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Alasia et al.
(54) DIGITAL ANTI-COUNTERFEITING

(10) Patent No.:

(45) Date of Patent:
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SOFTWARE METHOD AND APPARATUS

See application ?le for complete search history.

(75) Inventors: Alfred V. Alasia, Wellington, FL (US); Alfred J. Alasia, Royal Palm Beach, FL (US); Thomas C. Alasia, Wellington, FL
(US)

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(73) Assignee: Graphic Security Systems

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(*) Notice: Subject to any disclaimer, the term of this
patent is extended or adjusted under 35 U_S~C_ 154(1)) by 0 days' CA EP
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OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Graphic Security Systems Corp. v. Nautilus Security; CA. No. 6:

(21) Appl. No.: 12/880,622

08-4034-HFF; Defendant Nautilus Securitys Second Supplemental

Invalidity Claim Chart; ?led May 24, 2011.

(22) F1led.
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Sep. 13, 2010

Pnor Pubhcatlon Data

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Primary Examiner * Nathan Flynn

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Related US. Application May 26, Data 1

Assistant gsgeizggiqgi Examiner Ligpem i Bryan 0r Flrm

Novak Druce Connolly

Continuation of application No. 11/025,531, ?led on

Dec. 29, 2004, noW Pat. No. 7,796,753, which is a Continuation of application NO- 09/005,736, ?led 011 1811- 12, 1998, HOW Pat NO- 6,859,534, Which is a (57) ABSTRACT This invention relates generally to a method and apparatus, as implemented by a software program on a computer system,

Continuation-impart of application NO- 08/564,664,

?led 011 NOV- 29, 1995, HOW Pat NO- 5,708,717-

for digitally producing counterfeit-deterring scrambled or

encoded indicia images. This method and system are capable
of combining a source image With a latent image so the

(51) Int- ClG06K 9/32 (52) U-S- Cl-

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scrambled latent image is Visible only When VieWed through a special decoder lens. The digital processing alloWs different latent images to be encoded according to different param
eters. Additionally, latent images might be encoded into

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single component colors of an original Visible image, at Vari

ous angles from each other.

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3,675,948 3,769,890 3,784,289 3,922,074 3,937,565 3,961,956 4,092,654 4,143,967 4,196,453 4,198,147 4,255,652 4,313,087 4,591,189 4,668,597 4,914,700 4,935,335 4,972,476 4,987,487 5,018,767 5,027,401 5,034,982 5,088,050 5,113,213 5,149,140 5,171,040 5,178,418 5,193,853 5,239,625 5,297,815 5,303,334 5,303,370 5,311,329 5,315,691 5,321,749 5,364,274 5,374,976 5,396,559 5,414,527 5,418,572 5,436,974 5,460,679 5,488,451 5,491,563 5,515,456 5,519,794 5,539,487 5,583,941 5,617,178 5,680,463 5,697,006 5,715,316 5,715,331 5,745,604 5,748,783 5,823,576 5,832,119 5,847,808 5,850,580 5,857,038 5,859,920 7,466,876
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Goggins
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Sandor et al.

Taguchi et al.
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signed Nov. 30, 2000. Graphic Security Systems Corp. v. Nautilus Security; Case No. 6:09 4034-HFF; Deposition of the Witness Alfred Victor Alasia; Dec. 17, 2009; pp. 22-68, 88-90. Graphic Security Systems Corp. v. Nautilus Security; Case No. 6:09 4034-HFF; Deposition of the Witness Thomas C. Alasia; Dec. 17, 2009; pp. 57-59, 122-132, 169-174 and 217. * cited by examiner

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