Method and system for authenticating a device

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9772607
APP PUB NO 20150053007A1
SERIAL NO

14466097

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Method for authenticating a timepiece comprising measuring acoustic vibrations emitted by said timepiece to obtain an electrical signal indicating magnitude information comprising a variation of a magnitude of the measured acoustic vibrations as a function of time. The electrical signal comprises at least one specific tone associated with the presence of a quartz resonator in the timepiece. Method further comprises performing transform of electrical signal into frequency domain to obtain frequency-domain power spectrum indicating variation of power of electrical signal as function of frequency, processing the frequency-domain power spectrum so as to reveal at least one narrow peak in frequency-domain power spectrum corresponding to the at least one specific tone, and extracting at least one resonance frequency corresponding to said at least one narrow peak. Method further comprises comparing extracted at least one resonance frequency with at least one reference resonance frequency; and determining an authenticity of said timepiece.

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  • SICPA HOLDING SA

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Callegari, Andrea Chavannes-pres-Renens, CH 31 189
Decoux, Eric Vevey, CH 36 238

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