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Automated instruction, game and data retrieval system

  • US 4,490,810 A
  • Filed: 02/16/1982
  • Issued: 12/25/1984
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/16/1982
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An automated interactive game, instruction and reference system comprising:

  • a videodisc player unit having at least one pickup head and mechanical and electrical control elements to position and actuate said pickup head in response to received control signals;

    a video display unit including a screen for the visual display of still and moving graphic and pictorial information supplied to said display unit is electrical signal form;

    a user command/response unit comprising a plurality of switch elements and analog control elements operable by a system user to produce selected manual input of user determined command and response signals, selected ones of said elements having associated therewith respective variable labelling means for conveying directly to the user the function represented by the associated element at that time;

    a videodisc record having recorded thereon a plurality of segmented groups of graphic and pictorial video information data and a plurality of segmented groups of system control and programming data;

    control processor unit comprising distributor means having signal controllable electronic switching and multiplexing elements and adapted to receive information, control and programming signals from said videodisc record and user input signals from said command/response unit and in response to certain of said received signals to direct others of said received signals to said videodisc player unit, said video display unit, said user command/response unit and internally within said control processor for the operation and control of each of said units and of said control processor unit; and

    interconnection means providing signal flow paths between said units and said various means.

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