WO2018038731A1 - Système d'authentification de billet de banque à base optique ayant une discrimination de casse - Google Patents

Système d'authentification de billet de banque à base optique ayant une discrimination de casse Download PDF

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WO2018038731A1
WO2018038731A1 PCT/US2016/048667 US2016048667W WO2018038731A1 WO 2018038731 A1 WO2018038731 A1 WO 2018038731A1 US 2016048667 W US2016048667 W US 2016048667W WO 2018038731 A1 WO2018038731 A1 WO 2018038731A1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
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  • the present invention relates generally to optically-based methods and apparatus for identifying optically coded articles. More specifically, the present invention relates to optically-based methods and apparatus for identifying optically coded objects in the image based on size and shape to target only those objects that possess desirable or required physical attributes.
  • Present day methods cover a broad spectrum of solutions.
  • One solution applicable to macroscopic and visually identifiable items involves a manual process wherein workers sequentially select items from among many items in a group by identifying an intrinsic characteristic of an item or by a visually-readable coding system that is incorporated into the item. Once selected, the items are directed, either manually or by use of a conveyance, to a location where items possessing a common attribute are stored or further processed. In cases where inventory control is of interest, the selected items can be counted and tabulated either manually by some direct action by a worker or automatically as the selected item passes through a counting device.
  • the manual labor to identify, count, sort and tabulate items has numerous limitations.
  • a limitation in processing throughput is of particular interest herein. In some laundries about 100,000 or more individual items must be processed in a single 8-hour work shift. Since workers are required to perform multiple tasks on each item (e.g., identify, count and sort each item), only a limited number of items can be processed by a typical worker in an 8-hour shift. Further, the burden of manually performing multiple tasks on each item may also lead to inaccuracies in the identifying, sorting and counting processes. In an effort to eliminate, or at least to minimize, the limitations in the manual processes outlined above, automated solutions have been sought.
  • LaserThreadTM may be incorporated into garment labels for uniquely identifying a rental garment, or characteristics thereof, during processing.
  • LaserThreadTM may be sewn into borders of linens, e.g., into the hem of a table linen, for uniquely identifying linens and/or characteristics thereof.
  • the LaserThreadTM emits laser-like emissions when excited with, for example, a laser having specific wavelength, pulse energy and pulse duration.
  • the required excitation laser has a wavelength in the red to blue region of the visible spectrum and can provide radiant energy densities on the order of, for example, about 10 millijoules per square centimeter when an about 10 nanosecond pulse is directed at the LaserThreadTM.
  • Exemplary excitation sources include, for example, flashlamp- pumped, Q-switched, frequency doubled Nd:YAG lasers, diode-pumped, pumped Q- switched, frequency-doubled Nd:YAG lasers, and sources derived from other nonlinear products involving principally Nd:YAG lasers or other laser crystals.
  • a multi-phase gain medium is disclosed as having an emission phase (such as dye molecules) and a scattering phase (such as Ti02).
  • a third, matrix phase may also be provided in some embodiments. Suitable materials for the matrix phase include solvents, glasses and polymers.
  • the gain medium is shown to provide a laser-like spectral linewidth collapse above a certain pump pulse energy.
  • the gain medium is disclosed to be suitable for encoding objects with multiple-wavelength codes, and to be suitable for use with a number of substrate materials, including polymers and textiles.
  • excitation pulse energy can be maximized by tightly controlling the location and orientation of photonically active materials incorporated within an article to be evaluated. If tight controls are maintained, then a narrow excitation beam of fixed orientation can impinge on the photonically active materials incorporated within the article to be evaluated with a predictable degree of certainty. Alternatively, if the controls of the location and orientation of the photonically active materials are relaxed, then a targeting system is needed to locate the photonically active materials incorporated into the articles such that an excitation beam can be directed to excite the materials.
  • the ability to tightly control the orientation of photonically active materials incorporated within an article under evaluation is particularly troublesome during various processing operations. For example, a region of the article containing the material may be soiled or otherwise obstructed and, thus, the irradiation of the photonically active materials is prevented.
  • photonically active material can be implemented in the form of fibers, and the fibers can be randomly distributed within a banknote substrate during the manufacturing process.
  • Each fiber in its pristine size and shape contains the electromagnetically emitting and amplifying materials necessary for producing a characteristic laser-like emission such that only one of the plurality of fibers in a banknote needs to be interrogated to determine banknote authenticity.
  • Electromagnetic emission for a shortened fiber may be spectrally shifted and/or broadened to an extent where the altered emission is spectrally resolvable from pristine-fiber emission. In this case the short-fiber emission would not be deemed authentic and the banknote would be falsely identified as suspect.
  • a targeting system a means to discriminate against broke fibers to reduce the possibility of misclassifying authentic banknotes. Accordingly, the inventor has realized that it is advantageous to employ a targeting system and an identification system with processes for separating, identifying, counting, optionally sorting and authenticating and validating the authenticity of articles.
  • the articles being examined are banknotes and similar basically flat items, and these teachings are employed during the processing of banknotes, such as the validation and authenticity checking of banknotes and other items containing at least one security feature.
  • a method and a system are disclosed for processing a banknote.
