IMAGE TRANSFER PROCESS

• US 20120189958A1
• Filed: 01/26/2011
• Published: 07/26/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 01/26/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Gixia Innovation Co., Ltd., Taiwan Textile Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Taiwan Textile Research Institute
• Inventors: Lai, Wei-Jen, Lin, Chun-Hung, Chang, Hsi-Wen, Chiang, Pi-Ju, Hsieh, Jung-Ya
• Granted Patent: US 8,603,723 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 430/139
• CPC Class Codes: D06P 1/0012 Effecting dyeing to obtain luminescent or phosphorescent dyeings
• CPC Class Codes: D06P 5/2005 Treatments with alpha, beta, gamma or other rays, e.g. stimulated rays
• CPC Class Codes: G03C 11/12 Stripping or transferring intact photographic layers

Abstract

The present invention relates to an image transfer process. The process includes the steps of: a) providing an image carrying device including at least one photoluminescent surface; b) displaying a luminous image on a display surface of a light-emitting medium; and c) positioning the display surface of the light-emitting medium that is displaying the luminous image at a distance from the at least one photoluminescent surface of the image carrying device shorter than a predetermined effective distance, for a predetermined period of time.

Claims

1. An image transfer process comprising the steps of:

a) providing an image carrying device including at least one photoluminescent surface;

b) displaying a luminous image on a display surface of a light-emitting medium; and

c) positioning the display surface of the light-emitting medium that is displaying the luminous image at a distance from the at least one photoluminescent surface of the image carrying device shorter than a predetermined effective distance, for a predetermined period of time.

2. The image transfer process according to claim 1, wherein the light-emitting medium is a display device having a plurality of cells, and wherein the step b) comprises providing an image data corresponding to the luminous image to the display device.

3. The image transfer process according to claim 2, wherein the display device is a liquid crystal display device.

4. The image transfer process according to claim 1, wherein the light-emitting medium comprises:

a light source; and

a shield plate formed with a through hole allowing light emitted from the light source to pass through, wherein the display surface is a side of the shield plate arranged away from the light source.

5. The image transfer process according to claim 4, wherein the light source is an ultraviolet lamp.

6. The image transfer process according to claim 1, wherein the luminous image comprises at least one left-to-right flipped verbal image.

7. The image transfer process according to claim 1, wherein the image carrying device is a piece of fabric.

8. The image transfer process according to claim 7, wherein the piece of fabric is woven by a plurality of fibers and at least some of the fibers contain a photoluminescent dye.

9. The image transfer process according to claim 8, wherein the at least some of the fibers contain a plurality of photoluminescent dyes having different emission spectra, so that the at least some of the fibers emit light with various colors upon receiving illumination from the light-emitting medium.

10. The image transfer process according to claim 1, wherein the photoluminescent surface of the image carrying device has a gradual change in density of a photoluminescent dye provided therein along a particular direction, so as to create at least one color gradient zone.