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US RE31,070 EGranted
Teaching device having means producing a self-generated program
AssigneeCenturion Industries, Inc.
InventorsJerome C. Meyer, James A. Tillotson, III
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Abstract
A novel teaching machine having an indicia display means, random signal generator means for actuating said display means, a keyboard and a means for electronically determining a functional interrelationship between the displayed indicia and comparing it with an input keyed into the keyboard by a student viewing the display in order to develop the student's skill in evaluating the relationship between the displayed indicia as well as utilizing the keyboard.
Claims23
A teaching device comprising:
- a random signal generator means for generating at least two random output signals in response to a control signal;
- display means responsive to said output signals and operative to provide a display of indicia commensurate with said output signals, said display means further displaying indicia commensurate with a particular relationship concerning the output signal indicia;
- signal computer means responsive to said output signals and operative to provide a computed signal in accordance with said particular relationship;
- response insertion means into which a proposed solution to said particular relationship can be entered by an observer thereof, said insertion means providing a response signal in accordance with the entered solution;
- and
- comparator means for comparing said computed signal and said response signal and operative to provide a comparison signal.
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A teaching device comprising:
- random signal generating means for generating a plurality of independent random signals;
- indicator means responsive to said random signals and operative to display indicia commensurate therewith;
- computing means responsive to said random signals and operative to provide a computed signal commensurate with a selected interrelationship between said random signals;
- response insertion means into which a mentally computed input can be entered by an observer in response to an inspection of said indicator means, said insertion means producing a response signal;
- and
- comparator means responsive to said computed signal and said response signal and operative to provide a predetermined indication upon coincidence therebetween.
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A teaching device as recited in claim [12] 13 wherein said random signal generating means generates a new plurality of random signals in response to the occurrence of said predetermined indication.
A teaching device comprising:
- a random signal generating means for generating random outputs;
- display means operatively coupled to said generating means and displaying indicia responsive to said random outputs;
- computing means responsive to said random outputs and operative to provide a computed signal commensurate with a selected interrelationship between said random outputs;
- response insertion means into which an observer may insert his responses to the indicia displayed by said display means;
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- comparator means for comparing said [random outputs] computed signal with said responses and for producing an indication of correspondence therebetween.
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A teaching device comprising:
- a random signal generator means for generating at least two random output signals in response to a control signal;
- display means responsive to said output signals and operative to provide a display of indicia of at least two decimal numbers commensuate with said output signals, said display means further displaying indicia commensurate with a particular reltionship concerning the output signal indicia, which is an indicia located in association with said displayed decimal numbers, of a specific arithmetic function to be performed thereon;
- signal computer means responsive to said output signals and operative to provide a computed signal in accordance with said arithmetic function;
- response insertion means including a keyboard having keys thereon numbered with separate, single digit decimal integers, with which a proposed solution to the performance of said specified arithmetic function upon said displayed decimal numbers can be entered by an observer thereof, said insertion means providing a response signal in accordance with the entered solution;
- comparator means for comparing said computed signal and said response signal and operative to provide a comparison signal;
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- a unitary housing containing all of the aforesaid means, and said keys of said keyboard are positioned to be manipulatable from externally of said housing and said display means is positioned to be visible from externally
- of said housing.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.