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US 2003/0148249 A1Published application
Educational electronic toy for children
OwnerBrian I. Marcus, Warren S. Heitinventors
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Abstract
A system where a child or other individual arranges one or more computer-recognizable characters on a working platform to spell words or provide a mathematical result in response to computer generated questions or prompts, the system then indicating whether the words or mathematical result is correct.
Claims3
An educational system, comprising:
- an object having at least one visually recognizable symbol thereon;
- an emitter within said object for emitting a signal uniquely representative of said at least one visually recognizable symbol;
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- an enclosure, including:
- a surface for supporting said object, and
- a processor, including means for receiving said signal from said emitter, said processor capable of identifying said symbol from said signal, and capable of identifying a position of said object on said surface.
3 more elements
An apparatus for entering data into a computer, the data being entered via the placement of a plurality of objects on the apparatus, each object having at least one unique item of detectable data associated therewith, comprising:
- a surface for receiving the placement of an object;
- one or more detectors capable of detecting the data associated with an object placed on the surface;
- a line capable of communicating the detected data from the apparatus to the computer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.