  • the method includes providing a banknote having at least one photonically active security feature, the banknote being moved along a conveyance path; illuminating the at least one security feature with light from a stimulus source; identifying a location of the at least one security feature by detecting an emission from the security feature; directing an excitation source at the identified location; illuminating the at least security feature with light from the excitation source; and detecting a further emission from the photonically active security feature in response to the light from the excitation source.
  • the step of identifying may include operating a linescan camera having scan axis that is parallel to a conveyance axis, or operating a linescan camera having scan axis that is perpendicular to the conveyance axis.
  • the step of identifying may also include operating a single element detector to accumulate a line scan along the banknote at a same cross-axis location as a field of view of the excitation source.
  • An additional step for identifying may also include algorithms for processing the image captured by a linescan camera to characterize and discriminate objects in the image based on size and shape to target only those objects that possess desirable or required physical attributes.
  • the step of directing includes delaying operation of the excitation source for a period of time that is a function of at least a speed of conveyance, and a distance between a illumination points of the stimulus source and the excitation source.
  • the photonically active security feature can include at least one thread or planchette or other structure, such as a tape, having a substrate material and an electromagnetic radiation emitting and amplifying material for providing a laser-like emission.
  • the structure can be embedded within or disposed on the banknote.
  • the detected further emission may be an optical code for identifying at least one characteristic of the banknote.
  • a plurality of fibers each containing an electromagnetic radiation emitting and amplifying material for providing a laser-like emission, can be randomly distributed within the banknote substrate during manufacturing of the banknote paper.
  • the detected further emission from the fibers may be used to determine banknote authenticity.
  • FIG. 1 illustrates an excitation source
  • FIG. 2 is a top view of a beam pointing system
  • FIG. 3 is a side view of the beam pointing system of FIG. 2;
  • FIGS. 4 and 5 are useful in explaining a calibration technique
  • FIG. 6A is a diagram of calibration-related equipment used to cause the optical axes of the acquisition and the pointing systems to be coincident;
  • FIGS. 6B and 6C are exemplary calibration-related tables
  • FIG. 7A is an enlarged elevational view of a microlasing cylindrical bead structure suitable for incorporation into an article
  • FIG. 7B is an enlarged cross-sectional view of the microlasing cylindrical bead structure of FIG. 7A;
  • FIG. 8 is a diagram of an exemplary article identification system
  • FIG. 9 is a more detailed block diagram of a self-targeting reader of the identification system shown in FIG. 8;
  • FIGS. 10A, 10B and 10C illustrate an example of a line scan detector having a line scan axis parallel to a conveyance axis of an article, such as a banknote, an example of a line scan detector having a line scan axis orthogonal to the conveyance axis of the article, and an example of a single element detector that accumulates a line scan along the article at the same cross-axis location as a field of view of an excitation source, respectively; and
  • FIG. 1 1 illustrates an example of the photonically active security feature in the form of fibers embedded randomly in a paper substrate, where broke fibers are shown to be considerably shorter than pristine fibers.
  • This invention can employ a laser-like emission, such as one exhibiting a spectrally and temporally collapsed emission, or a secondary emission.
  • a secondary emission can be any optical emission from a photonically active material that results directly from the absorption of energy from an excitation source. Secondary emissions, as employed herein, may encompass both fluorescence and phosphorescence.
  • teachings of this invention could be employed to identify articles that have been coded with materials not exhibiting laser-like action, such as phosphor particles, dyes (without scatterers) and semiconductor materials.
  • materials not exhibiting laser-like action such as phosphor particles, dyes (without scatterers) and semiconductor materials.
  • semiconductor materials are fabricated to form quantum well structures which emit light at wavelengths that can be tuned by fabrication parameters.
  • this invention employs an optical gain medium that is capable of exhibiting laser-like activity or other emissions from the medium when excited by a source of excitation energy.
  • the optical gain medium can be comprised of a matrix phase, for example a polymer or substrate, that is substantially transparent at wavelengths of interest; and an electromagnetic radiation emitting and amplifying phase, for example a chromic dye or a phosphor.
  • the optical gain medium also comprises a high index of refraction contrast electromagnetic radiation scattering phase, such as particles of an oxide and/or scattering centers within the matrix phase.
  • the teaching of this invention can employ a dye or some other material that is capable of emitting light, possibly in combination with scattering particles or sites, to exhibit electro-optic properties consistent with laser action; i.e., a laser-like emission that exhibits both a spectral linewidth collapse and a temporal collapse at an input pump energy above a threshold level.
  • this invention employs a secondary emission that can be any optical emission from a photonically active material that results directly from the absorption of energy from an excitation source.
  • Secondary emissions can include both fluorescent and phosphorescent emissions.
  • the invention can be applied to the construction of articles, for example, a garments or linens, wherein the article further includes at least one portion containing the gain medium for providing a narrow-band (e.g., about 3 nm) optical radiation emission in response to pump energy above a threshold fluence.
  • the narrow-band optical radiation emission permits the identification (and possible sorting) of the article.
  • An elongated filament structure such as a thread, for example, LaserThreadTM, includes electromagnetic radiation emitting and amplifying material. The electromagnetic radiation emitting and amplifying material, possibly in cooperation with scatterers, provides the laser-like emission, as described above.
  • one or more elongated filament structures that are, for example, about 5-50 pm in diameter, are disposed on or within at least one region of a garment or a linen.
