Identification document having embedding information related to the subject

• US 6,286,761 B1
• Filed: 12/03/1999
• Issued: 09/11/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 12/03/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
• Original Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
• Inventors: Wen, Xin
• Primary Examiner(s): Pitts, Harold I.
• Application Number:
  US09/454,098
• Time in Patent Office: 648 Days
• Field of Search: 235/468, 235/487
• US Class Current: 235/468
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 2035/06 Picture of the user
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 2035/16 Bars or lines
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 2035/34 Markings visible under particular conditions or containing coded information
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 25/00 Information-bearing cards or sheet-like structures characterised by identification or security features; Manufacture thereof printing processes to produce identification or security features B41M3/14
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 25/21 for multiple purposes
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 25/23 Identity cards
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 25/24 Passports
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 25/309 Photographs
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 25/45 Associating two or more layers
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/10 at least one kind of marking being used for authentication, e.g. of credit or identity cards verification of coded identity or credit cards in mechanisms actuated by them G07F7/12
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/253 visually

Abstract

An identification document for a subject includes a substrate and a visual image formed on the substrate or a recording layer over the substrate, such visual image including an identifiable first area. The identification document further includes invisible but retrievable embedded information formed in the identifiable first area but not formed in a second area of the visual image, such embedded information related to the subject or the use of the identification document.

Claims

1. An identification document for a subject, comprising:

a) a substrate;

b) a visual image formed on the substrate or a recording layer over the substrate, such visual image including at least a face image of the subject in a first area; and

c) invisible but retrievable embedded information formed in the face image in the first area but not formed in a second area of the visual image, such embedded information corresponding to the identity of the subject and being usable for identifying the subject.

2. An identification document for a subject, comprising:

a) a substrate;

b) a visual image formed on the substrate or a recording layer over the substrate, such visual image including at least a face image of the subject in a first area;

c) invisible but retrievable embedded information formed in the face image in the first area but not formed in a second area of the visual image, such embedded information corresponding to the identity of the subject; and

d) visual textual information in the second area for identifying the subject wherein such textual information corresponds to the identification information in the embedded information such that the correspondence of the two information can be used for verification purposes.