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Interactive talking book and audio player assembly

  • US 4,884,974 A
  • Filed: 12/21/1987
  • Issued: 12/05/1989
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/21/1987
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A talking book and audio player assembly comprising:

  • A a book having a hard back cover and a plurality of pages, each carrying a printed text and a bar code printed along the end margin of the page formed by a series of light reflective and non-reflective elements that identify the page;

    B a ROM module secured to the end margin of the back cover and having exposed terminals, said module having stored therein a like plurality of digitized spoken messages, each message corresponding to the printed text on a respective page of the book; and

    C an audio player having a base inlet adapted to receive the end margin of the back cover, whereby when the pages thereof, when turned, overlie the inlet, the inlet being provided with inlet contacts that engage the terminals of the ROM module, and electronic means connected to the module through said inlet contacts to read out the digitized messages from the module and convert these messages into audio signals which are reproduced by a loudspeaker and heard by a reader as spoken messages, said audio player including a light sensor array which is laterally displaced from the bar code so as not to interfere with the pages overlying the inlet and is in operative optical relation to the bar code on the page then open to view to produce a page-identifying signal which effects selection for readout from the module of the digitized message corresponding to the printed text on the open page, the audio player being common to talking books of the same type but having different texts.

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