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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120127547 | IMAGE DISPLAY AND LABELED ARTICLE An image display according to an embodiment includes a first image-displaying portion that displays first information about a certain object as a first image of object color, and a second image-displaying portion that displays second information about the object as a se... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120105928 | SECURITY ELEMENT COMPRISING BASIC REFLECTIVE STRUCTURES Security element comprising:
| 05/03/2012 |
| 20120044549 | Hybrid Reflection Hologram Hybrid white-light viewable holograms and methods for making them. The holograms are hybrid reflection holograms made using the diffractive structures or gratings of a holographic object such as a transmission hologram or holographic optical element (HOE). The wavefront... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120013960 | Holographic or diffraction device A holographic or diffraction device responsive to interrogation, the device comprising an image-former and an image-concealer; wherein the image-former is adapted such that light reflected from or transmitted through it forms a combination of overt and covert holographi... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120009508 | LASER MARKING HOLOGRAM HAVING A VOLUME HOLOGRAM WITH INTERFERENCE FRINGES USING SELECTIVE IRRADIATION The present invention is provided to enhance security of a volume hologram by recording therein individualized information such as information of character, numerical character, picture pattern, biometric matter and/or the like by irradiating laser light to the volume h... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20110249307 | HOLOGRAM AND ASSOCIATED METHODS OF FABRICATION THEREOF AND USE IN SECURITY/AUTHENTICATION APPLICATIONS A hologram (and related hologram element) contains and exhibits a holographic image when illuminated and viewed on angle and with the holographic image gradually fading when viewed increasingly off angle in 1st-3rd directions. This hologram also co... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110188102 | Hologram-including medium, hologram-including medium producing apparatus, and information authentication method A hologram-including medium is disclosed, which is an integrated medium on which at least two items of identification information are recorded, wherein one of the two items of identification information is holographic identification information which can be observed wit... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110181928 | DURABLE WASHABLE LABEL HAVING A VISIBLE DIFFRACTION GRATING PATTERN This invention provides an improved and novel thin and pliable holographic fabric label that possesses durability, high intensity of holographic diffraction, laundering resistance, minimal alteration and degradation to the fabric and the label through extended use, and ... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110163167 | CONTACTLESS CARD WITH SECURITY LOGO The invention relates to a contactless smart card that comprises a card body and an electronic module provided with an electronic chip connected to the terminals of an antenna, the electronic module being arranged in a recess formed in the card body, wherein the exposed... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110150342 | IDENTIFICATION FEATURE An identification feature for identifying an object comprises at least two identification elements, wherein at least a first identification element thereof is formed by at least one defined, delimited surface with a defined diffractive surface structure that can be reco... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110134496 | Security Element and Method for Producing a Security Element The invention relates to a method for producing a security element (55) and to a security element (55) in the form of a multilayered film body having a top side facing the observer. The security element (55) has a volume hologram layer, in which a v... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110128600 | OPTICAL SECURITY ELEMENT The invention concerns an optical security element and a process for the production of an optical security element in the form of a multilayer body having a projection element (8) in a first region of the security element for converting light transmitted through ... | 06/02/2011 |
| 20110069361 | INJECTION MOLDINGS, INJECTION-MOLDING APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF Disclosed are injection moldings, an injection-molding apparatus and a method thereof. The injection-molding apparatus comprises: a cavity mold having a cavity; a core mold having a core surface to form a molding space for injection moldings when being joined to the cav... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110069360 | GRID IMAGE The present invention relates to a grating image (30) for depicting a motif (24) that moves upon tilting the grating image (30) about a tilt axis (20), having two or more grating fields (32, 34, 36) having a viewing-angle-dependent vis... | 03/24/2011 |
| 20110007374 | Security Element and Method for Producing the Same The present invention relates to a security element (12) for protecting valuable articles, having
| 01/13/2011 |
| 20100328741 | HOLOGRAPHIC DEVICE A device comprising an authentication hologram recorded within a defined volume of a holographic recording medium, wherein the authentication hologram is configured to convey authentication information; wherein the authentication hologram comprises a plurality of relate... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100290098 | HOLOGRAM JUDGING APPARATUS A hologram judging apparatus includes a housing and first and second light sources attached to the housing and emitting reconstruction illumination light. In the hologram judging apparatus, the first and second light sources each include a wavelength component with a wa... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100290097 | Image Data Checking System A checking system is provided for making it possible to carry out an effective censor for browsing image data that can be in a browsing state at a site on a network An image data checking system is provided with an image database (2) in which a plurality of regis... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100277778 | METALLISED HOLOGRAPHIC FILM AND PROCESS FOR ITS MANUFACTURE A metallised film includes at least one reflective layer (14, 17) of printed metallised ink, wherein the layer (17) of printed metallised ink includes a hardened binder incorporating at least one charge of metallised particles exhibiting a reflective metal... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100271674 | FORGERY PREVENTION MEDIUM A forgery prevention medium includes a volume hologram layer on which an interference pattern is recorded after being exposed to an emitted laser beam; a digital watermarking information layer that can be interpreted by emitting a light beam with a predetermined wavelen... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100230615 | SECURITY DEVICE A security device for authenticating bank notes, documents and other items, comprises a luminescent material for producing luminescent radiation of first and second wavelengths. The security device includes an optically variable structure for controlling emission of lum... | 09/16/2010 |
