Spiral Wave Encryption for Aesthetic Design Marking

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing two-dimensional code technologies prioritize functionality over design aesthetics, limiting the ability to maintain essential functions while achieving a visually appealing appearance.

Innovation Solution

An encryption method using a spiral pattern is employed, where numerical values are converted to continuous waves with specific wavelengths and amplitudes, arranged in a spiral shape, allowing for easy decryption and maintaining aesthetic appeal.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Shape

If conventional two-dimensional code patterns are used, then functionality is ensured, but design aesthetics deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedesign aestheticsVSAvoidencryption security
Core Design Contradiction:
ShapeVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies spiral curves (including Archimedes spirals and involute curves) to transform conventional linear or grid-based code patterns into curved, spiral arrangements. This curvature principle resolves the contradiction by creating visually appealing spiral shapes that maintain the functional integrity of the code structure while significantly improving design aesthetics.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #14Spheroidality (Curvature)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent changes key parameters of the code pattern including the spiral curve equation parameters (a, b in r=aθ+b), wavelength ratios, and amplitude ratios. By adjusting these parameters, the system generates diverse spiral patterns that balance aesthetic appeal with cryptographic security, resolving the contradiction between design aesthetics and encryption reliability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Reliability

If complex encryption patterns are used, then security is improved, but ease of decryption deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveencryption securityVSAvoidease of decryption
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs periodic wave patterns (sine waves, cosine waves) within the spiral structure, where the wavelength and frequency are systematically related to the encoded data. This periodicity enables secure encryption through complex spiral patterns while maintaining ease of decryption, as the regular wave structure allows reading devices to systematically extract information by analyzing wavelength and frequency characteristics.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #19Periodic action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent incorporates feedback mechanisms where the spiral pattern's geometric properties (wavelength, amplitude, curvature) provide inherent verification cues for decryption. The systematic relationship between spiral parameters and encoded data creates a feedback loop that guides the decryption process, ensuring that only correct interpretations produce coherent results, thus balancing security with ease of decryption.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Shape

If spiral patterns with multiple parameters are used, then design aesthetics are improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedesign aestheticsVSAvoidprocessing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ShapeVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent achieves multi-functionality by using a unified spiral pattern framework that simultaneously serves aesthetic, cryptographic, and encoding functions. The same spiral curve parameters (a, b, wavelength, amplitude) that create visual appeal also encode the information and provide decryption cues. This universal approach resolves the contradiction by eliminating the need for separate aesthetic and functional systems, thereby reducing overall device complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent transitions from conventional two-dimensional grid patterns to spiral patterns that incorporate radial and angular dimensions. By organizing data along spiral trajectories rather than linear rows and columns, the system achieves enhanced aesthetics and information density while maintaining manageable processing complexity through the mathematical regularity of spiral coordinates.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

Data Source

PatentUS12412059B2Encryption method using spiral pattern, corresponding decryption method, and method for marking design encrypted using spiral pattern
Publication Date: 2025.09.09 NETEN INC
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AI summary

An encryption method for encrypting a piece of information using a spiral pattern, includes: creating, by a processor, an encryption code table that contains a plurality of encryption codes, and a plurality of numerical values respectively allocated to the plurality of encryption codes; encrypting, by the processor, the piece of information using the encryption code table, to thereby obtain an array of the numerical values; and converting, by the processor, each numerical value in the array to a wave segment having a wavelength corresponding to a multiple of said each numerical value, each of the plurality of wave segments being connected to each other to form a continuous wave that spirals outward in the spiral pattern.