Electronic study guide
AssigneeBrainchild Corporation
InventorsJeffrey Cameron, Evan H. Sohn, David Maurer
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Abstract
A study guide includes a housing with a screen and a removable cartridge. The cartridge provides textual material including a plurality of questions and a set of answers for each question. The textual material is displayed on the screen and the user then selects one of the answers in response to each question. A microprocessor in the housing tabulates the answers and on demand displays a score of the total number of questions and/or the number of correct answers.
Claims15
An apparatus comprising:
- a housing sized to fit in a hand;
- display means supported by said housing for displaying textual material including a narrative text and question text and several answer texts associated with said narrative text, said answer texts consisting of a correct answer text and an incorrect answer text;
- a plurality of pushbuttons disposed on said housing, each pushbutton being associated with one of said answer texts;
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- analyzing means for analyzing if one pushbutton depressed by a user corresponds to said correct answer text;
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- means disposed on said housing for selecting to re-display said narrative text on said display means after the display of the question and answer texts.
A study aid apparatus including a housing constructed to fit in a user's hand, said housing comprising:
- a data storage media containing textual material, said textual material including a plurality of question texts and a plurality of answer texts associated with each question text, each question text being associated with a correct answer text and several incorrect answer texts and a narrative text providing background information for said question texts;
- display means electrically connected to said data storage media for displaying one of said questions and the answer texts corresponding to said one question and displaying said narrative text prior to displaying said question texts;
- a plurality of pushbuttons disposed on said housing for selecting one of said answer texts, each pushbutton being designated to correspond to one of said answer texts;
- analyzing means electrically connected to said data storage media, said display means and said plurality of pushbuttons for determining if a selected pushbutton selected by a user is associated with said correct answer text;
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- means disposed on said housing for selecting to re-display said narrative text on said display means after the display of the question and answer texts.
An apparatus comprising:
- a housing sized to fit in a user's hand;
- display means support by said housing for displaying textual material including question text an several answer text consisting of a correct answer text and an incorrect answer text and a narrative text providing background information for said question text;
- selection means disposed on said housing for selecting one of said answer texts;
- analyzing means disposed within said housing and electrically connected to said plurality of pushbuttons and display means for analyzing if one selected answer text selected by said user using said selection mean corresponds to said correct answer text;
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- means disposed on said housing for selecting to re-display said narrative text on said display means after the display of said question text and answerer texts.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.