changes in the test level regardless of the contamination. Depending on the magnitude of the deviations, the test level is therefore within a scatter range when scanning several banknotes of the same soiling or also multiple scans of the same banknote, as a result of which a tightly tolerated assessment of the degree of soiling, which is divided into several stages, is excluded.
Die Aufgabe der Erfindung besteht deshalb darin, ein Verfahren bzw. eine Vorrichtung zur Prüfung des Abnutzungsgrades von Banknoten vorzuschlagen, bei dem auch bei der Prüfung in bedruckten Bereichen der Note die Prüfergebnisse gleich verschmutzter Noten in weiten Grenzen unabhängig von Spurabweichungen innerhalb eines engen Streubereichs liegen.The object of the invention is therefore to propose a method and a device for checking the degree of wear of banknotes, in which even when checking printed areas of the note, the test results of notes with the same contamination lie within wide limits regardless of track deviations within a narrow range.
Die Aufgabe wird erfindungsgemäß dadurch gelöst, daß der Aufzeichnungsträger mit Licht bestrahlt wird, das Anteile aus dem nicht sichtbaren Spektralbereich enthält und der remittierte Anteil dieses Lichts entlang einer oder mehrerer Meßspuren aufgenommen und das sich ergebende Meßsignal ausgewertet wird.The object is achieved in that the recording medium is irradiated with light, which contains components from the invisible spectral range and the remitted component of this light is recorded along one or more measurement tracks and the resulting measurement signal is evaluated.
Bei der Gestaltung von Wertpapieren und damit auch Banknoten wird häufig zur Erhöhung der Sicherheit gegen Verfälschung und Fälschung von mehreren Drucktechniken Gebrauch gemacht. So findet man beispielsweise bei Banknoten Flächenbereiche, die in der sehr komplizierten und aufwendigen Stahltiefdrucktechnik ausgeführt sind, während andere Flächenbereiche, beispielsweise zur Gestaltung von Hintergrundmustern, in Flachdrucktechnik bedruckt sind.When designing securities and thus banknotes, several printing techniques are often used to increase security against falsification and counterfeiting. For example, in banknotes there are surface areas which are executed using the very complicated and complex steel intaglio printing technique, while other surface areas, for example for the design of background patterns, are printed using planographic printing technology.
Bei der Untersuchung an Banknoten hat sich nun gezeigt, daß viele der verwendeten Farben für IR-Licht durchlässig sind. Außerdem hat sich gezeigt, daß Verschmutzungen bei der.Bestrahlung mit IR-Licht gleiche optische Eigenschaften wie bei der Bestrahlung mit sichtbarem Licht zeigen.When examining banknotes, it has now been shown that many of the colors used are transparent to IR light. In addition, it has been shown that contamination when irradiated with IR light has the same optical properties as when irradiated with visible light.
Beleuchtet man eine Banknote an den mit IR-durchlässiger Farbe bedruckten Bereichen mit Licht, welches u.a. auch IR-Anteile enthält, filtert aber aus dem remittierten und auf die Fotodioden gelangenden Licht nur die IR-Anteile heraus, dann sind die Empfangssignale in der Regel weitgehend von der sich normalerweise im sichtbaren Licht durch das Druckmuster ergebenden Modulation befreit. Durch geschickte Wahl der Meßspuren kann der Prüfpegel auch bei Abweichungen von der Prüfspur bei gleicher Verschmutzung, aber ggf. unterschiedlichem Druckmuster, bei einer Spurabweichung in einem engen Streubereich gehalten werden. Da das Druckmuster eliminiert wird, kann die Prüfspur auch vom unbedruckten Bereich einer Banknote in den bedruckten Bereich führen, womit eine hohe Flexibilität in der Auswahl der Prüfspuren unterschiedlicher Banknoten gegeben ist.If a banknote is illuminated with light on the areas printed with IR-transmissive ink, which also contains IR components, but if only the IR components are filtered out of the remitted light that reaches the photodiodes, then the received signals are generally large freed from the modulation normally resulting in visible light from the print pattern. By skillfully selecting the measurement tracks, the test level can be kept within a narrow range even if there are deviations from the test track with the same contamination, but possibly with a different print pattern, and with a track deviation. Since that If the print pattern is eliminated, the test track can also lead from the unprinted area of a banknote into the printed area, which gives a high degree of flexibility in the selection of test tracks for different banknotes.
Die Prüfung innerhalb des nicht sichtbaren Spektralbereichs ist nicht ausschließlich auf den IR-Bereich beschränkt. Druckfarben, die in anderen Spektralbereichen des nicht sichtbaren Spektrums lichtdurchlässig sind, können selbstverständlich auch im Sinne der Erfindung zur Prüfung herangezogen werden.Testing within the invisible spectral range is not limited to the IR range. Printing inks that are translucent in other spectral ranges of the invisible spectrum can of course also be used for testing in the sense of the invention.