  • a plurality of emission wavelengths can be provided, thereby wavelength encoding the garment or linen.
  • a structure employing one or more optical gain medium films deposited around a core provides the laser-like emission, as described above.
  • the structure may be of various geometries including beads, disks and spheres. The beads, disks and spheres being incorporated into an article to permit the identification and optional sorting of the article during processing operations.
  • FIG. 7A an enlarged elevated view of a microlasing cylindrical bead structure 20 is shown.
  • the microlasing cylindrical bead structure 20 comprises cylindrical dielectric sheets that are equivalent to a closed two-dimensional slab waveguide and supports a resonant mode. Modes with Q values exceeding 106 are possible with active layer thicknesses of about 1 -2 pm and diameters (D) of about 5- 50 pm.
  • FIG. 7B illustrates an enlarged cross-sectional view of the microlasing cylindrical bead structure 20 of FIG. 7A.
  • the core region 22 is surrounded by a gain medium layer or region 24 and an isolation layer or region 26.
  • the gain medium layer 24 has a higher index of refraction than the core region 22 and the isolation layer 26.
  • a plurality of gain medium layers and a plurality of isolation layers surround the core region 22.
  • the core region 22 may be metallic, polymeric or scattering.
  • the gain medium layer 24 is preferably one of a plurality of optical gain medium films that are disposed about the core 22 for providing a plurality of characteristic emission wavelengths.
  • an optical gain medium capable of emitting a laser-like or a secondary emission may be employed to identify articles.
  • Such articles may be, but are not limited to, linens, or garments, or various types of textiles generally.
  • the articles can include banknotes, other types of currency, checks and bank drafts, and other similar types of articles that have a generally flat appearance when placed on a conveyance, such as a conveyor belt, for transport past or through the system in accordance with these teachings.
  • an identification (and possible sortation) system which includes an acquisition system, a pointing system, an excitation system and a detection system.
  • the identification system permits photonically active materials disposed on an article under evaluation to be located (i.e. acquired), an excitation source to be pointed at the acquired materials, an excitation emission to be directed thereon, and an optical response (laser-like emission or secondary emission) to the excitation emission from the materials to be detected.
  • a "search, point, shoot and detect" system enables the identification of articles during processing operations.
  • any suitable type of diverter, manipulator, or sorter apparatus can be coupled to the identification system for affecting further processing of identified (or of non-identified) articles.
  • the practice of these teachings does not require that sorting be performed, or that identified objects be segregated in any way one from another or from other objects.
  • FIGS. 8 and 9 illustrate an exemplary embodiment of a self-targeting reader system for remote identification of articles, i.e. the "search, point, shoot and detect” system discussed above.
  • articles 30 such as, for example, garments, linens, textiles and other coded materials, are identified as they pass through a field of acquisition 32 of a remote identification device 34.
  • a number of articles 30 may be automatically passed through the field of acquisition 32, in the direction indicated by arrow "A", by a conveyance such as, for example, a moving rail or a conveyor 36.
  • the articles 30 include at least one region 38 containing photonically active materials.
  • the photonically active materials permit an optical encoding of the articles 30 for purposes of, for example, identifying and optionally sorting the articles 30 during processing operations.
  • the at least one region 38 may be a label sewn, glued, or otherwise affixed or bonded, to the article 30.
  • the optical coding and identification of the articles 30 may be performed by detecting a unique laser-like or secondary emission from the at least one region 38 in response to an excitation.
  • FIG. 9 shows a schematic diagram of the self-targeting reader system of FIG. 8.
  • four functional aspects of the reader system are particularly emphasized. These four functional aspects include devices for performing target acquisition 40, pointing 42, excitation 44 and receiving or detection 46, i.e. the "search, point, shoot and detect" properties of the self-targeting reader system 34.
  • Target acquisition utilizes a luminous property of photonically active material attached to the article 30 under evaluation to locate a brightest or strongest emitting area of the article 30. That is, an area 50 of the article 30 that, in response to an excitation, emits a luminous or fluorescent emission within one or more specific ranges of wavelengths.
  • a suitable stimulus source 52 may employ a lens 54 or some other means to produce a preferably divergent beam pattern 53 which illuminates the field of acquisition of the reader system 34.
  • the photonically active material attached to the article 30 passing through the field is excited by the emission from the stimulus source 52.
  • the photonically active material in response to the excitation the photonically active material emits the luminous or fluorescent emission within a specific range of wavelengths.
  • suitable stimulus sources 52 are selected according to the application and properties of the fluorescent materials incorporated within the articles under evaluation. It is desirable that the beam 53 be wide enough to insure a detection of the photonically active material for whatever orientation it may assume.
  • Suitable examples of the stimulus source 52 may include, for example, X- ray sources, Xenon flashlamps, fluorescent lamps, incandescent lamps, LEDs, laser diodes and a widely divergent laser beam.
  • the suitable stimulus source 52 may be produced by modification of the excitation device 44.
  • the emission from the excitation laser source 1 propagates along a beam path 7 toward the pointing system.
  • a stimulus source is created from the excitation by redirecting the excitation source emission along beam path 8 by the introduction of a movable mirror 5.
  • Mirror 5 is caused to interrupt beam path 7 by an actuator 2 that has a rotating shaft 3 onto which the mirror 5 is held by an actuating arm 4.