| 20100220371 | Security Functional Thin Film and Security Product Containing the Functional Thin Film The present invention provides a security functional thin film and a security product containing such a thin film. The security functional thin film is of an amorphous structure, and possesses soft magnetic characteristics. Large Barkhausen effect can be detected along ... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100208313 | SECURITY AND SENSING ELEMENTS WITH VOLUME HOLOGRAMS The nature of a volume hologram limits its use in security and sensing applications. Accordingly, a volume hologram segregated into a first and second region recording a first and second image, respectively, and wherein the second region is responsive to stimulus while ... | 08/19/2010 |
| 20100202028 | Method for producing counterfeit-proof confidential and valuable documents, master for use in this method and confidential and valuable documents produced therewith A production method is provided by which a copied volume hologram from a multi-layer master is later customized by utilization of the color tuning properties of the light-curable materials used for the application onto personal documents. These holographic individual da... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100195175 | Security Holograms We describe methods of recording a holographic image onto holographic recording film, film bearing recorded holographic images, and apparatus for recording a holographic image onto film, in particular for security holograms. We thus describe a method of recording a holo... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100195174 | Data Storage in a Diffractive Optical Element A diffractive optical element (DOE) and various methods of producing such a DOE are provided in which a diffractive optical microstructure is formed with encrypted data on at least one side of a transparent substrate or in a layer applied to the substrate. The diffracti... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100195176 | SECURITY SYSTEM, PARTICULARLY FOR VALUABLE DOCUMENTS The invention relates to a security system especially for security documents, wherein a security element is provided in a carrier plane, that under incident light holographically reconstructs a pattern outside the carrier plane, in which concealed information is stored ... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100188715 | Method of Making Holograms Having at Least Two Replay Colours A method of making a product containing a hologram which has at least two replay colours when viewed at a given angle, the method comprising the steps of: (i) recording holographic elements at each of at least two different angles in a master; and (ii) copying the maste... | 07/29/2010 |
| 20100172000 | HOLOGRAPHIC SECURITY DEVICE A holographic security device comprising at least first and second diffractive image generating structures recorded in respective sets of substantially non-overlapping regions of a record medium, the regions of one set being interleaved with regions of the other set, wh... | 07/08/2010 |
| 20100165425 | MULTI-LAYER BODY The invention concerns a multi-layer body (7) having a carrier substrate (750) and a transparent layer (720) at least partially arranged in a window (70) or in a transparent region of the carrier substrate (750). The transparent layer ... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100143827 | Methods of Making Holographic Devices A method of making a holographic device (4) comprises the steps of: forming a heterogeneous support medium (2) having at least two regions (1) which are heterogeneous; placing the heterogeneous support medium under recording conditions, e.g. in a li... | 06/10/2010 |
| 20100123943 | MULTILAYER REFLECTOR, AUTHENTICATION CARD, BAR CODE LABEL, AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM, AND AUTHENTICATION REGION FORMING SYSTEM Provided is a multilayer reflector about which a complicated step is not required when the molecular alignment of a retardation film is partially relaxed to form a latent image of authentication information, and about which the latent image is not made visible by the ge... | 05/20/2010 |
| 20100110514 | SECURITY ARTICLES AND DEVICES CONTAINING CODED HOLOGRAPHIC PLATELETS AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME The present invention provides for a security article for anti-counterfeit (21, 31), authentication and/or tracking purposes, comprising a substrate material (25, 32) including at least one, but preferably several encoded metal holographic platelets, where... | 05/06/2010 |
| 20100033779 | TRANSMISSION TYPE OPTICAL ELEMENT AND ANTI-FORGERY VOLUME HOLOGRAM A transmission type optical element 10 includes a first hologram 1′ having a first surface 1a and a second surfaces 1b and a second hologram 2′ having a third surface 2a and a fourth surface 2b... | 02/11/2010 |
| 20100027082 | SECURITY HOLOGRAMS This invention relates to holograms employing colour addition techniques, and to methods and apparatus for the fabrication of such holograms. The holograms are particularly useful for security applications. A volume reflection hologram stor... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20100002275 | Security Device With Metameric Features Using Diffractive Pigment Flakes A metameric optical structure is disclosed having first optical structures comprising diffractive flakes having diffractive structures thereon, and a second optical structures having non-diffractive flakes which may have other special effect properties, such as color sh... | 01/07/2010 |
| 20090316238 | OPTICAL SECURITY DEVICE A holographic effect generating structure (HEGS), either stand alone or integrated with a security diffractive image, generates a holographic optically varying image by a process of diffraction of light, this image under white light illumination generates a smoothly and... | 12/24/2009 |
| 20090310195 | MEDIUM FOR PREVENTING FORGERY A medium for preventing forgery having a hologram layer and at least one patterned optically anisotropic layer,
| 12/17/2009 |
| 20090303558 | DATA PROTECTION STRUCTURE The present invention provides for a data protection device comprising an optically variable diffractive scratch-layered structure overlying data to be protected, wherein the device includes at least first and second opaque metallic layers separated by a flexible light-... | 12/10/2009 |
| 20090284813 | AUTHENTICATING MEDIUM AND AUTHENTICATABLE SUBSTRATE The invention relates to an authenticating medium that comprises a hologram which is used for authentication or other purposes thereby making more complicated appearance and ease of authentication unnecessary. The medium comprises a cholesteric liquid crystal layer (... | 11/19/2009 |
