FINGER-SENSING APPARATUS AND METHOD
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1. An apparatus, comprising:
- a substrate comprising at least one finger-sensitive sensor that senses a finger of a user,a page detection mechanism for determining a page exposed to the user; and
a control circuit coupled to said at least one finger-sensitive touch sensor and said page detection mechanism to indicate a specific page being exposed to the user and a specific site on the substrate activated with the finger of the user.
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Abstract
A finger-sensing apparatus (23) and a method with a page detection mechanism (47). The apparatus (23) comprises a finger-sensitive substrate (26) having a plurality of keypads (30), a page detection mechanism (47), a control circuit (31) and a pliable media (25). When a finger (33) of a user is proximate to a keypad (30), the control circuit (31) detects a change in a characteristic at the keypad (30). The page detection mechanism (47) determines a page (24) exposed to the user and sends the information to the control circuit (31). The characteristic is a capacitance.
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20 Claims
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1. An apparatus, comprising:
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a substrate comprising at least one finger-sensitive sensor that senses a finger of a user, a page detection mechanism for determining a page exposed to the user; and a control circuit coupled to said at least one finger-sensitive touch sensor and said page detection mechanism to indicate a specific page being exposed to the user and a specific site on the substrate activated with the finger of the user. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. An interactive electronic book comprising:
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a substrate comprising at least one finger-sensitive sensor that senses a finger of a user; a pliable media including at least one page with at least one site, said pliable media removably attached on top of said substrate; a page detection mechanism that determines a page exposed to the user; a control circuit that receives an indication from the page detection mechanism of a current page being displayed and an indication from the finger-sensitive touch sensor of a location on the page being touched by the user; a memory device coupled to said control circuit and storing at least one multimedia object, each of said at least one multimedia object corresponds to one of said site of said page; a multimedia output device coupled to said control circuit that presents said at least one multimedia object to said user. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A method, comprising:
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determining which one of a plurality of pages are displayed to a user; detecting a presence of a finger of said user when said finger is proximate a site in said page before said finger actually touches the site in said page; activating a multimedia object that corresponds to the site on said page. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20)
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