Patent ID: 11875589
Assignee: SICPA HOLDING SA
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 14:
15. The method according to claim 10, wherein the article digital data of the marked original article includes reference physical characteristic digital data UPC of a corresponding unique physical characteristic of the marked original article, or of an associated object or individual, and the imager is further equipped with a sensor operable to detect a unique physical characteristic of a marked original article, or of an associated object or individual, and the CPU is programmed to extract corresponding unique physical characteristic digital data from a detection signal received from the sensor, the imager having stored in the memory reference physical characteristic digital data UPC corresponding to said unique physical characteristic of the marked original article, or of the associated object or individual, comprising the further steps of, upon viewing a subject being said article or said associated object or individual:
detecting with the sensor a unique physical characteristic of the subject and extracting corresponding candidate unique physical characteristic digital data UPCc,
comparing the obtained candidate unique physical characteristic digital data UPCc with the stored reference physical characteristic digital data UPC; and
in case the candidate unique physical characteristic digital data UPCc is similar to the stored reference physical characteristic digital data UPC, within a given tolerance criterion, the subject is considered as genuine.