EP2606474A1 - Vérification d'éléments de sécurité comprenant une fenêtre et d'autres informations - Google Patents

Vérification d'éléments de sécurité comprenant une fenêtre et d'autres informations

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EP2606474A1
EP2606474A1 EP11757159.6A EP11757159A EP2606474A1 EP 2606474 A1 EP2606474 A1 EP 2606474A1 EP 11757159 A EP11757159 A EP 11757159A EP 2606474 A1 EP2606474 A1 EP 2606474A1
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information
item
substrate
grid
readable
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EP2606474B1 (fr
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Martina Staudigl
Peter Schiffmann
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Giesecke and Devrient Currency Technology GmbH
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07D—HANDLING OF COINS OR VALUABLE PAPERS, e.g. TESTING, SORTING BY DENOMINATIONS, COUNTING, DISPENSING, CHANGING OR DEPOSITING
    • G07D7/00—Testing specially adapted to determine the identity or genuineness of valuable papers or for segregating those which are unacceptable, e.g. banknotes that are alien to a currency
    • G07D7/20—Testing patterns thereon
    • G07D7/202—Testing patterns thereon using pattern matching
    • G07D7/207—Matching patterns that are created by the interaction of two or more layers, e.g. moiré patterns
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07D—HANDLING OF COINS OR VALUABLE PAPERS, e.g. TESTING, SORTING BY DENOMINATIONS, COUNTING, DISPENSING, CHANGING OR DEPOSITING
    • G07D7/00—Testing specially adapted to determine the identity or genuineness of valuable papers or for segregating those which are unacceptable, e.g. banknotes that are alien to a currency
    • G07D7/003—Testing specially adapted to determine the identity or genuineness of valuable papers or for segregating those which are unacceptable, e.g. banknotes that are alien to a currency using security elements

