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Method of simulating personal individual art instruction

  • US 5,513,991 A
  • Filed: 12/02/1994
  • Issued: 05/07/1996
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/02/1994
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. In a method for simulating personal individual art instruction to at least one student with the aid of equipment for practicing said method,wherein the student remotely creates a traditional artwork using traditional artistic tools and materials of the trade, the student being located remotely away from an electronic image displayed upon a video compatible player screen, said equipment including programmable recorder and player means havinga recording mode thereof generally including a master recorder adapted for recording a master program containing teaching instructions on a medium carrying at least one of a recorded video and audio message recorded thereon by an art teacher, generally pertaining on how to paint a model,a duplication mode thereof including duplication equipment adapted for producing a multiple number of artwork teaching aids containing said program, each having a respective of said recording media, anda reproducing mode thereof including a player adapted to be programmable at least in one of two recorder-compatible video and audio-modes, said equipment, for purpose of programming, being adapted to have a recall feature, a display screen, at least one of said artwork teaching aids for insertion into said player, and a remote control and student-operable means for remotely controlling said player, said student-operable means being connected to said player, the student being normally located remote from said player, but able to visually observe said display screen, and operate said remote control and said student-operable means,said method teaching development of an artwork in an art in at least one of said recorded video and audio messages, and being separable into a plurality of sequences of numbered or otherwise identifiable artwork steps from a first or otherwise identified artwork step, to an "n"th or otherwise identified artwork step ending each of said sequences, the procedural steps of said method comprising:

  • (a) inserting said one of said artwork teaching aids into said programmable recorder and player means,(b) starting to run said programmable recorder and player means, said artwork teaching aid in the running player then showing the artwork steps of the art teacher in said one of said teaching aids, said artwork steps including(i) providing an overview of the art in at least one of said recorded video and audio messages,(ii) showing at least one style of a plurality of different styles used in said art,(iii) instructing the student on how the development of said artwork is separable into said plurality of sequences of said artwork steps,(iv) showing the student a model for use in said art,(v) showing the student the completed artwork in said one of said styles,(vi) allowing the student to select one of said sequences,(vii) teaching said artwork steps sequentially to the student in said one of said sequences selected by the student, said sequences including errors frequently made by students, and(viii) teaching how to proceed to correct said errors, and to further proceed forward therefrom, in a majority of cases, substantially free from any need to start again from scratch and continue to remotely create a traditional artwork using traditional artistic tools and materials of the trade, the student being located remotely away from the electronic image displayed upon the video compatible player screen, until(ix) the student deciding whether or not to allow the programmable recorder and player means to stop,(x) and subsequently deciding whether or not to call out at least one of previously taught artwork steps for repeatedly viewing and listening, by use of said recall feature in said one of said sequences selected by the student, and to interactively pose at least one question from a preselected format to the corresponding recording medium in said one of said artwork teaching aids via said student-operable means, for answering said at least one question in passing therethrough, said one of said artwork teaching aids in the running player thereafter showing another artwork step by(xi) the student again passing through said corresponding medium, and subsequently receiving an answer from a plurality of recorded and preselected answers to said interactively posed at least one question,(xii) allowing the student to either call for a continuation of the sequence of said artwork steps, or allowing the student to first select another of said plurality of sequences until the student again decides to call on the programmable recorder and player means to stop, and(xiii) allowing the student to selectively repeat steps (ix) and (x) an arbitrary number of times in said selected of said sequences, until the end of said selected of said sequences is reached.

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