CA2188487A1 - System and method of improving the signal to noise ratio of bar code and indicia scanners that utilize fluorescent inks - Google Patents
System and method of improving the signal to noise ratio of bar code and indicia scanners that utilize fluorescent inksInfo
- Publication number
- CA2188487A1 CA2188487A1 CA2188487A CA2188487A CA2188487A1 CA 2188487 A1 CA2188487 A1 CA 2188487A1 CA 2188487 A CA2188487 A CA 2188487A CA 2188487 A CA2188487 A CA 2188487A CA 2188487 A1 CA2188487 A1 CA 2188487A1
- Authority
- CA
- Canada
- Prior art keywords
- bar code
- indicia
- signal
- exciter
- upper layer
- Prior art date
- Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)
- Granted
Links
Classifications
-
- G—PHYSICS
- G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
- G06K—GRAPHICAL DATA READING; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS
- G06K7/00—Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers, e.g. for reading patterns
- G06K7/10—Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers, e.g. for reading patterns by electromagnetic radiation, e.g. optical sensing; by corpuscular radiation
- G06K7/12—Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers, e.g. for reading patterns by electromagnetic radiation, e.g. optical sensing; by corpuscular radiation using a selected wavelength, e.g. to sense red marks and ignore blue marks
-
- G—PHYSICS
- G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
- G06V—IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING
- G06V20/00—Scenes; Scene-specific elements
- G06V20/80—Recognising image objects characterised by unique random patterns
Landscapes
- Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
- Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
- Theoretical Computer Science (AREA)
- General Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
- Electromagnetism (AREA)
- Health & Medical Sciences (AREA)
- Multimedia (AREA)
- General Health & Medical Sciences (AREA)
- Toxicology (AREA)
- Artificial Intelligence (AREA)
- Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition (AREA)
- Credit Cards Or The Like (AREA)
- Printing Methods (AREA)
- Character Input (AREA)
Abstract
A bar code and/or indicia scanning method that is able to determine what light was emitted from an upper layer invisible bar code and/or upper layer invisible indicia and what light was reflected back to the detector from avisible lower layer bar code and/or visible lower layer indicia. The detecting is "blind" to the spectra of the excitation source. Rather than differentiate between the exciter and emitter in the spectral domain, this invention differentiates between the exciter and the emitter in the time domain. The latency and persistence of the phosphorescent pigments of the invisible ink are used so that the detected signal is only the signal emitted by the upper layer invisible ink after the light source is turned off. Illumination and detection are synchronized to reduce the effects of reflection to zero so that the detector need not be chosen to be blind to the exciter. The foregoing is particularly suited to LED and laser illumination where the light source may be easily turned on and off.
Applications Claiming Priority (2)
Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
---|---|---|---|
US08/553,730 US5861618A (en) | 1995-10-23 | 1995-10-23 | System and method of improving the signal to noise ratio of bar code and indicia scanners that utilize fluorescent inks |
US08/553,730 | 1995-10-23 |
Publications (2)
Publication Number | Publication Date |
---|---|
CA2188487A1 true CA2188487A1 (en) | 1997-04-24 |
CA2188487C CA2188487C (en) | 2000-03-28 |
Family
ID=24210512
Family Applications (1)
Application Number | Title | Priority Date | Filing Date |
---|---|---|---|
CA002188487A Expired - Fee Related CA2188487C (en) | 1995-10-23 | 1996-10-22 | System and method of improving the signal to noise ratio of bar code and indicia scanners that utilize fluorescent inks |
