40 - Treatment of materials; recycling, air and water treatment,
42 - Scientific, technological and industrial services, research and design
Goods & Services
Treatment of materials, namely, affixing and embedding product authentication security technologies, devices, or materials in a wide variety of products and documents to protect against counterfeiting, tampering, and diversion, and to ensure the integrity of genuine products and documents Design and implementation of software and technology solutions for the purpose of product and document authentication and tracking, and brand monitoring and protection, to protect against counterfeiting, tampering, and diversion, and to ensure the integrity of genuine products and documents
An authentication system includes an object including an authentication hologram disposed over an area of a surface of the object. The authentication hologram is defined by a pattern of reflective material and includes latent authentication information. The system includes a computer-readable medium including program instructions for execution by one or more processors. The program instructions are executable by the one or more processors to: (i) receive, from an image capture device, a digital image of the authentication hologram, wherein light reflected by the reflective material is captured in the digital image of the authentication hologram, and (ii) detect the latent authentication information in the digital image of the authentication hologram, wherein an effect of the reflected light is reduced to detect the latent authentication information.
G07D 7/00 - 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
G07D 7/005 - Testing security markings invisible to the naked eye, e.g. verifying thickened lines or unobtrusive markings or alterations
A document includes an authenticity-indicating feature configured such that a reproduction of the document renders the printed feature visually distinctive from an original rendering of the document. The printed feature includes printed elements arranged on the substrate in a latent image region and a background region. The printed elements in the latent image region include a plurality of regularly spaced printed shapes arranged with a spatial frequency less than about 50 per inch. The printed elements are printed with a carbon-based ink, toner, or dye, and separated from one another by contrasting regions that do not include the carbon-based ink, toner, or dye. The printed elements in the background region are at least partially surrounded by the latent image region such that, in the original rendering of the document, the plurality of regularly spaced printed shapes is not readily distinguishable from the background.
G06K 19/06 - Record carriers for use with machines and with at least a part designed to carry digital markings characterised by the kind of the digital marking, e.g. shape, nature, code
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SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYSIS AND AUTHENTICATION USING A SMART DEVICE
A system and method for hidden security feature detection, analysis and authentication using a smart device is disclosed. The smart device can detect and analyze hidden security features using the camera capability of the smart device to capture a digital image, and then analyze and authenticate that image using a security service including a database of security feature data, processing rules, and other information. The security service can support a variety of smart devices and security features. The smart device includes a security-specific autofocus function that allows the smart device to be positioned within a range of distances and angles from a target document that includes hidden/covert security feature(s). The smart device can display an enhanced image showing the hidden security feature(s) and/or report if the security feature is valid or invalid, along with related information, via beeps, vibration, display, text messaging, or other reporting capabilities.
An anti-counterfeit feature for a multi-layer document or plastic laminated card is provided according to some embodiments. The laminated card can include an embedded layer including a radio frequency radiation absorbing or deflecting material. The card can be authenticated by detecting an absence or a modification of a radio frequency signal due to the card interfering with a radiation source. The laminated card can also include a pattern of perforations passing partially or fully through one or more layers of the card so as to produce an effect similar to a watermark in the assembled laminated card by giving the card a modified transparency in a pattern associated with the pattern of perforations. The card can be authenticated by observing a pattern of light through the perforations.
G06K 17/00 - Methods or arrangements for effecting co-operative working between equipments covered by two or more of main groups , e.g. automatic card files incorporating conveying and reading operations
G06K 19/067 - Record carriers with conductive marks, printed circuits or semiconductor circuit elements, e.g. credit or identity cards
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SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC GENERATION OF EMBEDDED SECURITY FEATURES IN A DOCUMENT
A system for dynamically generating a digital image comprising a security feature for a document. The system includes a processor 222 configured to receive data indicative of a security feature to be embedded in the document. The processor 222 generates a digital image having content at least partially specified by the received data. The processor 222 transmits a signal indicative of the generated digital image. The generated digital image has a foreground and a background, at least one of which includes a line screen pattern. The foreground and the background of the digital image are configured such that a scanned reproduction of an original printed version of the digital image is reproduced in an altered form relative to the original printed version.
A surface mount light emitting device package with mechanical latching means for locking a lens on to the package is provided. The surface mount light emitting package may include an encapsulation layer or a lens, a lead frame, at least one lead, a body, a die, and a layer of transparent gel encapsulant material. The lead frame may include at least one protrusion which is bent upward to from at least one latch for engaging the lens.
At least a portion of a polarizing layer in the display screen is omitted or removed to temporarily disable image generation but an equivalent polarizing layer is used as a replacement or as a substitute for enabling the display of images on the screen. For instance, the omitted or removed polarizing layer can be replaced in situ or a remote polarizing layer can be substituted through which the images on the display can be seen. The selective reassembly of the display can be used for purposes of security or promotion.
G09F 9/35 - Indicating arrangements for variable information in which the information is built-up on a support by selection or combination of individual elements in which the desired character or characters are formed by combining individual elements being liquid crystals
09 - Scientific and electric apparatus and instruments
16 - Paper, cardboard and goods made from these materials
42 - Scientific, technological and industrial services, research and design
45 - Legal and security services; personal services for individuals.
