Abstract: A modular frame system with constituent components that are magnetically attached and detachable, and with a multi-ply construction facilitating cooperative forming of useful recesses and enclosures.

Abstract: A portable electronic device is provided. The portable electronic device includes a first housing including a first surface and a second surface a second housing including a third surface and a fourth surface, and a hinge. The hinge includes a hinge shaft, a sliding device including a portion configured to slide to an inside or an outside of the second housing to be introduced, or slide from the inside or the outside of the second housing in a specific direction to be extracted in correspondence to a hinge operation of the second housing, and a multi-bar disposed between the first surface and the fourth surface and including multi-bar units to be spread or bent in correspondence to a hinge operation of the second housing.

Abstract: A gift card presenter for holding a gift card within a greeting card is provided. The presenter comprises a body for holding the gift card, and a coupling element for coupling the body to the greeting card. In one embodiment, the presenter may comprise a paper mechanic coupled to first and second interior faces of the greeting card, the paper mechanic configured to hold the greeting card and display it when the greeting card is opened. In another embodiment, the presenter comprises a body for holding the gift card, the body having a first half and a second half that each include interior and exterior faces. The presenter may be opened to display or partially display the greeting card. The presenter may be coupled to the inside and/or the outside of the greeting card, to provide a pleasing presentation of the gift card given with the greeting card.

Abstract: A greeting card display system features a greeting card with a card first panel and a card second panel pivotally attached. A first crease divides a card front surface from a card back surface and a card first inside surface from a card second inside surface. The system features a protective sleeve with a sleeve first panel and a sleeve second panel. The protective sleeve features a sleeve cavity with a single sleeve opening adapted for insertion of the greeting card. The sleeve first panel is pivotally located on the sleeve second panel via a sleeve first outside crease that divides the front surface from the back surface and a sleeve first inside crease that divides the first inside surface from the second inside surface.

Abstract: A greeting card display system has a greeting card with a card first panel and a card second panel pivotally attached. A first crease divides a card front surface from a card back surface and a card first inside surface from a card second inside surface. The system has a protective sleeve with a sleeve first panel and a sleeve second panel. The protective sleeve has a sleeve cavity with a single sleeve opening adapted for insertion of the greeting card. The sleeve first panel is pivotally located on the sleeve second panel via a sleeve first outside crease that divides the front surface from the back surface and a sleeve first inside crease that divides the first inside surface from the second inside surface. The system has a display unit adapted to receive the protective sleeve on a display unit front surface.

Abstract: A tabbing apparatus is provided that includes a pocket and a tab element disposed within the pocket in a retracted position. The tab element includes an indexing segment configured for protruding from the pocket in an extended position as a tab and for being received within the pocket in the retracted position, an anchor portion attached to the pocket, and an intermediate portion connecting the anchor portion and indexing segment and configured for folding to allow the indexing segment to move between the retracted position and the extended position. The indexing segment is configured for displaying writing thereon for indexing a file.

Abstract: A greeting card display system featuring a sleeve, wherein at least the bottom edge is sealed and either the first or second side edge is sealed; a slot disposed in the top edge adapted to accommodate insertion of a greeting card between the front and back surface; an inside crease disposed in the front surface of the sleeve, the inside crease divides the front surface into a first inside surface and a second inside surface, the sleeve can move between an open position wherein first inside surface does not contact the second inside surface and a closed position wherein the first inside surface contacts the second inside surface; and a spine crease disposed in the back surface of the sleeve formed by moving the sleeve from the open position to the closed position, the spine crease divides the back surface into a first outside surface and a second outside surface.

Abstract: An image projection system includes an image projection device for projecting a light image onto a wall, ceiling or other designated surface. The image projection device includes a housing within which is disposed separately located light sources. The housing further includes a slot for receiving several image slides. Each image slide has multiple, separated, slide image patterns thereon and each slide image pattern is in a different location on the image slide. Each of the light sources is disposed in a light chamber such that light from one of the light sources projects through only one of the separated image patterns on the image slide. Light from light sources passing through respective slide image patterns can then intersect to project multiple superimposed images on an image viewing surface. Furthermore, an electronic controller controls the light intensity and light timing of each individual light source.

