Digital book educational amusement device
OwnerJames R. Hornsby, Joseph L. McGowan +2inventors
InventorsJames R. Hornsby, Joseph L. McGowan, Christian M. Mouser, Jason E. Emde
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Abstract
A digital book for providing reading education and amusement to a user. The digital book includes a visual display for displaying visual images and an audio component for broadcasting sound. The digital book includes a memory device for storing display images and a plurality of associated sounds. A processor controls the visual display to display a graphical image in association with a scrollable text segment.
Claims33
A digital book for providing reading education and amusement to a user, the digital book comprising:
- a visual display for displaying visual images;
- an audio component for broadcasting sound;
- a memory device for storing data including a plurality of display images and a plurality of associated sounds;
- and
- a processor for controlling the visual display, using the plurality of display images, to display a graphical image in association with a scrollable text segment.
The digital book of claim I further including a user interface for accepting input from the user.
The digital book of claim I wherein the visual display is an LCD display.
The digital book of claim I wherein the visual display is a TFT color display.
The digital book of claim I wherein the memory device is a removable memory cartridge.
The digital book of claim I wherein the processor includes a reading mode adapted to display a still image in association with the scrollable text segment.
An interactive digital book for providing reading education and amusement to a user, the digital book comprising:
- a user interface for accepting input from the user;
- a visual display for displaying visual images;
- an audio component for broadcasting sound;
- a memory device for storing data including a plurality of still images, a plurality of scrollable text segments, a plurality of animated images, and a plurality of associated sound tracks;
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- a processor for controlling the visual display and the audio component, using the data stored in the memory device.
A method for controlling operation of an interactive digital book in response to an input from a user, the method comprising:
- receiving a mode selection from the user;
- providing a visual output on a display;
- providing an audio output on a speaker;
- and
- controlling the visual output and the audio output, based on the mode selection, to display a graphical image in association with a scrollable text segment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.