INTERACTIVE BASE STATION WITH PROCESSOR AND BODIES

• US 20110201272A1
• Filed: 07/28/2009
• Published: 08/18/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/25/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Biggle Interactive Learning Solutions B.V.
• Original Assignee: Biggle Interactive Learning Solutions B.V.
• Inventors: De Weerd, Jeroen Frederik
• Application Number:
  US12/737,836
• Publication Number:
  US 20110201272A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/41.2
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 1/40 to form symbols or signs by appropriate arrangement
• 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 5/062 Combinations of audio and printed presentations, e.g. magnetically striped cards, talking books, magnetic tapes with printed texts thereon

Abstract

The invention relates to a base station (100) provided with a processor and with bodies (1,3). Each body is provided at several outer surfaces thereof with visualisations such that a combination of visualisations can be formed in at least one plane by means of a number of outer surfaces of different bodies. At least a means is furthermore present in each body for enabling the processor to ascertain the position and orientation of each body used in a particular combination. The base station is further provided with a visualisation means (7,9) on which at least a portion of an assignment is printed, which visualisation means is provided with at least a communication means to the processor for communicating to the processor the possible answers to the assignment. The carrying out of the at least one assignment through the formation of an answer by means of the outer surfaces of the bodies with a combination of visualisations in at least one predetermined plane can be checked by the processor.

Claims

1. A base station provided with a processor and with bodies, each body being provided at several outer surfaces thereof with visualisations such that a combination of visualisations can be formed in at least one plane by means of a number of outer surfaces of different bodies, wherein at least one means is present in each body for enabling the processor to ascertain the orientation and position of each body used in a particular combination, while the base station is further provided with a visualisation means on which at least a portion of an assignment is printed, which visualisation means is provided with at least one communication means to the processor for communicating to the processor any answers to said assignment, and wherein the carrying out of the at least one assignment, through the formulation of an answer by means of a combination of visualisations on the outer surfaces of the bodies in at least one predetermined plane, can be checked by means of the processor.

2. The base station according to claim 1, wherein the visualisation means is a book or a plate, which book or plate can be detachably fastened to the base station.

3. The base station according to claim 2, wherein the book is provided with pages containing at least partial assignments, said book comprising detection means that cooperate with the processor for detecting which pages have been opened by a user.

4. The base station according to claim 3, wherein said detection means comprises at least a transmitter.

11. The base station according to claim 4 wherein the transmitter comprises an ID tag that communicates with the processor.

12. The base station according to claim 1 wherein the visualisation means is provided with a memory to which the processor has access and in which at least the possible answers for the processor are stored.

13. The base station according to claim 12 wherein the visualisation means is provided with a memory to which the processor has access and in which supplemental instructions for the processor are stored.

14. The base station according to claim 1 wherein the base station is provided with a holder in which the bodies can be positioned.

15. The base station according to claim 14 wherein the holder can be detachably fastened to the base station.

16. The base station according to claim 12 wherein the holder is provided with means that cooperate with the means of the bodies for identifying each body positioned in the holder and identifying the orientation of each body, and wherein the combination of the visualisations on the outer surfaces of the respective bodies in at least one plane, which plane is preferably defined by the upper surfaces of the bodies, can be communicated to the processor by means of the holder.

17. The base station according to claim 1 wherein the communication means is a wireless connection link providing a connection between the memory of a visualisation means and the processor.

18. The base station according to claim 17 wherein the wireless connection link is a Bluetooth link.

19. The base station according to claim 17 wherein the wireless connection link is a bus.

20. The base station according to claim 17 wherein the bus is a Universal Serial Bus (USB).

21. A visualisation means on which is printed at least a portion of an assignment, which visualisation means is provided with a memory and with communication means for communicating with a processor of a base station according to claim 1.

5-10. -10. (canceled)