RU157246U1 - SYSTEM OF PROTECTION AGAINST FORGES OF MULTIPLE DOCUMENTS OF STRICT REPORTING - Google Patents

Abstract

1. A system of protection against counterfeiting of large-circulation strict reporting documents, including a marking device with an information output; stationary shaper of the primary control image as an additional means of protection against forgery of each strict reporting document, which is associated with a marking device for information output; a unit for recording data on strict reporting documents and associated primary control images, which has an information output; a unit for storing a database of documents used for marking products of strict reporting and their corresponding primary control images; connected to the information output of the specified recording unit; a comparator connected to the information output of the indicated database storage unit and having at least one information input for receiving repeated control images, each of which is associated with a specific strict reporting document, and at least one information output for issuing messages about authenticity or falsification of checked documents, characterized in that the said marking device is made in the form of a printing device for continuous sealing Each well protected against counterfeit document encoded primary reference image and said stationary generator is designed as a programmable oscillator primary coded reference image which, along with the data output has a control input and includes in series on this input associated generator

Description

Technical field

The utility model relates to the structure of anti-counterfeiting systems of large-circulation strict reporting documents, namely, excise stamps that have individual (usually digital or alphanumeric) identifiers, and labels or tags with trademarks of manufacturers of consumer goods.

Such systems are intended to be used primarily by the tax or customs authorities to control the supply and marketing of excisable products and to prevent counterfeiting of trademarks.

State of the art

Modern copying technology allows you to accurately reproduce strict reporting documents. Products with fake excise stamps, labels and tags can be put into trade through any link in the chain “manufacturer (or importer) - distribution network - retail stores”. This gives counterfeiters competitive advantages and illegal profits and, at the same time, reduces the revenues of the state budget or the legitimate owners of trademarks.

Naturally, the state bodies responsible for accounting and the legality of the use of excise duty stamps, and manufacturers or importers of consumer goods marked with labels or tags, seek to equip such documents with additional security measures.

Of these, in practice, the most common are two-dimensional barcodes. So, in EGAIS (Unified State Automated Information System) for the registration of alcoholic beverages in Russia, a two-dimensional high-density barcode PDF417 serves as a means of protecting federal special and excise stamps for alcoholic beverages (see "Technical Methods for Countering the Turnover of Counterfeit and Counterfeit Products" // Information- Methodological magazine "Information Protection. Inside", No. 6, 2007, p. 40-51).

The use of barcodes partly increases the reliability of protection of excise stamps and allows the automation of information reading.

However, barcodes can be copied and duplicated on fake excise stamps and labels or tags in virtually unlimited quantities.

The inclusion of electronic digital signatures in barcodes (see, for example: RU 2165643 and EA 007836) additionally protects strict reporting documents and the information contained in them from counterfeiting. Unfortunately, this reduces redundancy and, as a result, degrades the correcting ability of the barcode and reduces the likelihood of its error-free reading.

Therefore, the problem of creating as simple as possible and at the same time sufficiently reliable means of protecting large-circulation strict reporting documents from fakes is still relevant.

Recently, the search for its solution is often associated with the use of the capabilities of modern telecommunication systems, to which any legal and physical persons can connect.

The closest analogue to a utility model of this type is a system (referred to in the original “device”) for identifying large-circulation strict reporting documents using telecommunication means, known from EA 007912. It has:

labeling device (in the known case - products) by equipping each of them with a strict reporting document;

such a stationary shaper of the primary control image, including the image of an excise stamp or trademark, applied to each document of strict reporting, and an additional means of protection against counterfeiting in the form of an image of the structure of the material of the marked product around this document, which is associated with the marking device for the information output (this shaper the original name is “camera”);

a unit for recording primary control images, each of which is correlated with a certain strict reporting document, connected to the information output of the specified driver and having its own information output;

a database storage unit about the documents of strict reporting and the corresponding primary control images used for marking the products, connected to the information output of the specified recording unit;

a comparator connected to the information output of the indicated database storage unit and having at least one information input for receiving repeated control images of the structure of the material of marked products around strict reporting documents, and at least one information output for issuing messages about the authenticity or falsification of the verified documents, and

non-empty set of such remote external (user) shapers of said repeated control images, each of which is suitable for connecting to the comparator via a telecommunication system (in particular, smartphones and the like of “cameras”).

