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US 2009/0213402 A1Published application
Print media information systems and methods
AssigneeLeapFrog Enterprises, Inc.
InventorsJames Marggraff, Michael C. Wood
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a novel interactive information system which can be used to make a traditional print medium such as a magazine, “interactive”. When the traditional print medium is placed on a print media receiving unit in a predetermined position, a user can interact with the traditional print medium. Printed matter elements on the printed medium can be made “selectable” by the user.
Claims20
1-35. (canceled)
A method comprising:
- (a) retrieving, from a database, information relating to a print medium, the information configured to be transmitted to an assembly comprising
- (i) a processor,
- (ii) an electronic detection system comprising an optical detector coupled to the processor, wherein the electronic detection system is capable of using an electronic map that correlates a selected print element of the print medium with audio information,
- (iii) a stylus wherein the processor is programmed to identify an area of the print medium where the stylus is positioned,
- (iv) an audio output device coupled to the processor, and
- (v) a writeable memory device coupled to the processor;
- and
- (b) transmitting to the assembly, via the Internet using a server computer, the information relating to the print medium, the information including the electronic map and the audio information,
- wherein the audio information corresponds to the selected print element in the print medium and further wherein the audio output device is configured to produce the audio information after the stylus is positioned over the selected print element.
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A system comprising:
- (a) an assembly comprising
- (i) a processor,
- (ii) an electronic detection system comprising an optical detector coupled to the processor, wherein the electronic detection system is capable of using an electronic map that correlates a selected portion of the print medium with audio information,
- (iii) a stylus wherein the processor is programmed to identify an area of the print medium where the stylus is positioned,
- (iv) an audio output device coupled to the processor for producing the audio information correlated to the selected portion of the print medium, and
- (v) a writeable memory device coupled to the processor;
- (b) an information server computer in communication, via the Internet, with the assembly;
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- (e) a database for the print medium on or accessible to the information server computer, wherein the database comprises information including the electronic map.
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An assembly comprising
- (a) a processor;
- (b) an electronic detection system comprising an optical detector coupled to the processor, wherein the electronic detection system is capable of using an electronic map that correlates a selected portion of the print medium with audio information;
- (b) a stylus wherein the processor is programmed to identify an area of the print medium where the stylus is positioned;
- (c) an audio output device coupled to the processor for producing the audio information correlated to the selected portion of the print medium;
- (d) a writeable memory device coupled to the processor;
- and
- (e) a link coupled to the processor and adapted to be in communication, via the Internet, with an information server computer.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.