SECURITY ELEMENT, VALUE DOCUMENT COMPRISING SUCH A SECURITY ELEMENT, AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SUCH A SECURITY ELEMENT
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Abstract
A security element (1) for a security paper, value document or the like, having a carrier (8) which has an areal region (3) which is divided into a multiplicity of pixels (4) which respectively includes at least one optically active facet (5), whereby the majority of the pixels (4) respectively have several of the optically active facets (5) of identical orientation per pixel (4), and the facets (5) are so oriented that the areal region (3) is perceptible to a viewer as an area that protrudes and/or recedes relative to its actual spatial form.
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42 Claims
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1-21. -21. (canceled)
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22. A security element for a security paper, comprising:
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a carrier having an areal region which is divided into a multiplicity of pixels which respectively comprise at least one optically active facet, the majority of said pixels respectively having several optically active facets of identical orientation per pixel, and said facets being so oriented that the areal region is perceptible to a viewer as an area that protrudes and/or recedes relative to its actual spatial form. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 41, 42)
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40. A method for making a security element for security papers comprising the steps:
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a surface of a carrier is so height-modulated in an areal region that the areal region is divided into a multiplicity of pixels respectively having at least one optically active facet, the majority of the pixels respectively have several optically active facets of identical orientation per pixel, and said facets are so oriented that the areal region is perceptible to a viewer of the security element as an area that protrudes and/or recedes relative to its actual spatial form.
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