Unfortunately, this technical solution, aimed at ensuring that even the end user with a smartphone in his hands can verify the authenticity of the marked product, is practically ineffective.

Indeed, differences in the texture of the surface of bottle glass and the metal or plastic used to make caps on bottles of alcoholic beverages, the surface of a plastic label or the surface of a packaging film on blocks or packs of cigarettes are very slight. Therefore, their identification usually requires expensive laboratory equipment with high sensitivity and resolution.

Obviously, such equipment is practically inaccessible to retailers and, especially, to numerous end users of labeled goods.

Summary of the utility model The utility model is based on the task of changing the means for generating primary control images and their interconnection to create a significantly more reliable system for protecting large-circulation strict reporting documents from fakes.

The problem is solved in that in the system of protection against counterfeiting of large-circulation documents of strict reporting, which has:

marking device having an information output;

stationary shaper of the primary control image as an additional means of protection against forgery of each strict reporting document, which is associated with a marking device for information output;

a unit for recording data on strict reporting documents and associated primary control images, which has an information output;

a database storage unit about the documents of strict reporting and the corresponding primary control images used for marking the products, connected to the information output of the specified recording unit;

a comparator connected to the information output of the indicated database storage unit and having at least one information input for receiving repeated control images, each of which is associated with a specific strict reporting document, and at least one information output for issuing messages about authenticity or falsity of the checked documents.

according to inventive concept

the specified marking device is made in the form of a printing device for continuous sealing on each document protected against forgery of the encoded primary control image and

the specified stationary shaper is made in the form of a programmable generator of encoded primary control images, which, along with the information output, has a control input and is equipped at this input with a generator and activator of keys for generating these images in series according to the selected algorithm.

The encoded primary control images formed in the proposed system are of consistently high quality. This makes it possible to obtain high-quality repeated control images with the help of electronic cameras and smartphones and tablets built into modern mobile phones, smartphones and tablets, to process them efficiently and send them to the comparator. This significantly increases the reliability of protection of large-circulation strict reporting documents from fakes.

An additional advantage of the proposed anti-counterfeiting system is that - in comparison with images of a real surface texture - encoded control images are very compact. This greatly simplifies and reduces the cost of their transfer through telecommunication systems.

Another additional advantage is that the application (printing) of excise marks of primary control images is possible simultaneously with the application of unique identifiers (serial numbers).

The first additional difference is that the specified stationary shaper is made in the form of a programmable generator of point encoded primary control images. This is the most economical embodiment of the inventive concept.

The second additional difference is that the stationary shaper is designed as a programmable generator of encoded primary control images based on a machine-readable mosaic code with a variable core. This is the most reliable embodiment of the inventive concept.

Brief Description of the Drawing

Further, the essence of the utility model is illustrated by a detailed description with reference to the drawing of the structural diagram of the proposed system.

Best Utility Model Embodiments

The system of protection against counterfeiting of large-circulation strict reporting documents has (see the drawing):

a marking device in the form of such a printing device 1 for in-line sealing on each document protected against forgery a coded primary control image that has a control input for said control images and an information output for outputting data about each protected document and its associated image;

sequentially connected key generator 2 for generating encoded primary control images according to the selected algorithm, key activator 3 and stationary driver 4 in the form of a programmable generator of these images, which has a control input for connecting to activator 3 and a control output for direct connection to the specified printing device 1;

a data recording unit 5 for each secure strict reporting document and its associated primary control image connected to the information output of the printing apparatus 1 and having its own information output;

block 6 storing a database of documents used for product labeling strict reporting and the corresponding primary control images connected to the information output of block 5 records; and

a comparator 7 connected to the information output of the database storage unit 6 and having at least one information input for receiving repeated control images, each of which is associated with a specific strict reporting document;

The source of the repeated control images can be external shapers 8 in the form of electronic cameras or cameras built into modern mobile phones, smartphones and tablets, which belong to retailers or buyers of marked products. Each such gadget is suitable for connecting to comparator 7 via a telecommunication system.

It is desirable (but not necessary) that the programmable generator of encoded primary control images of stationary shaper 4 is capable of generating either point images or images based on a machine-readable mosaic code with a variable core.

The described system operates as follows.