  • the actuator 2 can be a solenoid, a galvanometer, or any other device that can cause the mirror 5 to be positioned in and out of the beam path 7, preferably by an electrical command from the reader control electronics.
  • the mode scrambling crystal 10 is a light pipe that preferably has a cross sectional shape the same as the shape of the acquisition field of view (i.e., if the field of view is designed to be square, then the crystal cross section is square as well). In the preferred embodiment, all sides of the crystal are polished so that light propagating inside the crystal is reflected upon incidence with a side by total internal reflection.
  • the sides of the crystal 10 could be caused to have a high reflection coefficient by coating the sides with a metallic or dielectric coating.
  • the input face 1 1 is ground using a micro grit such that light entering the input face is scattered into randomized directions inside the crystal 10. This scrambling of the wavefront causes light to uniformly fill the volume of the crystal 10 after multiple internal reflections off the sides of the crystal.
  • the light distribution is uniform across the output face and has the shape of the cross section of the crystal.
  • the light also exits the crystal 10 through a wide and randomized range of angles, the maximum of which is determined by the refractive index of the crystal and of the surrounding medium (usually air).
  • the light exiting the crystal 10 is collected and imaged by a lens 12 onto a target area of the acquisition system 14.
  • the imaging lens 12 is chosen to cause the imaged rays 13 from the crystal 10 to substantially fill the target area.
  • the normal mode of operation of the reader system is as follows. First the mirror 5 is positioned into the beam path 7. When an article is sensed in the acquisition field of view the excitation source is triggered causing a uniform illumination to envelope the target area and thus the article. The uniform illumination causes coded materials on the article to fluoresce and be sensed by the acquisition camera. The mirror 5 is removed from the beam path 7, and the pointing system is commanded to point in the direction of the brightest detected fluorescence. When the article is sensed in the target area of the pointing system the excitation source is again triggered to cause a targeted narrow beam of excitation to impinge on the coded material. After the coded emission is detected and analyzed, mirror 5 is again positioned into the beam path 7 and the cycle is ready to repeat.
  • a suitable stimulus source 52 should be understood to be an electromagnetic radiant source whose emission is absorbed by the photonically active material and which has sufficient photonic energy to induce a detectable fluorescence in the photonically active material.
  • a Xenon flashlamp having an emission spectrally narrowed by a filter is a suitable stimulus source 52, since LaserThreadTM can be caused to fluoresce upon absorption of visible radiation from the Xenon flashlamp.
  • a stimulus source 52 is not required.
  • Such self-emissive articles include, for example, bioluminescent and chemiluminescent articles.
  • the luminous or fluorescent emissions from the photonically active material, either induced or intrinsic, are detected by, for example, an imaging electronic camera system 56 of the target acquisition system 40.
  • a field of view of the camera system 56 is preferably coincident with or smaller than the divergent beam pattern 53 of the stimulus source 52.
  • the field of view 55 of the camera system 56 defines the field of acquisition 32 of the reader system 34.
  • fluorescent emissions from the photonically active material pass through a filter which substantially passes the fluorescent emission but which attenuates strongly diffuse scattered or specularly reflected stimulus emissions from the article 30.
  • filters i.e. filters that possess non-coincident passbands
  • Electronic signals from the imaging camera system 56 may be analyzed by a computer or dedicated image processing electronics 41 to determine the location, within the field of view 55, of the strongest emitting area 50 of the article 30. Conventional image acquisition and processing software can be used for this purpose.
  • the beam pointing system 42 processes the location information and, in response thereto, aligns or directs emissions 60 from the excitation device 44 to impinge the article 30 substantially on the strongest emitting area 50.
  • the pointing system 42 may include an agile beam steering device 58 that is responsive to the location information (e.g., electronic control signals) from the target acquisition system 40. It should also be appreciated that the pointing system 42 may include acousto-optic beam deflectors, rotating polygonal mirrors, lens (microlens array) translators, resonant galvanometer scanners and holographic scanners, or any combination thereof. In one embodiment of the pointing system 42, a two-axis beam steering pointing system is comprised of two non-resonant galvanometer scanners that each have a mirror attached to the scanner shaft. One scanner causes beam deflection along one axis and redirects emissions from an excitation source onto the second scanner mirror.
  • a rotation axis of the second scanner is orthogonally oriented with respect to the first scanner axis so that the excitation emission is redirected toward the article and is scannable in two independent axes to substantially cover the entire acquisition field of the acquisition system 40.
  • Mirror reflection characteristics are specified to allow high throughput for the excitation system while also allowing high throughput for the secondary emission or lasing emission from the photonically active material attached to the article 30.
  • the mirrors possess a high energy-density damage threshold at the excitation wavelength.
  • the pointing system 42 also includes a diplexer 59 for combining the emissions 60 from the excitation source 44 propagation toward the article 30 with a secondary emission or a laser-like emission 62 from the photonic material, which is propagating toward the receiving device 46.
  • FIG. 2 is a top view of the pointing system and FIG. 3 is a side view.
  • Beam path A originates at the diplexer 59 and includes the excitation beam and counterpropagating received light from the coded article.
  • the beam A reflects from first mirror M1 to form beam B, or if the mirror M1 has rotated, to form beam C.
  • Mirror M1 is mounted onto the shaft Si of first galvanometer GV1 .
