IDENTIFICATION LABEL, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING IDENTIFICATION LABEL, AND METHOD OF CHECKING IDENTIFICATION LABEL

• US 20120139229A1
• Filed: 11/01/2011
• Published: 06/07/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/02/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.), Sony DADC Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Matsubara, Takashi, Shirakura, Akira, Higashihara, Teruaki
• Application Number:
  US13/286,915
• Publication Number:
  US 20120139229A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 283/70
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 2003/0276 Safety features, e.g. colour, prominent part, logo
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 2003/0277 Tamper resistant
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 3/02 Forms or constructions layered products B32B
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 3/0291 Labels or tickets undergoing a change under particular conditions, e.g. heat, radiation, passage of time
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 3/0341 having label sealing means
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 3/10 by an adhesive layer
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49826 Assembling or joining

Abstract

An identification label includes: at least one piece of identification information; and a label characteristic value used to designate a characteristic of a shape or a state. At least one piece of identification information and the label characteristic value are associated with each other.

Claims

1. An identification label comprising:

at least one piece of identification information; and

a label characteristic value used to designate a characteristic of a shape or a state,

wherein at least one piece of identification information and the label characteristic value are associated with each other.

2. The identification label according to claim 1, wherein the label characteristic value is determined based on one of an external shape of a label, a relative positional relationship between the external shape of the label and the recorded identification information, the number, size, and position of an opening formed in the label, and a dimension of the label or a combination thereof.

3. The identification label according to claim 1, wherein the label characteristic value is determined based on an unevenness shape of a label surface.

4. The identification label according to claim 1, wherein the label characteristic value is determined based on one of luminance, hue, saturation, brightness, and diffraction efficiency or a combination thereof, when a birefringence, a thickness, a surface roughness, a coefficient of elasticity, and an illumination condition are fixed at least in a part of the label.

5. The identification label according to claim 2, wherein at least one piece of identification information is recorded in a holographic manner.

6. The identification label according to claim 5, wherein a pattern is recorded in the holographic manner so as to have a position and a size to the extent of not disturbing reading of the identification information recorded in the holographic manner.

7. The identification label according to claim 5 wherein at least a part of the identification information recorded in the holographic manner is located with a depth different from that of other portions of the identification information recorded in the holographic manner.

8. The identification label according to claim 1,

wherein at least one piece of identification information is recorded in a holographic manner,

wherein a pattern with a position and size to the extent of not disturbing reading of the identification information recorded in the holographic manner is further recorded in the holographic manner, and

wherein the label characteristic value is able to be determined based on a form, a position, or a size of the pattern or a combination thereof.

9. The identification label according to claim 1,

wherein at least one piece of identification information is recorded in a holographic manner,

wherein at least a part of the identification information recorded in the holographic manner is located with a depth different from that of other portions of the identification information recorded in the holographic manner, and

wherein the label characteristic value is able to be determined based on information regarding a given portion viewed at a depth different from that of another portion in the identification information recorded in the holographic manner.

10. A method of manufacturing an identification label, comprising:

forming a plurality of labels including at least one piece of identification information by trimming a label mount, in which a plurality of regions including at least one piece of identification information is set, by the use of a trimming die in which a plurality of trimming shapes is set;

setting the plurality of trimming shapes to have the nearly identical shape and setting shapes or positions of small portions to be different from each other in comparison to the nearly identical shape depending on face positions; and

associating at least the one piece of identification information of each label with the plurality of trimming shapes.

11. A method of manufacturing an identification label, comprising:

forming a plurality of labels including at least one piece of identification information by trimming a label mount, in which a plurality of regions including at least one piece of identification information is set, by the use of a trimming die in which a plurality of nearly identical trimming shapes is set; and

cutting small portions of the plurality of labels in comparison to the nearly identical shape,

wherein shapes or positions of the cut portions are different from each other depending on face positions, and

wherein at least the one piece of identification information of each label is associated with the shapes or the positions of the cut portions.

12. A method of checking an identification label, which includes at least one piece of identification information and a label characteristic value for designating a shape or a state of a label and in which association is formed between at least one piece of identification information among the identification information and the label characteristic value, the method comprising:

confirming whether an error is present in identification information by acquiring the identification information and the label characteristic value and determining whether the association is restorable based on the acquired identification information and the acquired label characteristic value.