I came across this article on a Chinese/English newspaper on line, describing a new anti counterfeiting product being engineered by Australian government, is this similar to SSTY, and if it is, shouldn't they have patent rights?Australian scientists develop new anti counterfeiting technology
Australian scientists have developed a new technology to combat counterfeiting.
Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) has developed Hidden Image Technology (HIT) where markings, invisible to the naked eye, can be digitally encoded onto product labels and documents to ensure their authenticity, Australian Associated Press reported Tuesday.
The markings, created by computer and integrated into existing images such as company logos, can be seen only with a special viewer or filter, according to CSIRO project leader Peter Osvath.
HIT, which is being secretly field tested now, could be used on anything from wine labels and concert tickets to passports and medicine packaging.
It could be used commercially within months.
"The idea is that when you print an image there is a certain amount of redundancy there so you can hide information within that image," Osvath was quoted as saying.
"You can hide information which isn't apparent to the eye and then put some kind of screen over it and the hidden image appears, " he said.
The markings were impossible to replicate, Osvath said.
"It's quite a sensitive technique in the sense that if you try to copy the markings with a scanner or a digital camera or something you damage it and it won't show up under the filter," he said.
Osvath said the principal application for the technology would be to authenticate documents or medicine packaging.
Source: Xinhua
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