Country Status (4)
Country | Link |
---|---|
US (1) | US5861618A (en) |
EP (1) | EP0770969B1 (en) |
CA (1) | CA2188487C (en) |
DE (1) | DE69631504T2 (en) |
Families Citing this family (45)
Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
---|---|---|---|---|
US6232124B1 (en) | 1996-05-06 | 2001-05-15 | Verification Technologies, Inc. | Automated fingerprint methods and chemistry for product authentication and monitoring |
US5996893A (en) * | 1997-10-28 | 1999-12-07 | Eastman Kodak Company | Method and apparatus for visually identifying an area on a photograph or image where digital data is stored |
US6669093B1 (en) * | 1997-12-19 | 2003-12-30 | Telxon Corporation | Hand-held dataform reader having multiple target area illumination sources for independent reading of superimposed dataforms |
US6123263A (en) * | 1998-01-29 | 2000-09-26 | Meta Holdings Corporation | Hand held dataform reader having strobing ultraviolet light illumination assembly for reading fluorescent dataforms |
US6354501B1 (en) * | 1998-11-18 | 2002-03-12 | Crossoff Incorporated | Composite authentication mark and system and method for reading the same |
US6177683B1 (en) * | 1998-11-25 | 2001-01-23 | C2It, Inc. | Portable viewer for invisible bar codes |
US6490030B1 (en) | 1999-01-18 | 2002-12-03 | Verification Technologies, Inc. | Portable product authentication device |
US6209933B1 (en) | 1999-04-19 | 2001-04-03 | Daimlerchrysler Corporation | Trunk release handle |
US6354502B1 (en) | 1999-04-23 | 2002-03-12 | Primera Technology, Inc. | Continuous color tone infrared detected barcodes |
US6353479B1 (en) * | 1999-06-29 | 2002-03-05 | Hewlett-Packard Company | Media-type encoding and print mode selection |
US6402986B1 (en) | 1999-07-16 | 2002-06-11 | The Trustees Of Boston University | Compositions and methods for luminescence lifetime comparison |
US6775381B1 (en) | 1999-07-19 | 2004-08-10 | Eastman Kodak Company | Method and apparatus for editing and reading edited invisible encodements on media |
US6542622B1 (en) | 1999-08-30 | 2003-04-01 | Eastman Kodak Company | Methods and articles for determining invisible ink print quality |
US6688525B1 (en) | 1999-09-22 | 2004-02-10 | Eastman Kodak Company | Apparatus and method for reading a coded pattern |
US6512580B1 (en) | 1999-10-27 | 2003-01-28 | Verification Technologies, Inc. | Method and apparatus for portable product authentication |
US20030112423A1 (en) * | 2000-04-24 | 2003-06-19 | Rakesh Vig | On-line verification of an authentication mark applied to products or product packaging |
US20040000787A1 (en) * | 2000-04-24 | 2004-01-01 | Rakesh Vig | Authentication mark for a product or product package |
US7124944B2 (en) * | 2000-06-30 | 2006-10-24 | Verification Technologies, Inc. | Product packaging including digital data |
WO2002002301A1 (en) | 2000-06-30 | 2002-01-10 | Verification Technologies Inc. | Copy-protected optical media and method of manufacture thereof |
US6638593B2 (en) | 2000-06-30 | 2003-10-28 | Verification Technologies, Inc. | Copy-protected optical media and method of manufacture thereof |
US7660415B2 (en) * | 2000-08-03 | 2010-02-09 | Selinfreund Richard H | Method and apparatus for controlling access to storage media |
US20030062422A1 (en) * | 2001-09-10 | 2003-04-03 | Fateley William G. | System and method for encoded spatio-spectral information processing |
US20040046874A1 (en) * | 2001-11-15 | 2004-03-11 | Ming-Kai Tse | Miniaturized photosensing instrumentation system |
US7044386B2 (en) * | 2002-02-05 | 2006-05-16 | William Berson | Information encoding on surfaces by varying spectral emissivity |
US20050084645A1 (en) * | 2002-02-07 | 2005-04-21 | Selinfreund Richard H. | Method and system for optical disc copy-protection |
WO2003105075A1 (en) * | 2002-06-07 | 2003-12-18 | Trustees Of Boston University | System and methods for product and document authentication |
