Interactive educational display board
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1. An interactive instructional display apparatus, comprising:
- (a) a sheet of printed material;
(b) a plurality of electrical contacts on the surface of said sheet;
(c) a plurality of conductive paths attached to said electrical contacts;
(d) a means for sensing associations between various electrical contact combinations, said means being electrically connected with said conductive paths and capable of registering electrical conduction between any two of the plurality of contacts which are simultaneously touched by a user, or connected users;
(e) an audio sequence generator which generates audio sequences in response to the pattern of registered associations between contacts; and
(f) a power source supplying power to the sensing means and the audio sequence generator.
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Abstract
Educational display boards are in widespread use—from classrooms to boardrooms. A display board is a thin substantially planar material imprinted with graphics and text that often conveys a relationship between elements. The present invention is specifically a design for interactive educational display boards upon which users interact by touching one contact associated with a term corresponding to a question, and one or more terms corresponding to an answer selection. User bodily resistance is sensed by the circuit as user input; to which the interactive display board responds with a variety of audio tunes and tones in relation to these user choices.
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1. An interactive instructional display apparatus, comprising:
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(a) a sheet of printed material;
(b) a plurality of electrical contacts on the surface of said sheet;
(c) a plurality of conductive paths attached to said electrical contacts;
(d) a means for sensing associations between various electrical contact combinations, said means being electrically connected with said conductive paths and capable of registering electrical conduction between any two of the plurality of contacts which are simultaneously touched by a user, or connected users;
(e) an audio sequence generator which generates audio sequences in response to the pattern of registered associations between contacts; and
(f) a power source supplying power to the sensing means and the audio sequence generator. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. An interactive instructional display apparatus, comprising:
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(a) a sheet of printed material;
(b) a plurality of electrical contacts on the surface of said sheet;
(c) a plurality of conductive paths attached to said base member and in electrical contact with said electrical contacts, the electrical characteristics of the plurality of conductive paths combined with the plurality of electrical contacts on said sheet being unresponsive to the application of pressure applied thereon;
(d) a sensing circuit electrically connected to the electrical contacts through the conductive paths and configured to sense high resistance, such as provided by a range of human body resistance of up to approximately ten-megaohms, as a contact state in which the user'"'"'s body is touching at least any two of the electrical contacts from the plurality of electrical contacts so as to make a desired association between the two contacts;
(e) an audio sequence generator which generates audio sequences in response to the pattern of contact states of said electrical contacts as determined by said sensing circuit; and
(f) a power source supplying power to the sensing circuit and the audio sequence generator. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A method for adding interactive capability to any sized sheet of printed material, as exemplified by a classroom display board, that can thereby register user responses to a problem depicted on the printed material, comprising the steps of:
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(a) applying a conductive trace pattern to a backside of the printed material, said conductive pattern not containing any switches between the conductive traces;
(b) applying a plurality of electrical contacts to the printed material which are in electrical connection with the conductive trace pattern and positioned so that they may be reached from the front face of the printed material; and
(c) securing an electronic response module to the printed material such that an electrical connection is established with the conductive trace pattern that leads to the electrical contacts, said electronic response module including a power source, a means for sensing electrical contact with a user'"'"'s body as an association between any two of the contacts from the plurality of contacts, and an audio sequence generator that generates audio sounds in response to the user selected associations of the user'"'"'s body with the electrical contacts.
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