Abstract: A method and system is provided for gifting using interactive multimedia and a gifting system. The gifting system can include a gift card, a website for redeeming the gift card, a plurality of gift representations corresponding to actual gift items, and means for advertising additional retail products or services to consumers. The gift card can also include a greeting card and a unique card identifier associated with the user. The gift card may be viewable through a window on the greeting card. The methods and systems can be used to advertise products to consumers, which can be purchased for personal use or for gifting. The system can be used to direct consumers to a card issuer's website. The gift card may be physical and/or virtual, and may be translated between physical and virtual forms.

Abstract: A method and system is provided for gifting using interactive multimedia and a gifting system. The gifting system can include a gift card, a website for redeeming the gift card, a plurality of gift representations corresponding to actual gift items, and means for advertising additional retail products or services to consumers. The gift card can also include a greeting card and a unique card identifier associated with the user. The gift card may be viewable through a window on the greeting card. The methods and systems can be used to advertise products to consumers, which can be purchased for personal use or for gifting. The system can be used to direct consumers to a card issuer's website. The gift card may be physical and/or virtual, and may be translated between physical and virtual forms.

Abstract: A method and system for gifting using interactive multimedia and a gifting system. The gifting system can include a gift card, a website for redeeming the gift card, a plurality of gift representations corresponding to actual gift items, and means for advertising additional retail products or services to consumers. The gift card can also include a greeting card and a unique card identifier associated with the user. The methods and systems can be used to advertise products to consumers, which can be purchased for personal use or for gifting. The system can be used to direct consumers to a card issuer's website. The system can include a customizable avatar to read aloud text converted to an audio speech file that relates to the gift item. The system can also include a game in which points redeemable for gift items are awarded to the website's users for answering advertisement-related questions correctly.

Abstract: A solid state x-ray detector which is a two-dimensional array of individual pixel elements is described. The hybrid semiconductor construction produces detector elements with high spatial resolution (<30 microns), high sensitivity to the entire x-ray spectrum, and frame rates greater than 1000 Hz. In a biomedical application these arrays provide high quality real time digital radiographic images that are directly coupled to an image processing system for image enhancement and computer aided diagnosis. In an alternative embodiment of the invention, the hybrid construction incorporated into an automated manufacturing process facilitates the real time, nondestructive, x-ray examination of manufactured objects during the production process. Structural defects in inorganic objects under test are identified in real time during the manufacturing process are corrected when feedback signals are generated from the electronic image data generated during the nondestructive test process.

Abstract: Information is obtained from the pixels of a spatial pixel array, such as a sub-atomic particle detector array, by discriminating between pixels that have and have not received actuating inputs, and obtaining outputs only from selected pixels. These pixels are determined by the pixels which have received actuating inputs, and may consist of the hit pixels and their immediate neighbors. The system monitors for the occurrence of an event of interest that occurs over time substantially less frequently than the rate at which actuating inputs are supplied to the pixel array, and obtains outputs from the selected pixels only for the times that correspond to the occurrence of an event of interest. The amount of data to be processed is thus substantially reduced.

Abstract: Large electronic signs usually employ either incandescent lights or magnetically manipulated elements. A simple alternative includes a plurality of juxtaposed modules on a transparent diffuser plate, each module being defined by a base plate, a top plate and a conductive, liquid crystal coating layer between the plates; transparent electrical contacts in the area of overhang between the top plate and the diffuser plate, and thin wires extending through the diffuser plate for carrying current to the contacts.

Abstract: An electro-optic display device having at least two separate compartments for receipt of electro-sensitive material that is utilized in the formation or establishment of a display symbol as a result of an electrically imposed field. One compartment in the display contains the electrodes which form the various segments of the variable symbol to be displayed. The other compartment is the background area that will contrast visually with the segment portions that make up or establish the symbol to be displayed. The choice of material makes the background compartment optically equivalent to the portion of the symbol compartment that is not displaying a particular symbol. The electro-optic device preferably has a liquid crystal material with a dye to create a light absorption type of electro-optic display rather than a light modulation type of display. This invention allows dye displays that normally portray light characters on a dark background to be portrayed as dark characters on a light background.

Abstract: An electrode termination assembly for use on a display device wherein the amount of space required for the pin connector to attach to the display device is greatly reduced, the physical and electrical integrity of the assembly is greatly enhanced and the cost of the assembly is reduced as compared to present assemblies for pin connectors. An adhesive material having conductive particles is used to not only physically support and attach the connector pins to the display, but also electrically connect the connector pins to electrode pads on the display.

Abstract: The instant invention is a light field liquid crystal display cell with a seal and pattern layer applied to the cell substrates. Dark segments are displayed against a lighter background. Polymeric substances can be used to space and seal the cell substrates, and the light field background is created without masking the cell substrates.

Abstract: A light field liquid crystal display cell with a colored seal and pattern layer applied to the cell substrates. Dark segments are displayed against a lighter background. The light field background is created without masking the cell substrates, polymeric substances can be used to space and seal the cell substrates, and the cell is amenable for the construction of large displays.