  • the axis of shaft S1 is typically mounted orthogonally with respect to beam path A.
  • GV1 causes mirror M1 to rotate in response to electrical signals from the reader control electronics.
  • Beam B or C reflects from second mirror M2 to form beam D, or if mirror M2 has rotated to form beam E.
  • Mirror M2 is mounted onto the shaft S2 of second galvanometer GV2, where the axis of S2 is orthogonally oriented with respect to S1 , and typically lies in a plane containing beam A.
  • GV2 causes mirror M2 to rotate in response to electrical signals from the reader control electronics.
  • Mirror M1 causes the beam A to move along a line projected onto the plane of the target area that is parallel to original beam path A.
  • Mirror M2 causes beam A to move in a line projected onto the plane of the target area that is orthogonal to the original beam, and typically parallel to beam B. In this way, actuation of mirrors M1 and M2 cause the beam A to be deflected to a commanded spot within the target area TA.
  • the diplexer 59 may be realized as a number of conventional devices that utilize any one of three properties of photons to permit collinear counterpropagation of a light beam.
  • the three properties are polarization, wavelength and vector momentum.
  • the diplexer 59 may be embodied as a polarizing beam splitter (when polarization is utilized), a dichroic mirror (when wavelength is utilized), and a free-space non-reciprocal element referred to in the art as a circulator (when vector momentum is utilized).
  • Another suitable embodiment is a partially reflecting mirror, known also as a beam splitter, which can be employed when the losses associated with this device can be tolerated in the overall system design.
  • An element 66 of the receiving system 46 is a functional equivalent of the diplexer 59 but, typically, is configured as another one of the three devices described above.
  • the diplexer 59 is a dichroic mirror and the element 66 is a polarizing beam splitter.
  • the element 66 serves to add an output of a coherent or calibration source 64 to the collinear beam passed from the pointing device 42 to the receiving device 46. The addition of the output of the coherent source 64 is performed during a calibration operating mode of the reader system 34.
  • the output of the coherent source 64 is added to the collinear beam to permit the calibration of the directed position determined by the pointing system 42 to the strongest emitting area 50 detected by the acquisition device 40.
  • the coherent source 64 is comprised of, for example, a laser diode, a Helium-Neon laser or another suitable source emitting radiation detectable by the camera system 56 of the acquisition device 40.
  • a flat target is placed in the field of view 55 of the camera system 56 during a calibration operation so that a portion of light from the coherent source 64 propagating collinearly with the excitation source light 60 and the received light 62 is scattered from the flat target into the camera system 56.
  • a data table is generated and stored in the computer or dedicated image processing electronics 41 of the acquisition system 40. Entries in the data table link a unique detected strongest emitting area 50 of the article 30 and a unique directed position of the pointing system 42.
  • the data table is used to aid the determination of an appropriate position for the pointing system 42 to direct the excitation source emission 60. That is, by comparing a position of a detected strongest emitting area 50 within the acquisition field to corresponding entries within the data table an associated directed position for the pointing system 42 is determined.
  • FIG. 4 shows a more detailed side view.
  • the acquisition system (AS) and associated field of view (FOV1 )
  • pointing system (PS) with its associated field of view (FOV2)
  • the detected position of the brightest fluorescence by the acquisition system imaging camera corresponds to two orthogonal angles in the camera field of view. If an imaginary line is drawn to connect the camera and the fluorescence area, then this line can be described by the angles it forms with respect to the central axis of the camera.
  • angles A1 is in a plane which contains the velocity vector of the article and the camera, i.e., in the plane of the figure.
  • the other angle is in a plane orthogonal to the first, and contains a line across the width of the conveyor and the camera, i.e., a vertical plane projecting perpendicularly out of the page.
  • FIG. 5 shows how parallax can cause pointing errors if the angles in the fields of view are not preserved.
  • the acquisition system (AS) locates the area of greatest fluorescence F and maps this area to a point (P) in the plane of the target area TA. For flat articles, point F coincides with point P.
  • the pointing system of this embodiment does not possess a scanning mirror for pointing the excitation emission in the plane of the Figure. Instead, this system waits for the article to move under the pointing system until the target point TP is directly underneath. Now, while target point TP is identical to the point in the plane of the target area TA, the emission misses the desired target point DTP on the article. This is because the target angle A1 measured by the acquisition system is not preserved by the pointing system, and a parallax error has occurred.
  • this type of system configuration points to the desired point with the benefit of using one less scanning mirror.
  • a calibration procedure may thus be performed for the acquisition angle A1 to agree with the pointing angle A2 in FIG. 4, since the angle corresponding to the area of greatest fluorescence is used to command the pointing mirrors of the pointing system to reproduce the pointing angles precisely.
  • the calibration procedure employs an additional apparatus during the calibration procedure that causes the optical axes of the acquisition system and pointing system to be coincident.
  • FIG. 6A shows a preferred embodiment.
  • the calibration apparatus of FIG. 6A includes a partially reflecting beamsplitter BS (also known as a pellicle beamsplitter), a mirror M, and a fixture for holding the acquisition camera 56 and pointing system PS in precise alignment with the mirror M and beamsplitter BS.