Nachfolgend wird ein Ausführungsbeispiel der Erfindung anhand der beigefügten Zeichnung beschrieben. Darin zeigen:
- Fig. 1 die stark schematisierte Aufteilung einer Banknoten-Oberfläche in IR-durchlässige und IR-undurchlässige Druckbereiche,
- Fig. 2 die einfachste Ausführungsform einer Vorrichtung zur Prüfung von Banknoten gemäß der Fig. 1.
- 1 shows the highly schematic division of a banknote surface into IR-permeable and IR-impermeable printing areas,
- FIG. 2 shows the simplest embodiment of a device for checking banknotes according to FIG. 1.
Die Fig. 1 zeigt eine Banknote 1, deren Druckbild so angeordnet ist, daß ein schmaler Rand der Note unbedruckt bleibt. Die innerhalb des Druckbildes doppelt schraffierten Bereiche 2 - in diesem Beispiel wahllos angeordnet - seien mit den entsprechenden für IR-Licht undurchlässigen Farben bedruckt. Auf den verbleibenden Flächenbereichen 3, die in der Fig. einfach schraffiert sind, befindet sich ein Druckmuster dessen Druckfarben für IR-Licht durchlässig sind. Mit 4 sei eine wahllos herausgegriffene Prüfspur gekennzeichnet, die abwechselnd mit IR-durchlässiger und mit IR-undurchlässiger Farbe bedruckte Bereiche überläuft. Gemäß der Erfindung sind grundsätzlich die markierten Bereiche B1, B2 oder B3 zur Schmutzprüfung geeignet. Dabei ist es jedoch ausreichend, nur einen der Bereiche, beispielsweise B2 zur Prüfung zuzulassen.Fig. 1 shows a
Die Prüfung ist aber auch entlang der anderen Bereiche (B1 +B2) möglich, obwohl die Prüfspur zum Teil im vollständig unbedruckten Bereich der Banknote verläuft. Auch wenn die Prüfvorrichtung aufgrund mechanischer Unzulänglichkeiten nicht immer exakt eineeinmal einjustierte Prüfspur abtastet, kann die Streuung der Meßwerte innerhalb enger Grenzen gehalten werden, weil der Einfluß des u.U. örtlich stark variierenden Druckbildes eliminiert und in die Verschmutzung innerhalb größerer Flächenbereiche in der Regel gleichmäßig verteilt ist.However, the check can also be carried out along the other areas (B 1 + B 2 ), although the check track runs partly in the completely unprinted area of the banknote. Even if the test device does not always scan a precisely adjusted test track due to mechanical inadequacies, the scatter of the measured values can be kept within narrow limits because the influence of the locally widely varying print image is eliminated and the contamination is generally evenly distributed over large areas.
Fig. 2 zeigt beispielhaft eine Prüfvorrichtung, mit der das erfindungsgemäße Verfahren durchführbar ist.2 shows an example of a test device with which the method according to the invention can be carried out.
Die in Richtung des Pfeils 6 an der Prüfvorrichtung 7 vorbeitransportierte Banknote 1 wird im Bereich der Prüfspur mit Hilfe zweier Wolframlampen 8 mit Licht beleuchtet, welches über den sichtbaren Bereich hinaus einen hohen IR-Anteil aufweist. Das von der Banknote remittierte Licht gelangt über eine Blende 9 auf eine Linsenanordnung 12. In den Strahlengang des optischen Systems ist ein Filter 10 geschaltet, welches von dem remittierten Licht nur den IR-Anteil auf eine Fotodiode 15 gelangen läßt, die in bekannter Weise die Beleuchtungsschwankungen aufgrund von Verschmutzungen in entsprechende elektronisch auswertbare Signale umwandelt. Das abhängig von den Verschmutzungen modulierte Meßsignal wird entlang des abgetasteten Bereichs aufsummiert und die Summenwerte werden nach Durchlaufen der Meßspur mit einem Sollwert verglichen.The
Die Fig. 2 zeigt die Möglichkeit der Auskoppelung des IR-Anteils ausschließlich auf der Empfängerseite. Es ist je nach Anwendungsfall natürlich auch möglich, mit Hilfe handelsüblicher IR-Leuchtdioden die Prüffläche ausschließlich mit IR-Licht zu bestrahlen, wobei das Filter u.U. beibehalten werden kann um den Fremdlichteinfluß zu kompensieren.Fig. 2 shows the possibility of decoupling the IR portion only on the receiver side. Depending on the application, it is of course also possible to irradiate the test area exclusively with IR light with the aid of commercially available IR light-emitting diodes. can be maintained to compensate for the influence of extraneous light.
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