Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Hierarchichal optical element sets for machine-read articles
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Application No.: US16335707Application Date: 2017-09-27
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Publication No.: US10691908B2Publication Date: 2020-06-23
- Inventor: James W. Howard , Justin M. Johnson , Travis L. Potts , Deepti Pachauri , James B. Snyder , Guruprasad Somasundaram
- Applicant: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
- Applicant Address: US MN St. Paul
- Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
- Current Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
- Current Assignee Address: US MN St. Paul
- Agent Jonathan L. Tolstedt
- International Application: PCT/US2017/053777 WO 20170927
- International Announcement: WO2018/064198 WO 20180405
- Main IPC: G06K19/00
- IPC: G06K19/00 ; G06K7/14 ; G06K19/06

Abstract:
An article includes a substrate with a physical surface, and a hierarchy of parent and child optical element sets embodied on the physical surface, such that a first encoded value represented by the parent optical element set is based at least in part on the visual appearance of a particular optical element in the child optical element set, and a second, different encoded value represented by the particular parent optical element is based at least in part on the visual appearance, and the second encoded value not being decodable from a distance greater than a threshold distance, the first encoded value being decodable from the distance greater than the threshold distance.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200034590A1 HIERARCHICHAL OPTICAL ELEMENT SETS FOR MACHINE-READ ARTICLES Public/Granted day:2020-01-30
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