Visual stimulous game
OwnerFranz Vintherinventor
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Abstract
An aid is disclosed for a trainer teaching a student motor skills. A magnetically-inert shield receives a magnetically-inert screen fixed to the front side thereof. A token has a magnetically-attractive material, and a token controller has a first magnet, such that the token controller may be used to move the token around on the screen when the token controller is pressed up against the rear side of the shield. One of the screens may include at least one raised portion raised off of the front surface of the screen a distance sufficient to receive the token thereunder. Various activities and games may be played with the aid, revolving primarily about the student trying to grasp a token that is moved by the trainer about the screen.
Claims13
An aid for a trainer teaching a student motor skills, comprising:
- a shield having a substantially flat front and rear sides, the shield being magnetically inert and larger than one-half square foot in area;
- a token having a magnetically-attractive material proximate a bottom side thereof;
- a token controller having a first magnet at a top side thereof that is magnetically attractive to the magnetically-attractive material of the token;
- at least one screen fixed to the front side of the shield with an attachment means, the screen being magnetically inert and providing at least one camouflage means, the camouflage means including a pattern applied to a top side of the token and a similar pattern applied to one of the at least one screens, such that when not being moved by the token controller, the location of the token is visually difficult to discern against the screen;
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- an electronic circuit having a power source, a stimulation transducer, and a normally-closed switch configured to power the stimulation transducer when closed;
- whereby with one of the at least one screen fixed with the front side of the shield and the top side of the token controller placed against the rear side of the shield, and with the bottom side of the token placed on the screen and aligned with the token controller, the trainer may move the token controller about the rear side of the shield to move the token correspondingly about the screen, the shield blocking the student from being able to determine the movements of the token by watching the movements of the trainer;
- and whereby when the token is held against the screen by the magnet of the token controller, the switch is open, but when the student successfully grasps the token and removes the token from the screen, the switch closes to activate the stimulation transducer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.