US 12,481,852 B2
Article including an image including two or more types of pixels
Cornelis Jan Delst, Fairfax, CA (US)
Assigned to VIAVI SOLUTIONS INC., Chandler, AZ (US)
Filed by VIAVI SOLUTIONS INC., Chandler, AZ (US)
Filed on Nov. 8, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/983,025.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/278,949, filed on Nov. 12, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0153557 A1, May 18, 2023
Int. Cl. G06K 15/12 (2006.01)
CPC G06K 15/129 (2013.01) [G06K 2215/0094 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An article, comprising:
a substrate; and
an image printed on the substrate;
wherein the image includes two or more types of pixels;
wherein the two or more types of pixels are chosen from an RGB pixel, an RGBW pixel, and a hybrid pixel;
wherein at least one type of pixel, of the two or more types of pixels, includes an optically variable pigment;
wherein the hybrid pixel and the RGBW pixel both include a broadband reflective pigment, and the hybrid pixel includes from 1 to 3 pigments, wherein each pigment, of the 1 to 3 pigments, is chosen from red, green, and blue; and
wherein the hybrid pixel uses a smaller pigmented area for the broadband reflective pigment than the RGBW pixel to create a pixel color for a pixel in the image.