A wide range of infrared (and UV) anti-piracy and copyright protection technologies are available. They include unique emitting materials and devices that can help combat piracy and protect the copyright of content creators. An invisible anti-piracy watermark, for example, can be applied to an object using a wide range of proprietary methods. Alternatively, our infrared scene projection technologies is capable of remotely projecting an IR image or hologram. By customizing the projection devices, an image can be made visible not just to night vision equipment, but also to standard smartphone cameras. The technology can be adapted to a wide range of environments and venues, including museums, movie theaters, and music concerts.
An illustrative example of embedded anti-piracy messages visible only to cameras
Our unique scene projection technology can be used as an effective tool to deter against the widespread use of smartphones to pirate media content across the entertainment industry. An image invisible to the eye but visible to cameras can be projected without disturbing the audience, artists, or performers and without distorting the artwork content. When someone tries to use a smartphone or a camera to illegally capture content, a copyright image or watermark will be made visible on the recorded image or video. This will help ensure copyright protection by limiting illegal content distribution online and could also be used to embed coded anti-piracy marks in films or photos to identify the source and original location where the recording was made.
Proprietary phosphor materials can also be manufactured with unique chemical compositions for a wide-range of customer-specific product counterfeiting applications. Phosphor materials are ideal for security tagging and anti-counterfeit enforcement since they can be tuned to emit a unique spectral signature that can only be detected by special instruments. This helps make detection difficult or even impossible without preexisting knowledge from the manufacturer of a particular product. To further protect brand-name products from counterfeiting, the phosphor identifier can even be designed to survive the complete destruction or burning of a product.