Prayer Device

• US 20180218624A1
• Filed: 04/01/2015
• Published: 08/02/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 04/01/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ali Sami Bek Osseiran
• Original Assignee: Ali Sami Bek Osseiran
• Inventors: Osseiran, Ali Sami Bek
• Granted Patent: US 11,393,351 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/06 with both visual and audible presentation of the material to be studied

Abstract

A digital/electronic personal prayer device may be installed at gravesite or carried on the person of a user to provide spiritual support at all times, and includes digital storage for sacred texts, prayers, supplications, and spiritual guidance, with options (by way of example and not limitation) for self-play of prayers and/or recitations of sacred texts at preset times, voice and text synchronism, storage and playback of multimedia files commemorating the deceased.

Claims

1. A portable prayer device, comprising:

a display for audio, visual, and audiovisual playback of selected content;

an input device for enabling a user to input device settings and selected content;

at least one memory for storing content to be selected;

at least one processor for executing content selection, content playback, and playback setting functions selected through the input device; and

a power source,

wherein said memory is arranged to at least store passages from a sacred text and prayers,

wherein said processor is arranged to play back selected said passages and prayers and at times and dates selected by a user of the device, said times and dates including times and dates when said portable prayer device is unattended by the user, and

wherein said prayer device is portable.

2. A prayer device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said input device is a touch screen that also serves as a visual display.

3. A prayer device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a digital signal processor, amplifier, and output for audio and audiovisual playback.

4. A prayer device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said processor is arranged to execute a recitation function of reciting said passages and prayers in synchronism with a text display.

5. A prayer device as claimed in claim 4, wherein said recitation function includes an option of selecting prerecorded voices and/or reciters for audio or audiovisual playback.

6. A prayer device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said passages are selectable by chapter and verse of the sacred text.

7. A prayer device as claimed in claim 1, wherein multiple versions of said sacred text and/or said prayers are included in said memory.

8. A prayer device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising storage for names and/or pictures of persons, the names being input by the user for integration into preloaded and/or stored recordings of religious significance devoted to souls of the persons, including prayers, supplications, petitions, and invocations.

9. A prayer device as claimed in claim 7, further comprising storage for recordings of religious significance, wherein said recordings of religious significance include translations in different languages.

10. A prayer device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said multiple versions include versions selectable by publication name, reference, religion, denomination, or sect.

11. A prayer device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said memory further includes writings, presentations, and/or displays associated with a sacred text, religious teachings, vocal and/or musical presentations, commemorative material, and/or information on religious rites and ceremonies, and other recordings of religious significance.

12. A prayer device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said memory further includes files related to a deceased person, including at least one of data on the deceased, prayers, messages, photos, and/or favorites of the deceased, wherein the portable device models are adapted to be mounted, embedded or fixed to tomb stones, coffins, a mausoleum, or next to barrel locations on a platform, pedestal or understructure.

13. A prayer device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said processor is further arranged to carry out a Quibla direction indication function.

14. A prayer device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said processor is further arranged to alert the user of daily prayer times for the Islamic faith.

17. A prayer device as claimed in claim 5, wherein said recitation function for Muslim religion includes selecting prerecorded voices of Reciters of sacred text of Al Qur'"'"'an Kareem using such recordings of audio and audiovisual by Clerk/Sheikh/Qari/Mujawwads, of distinguished Reciters including Abdul-Basit Abdus-Samad, Sheikh Abu Bakr Shatri, Sheikh Abdul Rahman as-Sudais, Sheikh Saad Al Ghamidi and other pronounced Reciters.

18. A prayer device as claimed in claim 1, wherein one or more versions of said sacred text according to sect or denominations that may be made available include versions of Christian sacred books, wherein electronic copies of said sacred books, prayers and other recordings of religious significance are included in said memory.

19. A prayer device as claimed in claim 11, wherein said memory includes Quran Al Kareem, prayers of different occasions, petitions, blessings, and further includes utterance 99 names of Allah, “

Thikers”

Remembrances, “

Aawzah”

Mantra, “

Munajat”

Implorations to Allah (God), narrated Hadith, teachings, “

Heriz supplication”

Shields, “

Azan”

a call to ritual prayer, religious stories, musical presentations, and/or information on religious rites or ceremonies, commemorative material and other materials of religious significance to the Islamic faith.

20. A prayer device as claimed in claim 11, wherein said memory includes interpretations of sacred books in full or limited to chosen article, including Surah or Ayat, names of Allah, and prayers stored in the memory.

15. A method of controlling a prayer device to playback play back selected content at user-selectable times and dates, comprising the steps of:

selecting a religion or reference book;

selecting at least part of a sacred text or at least one prayer for playback;

selecting a reciter or reader voice if more than one is stored in memory and/or has been downloaded;

selecting all passages, no passages, or specific passages or prayers from the selected type of sacred text or prayer;

selecting additional stored materials if desired;

selecting one or more times and dates at which selected passages, prayers, and/or materials are to be played back;

automatically playing back the selected passages, prayers, and/or materials at the selected times.

16. Non-transitory application software for executing, on a prayer device having a display for audio, visual, and/or audiovisual playback of selected content;

an input device for enabling a user to input device settings and selected content;

a memory for storing content to be selected;

a processor for executing content selection, content playback, and playback setting functions selected through the input device; and

a power source.