EP2056258A1 - Document de valeur, notamment timbres-poste, doté d'un élément de sécurité - Google Patents

Document de valeur, notamment timbres-poste, doté d'un élément de sécurité Download PDF

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EP2056258A1
EP2056258A1 EP08168343A EP08168343A EP2056258A1 EP 2056258 A1 EP2056258 A1 EP 2056258A1 EP 08168343 A EP08168343 A EP 08168343A EP 08168343 A EP08168343 A EP 08168343A EP 2056258 A1 EP2056258 A1 EP 2056258A1
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value document
security element
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Svetlozar Delianski
Georg Kinnemann
Thomas Jaeger
Eberhard RÖHM
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
    • G07B17/00459—Details relating to mailpieces in a franking system
    • G07B17/00661—Sensing or measuring mailpieces
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07D—HANDLING OF COINS OR VALUABLE PAPERS, e.g. TESTING, SORTING BY DENOMINATIONS, COUNTING, DISPENSING, CHANGING OR DEPOSITING
    • G07D7/00—Testing specially adapted to determine the identity or genuineness of valuable papers or for segregating those which are unacceptable, e.g. banknotes that are alien to a currency
    • G07D7/004—Testing specially adapted to determine the identity or genuineness of valuable papers or for segregating those which are unacceptable, e.g. banknotes that are alien to a currency using digital security elements, e.g. information coded on a magnetic thread or strip
    • G07D7/0043—Testing specially adapted to determine the identity or genuineness of valuable papers or for segregating those which are unacceptable, e.g. banknotes that are alien to a currency using digital security elements, e.g. information coded on a magnetic thread or strip using barcodes
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
    • G07B17/00459—Details relating to mailpieces in a franking system
    • G07B17/00508—Printing or attaching on mailpieces
    • G07B2017/00572—Details of printed item
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
    • G07B17/00459—Details relating to mailpieces in a franking system
    • G07B17/00661—Sensing or measuring mailpieces
    • G07B2017/00709—Scanning mailpieces
    • G07B2017/00717—Reading barcodes

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  • the invention relates to a value document, in particular a postage stamp, which comprises an optically detectable security element in the form of a two-dimensional structure.
  • DE 10106632 A1 are a value document having the features of the preamble of claim 1 and a method having the features of the preamble of claim 5 and a device having the features of the preamble of claim 7 are known.
  • This value document is in DE 10106632 A1 a postage stamp and has a security element. In order to check whether or not a mail piece is provided with a genuine postage stamp, the presence of a security element is checked.
  • the invention has for its object to provide a value document with the features of the preamble of claim 1, which can only be falsified very difficult.
  • the invention relates to a value document, in particular a postage stamp, which comprises an optically detectable security element in the form of a two-dimensional structure.
  • this security element has a resolution of at least 300 dpi.
  • the value document is illuminated.
  • the reflection effected by the value document is detected, thereby generating a digital image of the value document.
  • This digital image has a resolution of at least 300 dpi.
  • the digital image is automatically examined for whether or not it comprises a given security element in the form of a two-dimensional structure.
  • Today available scanners and photocopiers are not able to do this. Therefore, a two-dimensional structure with a resolution of at least 300 dpi can not be copied with a scanner or photocopier common today.
  • Fig. 1 a stamp with a two-dimensional security element
  • Fig. 2 an excerpt from the stamp of Fig. 1 ,
  • the value document is a stamp ("Postwert Hil").
  • the check is carried out in a sorting plant.
  • the check is carried out with the aim of checking whether the stamp on the mailpiece is genuine or counterfeit.
  • Real stamps are those issued by a postal service provider. This postal service provider transports the mailpiece and uses for this purpose the sorting system through which the mailpiece runs. If this item of mail is provided with a genuine stamp, the transport of the item of mail has been paid in advance, namely by the purchase of the stamp.
  • the mail piece is provided with a fake stamp, so with a two-dimensional replica of a stamp.
  • the postal service has not received any revenue for the transport because he has not sold this replica.
  • the stamp is provided with a security element in the form of a two-dimensional structure.
  • This two-dimensional structure has z.
  • the security element preferably contains information about the stamp in coded form, for. B. the face value of the stamp and additional requirements for the validity period of the stamp.
  • Fig. 1 shows by way of example a stamp 3. Is marked the area that has a security element 4.
  • Fig. 2 shows a partial enlargement of the stamp of Fig. 1 , Shown is a two-dimensional security element in the form of a bar pattern ("bar code") in the lower left corner. The bar pattern 4 is shown exaggerated.
  • the security element 4 may also take the form of a matrix code.
  • the security element 4 is printed in the production of the stamp 3 or later or attached in some other way.
  • the security element 4 has a resolution of at least 300 "dots per inch" (dpi). Its structure is not visible to the naked eye. Therefore, the security element 4 is very difficult to copy or imitate in any other way.
  • a reader of the sorting system generates a digital image of the mailpiece.
  • This image contains an image of the stamp 1 and thus an image of the security element 2 with the coded information.
  • This coded information is evaluated to z. B. to decide. Whether the mailpiece is sufficiently franked and whether the stamp 1 is currently still valid.
  • the two-dimensional security element 2 is additionally used to locate the stamp 1 on the mailpiece and to distinguish it from other pictorial or graphical representations on the mailpiece.
  • the reading device of the sorting system thus briefly illuminates the mailpiece with the stamp, preferably with light in the visible range.
  • visible light electromagnetic radiation having a wavelength of about 380 to 780 nanometers (nm), and thus a frequency of about 789 down to 385 THz, and therefore visible to a naked eye by a human.
  • the reflection effecting the mailpiece is recorded by an image capture device and provides a digital image of the mailpiece.
  • This digital image comprises an image of the stamp 3.
  • the reader scans the mail item to be examined so that the digital image of the mail item has a resolution of at least 300 dpi.
  • An evaluation unit searches in this digital image for the security element 4. If the evaluation unit finds the security element 4 in the digital image, then the stamp 3 is genuine and the mailpiece is processed further. Otherwise, the item of mail is rejected and, for example, examined manually.
  • an electronic library is created with those two-dimensional patterns used as security elements.
  • multiple security elements are used to z. B. different value levels of stamps to distinguish.
  • the evaluation unit has read access to this electronic library.
  • the evaluation unit is supplied with the infrared image of the mail item.
  • the evaluation unit checks whether the security element image is contained in the reflected reflection of the infrared light.
  • she performs a comparison for each pattern in the library.
  • the comparison comprises the step that the evaluation unit checks that reflection comprises a pattern that is similar to this pattern from the library.
  • a desired size for the security element 4 is set on the stamp 3.
  • the pattern from the library is scaled to be the same size as the target size.
  • a recognition system is trained with those two-dimensional structures that are printed on the stamps.
  • those two-dimensional patterns are stored, which are used as security elements.
  • additional two-dimensional patterns are stored, which are not used as security elements.
  • the evaluation unit is further given which two-dimensional structures are valid security elements and which are not.

