Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide methods and systems for or providing automated assistance in making a decision such as selecting a product when shopping. According to one embodiment, a method of providing automated decision assistance can comprise presenting a user interface for selecting between a plurality of products identified in a product catalog. A question and answer session can be conducted via the user interface. Each question in the question and answer session can be selected based on a current context of the question and answer session and a relevance of each of the plurality of products identified in the product catalog to the current context of the question and answer session. At least one of the plurality of products identified in the product catalog can be suggested via the user interface based on results of the question and answer session.

Abstract: A microfilm reader-printer has a reservoir for copy sheets located near the top of a housing and when a permanent copy of an image projected on a screen (via a lens and a mirror) is required, a sheet is manually removed from the reservoir and fed to the input of a charging station. The sheet is mechanically fed through the charging station to drop by gravity into an exposure station for exposure with the image. Following exposure, the sheet makes a second gravity-induced drop into the nip of a roller pair forming the inlet of a development station. The sheet is fed through the development station, and then the printed sheet exits from an opening below a viewing window.

Abstract: An exposure station of an electrophotographic printer (e.g. a reader-printer) comprises means defining a downwardly inclined support for a copy sheet and stop means for the sheet adjacent to the lower extremity of the support, the stop means being movable between operative and inoperative positions, in the former of which it supports the copy sheet against sliding down the support. The stop means comprises a lower stop means and an upper stop means, the lower stop means being effective in a transverse central region of the support and the upper stop means being in two parts, one lying on each side of said central region.

Abstract: This invention relates to a microfilm reader/printer having a back-projection viewing screen, a printing station having a printing plane and a movable reflecting member adapted to reflect a microfilm image onto the printing plane when the member is in a printing position and onto the screen when the member is in a reading position, said moving member having reflecting surfaces on opposite sides thereof one of which is used in the reading position and the other of which is used in the printing position.