Identification device and application thereof

• US 20040058134A1
• Filed: 07/16/2003
• Published: 03/25/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 07/16/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Peter Seitz
• Original Assignee: Peter Seitz
• Inventors: Seitz, Peter
• Granted Patent: US 8,329,284 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 428/195.1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1038 Measuring plantar pressure during gait
• CPC Class Codes: D06H 1/00 Marking textile materials; Marking in combination with metering or inspecting
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/14 Layer or component removable to expose adhesive
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/24802 Discontinuous or differential coating, impregnation or bond [e.g., artwork, printing, retouched photograph, etc.]

Abstract

Identification devices are known, e.g. in the form of labels to be attached by sewing or adhesive, monograms and the like, for the individualizing identification of items of clothing, shoes, shoe inserts or similar personal objects to be worn on a person'"'"'s body. Whenever such identification devices are easy to read and to manufacture, they usually have relatively little recognition value. It is proposed to provide an identification device with, or to produce it in the form of, an image of a pressure-distribution pattern obtained by at least two-dimensional sampling of a pressure distribution between a part of the person'"'"'s body and a substantially solid object.

Claims

1. Identification device for individualizing the identification of a personal item to be worn on a person'"'"'s body, comprising an image of a pressure-distribution pattern obtained by at least one at least two-dimensional sampling of a pressure distribution between a part of a person'"'"'s body and a substantially solid object.

2. Identification device as claimed in claim 1, wherein different high pressures are represented by area elements that are differently colored.

3. Identification device as claimed in claim 1, wherein different high pressures are represented by area elements that are shaded in different ways.

4. Identification device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the sampling of the pressure distribution comprises a plurality of samplings of various pressure distributions that occur during a movement sequence in which a contact between the body part and the substantially solid object is established and then abolished.

5. Identification device as claimed in claim 4, wherein the pressure distributions comprise at least one of mean and peak values obtained during the movement sequence.

6. Identification device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the image is printed on the item.

7. Identification device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the image is impressed on the item of clothing by a thermotransfer process for reproducing patterns.

8. Application of an identification device as claimed in claim 1 for the purpose of identifying an item of clothing, wherein the pressure-distribution pattern under a foot during walking is obtained.

9. Application of an identification device as claimed in claim 1 for the purpose of identifying an item of clothing, wherein the pressure-distribution pattern obtained is that under the sitting surface when the person sits down.

10. Application of an identification device as claimed in claim 1 for the purpose of identifying an item of clothing, wherein the pressure-distribution pattern obtained is that at the surface of the hand when an object is grasped.

11. Application of an identification device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the pressure-distribution pattern is obtained from the person who uses the identification device.

12. Method of manufacturing an identification device for the individualizing identification of a personal item to be worn on a person'"'"'s body, comprising the steps of

measuring a pressure-distribution pattern by an at least two-dimensional sampling of a pressure distribution between a part of the person'"'"'s body and a substantially solid object;

storing the pressure-distribution pattern; and

producing an image of the pressure-distribution pattern, in which different high pressures are represented graphically.