Abstract: A film holder includes a base, a cover, and a flattening mechanism. The base has a film panel for receiving a film and a plurality of sliding slots formed at its two opposite sides. The cover is mounted on the base and is slidable on the base in a first direction, and at least one side of the cover is provided with a recess. The flattening mechanism is fit on the recess to flatten the film on the base by the slide of the cover in the first direction after the cover is mounted on the base. The flattening mechanism includes a sliding rod, at least one resilient member, a contact plate, and a plurality of cylindrical parts formed on the bottom of the sliding rod.

Abstract: Storage and retrieval system for dental x-ray films having an opaque panel and a clear plastic panel, the panels are joined at three sides to form a container sized and suited for safely storing the x-ray films and facilitating their retrieval through the visibility of the films in the container. One panel has a continued extent with tacky adhesive for closing the container or for holding the container on an x-ray film mount while permitting flipping up of the container to reveal x-rays beneath the container without detaching the container from the mount.

Abstract: A stereo slide mount system that can reproduce an accurate stereo effect to facilitate a mounting operation and accurate positioning. The stereo slide mount has curved lateral ends facilitation insertion in a slide mount holder. A set of plural types of stereo slide mounts 1 (#0 to #n) in which the width W of windows step wisely decreases with each mount having the same window pitch Pw and different window widths W. A base frame is provided with positioning pins for engaging perforations on the film, and a cover frame is provided with pin holes to be engaged with the positioning pins. The positioning pins and the pin holes are provided at positions such that the inner vertical edges of the windows are brought into agreement with the inner edges of the pictures of the film. The stereo slide mount having smaller width windows has an increased gap width (P0, P1, P2, . . .

Abstract: An apparatus for displaying a transparency includes a Fresnel lens panel and a support structure. The support structure supports the transparency on a horizontal surface in an upright viewing position, and supports the Fresnel lens panel in a position behind the transparency. In this configuration, light passing through the Fresnel lens panel from the rear of the Fresnel lens panel is directed through the transparency for viewing of the transparency.

Abstract: A photographic mount. The mount includes a base member having a fold line defining a pair of blanks. The base member is made of a support layer and a polymer layer disposed thereon, preferably a low density polyethylene. The base member further includes a pair of spaced apertures which are disposed in overlapping registration when the base member is folded along the fold line. A locating frame is carried by one of the pair of blanks attached to the polymer layer, to form a frame about one of the pair of apertures.

Abstract: A stereo slide mount capable of adjusting a pitch between the right and left films, preventing a change in the pitch even when it is caused to fall. A plane land 9 is formed at the central portion of a base frame 3. After having adjusted a pitch between the two film holders 2 mounted on the right and left guide grooves, an adhesive label is stuck onto the land and onto the film holders to secure the film holders. A center window 12 is formed in a cover frame 1, so that the surface of the adhesive label can be viewed by eyes. Shooting data and a caption can be written on the surface of the adhesive label, or a picture of the film may be printed thereon on a reduced scale, or a bar code may be printed thereon and may be utilized for a voice guidance or for controlling a projector.

Abstract: A print having information associated with the print stored in a memory coupled to the print. A print, processed by an image processing apparatus, having an attached memory for storing detailed information about the print and allowing contactless access using an electromagnetic frequency signal. A transceiver, connected to a control logic device, communicates with a transponder that is attached to the print substrate and is integrally coupled to the memory. The transponder is capable of receiving a first electromagnetic field (frequency) from the transceiver and deriving power and address information from the first frequency, then generates a second electromagnetic field (frequency) in response, where the second electromagnetic field is characteristic of the data stored in memory.

Abstract: A transparency protection device for protecting a transparency sheet, the protection device including a protective sheet and a presentation flap generally coupled to the protective sheet. The protective sheet includes a generally transparent film having a first major surface and a second major surface, the first surface positioned to be in contact with the transparency sheet. At least a portion of the first major surface includes a plurality of integral micromounds protruding from the major surface. The protective sheet is micro-textured bi-axially oriented polypropylene having a micromound density in the range of 100 to 300 micromounds per square millimeter, the micromounds have a major axis length of 20 to 60 microns.

