PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16080116
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["283", "072000"]

Abstract:
A security device manufacturing method includes: providing a substrate having a viewing region; providing an obscuring layer in the region; providing a first image; applying a mask to the first image and swapping colour components of first and second sub-images of the first image forming: a mask pattern, and a background pattern representing the unswapped colour components on their assigned side; and printing the mask and background patterns on corresponding layer sides. The layer reduces colours visibility on one side when the other side of the layer is viewed in reflection, and allows light through the region when the security device is viewed in transmitted light. When either side of the region is viewed in reflected light, the patterns on that side are dominantly visible and may be distinguished. When the region is viewed in transmitted light from either side, the region is transparent and the colour-composite image is visible.

Claim (Index 84):
A security device comprising:\n a substrate having a viewing region; an obscuring layer in the viewing region; and, mask and background patterns printed in the viewing region according to a mask applied to a first image being a colour-composite image, the colour-composite image formed of first and second sub-images respectively with first and second sets of colour components of respective colours, each of the first and second sub-images having an assigned side of the obscuring layer, wherein each of the first and second sub-images is not homogeneous; wherein the mask is representative of a second image, the mask being indicative of locations of colour components to be swapped to the side opposite their assigned side of the obscuring layer; wherein the mask is applied by swapping colour components of the first and second sub-images at each location indicated by the mask to the side opposite their assigned side, to form:\n a mask pattern representing the swapped colour components on the swapped side, the mask pattern being printed on the swapped side, and \n a background pattern representing the unswapped colour components on their assigned side, the background pattern being printed on the assigned side; \n wherein the obscuring layer between the printed patterns reduces the visibility of colours on the one side when the other side of the obscuring layer is viewed in reflection, the obscuring layer allowing light to pass through the viewing region when the security device is viewed in transmitted light, whereby\n when either side of the viewing region is viewed in reflected light, the patterns on that side are dominantly visible and may be distinguished at least by their colours; and \n when the viewing region is viewed in transmitted light from either side of the viewing region, the viewing region is sufficiently transparent that colour mixing between the overlapped different colours of the overlapped patterns results in the colour-composite image being visible.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.24658
- Patent Class: 283.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12451732', '14411355', '14351298', '13500495', '12087512']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7427085623242169
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4948754079198229
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7179252468837775
- Mean Citation Score: 250.733298
- Max Citation Score: 313.74283
- Similarity Product: 257.81429490507253

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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