Interactive picture book with voice recording features and method of use
OwnerDebra Giampapa Kirwaninventor
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Abstract
An apparatus comprises in combination a storybook and a separate audio recorder adapted for mounting on the storybook. The recorder may be used with any one of several storybooks by recording the storyline of each book by the purchaser for later playback by a child. Buttons corresponding to the several pages of the storybook are provided so that a child is able to correlate a button with each page to hear the story as well as read it. Dual recording devices may be played simultaneously wherein one may provide a background music or sound, while the other provides and audio representation of the text or whatever audio the user desires.
Claims17
An apparatus comprising in combination:
- at least two storybooks, each one of the storybooks having a binding engaging plural pages between opposing book covers;
- an audio recorder enabled for receiving, storing and playing audio information, a means for control including plural operating buttons, the operating buttons each adapted for visual correspondence with one of the plural pages;
- each of the operating buttons further adapted for playing at least one portion of the audio information corresponding to the one of the plural pages;
- at least one of the buttons enabling the playing of two portions of the audio information simultaneously;
- the control means removably engagable with any one of said book covers of at least two of the storybooks;
- and a storybook personalizing visual element removably engagable with at least one of the storybooks.
An apparatus comprising in combination:
- a storybook having a binding engaging plural pages between opposing book covers;
- an audio recorder enabled for receiving, storing and playing audio information, a means for control including plural operating buttons, the operating buttons each adapted for visual correspondence with one of the plural pages;
- each of the operating buttons further adapted for playing at least two separate portions of the audio information simultaneously.
A method comprising the steps of:
- providing a storybook having a binding engaging plural pages between opposing book covers;
- providing an audio recorder integral with the storybook and enabled for receiving, storing and playing audio information;
- recording at least two portions of audio information in the audio recorder for each one of the plural pages;
- and providing plural operating buttons each adapted for visual correspondence with one of the plural pages and for playing the first and second audio information associated with each the one of the plural pages simultaneously.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.