Chromatic Data Storage via Electromagnetic Wave Modulation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing data storage solutions for cards and similar supports face high costs and security vulnerabilities, allowing for counterfeiting and cloning due to their reliance on electronic systems that are either expensive or inefficient.

Innovation Solution

A data storage system utilizing chromatic properties deposited onto materials like paper, plastic, or rubber, where data is read by modifying electromagnetic radiation interacting with these properties, allowing for secure data storage and verification through complex waveform analysis.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If electronic systems (smart cards, RFID, magnetic cards) are used for data storage, then data storage capability is provided, but cost increases and security vulnerabilities remain allowing counterfeiting and cloning

Engineering Contradiction:
ImprovesecurityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces electronic data storage systems with a chromatic/optical system. Instead of using magnetic fields, RFID signals, or electronic circuits, the invention uses chromatic patterns that modify electromagnetic wave properties. This substitution eliminates the need for complex electronic components while achieving higher security through physical chromatic properties that are difficult to replicate

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The invention changes the fundamental parameter of data storage from electronic/magnetic states to chromatic/optical properties. By encoding data in chromatic patterns that affect electromagnetic wave transmission, reflection, or absorption characteristics, the system achieves security based on physical chromatic properties rather than electronic states, making counterfeiting significantly more difficult

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Ease of manufacture

If chromatic patterns are deposited onto supports using standard printing resources, then production cost decreases, but data accessibility and readability may be compromised

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveproduction costVSAvoiddata reading accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces electromagnetic waves as an intermediary for reading the chromatic data. Instead of direct visual or mechanical reading methods that would require high precision, the system uses electromagnetic radiation to interact with the chromatic patterns, extracting data through the modification of wave properties. This intermediary approach enables accurate data retrieval while maintaining compatibility with standard printing processes

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The invention leverages chromatic properties and color changes as the core data encoding mechanism. By depositing materials with specific chromatic properties that modify electromagnetic wave characteristics, the system creates readable data patterns using standard printing resources. The chromatic variations serve as the data carrier, enabling cost-effective production while maintaining data accessibility through optical/electromagnetic detection

Inventive Principle:
Principle #32Color changes

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

This system provides high-security data storage at lower costs by making data inaccessible visually and mechanically, enabling secure validation of data elements through electromagnetic interactions and parameter comparison, thus preventing counterfeiting and cloning.

Implementation Method 1

variations of absorption indexes at different frequencies exposures

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectAbsorption: Absorption (EM radiation)

Implementation Method 2

reflecting such radiation from such a medium

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectReflection: Reflection

Implementation Method 3

resonance effects that occurs at the original electromagnetic wave level

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectResonance: Resonance

Implementation Method 4

a photoelectric transceiver and a microprocessor

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectPhotoelectric effect: Photoelectric Effect

Data Source

PatentEP1862326B1Writing and reading data system, starting from a chromatic printed information that modifies patterns emitted by an electromagnetic waves source, introducing biases that conform new patterns, giving place to new data categories matched to a code
Publication Date: 2014.04.09 PEREZ AGUSTIN JOSE LUIS
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AI summary

The present invention allows setting information into a support (paper, cardboard, plastics, etc.) by printing process or different kinds of chromatic settings (like chemical reactions),which could be read and decoded in controlled and repetitive conditions, matching with a known code. The process makes it possible the production of a low cost and high security level data support, due to the impossibility of visual access to the information. At the time, the system presents strong barrier for going through the information by means of other technological resources (of optical nature, for example) due to the impossibility of knowing the chromatic parameters settings involved in the scanning procedure for each cluster, which can change from one bit to another one. At the same time, the physical access results also impossible because of the destruction of the support that would be done in the will of doing it. The data clusters are characterized by the particular bias introduced at the constitutive patterns of the electromagnetic waves projected through the chromatic deposits at the molecular level of the support, which read by a proper scanner are after processed and assigned to data categories. Those inputs categories, finally produce outputs for interfaces and external requirements