Identification document with three dimensional image of bearer

• US 7,712,673 B2
• Filed: 09/29/2004
• Issued: 05/11/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/18/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: L-1 Secure Credentialing, LLC (Advent International Corporation)
• Original Assignee: L-L Secure Credentialing Incorporated
• Inventors: Jones, Robert L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Trail; Allyson N
• Application Number:
  US10/954,966
• Publication Number:
  US 20050109850A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,050 Days
• Field of Search: 235/492, 235/487, 235/380, 283/74
• US Class Current: 235/492
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 2033/24 Reliefs or indentations
• 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 25/23 Identity cards
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 25/42 by photographic processes
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 25/45 Associating two or more layers
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/08 using markings of different kinds or more than one marking of the same kind in the same record carrier, e.g. one marking being sensed by optical and the other by magnetic means
• 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: G06K 19/18 Constructional details

Abstract

An identification document includes a lens system and a specially prepared photo of a document bearer. The lens system and the specially prepared photo cooperate to create a three dimensional photo effect. The document includes two or more document layers. There is a lens structure in one of the document layers, and it includes lens elements. A photo is printed on one or more of the document layers. The photo depicts the document bearer, and includes two or more separate images of the bearer from different perspectives. Parts of the separate images are interleaved together into sets, and the sets are positioned relative to corresponding lens elements of the lens structure. These sets include parts of the separate images such that when viewed through the lens structure, the parts are viewed simultaneously making the subject appear three-dimensional to a viewer.

Claims

1. In a method of producing an identification document that includes:

capturing an image of a person; and

printing image data so that the image data is conveyed by the document, wherein the image data corresponds to the captured image;

an improvement comprising;

producing a 3D representation from a single captured 2D image;

from said 3D representation, generating at least two 2D images; and

printing, in interleaved fashion, image data from said generated 2D images so that the image data is conveyed by the identification document.

2. The method of claim 1 that includes constructing said identification document of laminated layers, wherein said printing and said constructing are arranged so that delamination of the document causes evidence of tampering to appear in said printed image data.

3. The method of claim 1 in which said printing includes printing data from a first of said generated images on a first layer, and printing data from a second of said generated images on a second layer, and in which the method includes laminating said printed layers.

4. The method of claim 1 that includes forming a lenticular lens array with the document, wherein first and second of said generated 2D images yield a 3D impression when viewed by a human viewer through said lens array.

5. The method of claim 1 that includes forming a lenticular lens array with the document, said forming including embossing a laminate layer.

6. The method of claim 1 that includes forming a lenticular lens array with the document, said forming including burying beads in a laminate construction.

7. The method of claim 1 that includes forming a lenticular lens array with the document, said forming including shaping a surface of a laminate layer, and coating said surface with a material having a different refractive index prior to applying adhesive to said laminate layer.

8. In a method of producing an identification document that includes:

capturing an image of a person; and

printing image data so that the image data is conveyed by the document, the image data corresponding to the captured image;

an improvement comprising;

positioning the person within view of first and second spaced-apart locations;

capturing first and second images of the person from perspectives of the first and second locations; and

printing, in interleaved fashion, image data from said first and second images so that the image data is conveyed by the identification document.

9. The method of claim 8 that includes constructing the identification document of laminated layers, wherein said printing and said constructing are arranged so that delamination of the document causes evidence of tampering to appear in the printed image data.

10. The method of claim 8 in which said printing includes printing data from the first image on a first layer, and printing data from the second image on a second layer, and in which the method includes laminating the printed layers.

11. The method of claim 8 that includes forming a lenticular lens array with the document, wherein the first and second images yield a 3D impression when viewed by a human viewer through the lens array.

12. The method of claim 8 that includes forming a lenticular lens array with the document, said forming including embossing a laminate layer.

13. The method of claim 8 that includes forming a lenticular lens array with the document, said forming including burying beads in a laminate construction.

14. The method of claim 8 that includes forming a lenticular lens array with the document, said forming including shaping a surface of a laminate layer, and coating said surface with a material having a different refractive index prior to applying adhesive to said laminate layer.