Electronic educational toy appliance having a touch sensitive surface

• US 20040121293A1
• Filed: 06/04/2003
• Published: 06/24/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 12/29/1995
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Brian I. Marcus, Warren S. Heit
• Original Assignee: Brian I. Marcus, Warren S. Heit
• Inventors: Marcus, Brian I., Heit, Warren S.
• Application Number:
  US10/455,540
• Publication Number:
  US 20040121293A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 434/156
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 1/06 and being attachable to, or mounted on, the support
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 1/16 the elements each bearing a plurality of different symbols, signs, or combinations of symbols and signs, only one symbol, sign, or combination thereof, of each element to be used at a time
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 1/36 the elements being connectible by corresponding projections and recesses
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 11/00 Teaching hand-writing, shorthand, drawing, or painting
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 17/00 Teaching reading teaching lip-reading G09B21/00
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 17/003 electrically operated apparatus or devices
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/025 with electrically operated apparatus or devices
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/04 Speaking with audible presentation of the material to be studied G09B5/04
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 3/02 of the type wherein the student is expected to construct an answer to the question which is presented or wherein the machine gives an answer to the question presented by a student
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/00 Electrically-operated educational appliances working with questions and answers G09B7/00; simulators G09B9/00; advertising or displaying in general G09F
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/065 Combinations of audio and video presentations, e.g. videotapes, videodiscs, television systems
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 7/00 Electrically-operated teaching apparatus or devices working with questions and answers mechanically operated G09B3/00; computing arrangements G06F
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 7/04 characterised by modifying the teaching programme in response to a wrong answer, e.g. repeating the question, supplying a further explanation

Abstract

A system where a child or other individual arranges one or more computer-recognizable characters on a working platform to spell words or provide a mathematical result in response to computer generated questions or prompts, the system then indicating whether the words or mathematical result is correct.

Claims

1. An educational system, comprising:

an object having at least one visually recognizable symbol thereon;

an emitter within said object for emitting a signal uniquely representative of said at least one visually recognizable symbol; and

an enclosure, including;

a surface for supporting said object, and

a processor, including means for receiving said signal from said emitter, said processor capable of identifying said symbol from said signal, and capable of identifying a position of said object on said surface.

2. An apparatus for entering data into a computer, the data being entered via the placement of a plurality of objects on the apparatus, each object having at least one unique item of detectable data associated therewith, comprising:

a surface for receiving the placement of an object;

one or more detectors capable of detecting the data associated with an object placed on the surface;

a line capable of communicating the detected data from the apparatus to the computer.

3. An apparatus as in claim 2 whereby the detectors are capable of detecting the location of an object on the surface.