Patent ID: 8100436

Claim:
Security element with an optically variable structure, comprising: an embossed structure and a coating, wherein the embossed structure and the coating are combined such that at least parts of the coating are completely visible upon perpendicular viewing, but are subject to a shadowing by the embossed structure upon oblique viewing, and wherein the embossed structure has a plurality of identical nonlinear raised embossed elements, on flanks of which a repeating array of identical basic pattern elements of the coating are at least partially disposed such that when changing the viewing direction, different pieces of information become visible in the optically variable structure, wherein the optically variable structure has an additional information, the additional information being formed by varying the shadowing of the coating through a local variation of the arrangement of the nonlinear raised embossed elements relative to the basic pattern elements, wherein each of the basic elements of the coating have a plurality of colored areas, which at least partially are disposed on different flank orientations of the nonlinear raised embossed elements within the local variation of arrangement in respect to the flank orientations of the nonlinear raised embossed element outside of the local variation of arrangement.