Patent ID: 7368217

Claim:
A multi-layer image, in particular a multi-color image, comprising and a single-layer or multi-layer structure applied to the substrate using a transfer film, or a laminating film, wherein the layer structure has a layer which has a laser-sensitive material,—said layer being referred to hereinafter as the laser-sensitive layer,—and which comprises at least one laser-induced image component in at least a region of the laser-sensitive layer which has been formed by the action of laser, wherein the multi-layer image or at least a portion of the multi-layer image further comprises a background layer and/or a foreground layer, the background layer being arranged on a side of the laser-sensitive layer facing the substrate, the foreground layer being colored and/or different in regard to an optical structure of the laser-induced image component or comprising, at least in region-wise manner, at least one of a printing, a reflection structure, a metal layer, a lacquer layer, a diffraction structure and/or a hologram structure, or the foreground layer comprising or forming an image component, wherein the laser-induced image component is arranged in at least partially overlapping relationship with the background layer or is arranged at least partially overlapped by the foreground layer, so that the background layer or the laser-induced image component respectively from above is visible only region-wise and/or is visible more or less translucently, wherein the laser-sensitive material is in the form of a mixture of various laser-sensitive components, wherein the mixture is composed of two or three different coloring agent components, wherein each of said two or three coloring agent components, in particular each coloring agent component of the mixture, is bleachable by means of laser under respective laser conditions which are specific for the coloring agent component and/or wherein the mixture is composed of two or three different color-forming components, in particular color-forming coloring agents, wherein each of said color-forming components and in particular each color-forming component of the mixture is color-variable by means of laser under respective laser conditions which are specific for the component.