JO1863B1 - Print media products with enhanced realism - Google Patents

Abstract

There is disclosed herein a new form of print media product which provides enhanced ‎realism through a three- dimensional effect, it includes a master sheet or card having a ‎background picture, along with a picture of a person or an object printed or disposed on a ‎substrate and which substrate is directly adhered to the surface of the card to provide a ‎substantially continuous profile edge around the picture and which edge preferably is ‎substantially perpendicular to the surface of the background picture, this arrangement ‎enables a shadow to exist along this profile edge and to give an enhanced three- ‎dimensional effect, in the case of a trading card, the reverse side preferably has detailed ‎biographical information, detailed life sports statistics, and a family picture or likeness An alternative embodiment includes providing a profile picture of a person on a substrate ‎and preferably with a pin- on the reverse side to enable the same to the worn on clothing, ‎a display pad is also disclosed which includes a plurality of slits or slots, preferably ‎arranged like player positions on a sports field, and into which cards of the present ‎invention can be inserted for display or other purposes, other application to the present ‎techniques and electronic retrieval of information from cards also are disclosed In alternative embodiments, the profile item formed by the picture and its substrate can ‎be removable from another object such as a magazine cover, in other embodiments, the ‎profile can have an opening therein, or be in the form of a box or the like, to allow a ‎material object to be inserted and removed thereof, in each instance, the profile ( picture ‎and its substrate) Is relatively thin and flexible to allow the object, ( e.g., trading card, ‎post card, magazine cover, etc.) to be flexed without destroying or deteriorating the ‎combination of the profile and underlying card or other object.‎