Method and system for generating copy detection pattern having a fixed component and dynamic component
AssigneePitney Bowes Inc.
InventorsBertrand Haas, Steven J. Pauly
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Abstract
Apparatus and method of creating and printing a postal indicium incorporating a copy detection pattern (CDP) having one or more static portions, an optional semi-static portion, and one or more dynamic portions, including retrieving a previously generated static portion that is stored in a printing device, generating a dynamic portion in the printing device, combining the static and dynamic portions in the printing device to create the CDP, and printing the CDP using the printing device.
Claims24
A method of creating and printing an indicium incorporating a copy detection pattern having one or more static portions and one or more dynamic portions, the method comprising:
- retrieving at least one static portion of a copy detection pattern that is stored in a storage of a printing device;
- generating at least one dynamic portion in the printing device;
- combining the at least one static portion and the at least one dynamic portions in the printing device to create the copy detection pattern;
- preparing an indicium that includes the copy detection pattern;
- and
- printing the indicium.
A printing device to print an indicium incorporating a copy detection pattern having one or more static portions and one or more dynamic portions, comprising:
- a print engine;
- a storage having stored therein copy detection pattern generator software;
- and
- a processor structured to:
- store at least one static portion in the storage;
- generate at least one dynamic portion;
- combine the at least one static portion and the at least one dynamic portion to create the copy detection pattern;
- and
- print the indicium.
A machine-readable medium on which a sequence of instructions are stored that when executed by a processor of a printing device causes the processor to perform operations comprising:
- retrieving a static portion of a copy detection pattern from a storage of the printing device, the static portion being previously generated and stored in the printing device;
- generating a dynamic portion of the copy detection pattern in the printing device;
- combining the static portion and the dynamic portion in the printing device to create the copy detection pattern;
- preparing an indicium that includes the copy detection pattern;
- and
- printing the indicium.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.