Interactive educational system and method
OwnerSusan Jean Carulliinventor
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Abstract
A system for associating an action of a user with a message corresponding to the action, where the message is visually displayed on a series of sequentially disposed discrete mats. The message is uttered by the user and the message is verified using a speech analyzer. The system includes at least two mats, each mat having a display, a transmitter, a receiver, and a presence sensor indicating the presence of the user and configured to indicate the intention of the user to add an answer to a composite answer. The system also includes an audio receiver that receives an audio input from the user and an indicator device that indicates whether the mat is a head mat.
Claims5
A method for displaying a message on a plurality of sequentially disposed discrete mats using a computing device, wherein each of said plurality of sequentially disposed discrete mats is to be assigned a unique identification number, said method is performed by a processor of said computing device in a series of steps comprising:
- (a) selecting a head mat from said plurality of sequentially disposed discrete mats, wherein said selecting step comprises setting the state of a switch to indicate said one and only one of said plurality of sequentially disposed discrete mats is the head mat;
- (b) establishing an order of said sequentially disposed discrete mats, wherein said establishing step comprises:
- (i) causing said selected mat to be a broadcaster to broadcast a request comprising a resident serial code of said broadcaster;
- (ii) causing at least one of said plurality of sequentially disposed discrete mats to respond to said request with a response indicating a serial code of said at least one of said plurality of sequentially disposed discrete mats;
- (iii) receiving at least one response of said at least one of said plurality of sequentially disposed discrete mats by said broadcaster;
- (iv) selecting one of said at least one response;
- (v) broadcasting, by said broadcaster:
- a setting message having a new mat identification number that is sequential to a unique identification number of said broadcaster;
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- said serial code;
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- (vi) receiving said setting message by at least one of said plurality of sequentially disposed discrete mats, wherein if said serial code matches said resident serial code, said new mat identification number is set as the identification number of said at least one of said plurality of sequentially disposed discrete mats,
- (c) propagating the message to said plurality of sequentially disposed discrete mats according to said order, wherein said propagating step comprises:
- (i) transmitting at least a portion of said message with a recipient mat identification number by at least one of said plurality of sequentially disposed discrete mats;
- (ii) receiving said at least a portion of said message by at least one of the other one of said plurality of sequentially disposed discrete mats;
- (iii) comparing said recipient mat identification number to said unique identification number, if said recipient mat identification matches said unique identification number, said at least a portion of said message is parsed to result in a target display message for said recipient mat identification number and a new data string;
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- (iv) repeating steps (c)(i)-(c)(iii) until said new data string is empty;
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- (d) displaying said message on at least one of said plurality of sequentially disposed discrete mats.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.