  • BS also known as a pellicle beamsplitter
  • the apparatus functions by causing the rotation axis of the pointing system PS to be precisely coincident with the pupil of the camera lens (L). With this alignment, an arbitrary ray R1 from the pointing system propagates to the target area as ray R2, is reflected in the target area back along the path R2 and into the camera 56 as ray R3. Ray R3 has the same angle with respect to the optical axis of the camera 56 as ray R1 has with respect to the optical axis of the pointing system. Ray R1 is derived from the coherent source in the receiver (calibration source 64 in FIG. 9).
  • a command signal is supplied to the pointing mirrors to point the coherent source in a direction of, for example, ray R1 , and the coherent source light scattered form the target area is detected by the camera 56 as ray R3.
  • a mapping of the command signal to the pointing mirrors and a detected position in the acquisition camera 56 is constructed so as to contain all possible combinations of command signals to the mirrors, and the corresponding detected position in the camera 56.
  • the calibration table is used in reverse, such that now a detected position in the camera 56 can be used to define a unique command signal to the mirrors, which reproduces precisely the same field angle.
  • Table 1 of FIG. 6B shows a subset of an exemplary calibration table constructed during the calibration procedure.
  • the values Vx and Vy are voltages sent to the pointing mirrors, and the entries in the table at the intersection of voltage values are the x and y pixel values of the camera that detected the reflected source light.
  • Table 2 of FIG. 6C is derived from Table 1 , and is used during the normal mode of operation. When a bright fluorescent area is detected, the x and y pixel values for the pixel that detected the fluorescence are used to determine Vx and Vy command voltages to the pointing mirrors.
  • the excitation of the photonically active material for example, LaserThreadTM
  • the specifications for suitable excitation sources 44 are determined by the requirements of the photonically active material of the articles 30 of interest.
  • the LaserThreadTM are excited to lase when exposed to the output of a laser having specific characteristics of wavelength, pulse energy and pulse duration.
  • the required excitation laser has a wavelength in the red to blue region of the visible spectrum and can provide radiant energy densities on the order of, for example, about 10 millijoules per square centimeter when an about 10 nanosecond pulse is directed at the LaserThreadTM.
  • Exemplary excitation sources include, for example, flashlamp-pumped, Q-switched, frequency doubled Nd:YAG lasers, diode-pumped, Q-switched, frequency-doubled Nd:YAG lasers, and sources derived from other nonlinear devices involving principally Nd:YAG lasers or other laser crystals.
  • the excitation beam 60 is preferably made to be divergent such that it illuminates a spot on the article that is larger than the reader's imaging and pointing resolutions.
  • the photonically active material is excited by the excitation source 44 to fluoresce to provide optical coding
  • the source 44 may be other than a laser source.
  • the source is selected to produce in the detector a high signal to noise ratio signal that is adequate for spectral analysis.
  • the source could comprise a spectrally filtered and substantially collimated Xenon flashlamp.
  • the pointing system 42 collects and directs the secondary or lasing emission 62 from the photonically active material into the receiving system 46 via the beamsteering device 58 and the diplexer 59.
  • the receiving system 46 includes a dispersive element for spectrally analyzing the received emission.
  • the receiving system 46 can couple received emissions into an optical fiber which is coupled to a grating spectrometer and multi-channel detector element such as, for example, a CCD array.
  • the receiving system 46 includes an imaging spectrometer for spectrally analyzing emissions in one axis, and spatially imaging the emissions along an orthogonal axis.
  • a computer or dedicated electronic processor can then analyze the spectral and/or spatial signature of the emissions to output an indication of an identity of an article under evaluation.
  • a finite amount of time is required to acquire a field of data from the camera system 56 and to process that data in the acquisition system 40 in order to locate a brightest fluorescent area 50 of the article 30.
  • the article 30 may be traveling through the field of acquisition 32 of the reader system 34. Unless the displacement of the article as a result of this traveling is accounted for the pointing system 42 will direct the emission from the excitation source 44 to an incorrect location, i.e. a location where the brightest fluorescent area 50 of the article 30 was previously detected. Therefore, it is within the scope of these teachings to account for the displacement of the article 30 during examination.
  • the acquisition system 40 is physically separated from the other components of the reader system 42 by a distance at least as large as would be necessary to account for the time to acquire and process the location of the brightest fluorescent area 50, plus any settling time needed for mechanical elements of the pointing system 42 to direct the emission 60 from the excitation source 44.
  • this time period will vary by specific implementation factors such as, for example, the velocity of the conveyance device 36 which moves the article 30 through the field of acquisition 32.
  • the acquisition 40 and pointing 42 systems are activated by a first sensor located to detect the article's movement through the acquisition field 32, while the excitation 44 and receiving 46 systems are activated by a second sensor.
  • the location of the first and the second sensors are adjusted to minimize and substantially remove errors resulting from the movement of the article 30.
  • the reader system 34 identifies a plurality of articles within a stationary acquisition field.
  • An ordered separation of articles may be achieved by, for example, utilizing a segmented tray.
  • All articles within the acquisition field can be illuminated with a single pulse from a stimulus source, for example, the stimulus source 52.
  • the single pulse is of sufficient energy to excite fluorescence in all the articles within the acquisition field. It can be appreciated, as noted above, that the articles can also be self-fluorescent.