Goods & Services
(1) Anti-counterfeiting and brand protection products, namely, computer software for applying anti-counterfeiting and authentication technologies to customer goods, documents, product packaging, digitally produced images, and labels, paper for use in security paper and school transcripts, printed blank security paper, printed security documents, cheques, product packaging, non-magnetically encoded cards for security purposes, radio-frequency identification (RFID) cards, blank and encoded electronic chip cards for security, access control and item and people tracking purposes, hand-held optical viewing lenses used to verify the application of anti-counterfeiting or authentication technologies to customer goods, documents, and product packaging. (1) Consulting services in the field of document security; document security services, namely, affixing, embedding, or applying product authentication security devices, materials, or technologies to a wide variety of products and documents to protect against counterfeiting, tampering, and diversion, and to ensure the integrity of genuine products and documents; design implementation of software and technology solutions for the purpose of product and document authentication and tracking to protect against counterfeiting, tampering, and diversion, and to ensure the integrity of genuine products and documents; consulting services in the fields of product and document authentication and tracking to protect against counterfeiting, tampering, and diversion, and to ensure the integrity of genuine products and documents; consulting services in the field of anti-counterfeiting and the prevention of brand fraud; developing cloud computing solutions for businesses; consulting services for disaster prevention and recovery of computer data; online backup server services.
Light sources are disclosed herein. One embodiment comprises a substrate having a first surface and a second surface located opposite the first surface. At least one first electrically conductive layer is affixed to the first surface of the substrate and partially covering the first surface of the substrate. At least one second electrically conductive layer is affixed to the first surface of the substrate and partially covering the first surface of the substrate. A light emitter is affixed to the first surface of the substrate in an area not covered by either of the at least one first electrically conductive layer or the at least one second electrically conductive layer. The substrate may be thinner in the area where the light emitter is affixed than in the areas where the first and second electrically conductive layers are affixed. A heat sink may be attached to the second surface of the substrate.
H01L 33/08 - SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES NOT COVERED BY CLASS - Details thereof characterised by the semiconductor bodies with a plurality of light emitting regions, e.g. laterally discontinuous light emitting layer or photoluminescent region integrated within the semiconductor body
F21V 29/00 - Protecting lighting devices from thermal damageCooling or heating arrangements specially adapted for lighting devices or systems
Embodiments of light sources are disclosed herein. An embodiment of the light source comprises a lead frame having a first side and a second side. A hole extends through the lead frame between the first side and the second side. An adhesive is located in the hole and extends beyond the hole, wherein the adhesive extends beyond the diameter of the hole on the first side and the second side of the first lead frame. A light emitter adhered to the adhesive proximate the first side of the first lead frame.
Disclosed are various embodiments of methods, systems, devices and components for reducing power consumption in an LCD display that is backlit by LEDs. The various embodiments typically require the use of an array of backlighting LEDs disposed beneath and configured to emit light in the direction of an overlying LCD or LCD panel. In such an array, some LEDs are operated or driven at a first brightness, while other LEDs are operated or driven at a second brightness that is different from the first brightness, or at no brightness at all (i.e., such LEDs are turned off). LED brightnesses and therefore backlighting brightnesses over different portions of display or screen are varied and determined in accordance with the portion of display or screen that a user or processor has selected for viewing (“the area of interest”).
In an embodiment, the invention provides a multi-color illuminating back light structure comprising a light guide, a reflector, at least one LED and a wavelength converter material. Micro-structures are formed on a first surface of the light guide. The reflector is attached to the first surface of the light guide. A wavelength converter material is deposited on a second surface of the light guide. At least one LED is optically coupled to at least one side of the light guide. A portion of light reflected from the micro-structures and the reflector is converted into light having at least one wavelength different from the wavelength of the reflected light. The light leaving the wavelength converter material comprises light with at least first and second wavelengths.
An exemplary embodiment of an optical device may include a lead frame with a plurality of leads and a reflector housing formed around the lead frame. The reflector housing includes a first end face and a second end face and a peripheral sidewall extending between the first end face and the second end face. The reflector housing includes a first pocket with a pocket opening in the first end face and a second pocket with a pocket opening in the second end face. At least one LED die is mounted in the first pocket of the reflector housing, and a light transmitting encapsulant is disposed in the first pocket and encapsulating the at least one LED die.
A verifiable/copy-protected document features a combination of nearly identical line-screen patterns for embedding latent images within visually integrated settings. The latent images can be detected for purposes of verification with a matching viewer but are indistinguishable from their visually integrated settings under ordinary viewing conditions. The line-screen patterns, which can be incorporated into document artwork, are printed at certain combinations of line frequencies and print densities so that the line-screen patterns digitally reproduce as a largely undifferentiated solid tint.
In one embodiment, apparatus for integrating a quantity of light is provided with a photosensor, an integration capacitor, and a transfer amplifier. The transfer amplifier has i) an input coupled to receive a voltage determined by the integration capacitor, and ii) an output. The apparatus is further provided with a first switch to pull the integration capacitor to a precharge voltage, and a second switch to couple the integration capacitor to the photosensor, to discharge the integration capacitor in proportion to a quantity of light that is incident on the photosensor. Other embodiments are also disclosed.
H01J 40/14 - Circuit arrangements not adapted to a particular application of the tube and not otherwise provided for
H03F 3/08 - Amplifiers with only discharge tubes or only semiconductor devices as amplifying elements with semiconductor devices only controlled by light