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  • the invention relates to a method for verifying documents of value, such as banknotes, identity cards, payment cards, tickets, batches or the like, or other elements for product assurance, which have a substrate with at least one light-transmissive region, wherein in at least one light-transmissive region of the substrate Information is arranged, wherein a separate display is used by the separate display at least partially a second information is displayed, which correlates with the first information, in the first and / or second information at least one further, unrecognizable to a viewer without tools and / or readable information is hidden, the substrate is placed with its first information about the second information displayed on the separate display and the hidden information in transmitted light as Moire pattern and / or Metamer ie recognizable and / or readable ,
  • the invention further relates to a corresponding method for verifying or checking valuables having a display, for example a computer, notebook or laptop, a cash register of a cash register system, television or a hand-held device.
  • the hidden information advantageously contains, for example, the emission value or the currency of a banknote and can thus serve for checking the authenticity at a point-of-sale terminal.
  • the banknote is placed on the display of the POS terminal and it shows for the cashier the information hidden on the banknote information in plain text.
  • the invention has the object of developing the generic method for authentication of value documents, such as banknotes, identity cards, payment cards, tickets, tickets or the like, or other elements for product assurance such that the protection against forgery and attractiveness to the user or user is further increased.
  • the invention encompasses the abovementioned generic method, wherein according to the invention, at least one third information which can be recognized and / or read by the observer without aids is additionally contained in the first and / or second information.
  • the invention thus represents an extension or supplement of the subject matter of WO 2009/019038 Al, the entire subject matter and scope of WO 2009/019038 Al being fully incorporated into this invention.
  • a particular advantage of the invention is that the first and / or second information uninteresting to a viewer, which usually represents an unstructured, uniform area, is optically enhanced by the third, visible information.
  • the third information represents an alphanumeric text, for example a single letter or a number, or even an arbitrary sequence of letters and / or numbers, a symbol or any graphic.
  • the third information may be in a meaningful relationship to the hidden information. Furthermore, the third information may include part of an information and the hidden information displayed may include the overall information.
  • the first, second and third information are each formed by a grid of linear and / or punctiform elements.
  • the line-shaped and / or punctiform elements of the grid of the third information are preferably staggered relative to the line-shaped and / or punctiform elements of the grid of the first information and additionally or alternatively have a different line thickness or a different point diameter.
  • At least one light-permeable region of the substrate is formed by a transparent window.
  • a preferred embodiment relates to a card with a verification grid which is delivered together with a television set or packaged by a retailer into a sold television set.
  • the grid of the card is matched to the pixel grid of the TV.
  • the customer may ask for a warranty number or check if the TV is an original or a counterfeit or reimport.
  • a subsequent individualization can be introduced into all information by, for example, using a laser to modify line thicknesses by ablation or adding by means of blackening.
  • the hidden information can be generated only by laser. Possible fields of application are, in particular, identification documents, such as passports or identity cards.
  • the information printed on a transparent window is additionally inked or printed with one or more transparent colors which can form a uniform inking or a motif print.
  • the Einf coloring or the motif print can be arranged within the window area or overlapping partially outside the window area.
  • the print motifs or colorings can be visible visually or only after excitation by means of UV light.
  • the grid is applied both on the front or the back or on both sides of the transparent window.
  • the grid is brought into partial segments on both the front and on the back, which complement each other in a general view to a total information. This embodiment is particularly advantageous as copy protection.
  • the grid structure can not only by printing processes, such as offset printing, gravure, flexographic printing, ink-jet printing, thermal transfer printing, Laser printing or stitch print, but also be produced by indirect methods according to a further advantageous embodiment.
  • An example of such an indirect process is, in particular, the cold-oil application in which an adhesive or a special ink is first printed and then a carrier film with a metallization or a covering coating is pressed onto the still sticky adhesive or the still sticky special ink , Subsequently, the film is peeled off, wherein the metallization or the opaque coating is transferred to the substrate only in the area of the sticky adhesive or the still sticky special color.
  • the applied raster structure additionally contains in subregions further hidden information in the form of minute line breaks or line modulations, which can only be recognized by means of a microscope or identified as a code, for example a hidden barcode. During verification, this additional information does not occur and is either misinterpreted by a forger as misprints or not perceived visually.
  • a line of a grid or the part of a line of a grid is performed as a microtext that can be recognized or read only by means of a microscope or magnifying lens.
  • the printed grid consists of a similar structure of a color absorbing in the infrared wavelength range and a color transparent in the infrared wavelength range.
  • the colors or regions which absorb differently in the infrared wavelength range and which are almost identical in the visually visible wavelength range are not distinguished from each other. distinguishable.
  • this hidden feature is easily recognizable and machine-readable.
  • a visually recognizable pattern such as a picture motif or pattern, or a machine-readable code, such as a bar code, hidden.
  • color-matched magnetic and non-magnetic colors are combined with one another instead of the colors absorbing differently in the infrared wavelength range.
  • subregions differ in their luminescence property, such as, for example, their hue or excitation wavelength, or subdivide into luminescent and non-luminescent regions.
  • FIG. 1 schematically shows: a substrate according to the invention with a window and a first and a third information (FIG. 1 a), a separate display with a second information (FIG. 1 b) and the superimposition of window and display in a plan view (FIG. 1 c) .
  • FIG. 2 shows a tenfold enlargement of three different cutouts (FIGS. 2a to 2c) from FIG.
