Multipurpose learning device

• US 6,201,947 B1
• Filed: 07/16/1998
• Issued: 03/13/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 07/16/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kang, Il-dong, Hur, Jeong
• Primary Examiner(s): Martin-Wallace, Valencia
• Assistant Examiner(s): Harris, Chanda
• Application Number:
  US09/116,485
• Time in Patent Office: 971 Days
• Field of Search: 434/317, 434/178, 434/308, 434/309, 434/169, 434/307.R, 434/365, 345/901, 462/66, 369/31, 369/63, 369/68, 369/69
• US Class Current: 434/317
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/062 Combinations of audio and printed presentations, e.g. magnetically striped cards, talking books, magnetic tapes with printed texts thereon
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 345/901 Electronic book with display

Abstract

A multipurpose learning device having a picture book including a plurality of pages, wherein the pages turned in a top-to-bottom hinged direction instead of a side-to-side hinged direction, a memory unit having audio and video data stored therein, the memory unit being detachably connected to a touch board. A surface of the touch board is declined to a predetermined angle for enabling a user to easily position an electronic pen perpendicular to the touch board. Each sheet of the picture book includes a blank page and a picture page and picture information corresponding to a picture on one of the pages is displayed on a host device, such as a television. A user moves the electronic pen over a blank page which is positioned over the touch board, and a cursor is displayed on the host device at a position corresponding to the position of the electronic pen over the blank page and touch board.

Claims

1. A multipurpose learning device, comprising:

a main body having an upper case and a lower case which are hinge-connected;

a picture book module received to said main body; and

an electronic pen for selecting learning information from said picture book module,

wherein said picture book module includes;

a picture book including a plurality of sheets for unfolding to a hinged direction of said upper and said lower cases;

a memory unit for storing multimedia learning information corresponding to said picture book; and

a touch board for sensing movement of said electronic pen over a page of said picture book, said page being installed on a surface of said touch board and wherein said memory unit is detachably connected on the rear side of said picture book module.

2. The multipurpose learning device according to claim 1, each front page of said picture book except a cover is a blank space and each rear page of said picture book has a plurality of drawn pictures.

3. The multimedia learning device according to claim 1, said memory unit comprising:

a printed circuit board having an information storing device which stores said learning information;

a lower receiving unit which said printed circuit board is received therein and a connecting protrusion is formed in the rear side thereof; and

an upper cover combined with said lower receiving unit.

4. The multipurpose learning device according to claim 3, a support having a connecting groove is fixed on the rear side of said touch board and said memory unit is installed on said touch board by combining said connecting protrusion with the connecting groove of said support.

5. The multipurpose learning device according to claim 3, said information storing device is a ROM.

6. The multipurpose learning device according to claim 1, the front surface of said touch board is declined to a predetermined angle.

7. The multipurpose learning device according to claim 6, said predetermined angle is 35°

or less.

8. The multipurpose learning device according to claim 1, the front surface of the lower case corresponding to said touch board is declined to a predetermined angle.

9. The multipurpose learning device according to claim 8, said predetermined angle is 35°

or less.

10. A multipurpose learning device, comprising:

a main body having an upper case and a lower case which are hinge-connected;

a picture book module electronically connectable to said lower case, said lower case having a first cavity for receiving said picture book module, wherein said picture book module comprises;

a picture book including a plurality of pages, said pages being movable between said first cavity of said lower case and a second cavity in said upper case;

a memory unit including a printed circuit board and a memory installed on said printed circuit board; and

a touch board for sensing movement of an electronic pen over one of said pages in said picture book, wherein said picture book is hingedly attached to said touch board and said memory unit is detachably connected to a portion of said touch board;

audio/video output means for providing audio and video information, respectively corresponding to audio and video data stored in said memory, to a host for enabling said host to output sound corresponding to said audio information and display images corresponding to said video information, said video information corresponding to pictures in said picture book; and

an electronic pen movable over said page of said picture book for producing a cursor on a display screen of said host at a position corresponding to a position of said electronic pen over said page, said lower case having a third cavity for receiving said electronic pen when said electronic pen is not in use.

11. The multipurpose learning device according to claim 10, wherein said pages of said picture book except a cover have a blank side and a picture side, wherein said picture side comprises pictures corresponding to said video information.

12. The multipurpose learning device according to claim 11, wherein a user moves said electronic pen over a blank side of one of said pages positioned over said touch board in said first cavity of said lower case and a picture side of another of said pages faces said user from said second cavity of said upper case, while an image corresponding to said picture side of said another of said pages is displayed on said display screen of said host.

13. The multimedia learning device according to claim 10, said memory unit further comprises:

a lower receiving unit in which said printed circuit board is received, said lower receiving unit comprising a connecting protrusion extending from a bottom outer surface of said lower receiving unit; and

an upper cover for covering said printed circuit board received in said lower receiving unit.

14. The multipurpose learning device according to claim 13, said picture book module further comprising a support, having a connecting groove, fixedly attached to said touch board, said connecting protrusion of said memory unit being connectable to said connecting groove of said support.

15. The multipurpose learning device according to claim 10, wherein said memory comprises a read only memory.

16. The multipurpose learning device according to claim 10, wherein a forward portion of said touch board is lower than a rearward portion enabling a surface of said touch board to be declined at a predetermined angle within said first cavity.

17. The multipurpose learning device according to claim 16, wherein said predetermined angle is 35°

or less.

18. The multipurpose learning device according to claim 10, wherein a rearward portion of said lower case is higher than a forward portion of said lower case enabling a surface of said touch board to decline at a predetermined angle.

19. The multipurpose learning device according to claim 18, wherein said predetermined angle is 35°

or less.

20. The multipurpose learning device according to claim 10, wherein said first cavity is sloped at a predetermined angle for enabling said touch board to decline at a predetermined angle.