Abstract: A slide mount has a first portion and a second portion. The first portion includes an interior region, an edge, and a slot extending from the interior region to the edge. A cavity is formed between the first portion and the second portion, and extends to the first edge. A film segment is disposed in the cavity. The slide mount disengageably locks in the film segment. The film segment can be released from the slide mount using an extractor arm. The slide mount can have a locking aperture for receiving a locking piston to disengage a protruding element from the film segment so as to permit extraction of the film segment from the cavity of the slide mount.

Abstract: A template for positioning small format films on the platen of a flatbed scanner for reducing flare during scanning, the template comprising: a thin rectangular member of opaque material, the member having a plurality of rectangular apertures for receiving small format films; and indicia associated with each aperture for assisting in the proper placement of a small format film in the aperture.

Abstract: An assembly comprising a film bounded by a frame, the film having a first thermal expansion coefficient along a first direction parallel to the film and a second thermal expansion coefficient along a second direction parallel to the film, wherein thermal expansion of the film compared to that of the frame is greater along the first direction than along the second direction, and wherein the film has a shape at an ambient reference temperature different from that of the frame, the shape of the film being selected to reduce clearance while allowing sufficient room between the film and the frame for thermal expansion in the first direction for temperatures up to a predetermined elevated reference temperature.

Abstract: A stereo slide mount system that can reproduce an accurate stereo effect to facilitate a mounting operation and accurate positioning. A transverse or vertical alignment or positioning guide is used to position the stereo slide film in combination with longitudinal positioning pins. In one embodiment, the vertical positioning guide comprises a plurality of pins, and in another embodiment a plurality of raised edges. A set of plural types of stereo slide mounts 1 (#0 to #n) in which the width W of windows stepwisely decreases with each mount having the same window pitch Pw and different window widths W. A base frame is provided with positioning pins for engaging perforations on the film, and a cover frame is provided with pin holes to be engaged with the positioning pins. The positioning pins and the pin holes are provided at positions such that the inner vertical edges of the windows are brought into agreement with the inner edges of the pictures of the film.

Abstract: A stereo slide mount can reproduce an accurate stereo effect to facilitate easiness of mounting operation and accurate positioning. Plural types of stereo slide mounts 1 (#1 to #n) that widths W of windows stepwisely decrease have the same pitch Pw of the windows and different width W of the windows and fitting pitches of right and left films. A base film is provided with a positioning pin 6 for engaging perforations of the film, and a cover frame is provided with pin holes 7 to be engaged with the positioning pins 6. The positioning pins 6 and the pin holes 7 are provided at positions that the inner vertical sides of the windows are brought into agreement with the inner edges of the pictures of the film. The stereo slide mount having smaller widths of the windows increases gap width (P.sub.0, P.sub.1, P.sub.2, . . . ) between two sets of right and left positioning pins 6 to extend the pitches of the right and left films, and the outer masking amounts of the right and left films increase.

Abstract: A stereo slide mount intended to facilitate the mounting operation of a slide film and to improve the accuracy of the operation. A stereo slide mount 1 constructs its system of a plurality of kinds of stereo slide mounts 1 (#-E, - - - , and #E) in which the left and right apertures have an equal width W and an equal pitch PW and in which film positioning pines 6L and 6R formed on a base frame 2 and positioning pins 7L and 7R formed in a cover frame 3 have a pitch P.sub.P changed stepwise. The base frame 2 and the cover frame 3 are united by bringing the perforations of the film on the positioning pins 6L and 6R of the base frame 2 and by fitting the positioning pins in the pin holes 7L and 7R of the cover frame 3. The individual stereo slide mounts have different film offsets so that the parallax can be corrected to reproduce an accurate stereoscopic image by mounting the film on the mount having a numerals of the offset which is decided by a masking extent guide device.

Abstract: A transparency assembly including two generally transparent sheets, a transparent imageable sheet and a transparent protective sheet. The imageable sheet has a first major surface, a second major surface, and a plurality of side edges. The protective sheet is hingedly coupled to the imageable sheet by a full rotation hinge. The protective sheet has a first folded position where the protective sheet overlays at least a portion of the first major surface of the imageable sheet and a second folded position where the protective sheet overlays at least a portion of the second major surface of the imageable sheet. One or more flaps hingedly couple to one of the transparent sheets. The flap has a folded position and an unfolded position. In the folded position, the flap overlays at least a portion of the imageable sheet. In the unfolded position, the flap extends generally coplanarly alongside the imageable sheet.