An authorized government agency or trademark owner:

selects the type of primary control images on large-circulation strict reporting documents and the procedure for their formation and encoding / decoding,

equips with blocks 2, 3, 4 and 7 with appropriate software;

issues a program for equipping remote external shapers with it 8 repeated control images that are correlated with certain strict reporting documents;

starts the generator 2 keys generating encoded primary control images and generates at least one such key, and mainly a series of such keys;

starts (either simultaneously with the specified generator 2, or as the need arises for changing the primary control images), the activator 3 of the specified keys, the commands of which trigger the stationary shaper 4 encoded primary control images.

In particular, such images can be in the form of sets of points that specify a symbolic (alphabetic and / or digital) inscription, a geometric figure, a photograph, or a combination thereof, and are printed with a shift relative to the starting point so that the shifted points form an encoded sequence interpreted during reading like a number.

It is also possible to generate encoded primary control images in the form of a machine-readable mosaic code with a variable core, based on an easily variable key sequence of numbers. Such images look like sets of regularly located raster graphic modules.

In principle, other methods are possible for obtaining encoded primary control images, which, as they are formed, come from the information output of the stationary shaper 4 to the control input of the printing device 1.

This printing device 1 may be owned by a trusted printing company or directly by an authorized government agency or trademark owner, which requires counterfeit, multi-circulation, strict reporting documents. In this case, two options are possible.

According to the first - preferential - option, the printing device 1 is fed with a clean information carrier (sheet or roll paper or flexible packaging material) onto which the graphic part, identifiers (serial numbers) of excise marks or trademarks and encoded primary control images are simultaneously applied.

According to the second embodiment, the printing device 1 is fed with an information carrier on which the graphic part is pre-printed, a series of sequentially increasing identifiers (serial numbers) of excise stamps or pre-printed trademarks.

Certain batches of documents strictly protected in such a way that they are prevented from falsification are used for marking goods that enter the trade turnover.

In any of the above options, data about each protected document strict reporting and associated with it the primary control image from the information output of the printing device 1 is sent to the recording unit 5.

Then, from the information output of this block 5, the indicated data is sent to the database storage unit 6 about the documents of strict reporting and the corresponding primary control images used for marking products.

The comparator 7 is constantly connected to the information output of the indicated database storage unit 6 and must be connected in standby mode to the existing geographically distributed telecommunication system.

Further, any retailer or buyer of labeled goods, if the authenticity of the excise stamp, label or tag is in doubt, can use the gadget available as a shaper 8 to form a repeated control image of the doubtful document and send it via the telecommunication system to comparator 7 with a request for verification.

In turn, the comparator 7 requests a database stored in block 6, and according to the results of the comparison also notifies the source person of the request about the authenticity or falsification of the excise stamp, label or tag through the telecommunication system.

Industrial applicability

The proposed system can be built on an accessible element base and embedded in existing geographically distributed telecommunication systems such as the Internet (including Ethernet).

Likewise, most of the system software can be implemented using standard protocols and interfaces.

Depending on the circulation of the strict reporting documents to be protected, you can:

either use one activated key to form a series of identical encoded primary control images and activate other keys with a certain frequency, or as necessary,

or generate and activate unique keys for generating encoded primary control images for each document.

Claims (3)

1. A system of protection against counterfeiting of large-circulation strict reporting documents, including a marking device with an information output; stationary shaper of the primary control image as an additional means of protection against forgery of each strict reporting document, which is associated with a marking device for information output; a unit for recording data on strict reporting documents and associated primary control images, which has an information output; a unit for storing a database of documents used for marking products of strict reporting and their corresponding primary control images; connected to the information output of the specified recording unit; a comparator connected to the information output of the indicated database storage unit and having at least one information input for receiving repeated control images, each of which is associated with a specific strict reporting document, and at least one information output for issuing messages about authenticity or falsification of checked documents, characterized in that the said marking device is made in the form of a printing device for continuous sealing and each protected from forgery encoded primary reference image and said stationary generator is designed as a programmable oscillator encoded primary reference image, which along with the data output has a control input and includes this input sequentially connected generator and activator of keys forming said images on the selected algorithm. 2. The system according to claim 1, characterized in that the said stationary shaper is made in the form of a programmable generator of point encoded primary control images. 3. The system according to claim 1, characterized in that said stationary shaper is made in the form of a programmable generator of encoded primary control images based on a machine-readable mosaic code with a variable core.

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