Abstract:
A discrimination medium, which can have much information, can be produced on a small scale at low cost, and enables change of a sticker design at low cost, is provided. A cholesteric liquid crystal layer 302, having a fine asperity for forming a hologram, is formed on a transparent first substrate 301. A print layer 305 composed of a black ink is formed on a transparent second substrate 304. The substrates are affixed to each other via a bond layer 308, so that a discrimination medium 310 is obtained. In the discrimination medium 310, the display content obtained by the print layer is changed, so that the display content for discrimination can be changed at low cost.
Abstract:
An identification medium is provided in which latent image having plural colors can be observed even when the identification medium is spaced away from a polarization filter. A cholesteric liquid crystal layer 102 is provided as a specific polarization light reflection layer which reflects light having a specific polarized condition. An optical anisotropic layer 106 having an optical anisotropy is provided at an upper position overlapping with the specific polarization light reflection layer. An image A formed by an area having an optical anisotropy different from that of surroundings is formed at the optical anisotropic layer 106. When the identification medium 100 is directly viewed, the influence of the optical anisotropy cannot be seen. When the identification medium 100 is observed via a circular polarization filter, the image A can be seen to have a specific color by the influence of the optical anisotropy.
Abstract:
An optical reading device authenticates an identification medium with cholesteric liquid crystal layer, having a structure in which no movable parts are necessary for switching circular circularly polarized light filter. The optical reading device reads an image from an identification medium having a cholesteric liquid crystal layer having a hologram processed, and an ink printed pattern layer in this order, and the device includes a light emitting part 12 in which a right circularly polarized light filter 14 is arranged in front of an LED 20, a light emitting part 13 in which a right circularly polarized light filter 17 is arranged in front of an LED 21, and a controlling part 26 which switches light emission between the light emitting parts 12 and 13.
Abstract:
An identification medium can be affixed to cloth or leather products by sewing. A cholesteric liquid crystal layer on which an embossed surface for forming a hologram is formed, is sandwiched between a first supporting member and a second supporting member. A mounting region that can be affixed to clothing, etc., by sewing, is formed.
Abstract:
A method for production of the identification medium is provided, in which a counterfeit product having similar appearance as that of an authentic one can be easily detected and in which the code can be read with high accuracy. The method for production of an identification medium, contains a forming step in which a code printed pattern 107 is formed by printing; and a joining step in which the code printed pattern 107 and a cholesteric liquid crystal layer 102 are joined; wherein the identification medium comprises, in order, seen from an observing side: a cholesteric liquid crystal layer 102, in which a hologram is processed and right circularly polarized light is reflected; a circularly polarizing filter layer 106 having a structure formed by laminating a »/4 plate and a linearly polarizing filter from the observing side, in which left circularly polarized light selectively penetrates toward the cholesteric liquid crystal layer 102 when natural light enters from the opposite side to the cholesteric liquid crystal layer side 102; and a code printed pattern 107, in which a two-dimensional codes is formed.
Abstract:
An identification medium, in which a pattern is clearly altered in observation through a right-handed circularly polarizing filter and observation through a left-handed circularly polarizing filter, is provided. The identification medium is formed by laminating a cholesteric liquid crystal layer 101, a »/4 plate 102, and a linearly polarizing filter layer 103, in that order, from an observing side. The cholesteric liquid crystal layer 101 is formed with a hologram and selectively reflects light. In an observation through a circularly polarizing filter that transmits the light reflected at the cholesteric liquid crystal layer 101, light reflected at a pattern printed layer 105 is not perceived due to the function of a circularly polarizing layer 104. Images are clearly altered by switching a right-handed and a left-handed circularly polarizing filter.
Abstract:
A discrimination medium, which can have much information, can be produced on a small scale at low cost, and enables change of a sticker design at low cost, is provided. A cholesteric liquid crystal layer 302, having a fine asperity for forming a hologram, is formed on a transparent first substrate 301. A print layer 305 composed of a black ink is formed on a transparent second substrate 304. The substrates are affixed to each other via a bond layer 308, so that a discrimination medium 310 is obtained. In the discrimination medium 310, the display content obtained by the print layer is changed, so that the display content for discrimination can be changed at low cost.
Abstract:
An identification medium can be used to determine whether or not a code is authentic when a structure displaying the code is visually observed, and which can also be superior in cost, reliability and durability. The identification medium has a structure including a cholesteric liquid crystal layer 103 which selectively reflects circularly polarized light of a first wavelength in a visible light band, and in which a processed hologram 104 is formed, and a code printed layer 102 in which code information is printed by an ink that absorbs or reflects infrared rays at a wavelength that is different from the first wavelength, in which a region in which the processed hologram 104 is formed and a region 102a in which the ink is printed on the code printed layer 102, are located so as to be at least partially overlapped when they are viewed from the side of observation.