Patent ID: 7894112

Claim:
A security element, which has at least one area with a diffraction structure embossed during an embossing process with an embossing die, which under specific viewing conditions reconstructs a diffractive image, wherein the area has subareas being free of any diffraction structures, the subareas do not take part in the reconstruction of the diffractive image and represent a recognizable information, wherein the subareas and the diffraction structure surrounding the subareas have the same or at least very similar reflecting properties under viewing conditions, under which the diffraction structure does not represent a diffractive image, so that the recognizable information represented by the subareas is recognizable substantially only under the specific viewing conditions, under which the diffraction structure reconstructs the diffractive image, and wherein at least one of said subareas is produced during the embossing process with the embossing die already providing the at least one of said subareas being free of any diffraction structures.