SECURE VISUAL MESSAGE COMMUNICATION METHOD AND DEVICE

摘要

A method of and a device (501) for reconstructing a graphical message (520) using visual cryptography. Cells (303, 304) in a first liquid crystal display (701) are activated if a bit in a message sequence represents '1', and not activated if said bit represents '0'. Cells (303, 304) in a second liquid crystal display (511) are activated if a bit in a key sequence represents '0', and not activated if said bit represents '1'. The first and second displays (701, 511) are then superimposed so as to visually reconstruct the graphical message (520). Preferably a portion of a polarization filter (305) in an area of the first liquid crystal display (701), and a corresponding portion of a polarization filter (302) in an area of the second liquid crystal display (511) have been omitted to allow superimposition of the first and second liquid crystal displays (701, 511) at said areas.