PRE-PRESS WARPING ARRANGEMENTS FOR WATERMARKS AND ASSOCIATED GRAPHIC ARTWORKS, WITH RELATED QUALITY CONTROL TECHNIQUES

Consumer product labels sometime include 2D machine readable codes, such as digital watermark patterns. When such label artwork is printed on a plastic sleeve that is then heat-shrunk to conform to a plastic container, the code can become distorted and unreadable. Various techniques are detailed to...

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Main Authors Falkenstern, Kristyn R, Brunk, Hugh L, Holub, Vojtech
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 15.09.2022
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
ELECTRICITY
IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL
PHYSICS
PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
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Summary:Consumer product labels sometime include 2D machine readable codes, such as digital watermark patterns. When such label artwork is printed on a plastic sleeve that is then heat-shrunk to conform to a plastic container, the code can become distorted and unreadable. Various techniques are detailed to cope with this problem. Additionally, methods are disclosed to assess-before a heat-shrink label is applied to a product-the expected final readability of any machine readable code included in the label artwork. A variety of other features and arrangements are also detailed.
Bibliography:Application Number: US202217713584