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

• Main Authors: Falkenstern, Kristyn R, Brunk, Hugh L, Holub, Vojtech
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• 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

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...