  • Fig. 3 shows an embodiment with a window with four different
  • FIG. 4 shows the grid of FIG. 3 when superposed with a display
  • FIG. 6 shows an overlay of the window from FIG. 5 with a display
  • FIGS. 7 to 9 show a further embodiment of the invention.
  • 1 shows a value document in FIG. 1 a, which has a substrate with at least one light-permeable region, wherein first information is arranged in at least one light-permeable region of the substrate.
  • the first information shows a raster perceived by a viewer as an unstructured light gray area in the form of a "keyhole.”
  • a third information is arranged, and the third information shows a raster viewed by a viewer as a dark gray area This translucent area is now overlaid on a display which, according to Fig.
  • FIG. 1b shows a second piece of information, the second piece of information consisting of a grid which is viewed by a viewer as an unstructured light gray area in the form of a "keyhole". is perceived.
  • the information hidden in the first information, which becomes visible through the overlay, is shown in FIG. 1c.
  • Within the bell is the letter "B" and outside the bell a pattern in the form of sound waves emanating from the lower left edge of the "keyhole".
  • This hidden information is hidden in the first information, as shown in FIG. 2, by an offset of adjacent line elements of the raster (FIG. 2 a), a modulation of the line thickness of adjacent line elements of the raster (FIG. 2 b), i. by lines of different thickness, and by a combination of line offset and different line thickness (Figure 2c).
  • FIGS. 2 a to 2c the area shown in the respective left-hand illustration is shown enlarged ten times in the respective right-hand illustration.
  • the pattern with regard to the raster structure was applied to a specific display with a specific pixel pattern. or grid pitch matched.
  • a second exemplary embodiment according to FIG. 3 shows four quadrants 3, 4, 5 and 6 in a window 2 in a substrate 1, which have screen rulings for various displays.
  • quadrant 3 shows a grid with grid structures having a first grid spacing
  • quadrant 4 a grid with grid structures having a smaller grid spacing than grid 3
  • quadrant 5 a grid with grid structures having a smaller grid spacing compared to grid 4
  • quadrant 6 a grid with grid structures that have a smaller grid spacing than grid 5.
  • the raster structures are thus structured more and more finely from raster 3 to raster 6.
  • one of the four quadrants displays readable decrypted information.
  • the window 2 is placed over a display whose pixels have a specific pixel pitch, the grid spacing from quadrant 4, for example, coincides with the pixel pitch of the display, so that the information "EU" appears according to FIG. 5 shows a see-through info 9 in the form of the letter "E", which was produced with a grid having a line width greater than the line grid 8 of the environment of the transparency info "E.”
  • the line frequency is the same "a greater opacity in the review.
  • an additional information 10 in the form of the text "50 dollars 50" hidden in the line grids 8 and 9 is visible through a line offset in the case of an overlay on a display.
  • the overhead information is identical to the review info. This means that the information "E” can be seen both in appearance and in transparency The contrast depends on the opacity or density difference between the two areas If the screens are printed with a white opaque color or transferred by transfer or cold stamping process) with an opaque white transfer coating, so only a plausiblesichtsinfo shows in addition to display recognizable info.
  • a transparent interference layer is additionally applied.
  • there is an additional color shift color which is most intense in the area of the info "E" since this area has the largest optically effective coverage.
  • the interference color can be on both the front and the back of the black grid. If the coating is on the black grid (front side), this pattern on a black background shows only the information of the interference color (square in the example). If the pattern is placed on the back side, then the area of the black grid in the environment of the info "E” and as a clear difference in intensity in the area of the info "E” is also shown in an intensity difference. The other properties (display info and transparency info) are almost not disturbed.
  • the interference layer may consist of a thin metal vapor or an interference color, which is preferably applied by screen printing.
  • the pigments contained in the interference screen printing ink may consist of LCP, mica-based interference pigments, etc.
  • a non-transparent pattern is generated but with supervisory information.
  • the environment of the info "E” was printed with a cover white grid and the information "E” with a black grid.
  • an interference layer is additionally included.
  • the information "E" in the supervision is more intense recognizable because the interference color is visually barely visible on the cover grid.
  • a seventh embodiment differs from the fifth embodiment in that the line widths of the areas with information "E” and in the environment of the information "E” differ markedly, thereby creating areas with different opacity.
  • An eighth embodiment corresponds to the seventh embodiment, but additionally has an interference coating.
  • FIG. 8 shows the view of the grid from FIG. 7 in a plan view and FIG. 9 in a plan view.
  • This example consists of an opaque 8 printed in opaque white with a small line thickness: in the area of the supervisory info "E", the grid consists of a black printed line grid 11 with the same line frequency, but with thinner lines, and in the field of addition of Info "E" to "8" in the

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Abstract

L'invention concerne un procédé de vérification de documents de valeur tels que des billets de banque, des cartes d'identité, des cartes de paiement, des cartes d'entrée, des billets de loterie ou similaires, ou d'autres éléments pour la sécurisation de produits, qui présentent un substrat comprenant au moins une région transparente. Une première information est disposée dans au moins une région transparente du substrat, un affichage séparé est utilisé, une deuxième information en corrélation avec la première information est affichée au moins par endroits par l'affichage séparé, au moins une autre information non reconnaissable et/ou lisible par un observateur sans moyen auxiliaire est cachée dans la première et/ou deuxième information, le substrat avec sa première information est placé sur la deuxième information qui est affichée sur l'affichage séparé et l'information cachée est reconnaissable et/ou lisible en lumière transmise comme motif moiré et/ou métamérie. L'invention concerne également un procédé correspondant permettant de vérifier et de contrôler des objets de valeur qui présentent un affichage, par exemple un ordinateur, un ordinateur bloc-notes ou un ordinateur portatif, une caisse d'un système de caisse ou un appareil à main. Selon l'invention, au moins une troisième information reconnaissable et/ou lisible par l'observateur sans moyen auxiliaire est en outre contenue dans la première et/ou deuxième information.
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