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DE102007053050 2007-11-05
DE102007058679A DE102007058679A1 (de) 2007-11-05 2007-12-06 Wertdokument, insbesondere Postwertzeichen, mit Sicherheitselement

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WO2001035347A2 (fr) * 1999-11-10 2001-05-17 Neopost Inc. Fournitures de timbres sur du papier de securite utilisant un reseau de communication
DE10105273A1 (de) 2001-02-02 2002-08-14 Deutsche Post Ag Verfahren zur Überprüfung einer auf eine Postsendung aufgebrachten Freimachung und Vorrichtung zur Durchführung des Verfahrens
DE10106632A1 (de) 2001-02-12 2002-10-17 Deutsche Post Ag Verfahren zur Überprüfung der auf einer Postsendung aufgebrachten Freimachung
US6533385B1 (en) * 2001-12-14 2003-03-18 Pitney Bowes Inc. Method for determining a printer's signature and the number of dots per inch printed in a document to provide proof that the printer printed a particular document
US20030156733A1 (en) * 2002-02-15 2003-08-21 Digimarc Corporation And Pitney Bowes Inc. Authenticating printed objects using digital watermarks associated with multidimensional quality metrics
US20060020802A1 (en) * 2004-07-23 2006-01-26 Pitney Bowes Incorporated Tonal compensation for graphic security features
US20060115110A1 (en) * 2004-11-09 2006-06-01 Rodriguez Tony F Authenticating identification and security documents

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WO2001035347A2 (fr) * 1999-11-10 2001-05-17 Neopost Inc. Fournitures de timbres sur du papier de securite utilisant un reseau de communication
DE10105273A1 (de) 2001-02-02 2002-08-14 Deutsche Post Ag Verfahren zur Überprüfung einer auf eine Postsendung aufgebrachten Freimachung und Vorrichtung zur Durchführung des Verfahrens
DE10106632A1 (de) 2001-02-12 2002-10-17 Deutsche Post Ag Verfahren zur Überprüfung der auf einer Postsendung aufgebrachten Freimachung
US6533385B1 (en) * 2001-12-14 2003-03-18 Pitney Bowes Inc. Method for determining a printer's signature and the number of dots per inch printed in a document to provide proof that the printer printed a particular document
US20030156733A1 (en) * 2002-02-15 2003-08-21 Digimarc Corporation And Pitney Bowes Inc. Authenticating printed objects using digital watermarks associated with multidimensional quality metrics
US20060020802A1 (en) * 2004-07-23 2006-01-26 Pitney Bowes Incorporated Tonal compensation for graphic security features
US20060115110A1 (en) * 2004-11-09 2006-06-01 Rodriguez Tony F Authenticating identification and security documents

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UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE: "Performance Criteria For Information-Based Indicia And Security Architecture For Open IBI Postage Evidencing Systems", INFORMATION BASED INDICIA PROGRAM. PERFORMANCE CRITERIA FORINFORMATION-BASED INDICIA AND SECURITY ARCHITECTURE FOR OPENIBI POSTAGE EVIDENCING SYSTEMS, XX, XX, 25 June 1999 (1999-06-25), XP002161216 *

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