EP1380982A1 (en) * | 2002-07-08 | 2004-01-14 | Sicpa Holding S.A. | Method and device for coding articles |
US20040023397A1 (en) * | 2002-08-05 | 2004-02-05 | Rakesh Vig | Tamper-resistant authentication mark for use in product or product packaging authentication |
US20040118931A1 (en) * | 2002-09-26 | 2004-06-24 | Selinfreund Richard H. | Authentication of items using transient optical state change materials |
DE10252628A1 (en) * | 2002-11-11 | 2004-05-19 | Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH | Procedure to encode information using fluorescent colors to print encoded data |
US20060203700A1 (en) * | 2003-02-06 | 2006-09-14 | Verification Technologies, Inc. | Method and system for optical disk copy-protection |
US7422158B2 (en) * | 2003-10-24 | 2008-09-09 | Pitney Bowes Inc. | Fluorescent hidden indicium |
US7407195B2 (en) * | 2004-04-14 | 2008-08-05 | William Berson | Label for receiving indicia having variable spectral emissivity values |
US8110281B2 (en) * | 2004-07-02 | 2012-02-07 | 3Dtl, Inc. | Systems and methods for creating optical effects on media |
DE102004046618A1 (en) * | 2004-09-25 | 2006-03-30 | Robert Bosch Gmbh | Circuit arrangement for analog / digital conversion |
US7651031B2 (en) * | 2004-10-25 | 2010-01-26 | William Berson | Systems and methods for reading indicium |
US7621451B2 (en) | 2005-01-14 | 2009-11-24 | William Berson | Radio frequency identification labels and systems and methods for making the same |
US7619520B2 (en) * | 2005-01-14 | 2009-11-17 | William Berson | Radio frequency identification labels and systems and methods for making the same |
US7728726B2 (en) * | 2005-01-14 | 2010-06-01 | William Berson | Radio frequency identification labels |
US7931413B2 (en) * | 2005-01-14 | 2011-04-26 | William Berson | Printing system ribbon including print transferable circuitry and elements |
US7878615B2 (en) * | 2005-12-14 | 2011-02-01 | Pitney Bowes Inc. | System and method for detecting defective ink jet nozzles |
US8833691B1 (en) | 2007-12-21 | 2014-09-16 | Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products Lp | Product, dispenser and method of dispensing product |
AU2008345678A1 (en) * | 2007-12-21 | 2009-07-09 | Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products Lp | Product, dispenser and method of dispensing product |
JP2015527898A (en) * | 2012-06-29 | 2015-09-24 | ケイ‐フィー システム ゲーエムベーハー | Single dose capsule with identifier inside |
AU2014283278B2 (en) * | 2013-06-19 | 2016-06-30 | K-Fee System Gmbh | Single serve capsule having a fluorescent and/or phosphorescent identifier |
Family Cites Families (19)
Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
---|---|---|---|---|
US3483388A (en) * | 1964-09-02 | 1969-12-09 | Burroughs Corp | Apparatus for generating signals indicative of the persistence characteristics of substances made radiant by energizing radiation |
US4058732A (en) * | 1975-06-30 | 1977-11-15 | Analytical Radiation Corporation | Method and apparatus for improved analytical fluorescent spectroscopy |
JPS56127277A (en) * | 1980-03-10 | 1981-10-05 | Nec Corp | Automatic discriminator for pattern of fluorescent and phosphorescent color materials |
ES503112A0 (en) * | 1980-05-30 | 1982-04-01 | Gao Ges Automation Org | IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CURRENCY AND SIMI-LARES PAPER |
US4480177A (en) * | 1981-02-18 | 1984-10-30 | Allen Milton F | Currency identification method |
US5367148A (en) * | 1986-04-18 | 1994-11-22 | Cias, Inc. | Counterfeit detection using ID numbers with at least one random portion |
US4791310A (en) * | 1986-10-02 | 1988-12-13 | Syracuse University | Fluorescence microscopy |
US4983817A (en) * | 1989-03-01 | 1991-01-08 | Battelle Memorial Institute | Background compensating bar code readers |
GB8910424D0 (en) * | 1989-05-05 | 1989-06-21 | Sunman Robert P | Security label |
