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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2005
Filed:
Oct. 07, 2004
Hugues Souparis, Nogent-sur-Marne, FR;
Hugues Souparis, Nogent-sur-Marne, FR;
Hologram Industries (SA), , FR;
Abstract
An optical security component for authenticating a document or a product including a transparent plastic film embossed to form an embossed surface and to have at least one diffraction grating; a layer of dielectric material of high optical index at least partially coated on the embossed surface and producing a colored effect of a first color for a first orientation of the component and a second different color for orientation perpendicular to the first orientation; a low optical index layer coated on a side opposite the viewing direction of the dielectric material; and a colored contrast layer having transparent zones and colored zones on the low optical index layer.