A method involves transferring a transmittal data block from a transmitting device via an Ethernet connection to a receiving device which has a storage for storing a transferred transmittal data block, and a processor for at least partially processing the transferred transmittal data block stored in the storage. The transmitting device forms from the data of the transmittal data block a sequence of Ethernet packets, comprising respectively management data and a transmittal data sub-block. The receiving device receives the Ethernet packets of the respective sequence and, while employing at least a part of the management data, writes the transmittal data sub-blocks of the received Ethernet packets of the sequence of Ethernet packets for the transmittal data block to the storage, wherein not upon or after the writing each of the transmittal data sub-blocks an interrupt is sent to the processor.

An optical security component designed to be observed in a spectral observation band of between 380 nm and 780 nm by direct reflection, comprising an observation face and identifiable information, the component successively including, starting from the side opposite the observation face, a first support layer, identification elements obtained by printing an absorbent material in at least part of the visible spectrum, with a low refractive index, to reproduce at least part of the identifiable information, at least part of the identification elements being structured on one of their faces opposite the face across from the support layer, to form a first subwavelength grating, a second layer, with a high refractive index, covering the first support layer and the identification elements, and a third layer, with a low refractive index, transparent in the observation spectral band of the component.

The present invention provides a method and apparatus for the production and labeling of objects in a manner suitable for the prevention and detection of counterfeiting. Thus, the system incorporates a variety of features that make unauthorized reproduction difficult. In addition, the present invention provides a system and method for providing a dynamically reconfigurable watermark, and the use of the watermark to encode a stochastically variable property of the carrier medium for self-authentication purposes.

Burden on users is reduced. A setting unit is configured to set information about the use environment concerning a use environment in which a money handling apparatus is used. A transport unit is configured to transport money. A recognition unit is configured to recognize a kind of the money. A control unit is configured to control transporting of the money by the transport unit, according to a recognition result for the money by the recognition unit. Further, the control unit controls transporting of the money according to the information about the use environment that is set by the setting unit, in a case where a kind, of the money, recognized by the recognition unit corresponds to a predetermined specific kind.

A method of authenticating and/or identifying a security article including a first image includes superimposing at least partially the first image of the article with a second image. The second image may be produced by an electronic imager. The method further includes performing a relative movement between the first and second images so as to make it possible to observe an item of information relating to authentication and/or identification of the security article during the relative movement between the first and second images.

Ultrathin plasmene nanosheets are demonstrated as a new class of flexible surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrate capable of conformal attachment and sensitive and reproducible detection of chemicals on topologically complex surfaces. Engineering building block morphologies allows for fine-tuning of the SERS performance. In a preferred application the plasmene nanosheets are demonstrated as the next generation plasmonic and/or SERS coded labels, such as for example, anti-counterfeit security label for banknotes. Engineering the morphologies of plasmene-constituent nanoparticles and varying of SERS molecular labels offer virtually unlimited coding capacities.

A bank note processing system having a combined florescence and phosphorescence detection system. The bank note processing system includes a detection module which has a detector housing having a first compartment and a second compartment separated by a light baffle. An illumination source and a first sensor module are disposed in the first compartment of the detector housing and a second sensor module is disposed in the second compartment of the detector housing. The illumination source directs light to the bank note and the first sensor module measures the bank note's florescence at a first point in time. The second sensor module measures the bank note's phosphorescence at a second point in time and the detection module determines whether the bank note is a counterfeit bank note using the measured florescence and the measured phosphorescence.

A banknote having one or more security features and at least one flexible printed electronic (FPE) element embedded in the banknote. At least one of the security features and at least one FPE element have an interrelationship with each other.

Various embodiments include a hazard detector comprising: a microphone configured to record an audio signal; a hazard sensor; a detection circuit connected to the hazard sensor; and a processing unit connected to the detection circuit and the microphone. The detection circuit receives signals from the hazard sensor and generates a signal as a function thereof. The processing unit comprises a digital interface for communication with an external computer and is configured: to receive the detector signal from the detection circuit; to receive the audio signal from the microphone and to detect a predetermined preamble comprising a word in the audio signal; and if the detector signal contains a positive indication with respect to a hazard or if a predetermined preamble is detected in the audio signal, to generate a output signal as a function of the received signal and send the output signal to the computer via the interface.

In a structural coloration substrate, a method for manufacturing the structural coloration substrate, and a security verification system using the structural coloration substrate manufactured by the method, the method includes forming a first pattern displaying a first color on a base substrate, using a quantum dot, and stacking at least one structural coloration layer on the base substrate on which the first pattern is formed. The first color of the first pattern is changed and displayed, as the at least one structural coloration layer is stacked.