US5109153A (en) * | 1990-04-17 | 1992-04-28 | Johnsen Edward L | Flash imaging and voidable articles |
US5210411A (en) * | 1990-06-29 | 1993-05-11 | Hitachi Maxell, Ltd. | Detection mark and method and apparatus for detecting mark |
US5331140A (en) * | 1992-04-02 | 1994-07-19 | Xerox Corporation | Code reading systems |
JPH06149578A (en) * | 1992-10-30 | 1994-05-27 | Nec Corp | Fuzzy inference device |
CA2123456C (en) * | 1993-05-24 | 1998-09-15 | William Berson | Document authentication system utilizing a transparent label |
US5418855A (en) * | 1993-09-27 | 1995-05-23 | Angstrom Technologies, Inc. | Authentication system and method |
US5502304A (en) * | 1994-12-01 | 1996-03-26 | Pitney Bowes Inc. | Bar code scanner for reading a visible ink and a luminescent invisible ink |
US5525798A (en) * | 1994-12-01 | 1996-06-11 | Pitney Bowes Inc. | Bar code scanner for reading a lower layer luminescent invisible ink that is printed below a upper layer luminescent invisible ink |
US5542971A (en) * | 1994-12-01 | 1996-08-06 | Pitney Bowes | Bar codes using luminescent invisible inks |
US5554842A (en) * | 1994-12-22 | 1996-09-10 | Pitney Bowes Inc. | Luminescent facing marks for enhanced postal indicia discrimination |
-
1995
- 1995-10-23 US US08/553,730 patent/US5861618A/en not_active Expired - Lifetime
-
1996
- 1996-10-22 CA CA002188487A patent/CA2188487C/en not_active Expired - Fee Related
- 1996-10-23 EP EP96117004A patent/EP0770969B1/en not_active Expired - Lifetime
- 1996-10-23 DE DE69631504T patent/DE69631504T2/en not_active Expired - Lifetime
Also Published As
Publication number | Publication date |
---|---|
EP0770969A2 (en) | 1997-05-02 |
DE69631504D1 (en) | 2004-03-18 |
EP0770969B1 (en) | 2004-02-11 |
EP0770969A3 (en) | 2001-04-25 |
CA2188487C (en) | 2000-03-28 |
US5861618A (en) | 1999-01-19 |
DE69631504T2 (en) | 2004-09-23 |
Similar Documents
Publication | Publication Date | Title |
---|---|---|
CA2188487A1 (en) | System and method of improving the signal to noise ratio of bar code and indicia scanners that utilize fluorescent inks | |
JP2731183B2 (en) | Ink detection method and apparatus | |
RU2432615C2 (en) | Detector and detection method | |
US6603126B2 (en) | UV/fluorescence detecting apparatus and sensing method thereof | |
WO1998035323A3 (en) | Method and apparatus for authenticating and discriminating currency | |
WO1995019019A3 (en) | Detection of counterfeits objects, for instance counterfeits banknotes | |
CA2132707A1 (en) | Fluorometer detection system | |
EP0312980A3 (en) | Apparatus for generating edge position signals for use in locating an address element on a mailpiece | |
US6529269B1 (en) | Paper sheet identification method and device | |
ES2132412T3 (en) | DETECTION OF FALSE OBJECTS. | |
AU2001276401A1 (en) | Detection device | |
JP2006266810A (en) | Genuineness/falseness discriminating device and genuineness/falseness discriminating method | |
EP0921083A3 (en) | System for detecting superposed sheets | |
TW331001B (en) | Coin discriminating apparatus | |
JPH09245115A (en) | Infrared symbol discriminating reader | |
AU1964595A (en) | Arrangement and method for the detection of defects in timber | |
CA2097098A1 (en) | Noise sensitive, photoelectric transceiver including a digital stability indicator | |
AU4453796A (en) | Colour detection apparatus | |
JP2003077025A (en) | Paper sheet discriminating device and method | |
AU7931198A (en) | Method and device for determining the location of objects | |
DE50208381D1 (en) | Optoelectronic sensor | |
CA2173230A1 (en) | Security reader for automatic detection of tampering and alteration | |
US20020109830A1 (en) | Currency validator | |
ATE322722T1 (en) | DEVICE FOR PROTECTING DOCUMENTS FROM FALSE | |
JP2000094865A (en) | Optically reading sheet and its optical reader |
Legal Events
Date | Code | Title | Description |
---|---|---|---|
EEER | Examination request | ||
MKLA | Lapsed |