| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 340500860 | Document authentication | 31 |
| 20080197972 | Traceability And Authentication Of Security Papers - A security paper such as a bank note has a data matrix printed or attached to it. The data matrix includes an encoded unique identifier for the security paper which may be read by a scanner and compared with a store of unique identifiers to authenticate the bank note. The remote store may include an indication as to whether or not the bank note is activated or whether it has not been issued or has been released from circulation. Data on the data matrix may be arranged in layers with a second layer containing further data associated with the bank note. The data in one or more layers may be encrypted using different encryption algorithms whereby different parties may have access to the data on different layers. RFID tags may be used in addition or as an alternative to data matrixes. | 08-21-2008 |
| 20080284565 | Apparatus, System and Methods for Supporting an Authentication Process - An apparatus for obtaining information that can be used to authenticate an entity, the apparatus comprising: an image capturing means arranged to capture an image; an image processor arranged to process the image in order to retrieve a block of ciphertext encoded in the image; and a data processor arranged to decrypt the block of ciphertext in order to obtain the information that can be used to authenticate the entity. | 11-20-2008 |
| 20090009285 | Authentication of Re-Presentable Items - A system for authenticating re-presentable items, such as currency notes and passports, comprises applying to each item a unique code, reading the code on presentation, and checking the code against a database, characterised in that at each check, the code is altered. | 01-08-2009 |
| 20090091424 | TRANSPONDER INLAY FOR A PERSONAL DOCUMENT AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME - The invention relates to a transponder inlay ( | 04-09-2009 |
| 20090096579 | Drivers' License Verification Program - The present invention is a computer based process and method that in the preferred embodiment uses stored information about a driver including, inter alia, the driver's name, driver's license number and contact information. The driver's license number is queried against a licensing authority's database returning results including, inter alia, whether a specific driver's license is valid, pending suspension or suspended and the reason for the status which may include, for example, a pending violation, court ordered revocation or suspension, no proof of insurance recorded, non-renewal or other causes. | 04-16-2009 |
| 20090102605 | Security Arrangement for Security Documents - The present invention relates to a security arrangement ( | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090219136 | Secure Document, In Particular Electronic Passport With Enhanced Security - A secure document, in particular an electronic passport, includes a support equipped, on the one hand, with active security devices having a microcircuit connected to an antenna that can produce an electromagnetic response when it passes through the electromagnetic field of a contactless reader designed to query the identity document. The support is equipped, on the other hand, with passive security devices selected so as to have electrical characteristics, in particular inductive, capacitive and resistive, that are suitable for amplifying the electromagnetic response of the active security devices to make it go beyond a threshold that allows the secure document to be identified when it is placed in the electromagnetic field of a contactless reader. The invention has a useful application in national programs to issue passports with increased security. | 09-03-2009 |
| 20090303000 | Linearisation of Scanned Data - A system for obtaining a signature a scan area on the surface of an article comprises: a signature generator that generates the signature from scattered coherent radiation detected from a plurality of regions on the surface by using relative motion between the article and a scan head comprising a coherent radiation source and photodetectors to obtain a set of data points comprising a group of data points from each region; an imaging detector that captures a sequence of images of the surface during the relative motion; and a processor that calculates the instantaneous velocity of the relative motion; whereby the signature generator uses the instantaneous velocity to linearise the groups of data point within the set of data points before generating the signature of the article from the set of data points. | 12-10-2009 |
| 20100073134 | DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A document management system includes: a document to which an information storage medium is attached; an information storage medium reading device which includes a reading unit for reading document identification information and a unit for transmitting a signal to a processing device when the document identification information becomes unreadable; a portable information storage medium; a first portable information storage medium reading device; a second portable information storage medium reading device; a locking/unlocking device; and an information processing device. The information processing device includes a document information database; a taking-off document specifying unit which specifies the document identification information of the document based on the document information database; a determination unit which determines the taking-out authority from individual identification information which is received from the first portable information storage medium reading device and the document identification information; and a unit which transmits a signal for unlocking a lock state to the locking/unlocking device in such a case that a person has a taking-out authority at a time of receiving the individual identification information from the second portable information storage medium reading device. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100134249 | Document authentication device - The invention relates to the field of the authentication of valuable securities and documents, preliminarily protected in a specific way. The technical result of the present invention is an increase in the signal to noise ratio. The technical result is achieved by the fact that, additionally introduced into a device containing a control and processing device; a receiver of the image of the document to be investigated, connected to a control and processing device; and an optical image reception system optically connected with the receiver of the image of the document to be investigated, are a laser intensifier of the document image, intended for brightening of the document to be investigated and the intensification of the brightness of the radiation reflected from the document to be investigated; a power supply of the laser intensifier of the document image, connected with the control and processing device mentioned, the control and processing device being intended for control of the operation of the laser intensifier of the document image and of the receiver of the image of the document to be investigated and for the processing of the image of the document to be investigated received by the receiver. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100134250 | FORGED FACE DETECTING METHOD AND APPARATUS THEREOF - A forged face detecting method includes: acquiring a photorealistic image and an infrared image of a subject on which line beams are projected; extracting face features from the infrared image based on characteristics of a pattern of the line beams projected on the acquired infrared image; and detecting whether or not the infrared image is a forged face based on the extracted face features. Said detecting whether or not the infrared image is a forged face includes: checking whether the extracted face features falls within a preset permission range of face features; determining the infrared image to have the forged face if the extracted face features fall out of the range to acquire an infrared image of the subject again; and determining the infrared image to have a non-forged face if the extracted face features falls within the range to perform face recognition for the photorealistic image. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100194532 | SECURITY ELEMENT - The present invention relates to a security element ( | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100237993 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM, HISTORY MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING CONTROL APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A history management apparatus includes: a storage unit that stores history information of image processing which contains set-membership information containing pieces of document identification information of an input document and an output document, and an image of at least one of the input document and the output document as history information; and a notification unit that, when history information in which a surveillance target element is contained in an image of an input document or an image of an output document is detected from the storage unit, notifies a notified party of such as the detected history information. When the surveillance target element is not contained in both of the images in the history information, and it is identified that at least one of ancestral documents of the input document has the surveillance target element, the notification unit notifies the notified party of the history information. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20100245043 | Money handling apparatus and dispensing method thereof - A money handling apparatus includes a storage and feed unit that stores or feeds moneys, a transport unit that transports the moneys to the storage and feed unit or to outside of the apparatus, a deposit reject port that ejects a deposit reject money recognized as an improper money at the time of deposit processing so that it can be taken out from outside of the apparatus, and a transport control unit that controls the transport unit so that the moneys fed out by the storage and feed unit at the time of dispensing processing to the deposit reject port. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100245044 | SECURITY STRUCTURE COMPRISING A THERMOCHROMIC ELEMENT AND A PHOTOCHROMIC ELEMENT - The present invention provides a security structure comprising: at least one photochromic layer presenting at least one photochromic zone including at least one photochromic element; and at least one thermochromic layer presenting at least one thermochromic zone including a thermochromic element, covering the photochromic zone at least in part. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100271174 | Security document with electroactive polymer power source and nano-optical display - A security document is disclosed which includes an electrical circuit embedded in a document substrate, where the electrical circuit includes a power source with at least one electroactive polymer power generator, and an optical display including at least one electroluminescent display element and at least one nanohole array which forms a layer of the electroluminescent display element. A method of authenticating a security document is also disclosed, the method including illuminating an encoded nanohole array in the security document with a focused light beam or laser light source emitting at least one defined wavelength of incident light, detecting a transmitted portion of the incident light transmitted through the nanohole array with an optoelectronic sensor, analyzing at least one wavelength of the transmitted portion of light to produce a detected signal, and comparing the detected signal with an authentication signal to authenticate the security document. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20110032078 | Mobile CAT - Mobile device software application that uses the camera in a web-enabled PDA, cellular phone or smart phone to capture a barcode image off a lottery ticket, convert it to its unique serial number, pass it via cellular data service through a database query to generate a result set of win/loss data that can be returned to the PDA device. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110043331 | MULTIELEMENT AND MULTIPROPERTY TAGGING - An embodiment relates to a man-made object comprising a distinctive structure with a feature to identify the object, wherein the object has a size such that the object is observable under visible light, wherein the feature is embedded in or on the object and a size of the feature is such that the feature is not observable under visible light, wherein the feature comprises an attribute originating from the feature, and wherein the attribute defines the feature. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110068898 | REMOTE CONTROL SIGNALING USING AUDIO WATERMARKS - A system for using a watermark embedded in an audio signal to remotely control a device. Various devices such as toys, computers, and appliances, equipped with an appropriate detector, detect the hidden signals, which can trigger an action, or change a state of the device. The watermarks can be used with a “time gate” device, where detection of the watermark opens a time interval within which a user is allowed to perform an action, such as pressing a button, typing in an answer, turning a key in a lock, etc. | 03-24-2011 |
| 20110102143 | Authenticating Signals and Identification and Security Documents - The present disclosure relates to signals and identification and security documents and methods and systems for authenticating such. In one claim, a financial instrument or identification document is provided with an organic light emitting diode (OLED) array. The OLED array displays information thereon. The information is preferably correlated to the information on or in the financial instrument or identification document. Other claims, implementations and embodiments are provided as well. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110128122 | PAPER SHEET PROCESSING APPARATUS - A paper sheet processing apparatus capable of preventing authentication accuracy from degrading even when a state change occurs due to attachment of water or the like. The paper sheet processing apparatus includes: a light receiving unit which receives transmitted and reflected lights from the paper sheet radiated by light emitting parts; a converter which converts the transmitted and reflected lights received by the light receiving part per pixel into data including color information having brightness; a RAM which stores transmitted and reflected light images received by the light receiving unit; an authenticity judgment processing part which determines the authenticity of the paper sheet based on the images stored in the RAM; and a determining part which excludes, based on a comparison result between brightness of the transmitted and reflected images in the predetermined area. | 06-02-2011 |