Abstract: A stereo slide mount which facilitates correct mounting of stereo slides to utilize the advantage of a stereo camera having a function for correcting parallax. The front-side mount frame 11 and the back-side mount frame 12 are provided with windows 13L, 13R, 14L and 14R maintaining a pitch nearly equal to the gap between two human eyes. The windows have vertical and lateral sizes which are slightly larger than the screen region of the slide film F. Positioning pins 15 are provided at upper, lower, right and left portions of the windows 14L, 14R of the back-side mount frame 12, and holes 16 are formed in the front-side mount frame 11 to correspond to the pins 15. The film is positioned while bringing perforations of the slide film F into engagement with the pins 15 which are then forcibly introduced into the holes of the front-side mount frame 11, in order to join the front-side and back-side mount frames 11 and 12 together.

Abstract: A film slide including a transparency having an image section bearing a visual image and a data section bearing encoded data relating to the visual image; and a mount having front and back panels. The panels each define an image window overlapping the image section. At least one of the panels defines a data window overlapping the data section.

Abstract: A stereo slide mount is divided into a base frame 21 and a cover frame 22 in order to facilitate the operation for mounting the stereo slide and to improve correctness. The size of the windows of the base frame is equal to the size of the pictures of the films, and pins 25 are provided at four corners of the windows to engage with perforations of the film. The cover frame 22 has holes 26 that correspond to the pins 25 and can be fitted to the base frame. The cover frames 22 are prepared in plural kinds (#0, #1, --) in which the width C.sub.1 between the windows is equal to the width between the windows in the base frame, and the width W of the windows decreases stepwisely. Plural kinds of masking-amount guide devices 31 having the same size of windows as that of the cover frames and having a collimation pattern at the same position on the right and left windows, are successively and temporarily fitted to the base frame 21, and the image of the stereo slide films is observed using a stereo slide viewer.

Abstract: The transparency presentation organizer of the invention is in the nature of a portfolio binder, including left, middle and right sections foldable one with respect to another to open and placed on top of an overhead projector in displaying transparencies placed atop its middle section, composed of a rigid material transparent to projected light, and dimensioned to accept transparencies of 81/2".times.11", 81/2".times.14" and 11".times.17" and to close in storing such transparencies and enabling the organizer to be carried about under one's arm or placed within a briefcase carried in one's hand.

Abstract: This invention relates to an overhead transparency storage and presentation pocket. The pocket has two sheets of material that are welded together along two mutually adjacent edges. Alternatively, the pocket is a folded sheet of material welded along one edge. Attached to the upper or lower sheet is at least one colored and light-permeable or light-dampening flap, which is intended to color the light gap which otherwise normally occurs when presenting an overhead transparency of known standard size with the aid of an overhead projector.

Abstract: An improved envelope for transparencies for overhead projectors comprising a substantially rectangular pocket made of a transparent sheet material, the pocket having two longitudinal side edges connected by shorter side edges, and being open at least along one side edge for insertion of a transparency, at least one opaque flap attached in a foldable manner along one of the side edges by means of a flexible adhesive tape, the tape comprising a flexible polyester backing having a thickness of from about 5 to about 15 micrometers, and coated on one surface of the backing is an adhesive layer, wherein the tape has a flexibility measurement of about 1.8 grams, and the flap is capable of remaining in the unfolded position on an overhead projector stage with minimal adhesive transfer at the operating temperature of the overhead projector.

Abstract: A transparent document securing device, using in a flatbed scanner, includes a securing frame. The securing frame comprises at least a securing cell, wherein the securing cell further includes a concave, a cover and a clip mechanism. The concave includes a least a first opening and an open slot. The cover includes at least a second opening. The securing device employs the cover to mount a transparent document in a concave. A user is therefore be able to place the securing device along with the transparent document in the document glass of a scanning system. By a predetermined mode, the scanning system is able to directly scan the transparent document; no need to preview the scanned image to adjust the scanning area. Thus, the time for scanning is saved. Further the fixed depth of the concave is utilized to proved a precise focus of the scanning system. The quality of the scanned image is therefore improved.