OPTICAL IMAGE AUTHENTICATOR

Optical Image Authenticator and method where a light intensity pixel array is detected and compared with a reference pixel array on a pixel by pixel basis to determine if each pixel is either good or bad. Authentication is done on the basis of the number of good/bad pixel's or their ratio. Pixe...

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Main Authors ATHERTON, PETER, SAMUEL, POTTER, ROBERT, J, CHANDLER, CHARLES, E
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
French
German
Published 07.03.2001
Edition7
Subjects
CALCULATING
CHECKING-DEVICES
COMPUTING
COUNTING
HANDLING OF COINS OR OF PAPER CURRENCY OR SIMILAR VALUABLEPAPERS, e.g. TESTING, SORTING BY DENOMINATIONS, COUNTING,DISPENSING, CHANGING OR DEPOSITING
HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS
PHYSICS
PRESENTATION OF DATA
RECOGNITION OF DATA
RECORD CARRIERS
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Summary:Optical Image Authenticator and method where a light intensity pixel array is detected and compared with a reference pixel array on a pixel by pixel basis to determine if each pixel is either good or bad. Authentication is done on the basis of the number of good/bad pixel's or their ratio. Pixel's are assigned a grey scale value or a binary value. Values are allocated with respect to different threshold levels. The optical memory can be a pixilated diffraction grating or "pixelgram". Detection is via a CCD sensor and a laser pulses every frame. Detected pattern starting point position is matched with the respective positions in the authentic pattern. The authentic pattern is stored in a variety of forms which have been rotated or linearly translated. For use in the field of securities and credit cards.
Bibliography:Application Number: EP19960925610