公开(公告)号：US20120242460A1

公开(公告)日：2012-09-27

申请号：US13499609

申请日：2010-09-29

申请人： Gerhard Frederick Swiegers ,  Benjamin William Bootle ,  Geoffrey Michael George

发明人： Gerhard Frederick Swiegers ,  Benjamin William Bootle ,  Geoffrey Michael George

IPC分类号： H04Q5/22

CPC分类号： G06K19/06009

摘要： Methods and systems for identifying items are disclosed. One such method comprises the steps of: subjecting at least a portion of the item to a predefined activating condition (610); determining the location of at least one taggant associated with the item by detecting a response to the predefined activating condition (620); retrieving data from the at least one taggant using the determined location (630); and processing the data to uniquely identify the item (640). The at least one taggant is adapted to be substantially imperceptible by a human being in the absence of the predefined activating condition.

摘要翻译： 公开了用于识别物品的方法和系统。 一种这样的方法包括以下步骤：使物品的至少一部分经受预定的活化条件（610）; 通过检测对所述预定激活条件的响应来确定与所述项目相关联的至少一个标签商的位置（620）; 使用所确定的位置从所述至少一个标签牌检索数据（630）; 以及处理所述数据以唯一地标识所述项目（640）。 所述至少一个标签剂适于在没有预定义的活化条件的情况下基本上不被人察觉。