  • a target acquisition algorithm identifies all detectable luminous emissions from the articles that exceed a predetermined threshold brightness value. Target locations detected by the acquisition system may then be serially passed to the pointing, excitation and receiving systems to identify and to optionally permit sorting of the articles within the acquisition field.
  • the pointing system directs emissions from the excitation system and the response from the photonically active material to the receiving system.
  • the excitation system directed through the pointing system while the receiving system views the entire acquisition field separately to collect the response of the photonically active material, or vice versa.
  • the acquisition, the excitation and the receiving systems may each be directed through the pointing system.
  • the excitation source could be adapted to include multiple wavelengths.
  • a second wavelength is generated from the first wavelength through a nonlinear optical process (for example, through Stokes shifting), and the two wavelengths are made to be collinear using one of the previously described diplexer devices.
  • the two beams are preferably collinear so as to pass through the pointing system.
  • the color of the article onto which the coded material is applied may be useful to determine.
  • other properties of the article could be determined by incorporating other suitable detectors into the receiver of the reader, in addition to the spectrometer of the preferred embodiment.
  • the optical axis of this additional detector(s) may be brought into collinearity with the optical axis of the receiver by a diplexer element. It may be desirable to make the field of view of the additional detector(s) substantially broader than the field of view of the spectrometer so that these other properties of the article are measured at locations near the location of the coded material.
  • the reader device in one embodiment has capabilities of acquiring targets in a two-dimensional field of view (by an area camera) and exciting/detecting targets in a two-dimensional field of view (by a two-dimensional pointing system).
  • acquiring capabilities restricted to one dimension by a line-scan camera), or point detection (single element, e.g., a non-imaging detector), as will be described in further detail below.
  • point detection single element, e.g., a non-imaging detector
  • Various permutations are also possible.
  • a reader system of the former type is particularly applicable when the articles have the coded material applied at a known location on the article along the dimension parallel to the direction of travel along the conveyance.
  • the motion of the conveyor can be used to replace the scanner function.
  • This configuration may be subject to parallax errors (as shown in FIG. 5) and is most applicable when the articles lie in the plane of the conveyance.
  • This approach also employs a stimulus source capable of providing continuous output, or at least at a repetition rate that, together with the conveyance velocity, provides adequate spatial resolution along the direction of travel.
  • a reader system of the latter type may be applicable when the coded material location on the article is known along both axes of the article. In a manner similar to the previous case, the reader system uses the motion of the article by the conveyance to provide the scanning function.
  • the optical code may require a plurality of wavelengths and thus a plurality of coding materials that cannot be readily collocated.
  • the acquisition system identifies the locations on the article of each of the component materials.
  • the reader system then sequentially points, excites, and detects the optical wavelength from each of the materials on the article, subsequently "building" the code by an appropriate combination or concatenation of the individual wavelengths detected.
  • the foregoing apparatus and methods involve locating a laser-like material embedded in or located upon a substrate through detection of the materials' fluorescence using the stimulus source 52, and then exciting the material to lase using the excitation source 1.
  • time is used to target the material for lasing purposes after it has been detected through fluorescence by the several means discussed below.
  • the arrival of the lasing material in the field of view or acquisition of the excitation source 1 is anticipated with knowledge of the target location relative to the search detector, such as the camera system 56, and the conveyance speed of the article 30.
  • the search detector such as the camera system 56
  • the conveyance speed of the article 30 This is an extension of the search, point and shoot approach as the scanning mechanism, such as the beam steering device 58, used for targeting is replaced by the conveyance of the article 30.
  • the search, point and shoot approach may be employed for the decoding of lasing materials (e.g., security threads or fibers) embedded in substrates, such as banknotes.
  • lasing materials e.g., security threads or fibers embedded in substrates, such as banknotes.
  • the search, point and shoot technique may be implemented through several means, largely differing in the fluorescence detection method.
  • Exemplary choices include the following approaches: an area detector such as the camera 56 shown in FIG. 9, a line scan camera and a single-element detector.
  • the entire substrate is imaged at once while under illumination by the fluorescence stimulus.
  • An image-processing algorithm executed by the processor 41 selects the section of substrate that both contains lasing material and that is in the field of view of the excitation source 1 .
  • the excitation source 1 is activated and the lasing emission detected. If the field of view of the excitation source 1 could be extended to include the entire cross-axis dimension of the substrate, such as through a scanning mechanism, then essentially the entire substrate could be targeted by the combination of time and the scanning mechanism, such as the beam steering device 58.
  • the second case can be implemented in at least two ways.
  • the first way is to use a line scan camera 56A with the scan axis parallel to the conveyance axis.
  • the camera 56A images at once the entire substrate or article 30, such as a banknote containing at least one security feature 30A, but only at the cross-axis location that is coincident with the excitation source field of view.
  • This basically performs the same function as the area detector (e.g., the camera 56) without the versatility of a cross-axis scanner; and only those lasing materials that lie along a line parallel to the conveyance axis passing through the (now) fixed field of view of the excitation source 1 are targeted.
  • the area detector e.g., the camera 56
  • the second way is to orient the axis of the line scan camera 56A along the cross-axis direction and typically perpendicular to the conveyance axis.
  • the camera 56A accumulates a two-dimensional image of the substrate fluorescence.
