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US 2009/0253111 A1Published application
Multimedia instructional system
OwnerBruce Teicher, Crystal Teicherinventors
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Abstract
A multimedia instructional guide allows a user to proceed step-by-step through a selected task. The guide stops at the end of each step until the user is ready to proceed to the next step. The information presented includes a collection of video clips, images, sounds, and text.
Claims10
A multimedia instructional guide comprising:
- a player including:
- a display,
- a processor connected to said display and to an internal memory,
- a media reading module connected to said processor;
- and
- a portable memory device holding a set of discrete video clips organized into sets and subsets and selectively connected to said media reading module, wherein only a selected one video clip is played when a control is activated on the player, and wherein the control needs to be activated a second time before another video clip can be played.
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A user controlled interactive video system comprising:
- a video player adapted to respond to an input command from a user to play a video clip, the player comprising:
- a display,
- a processor connected to said display,
- a data input module connected to said processor,
- a control for selectively actuating said data input device;
- and
- an external memory device selectively connected to said data input module, said external memory device carrying a set of discrete video clips each of which can be individually accessed, wherein when said control is actuated, a selected video clip is displayed on the display of the video player and wherein said control needs to be actuated a second time before another video clip can be displayed.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.