Patent Document ID: 8182630
Application ID: 12012538
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. Method of producing a decorative paper for a laminated material, the method comprising the following steps: scanning a sample of a natural material for generating a digital image ( 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 ); constructing a decorative motif ( 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 ) by means of computer-assisted processing of the digital image ( 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 ); generating the decorative paper by printing the decorative motif ( 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 ); wherein the step of digital image processing involves adapting the scanned digital image ( 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 ) to a reference image ( 14 ), thereby matching a visual depiction of the surface texture of the scanned sample of natural material contained in the scanned digital image ( 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 ) with a visual representation of a surface texture contained in the reference image ( 14 ); and wherein visual representations of material characteristics contained in each decorative motif ( 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 ) correspond to an embossing pattern of a single press plate of a press machine used to produce the surface texture of the laminated material.