COMMUNICATION TABLET FOR TEACHING

• US 20140255899A1
• Filed: 10/08/2012
• Published: 09/11/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/11/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Franck Poullain
• Original Assignee: Franck Poullain
• Inventors: Poullain, Franck
• Application Number:
  US14/351,052
• Publication Number:
  US 20140255899A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 434/351
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1616 with folding flat displays, e.g. laptop computers or notebooks having a clamshell configuration, with body parts pivoting to an open position around an axis parallel to the plane they define in closed position
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1637 Details related to the display arrangement, including those related to the mounting of the display in the housing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1647 including at least an additional display G06F1/1692 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1681 Details related solely to hinges hinge details related to the transmission of signals or power are classified in G06F1/1683
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1633 Protecting arrangement for the entire housing of the computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03545 Pens or stylus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03546 using a rotatable ball at the tip as position detecting member
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/00 Teaching not covered by other main groups of this subclass teaching or practice apparatus for gun-aiming or gun-laying F41G3/26
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 21/003 using tactile presentation of the information, e.g. Braille displays
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/06 with both visual and audible presentation of the material to be studied
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/08 providing for individual presentation of information to a plurality of student stations
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/125 the stations being mobile
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 9/06 for teaching control of ships, boats, or other waterborne vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 9/08 for teaching control of aircraft, e.g. Link trainer

Abstract

A teaching device formed by the combination of a wireless communication terminal located in a classroom of an educational establishment and a set of communication tablets that each belong to a student or a teacher of the class. The tablet has two rigid flaps that are articulated about a hinge which is hollow in order to store a stylus therein and is able to rotate through 360°. Each of the two flaps has an impact- and liquid-resistant outer face and an impact-and liquid-resistant inner face and a screen for reading and writing manually by means of a stylus.

Claims

1-11. -11. (canceled)

12. A teaching apparatus for use in teaching in an institution such as a middle school or a high school, said teaching apparatus comprising:

a wireless communication terminal, said wireless communication terminal cooperating with a server, said server monitoring said wireless communication terminal;

a plurality of electronic communication tablets each respectively associated with at least one of a student and a teacher of the class, each said tablet comprising user identification means and a wireless communication interface, said wireless communication interface permitting communication between at least one of;

(1) the tablets and (2) a tablet and said communication terminal; and

each communication tablet further comprising two rigid panels articulated to one another via a hinge and able to rotate 360°

, each panel having an impact-resistant outer face and an inner face including a touch screen for reading and writing manually by means of a stylus using an electronic ink display, and an interior portion including at least one of data communication and processing means, data storage memories, and batteries.

13. The teaching apparatus of claim 12, further comprising a stylus, and wherein said hinge of said communication tablet includes a hollow portion, said stylus receivable within said hollow portion.

14. The teaching apparatus of claim 12, wherein said hinge of the communication tablet includes at least one connector for receiving a USB electrical standard device for at least one of recharging said tablet with electricity and connecting said tablet with a USB peripheral.

15. The teaching apparatus of claim 12, wherein each of said screens of said communication tablet has a border including at least one navigation touch tab for use in selecting at least one of a subject being taught and an activity to be performed by a user.

16. The teaching apparatus of claim 12, wherein said communication tablet is configured for a blind user, and said screens of said communication tablet include embossed lines for guiding a finger of the user, and Braille characters.

17. The teaching apparatus of claim 12, further comprising a stylus including a ball tip, and wherein the screen of said communication tablet has an integral rolling pad which, when used with said ball tip of said stylus, restores to a user a sensation of writing on a pad of paper with a ballpoint pen.

18. The teaching apparatus of claim 12, wherein wireless communication between said communication tablets is provided in a frequency range of 868 to 915 MHz and a power of 1 mW or less, said tablets remaining in a continuous listening mode and transmitting only on receipt of an instruction.

19. The teaching apparatus of claim 12, wherein each panel includes an outer surface, an inner surface surrounding said screen, and a screen protector, each of said outer surface, inner surface, and screen protector covered with a solar film for the production of electricity.

20. The teaching apparatus of claim 12, further comprising a screen protector inserted in a slot of one of said panels, said screen protector including portions that can be snapped to one another to form a stand for maintaining said panel in a tilted position.

21. The teaching apparatus of claim 12, further comprising a stylus with a writing tip, said stylus further comprising a battery, an antenna, and a connector for one of a plug or a connector conforming to the USB electrical standard for use in transmitting pressure exerted on said writing tip via electromagnetic waves.