  • This image can be processed in exactly the same way as for the area detector 56 to locate a section of substrate containing lasing material (in this case the security feature 30A), and targeting is thus enhanced using a one-axis scanner approach. As may be appreciated, in this latter approach the entire substrate does not have to be viewed at once.
  • FIG. 10C illustrates the third case that uses a single-element detector 56B to accumulate a line scan along the substrate at the same cross-axis location as the excitation source field of view.
  • a processing algorithm in the processor 41 locates the section of substrate containing the lasing material, and the excitation source 1 is activated when that section arrives within its' field of view.
  • the area density of lasing material in the substrate is preferably high enough to ensure that at least one segment of the lasing material will be within the area of the substrate formed by the cross-axis field of view of the excitation source 1 and the width (conveyance axis dimension) of the substrate.
  • the use of a scanning mechanism in the cross-axis direction requires that only one segment of lasing material be present in the entire substrate.
  • the optimum choice of detection method and use of the scanner is driven primarily by economics, the desired detection accuracy, and the desired security of the feature 30A, where the security of the feature 30A is likely to be significantly enhanced if only one security feature 30A is present in each substrate, such as one per banknote.
  • the security feature 30A could be one or more pieces of LaserThreadTM, and/or one or more planchettes having lasing capabilities, and/or a tape or other structure capable of outputting the laser-like emission when illuminated by the excitation source 1 . While the presence or absence of the emission at one or more wavelengths may be indicative of a characteristic such as the authenticity or genuineness of the article being examined, such as a banknote, currency, check, bill of credit, etc., for convenience referred to herein collectively as a banknote, the presence or absence of the emission can also be used for other purposes. These other purposes include, but are not limited to, determining one or more other characteristics such as the value or denomination of the banknote and/or a place of origin of the banknote.
  • the emissions can also be used for simply counting the banknotes. All of these various activities may be referred to generically as processing a banknote containing at least one security feature. While embodiments of the invention disclosed herein describe detection based on specific responses to excitation sources, one skilled in art should recognize that additional parameters may be incorporated, such as the temporal decay of emissions, the spectral signature of the host, and response time and change in emission under thermal excitation, without deviating from the scope of the invention.
  • the preferred embodiment includes a means for characterizing and discriminating certain physical attributes of the security feature to target only those objects in the image that possess particular predetermined desirable or required attributes.
  • a means for characterizing and discriminating certain physical attributes of the security feature to target only those objects in the image that possess particular predetermined desirable or required attributes.
  • different populations of fibers lengths can exist in the document if the paper maker used broke during the paper making process. Only fibers of the correct length will produce an authentic laser-like emission and therefore it is advantageous to select only those fibers of the correct length for targeting to reduce misclassification of banknote authenticity.
  • Figure 1 1 illustrates a banknote containing a plurality of fibers that are randomly distributed in the substrate.
  • the banknote (30) in the illustration contains 2 distinct populations of fiber lengths; pristine fibers (30b) that will emit with authentic characteristics, and short fibers (30c) that will emit with characteristics that are spectrally resolvable from authentic.
  • images of the individual fibers can be analyzed to characterize fiber length and only those fibers having the requisite length are considered for targeting.
  • Various methods for determining fiber length are known by those skilled in the art, but one method is described in detail here.
  • the analog image of a small region around and containing a candidate object is thresholded to produce a binary image where each pixel with analog amplitude above a threshold is assigned a , and each pixel with amplitude less than the threshold is assigned a ⁇ '.
  • the threshold can either be predetermined or calculated based upon the average amplitude of the region, or other properties of the region.
  • the second step identifies and labels all of the objects in the region.
  • An object is a collection of one or more pixels where every pixel in the object has nearest-neighbor connectivity to another pixel in the same object.
  • a skeletonization algorithm is used to reduce each object in the region to a single pixel width; objects like fibers that have several pixels of width in the binary image are reduced to one-pixel width while preserving their length.
  • the number of pixels comprising the object that has the region's center pixel as a member is determined and compared to the number of pixels that are known to comprise a pristine fiber.
  • a security feature for example planchettes and threads
  • image processing algorithms at this stage before exciting with the excitation source, reduces misclassification of authentic banknotes.
  • compositions are described as having, including, or comprising specific components, or where processes are described as having, including or comprising specific process steps, it is contemplated that compositions of the present teachings also consist essentially of, or consist of, the recited components, and that the processes of the present teachings also consist essentially of, or consist of, the recited process steps.

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La présente invention concerne un procédé et un système de traitement de billet de banque. Le procédé comprend la fourniture d'un billet de banque comportant au moins un élément de sécurité photoniquement actif, le billet de banque étant déplacé le long d'un trajet de transport ; l'éclairage de l'au moins un élément de sécurité avec une lumière provenant d'une source de stimulus ; l'identification d'un emplacement de l'au moins un élément de sécurité par détection d'une émission provenant de l'élément de sécurité ; la direction d'une source d'excitation vers l'emplacement identifié ; l'éclairage de l'au moins un élément de sécurité avec une lumière provenant de la source d'excitation ; et la détection d'une émission supplémentaire provenant de la caractéristique de sécurité photoniquement active en réponse à la lumière provenant de la source d'excitation. Le procédé comprend en outre l'étape d'analyse de la forme et de la taille de chaque objet dans une image pendant la phase de recherche afin de déterminer si l'objet possède les attributs physiques attendus de l'élément réel.
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