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INCOSPICUOUS BARCODE LABELS



THE PROBLEM. Ordinary B&W barcodes are highly conspicuous and obtrusive to their carefully designed background and the intended visual experience. While they carry useful information for their article's manufacturer or distributor, they are aesthetically objectionable to the consumers.


OUR SOLUTION. Inconspicuous Label Technology, where the information is designed to blend with its background and is almost unnoticeable by human observers under most viewing conditions. Yet, the information can be easily acquired by the installed base of barcode-scanners or smartphones deployed in their ordinary operational modes. Opthentic offers inconspicuous label solutions for hiding barcodes on BLACK and RED backgrounds and is developing similar solutions for WHITE, BLUE and GREEN backgrounds.


COMATIBILITY. Our Inconspicuous Barcode Label Technology uses standard materials and is compatible with most ordinary industrial and consumer printing processes such as: inkjet, laser, thermal transfer, screen printing, flexo and gravure.




Barcode-Scanner Reading of an Inconspicuous Black Barcode.


A typical black packaging with a standard obtrusive B&W barcode and an identical, inconspicuous barcode (parallel and above the former) which is effectively hidden. The video demonstrates a successful reading by an ordinary barcode-scanner of the hidden barcode. The acquired information from both barcodes is displayed on the screen behind. The barcode information can also be acquired by smartphones using ordinary barcode reader applications.





inconspicuous b&w barcode- oberver view



Photographs were taken with a smartphone under ordinary office lighting.
NO FLASH.

TOP part: Highly obtrusive ordinary B&W barcode which is always visible.

BOTTOM part: an identical inconspicuous barcode (below the B&W barcode) is not visible in these lighting conditions. It is perceived as a black blank.



Inconspicuous B&W Barcode- reader view



Ordinary office lighting. Photograph was taken with a FLASH.

TOP: no change in the appearance of the ordinary B&W barcode.

BOTTOM: the inconspicuous barcode becomes machine readable by smartphones with barcode-reader applications or by barcode scanners.



Inconspicuous Red Barcode- observer view



Photograph was taken with a smartphone under ordinary office lighting.
NO FLASH.

RIGHT: A highly obtrusive ordinary B&W barcode which is always visible.

LEFT: an identical inconspicuous barcode (LEFT and parallel to the B&W barcode) is not visible in these lighting conditions. It is perceived as a red blank.



Inconspicuous Red Barcode- reader view



Ordinary office lighting. Photograph was taken with a FLASH.

RIGHT: no change in the appearance of the ordinary B&W barcode.

LEFT: the inconspicuous barcode becomes machine readable by smartphones with barcode reader applications or by barcode scanners.



Barcode-Scanner Reading of an Inconspicuous Barcode on a RED Background


Left and parallel to the obtrusive B&W barcode is an identical but inconspicuous barcode which is hidden from the observer or the camera. A standard scanner successfully acquires the information from both and displays it on the screen behind. The barcode information can also be acquired by smartphones using ordinary barcode reader applications.



Opthentic Corp
3056 Scott Blvd, Suite B
Santa Clara, CA 95054



tel: 408-203-5186


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