| 20110133887 | IMAGE REGISTRATION METHOD FOR IMAGE COMPARISON AND DOCUMENT AUTHENTICATION - A method for authenticating a printed document is disclosed. Barcode stamps are added to an original document image near the corners of the page to act as registration markers. The original document image bearing the barcode stamps is printed and circulated, while the original document image is stored in a database. To authenticate a printed document, the printed document is scanned into a target document image, which is compared to the stored original document image. The barcode stamps are used as registration markers to perform a global image registration. Then, the target image and the original image are divided into multiple sub-images, and local image registration is performed on the sub-images before performing an image comparison. Difference sub-images are generated from the pairs of sub-images, and merged into a global difference image for the purpose of detecting any alterations in the printed document. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110140842 | System and method for identifying a genuine printed document - A system and method for verifying that a document is included in a document management system is disclosed. This system and method includes radio frequency scanning at least a portion of the document, generating document data dependently upon the radio frequency scanning, comparing the generated document data to stored document data, the stored document data generated dependently upon a prior radio frequency scanning of at least a portion of the document, and outputting an indication of the document being included in the document management system as determined by the comparing. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110140843 | SHEET-OF-PAPER PROCESSING DEVICE - A paper sheet processing apparatus which can accurately determine whether the paper sheet is legitimate or not even if a conveyor member has a manufacturing error. The apparatus includes: a conveyor roller to convey the paper sheet inserted into an insertion slot; a paper sheet reader to read the paper sheet; a detector to detect an actual measurement value in the predetermined area along a traveling direction of the paper sheet; a storage to store a reference value of length; and an authenticity judgment part to judge the authenticity of the paper sheet based on a comparison of the actual measurement value and the reference value. The reference value is determined based on length calculated by reading a legitimate paper sheet, a theoretical value of the length in the predetermined area, and a predetermined tolerant value for a legitimate paper sheet. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110187501 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING AUTHENTICITY - A method of determining the authenticity of a document of value provided with a watermark pattern, the method comprising determining whether the watermark pattern exhibits a discontinuity. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20120212324 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MODEL-BASED SIGNATURE PROFILE EXTRACTION - A method for model-based signature profile extraction includes capturing an image of an authentic glyph. An outline model is fit to the image of the authentic glyph, and an authentic signature profile is extracted based on the outline model. A signature profile extracted from an image of another glyph may be compared to the to the authentic signature profile so as to forensically verify authenticity of the other glyph The system for model-based signature profile extraction includes a controller, a capture unit, an outline unit, a profiling unit, and a forensic verification unit. A computer readable medium containing executable instructions is also described. | 08-23-2012 |
| 20120229255 | IDENTIFICATION DOCUMENT AND A METHOD OF PRODUCING - (EN)The invention relates to an identification document ( | 09-13-2012 |
| 20140306800 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING A GENUINE PRINTED DOCUMENT - A system and method for verifying that a document is included in a document management system is disclosed. This system and method includes scanning of a scan track of a document, generating document data dependently upon the scanning, comparing the generated document data to stored document data, the stored document data generated dependently upon a prior scanning of the scan track of the document, and outputting an indication of the document being included in the document management system as determined by the comparing. | 10-16-2014 |
| 20140333416 | Method for Reading an Identification Document in a Contactless Manner - The invention creates a method for the contactless readout of an electronic identification document by means of a terminal, wherein in a data reading step encrypted identification data from a data memory are transmitted to the terminal, and in a key reading step the data key with which the identification data can be decrypted is transmitted to the terminal, and in the terminal the identification data are decrypted with the data key. The data reading step is carried out employing a long-range radio connection, and the key reading step is carried out employing a short-range radio connection. | 11-13-2014 |
| 20140375424 | USE OF RADIOFREQUENCY WAVE ABSORBING MARKETS FOR THE AUTHENTICATION OF SECURITY DOCUMENTS - The present invention relates to the use of non-deactivatable security compositions comprising the combination of at least two types of particles of oxide materials, where said particles have a different size and/or morphology, and where the inorganic oxide materials have at least one transition metal or one lanthanide element, and radiofrequency wave absorption properties. The invention also relates to security articles, documents or elements incorporating these compositions, as well as to a method and to a system for detection thereof. | 12-25-2014 |
| 20150035648 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENSURING THE USE OF GENUINE CONSUMABLE OR REPLACEMENT PARTS - Apparatus and methods ensure that only genuine, licensed or authorized parts are used with a system. The apparatus comprises visual indicia on or in the part confirming that the part is genuine, licensed or authorized. A scanner or camera on or in the system reads the visual indicia, and a controller in communication with the scanner or camera is operative to reduce the functionality of the system if the visual indicia is incomplete or not present. In accordance with the embodiment, the system may not operate if the visual indicia is incomplete or not present. The visual indicia may include a trademark, logo, or other information proprietary to a source of origin. The system may be a piece of medical equipment, and the part may be a consumable. As examples, the system may be a medical insufflators, and the part may be an insufflation set. | 02-05-2015 |
