Method for checking the producibility of a composite safety design of a safety document on production line equipment and a digital computer environment for implementing the method

Abstract

A method for checking the producibility on production line equipment of a composite security design of a security document, in particular of a composite banknote design to be placed on the The product of the combination of multiple sets of design features on a substrate. The method comprises the steps of: (a) providing digital design data representing the composite safety design of the safety file, (b) modeling in a computer environment the production line equipment by which the composite safety design is intended to be produced, (c) performing computer simulations of the production results of the continuous production operations based on the digital design data and the modeled production line equipment, and (d) evaluating the production results of the computer simulations and Based on the simulated production results, it is determined whether the synthetic safety design can be produced on the production line equipment.

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technical field [0001] The present invention generally relates to a method of checking the producibility of a composite security design of a security document, in particular of a composite banknote design, on production line equipment to be set as a result of a number of consecutive production operations carried out by the production line equipment The product of the combination of multiple sets of design features on a substrate. The invention also relates to a digital computer environment for implementing such a method. Background technique [0002] United States Patent No. US 5,521,722, which is incorporated by reference in its entirety, discloses an apparatus for processing digital representations of security documents, in particular banknotes, intended to facilitate the computer-aided design and manufacture of such security documents here. According to US 5,521,722, the collection of individual design features (referred to as "layers") that make up the composite securi...

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However, this capability is limited to translational motion of one image or "layer" relative to another

While such a solution may replicate the possible misalignment of design features inherent in the production of security documents, such replication does not, however, properly reflect the actual variations that would actually be encountered during the production of security documents

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