Interactive audio visual work

An interactive audio-visual work comprising:

• a substrate;
• printed material comprising a plurality of pages disposed on said substrate;
• a plurality of selectively actuable individual switches arranged in predetermined relative disposition with said printed material;
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• circuit means including sound generator means for generating a respective predetermined sound in response to actuation of said individual switches, and interrupting and generating means for interrupting generation of predetermined sound associated with an initially actuated switch and generating the predetermined sound associated with a subsequently actuated switch in response to actuation of said subsequently actuated switch.

An interactive audio-visual work comprising:

• a book comprising a plurality of pages bound together at a spine, at least some of said pages bearing graphic material including respective predetermined depictions;
• a sound generator unit comprising:
• a touchpad comprising a plurality of individually actuable points, each of said individually actuable points being marked with a respective one of said depictions;
• circuit means including an electronic sound generator cooperating with said touchpad to generate, in response to actuation of each of said individually actuable points, a respective individual sound associated with the depiction marked on said individually actuable point, and interrupting and generating means for interrupting generation of an initially selected sound by said electronic sound generator in response to an initially actuated point and initiating generation of a subsequently selected sound by said electronic sound generator in response to a subsequently actuated point;
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• a casing, having an edge corresponding to an edge of said book, for receiving said touchpad and said electronic sound generator and accessibly disposing said touchpad proximate to said casing edge;
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• means for disposing said casing with said casing edge adjacent to but not overlapping said book edge such that the depictions marked on said individually actuable points are readily viewed together with the graphic material on said pages and accessible when said pages are opened.

An interactive audio-visual work comprising:

• a plurality of pages;
• a text portion of said plurality of pages, said text portion including on each of at least two of said plurality of pages both a plurality of lines of text and a plurality of different predetermined graphic depictions related in concept to the subject matter of the text interposed within said lines of text;
• a switching mechanism, disposed in predetermined relationship to said text portion, and including a plurality of individually actuable elements, each of said elements being associated with one of said graphic depictions, said graphic depictions in said text portion and said graphic depictions on said elements being correlated only by the subject matter thereof;
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• circuit means including digital sound generator means responsive to actuation of any one of said elements, for selectively effecting generation of a sound associated with said graphic depiction marked on said element, and interrupting and generating means for interrupting generation of an initially selected sound by said sound generator means in response to an initially actuated element and initiating generation of a subsequently selected sound by said sound generator means in response to a subsequently actuated element.

An interactive audio-visual work comprising:

• a substrate;
• printed matter disposed on said substrate;
• input means comprising a plurality of selectively actuable switches disposed on said substrate in predetermined disposition relative to said printed matter for selectively generating input signals to a sound generator means, each of said switches comprising a plurality of conductors in predetermined relatively disposition and a contactor for selectively effecting an electrical connection between said plurality conductors;
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• circuit means disposed on said substrate, said circuit means comprising:
• the sound generator means, responsive to said input signals applied thereto, for selectively generating a selected one of a plurality sounds,
• interrupting and generating means for interrupting generation of an initially selected sound by said sound generator means in response to an initially actuated switch and initiating generation of a subsequently selected sound by said sound generator means in response to a subsequently actuated switch, and
• means for precluding generation of more than one iteration of said selected sound in response to one actuation of an actuated switch.