Alphabet image reading method

• US 6,604,947 B1
• Filed: 06/21/2000
• Issued: 08/12/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 10/06/1998
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Shogen Rai
• Original Assignee: Shogen Rai
• Inventors: Rai, Shogen
• Primary Examiner(s): Banks, Derris H.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Miller, Bena B.
• Application Number:
  US09/598,380
• Time in Patent Office: 1,147 Days
• Field of Search: 434/170, 434/159, 434/156, 434/167, 434/169
• US Class Current: 434/170
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 1/00 Manually or mechanically operated educational appliances using elements forming, or bearing, symbols, signs, pictures, or the like which are arranged or adapted to be arranged in one or more particular ways puzzle-games A63F9/00; advertising or displaying in general G09F

Abstract

An education method for aiding to teach and learn proper English reading, sounding and spelling. The method is designed in being able to teach and to learn reading with the proper sounding of the English alphabet rapidly with minimal instruction and supervision. It employs colors and symbols to represent 18 vowel sounds, 30 consonant, phonogram sounds and silent sounds. Each colored alphabet letter with or without symbol maps a designated sound which helps to depict a correct sounding from various spelled combinations of the English language. This color and symbol mapping method facilitates teaching reading of the English words as well as to spell correctly. It reduces long intensive phonic drills as well as guessing mistakes from a various possible sounding.

Claims

1. An alphabet image reading system comprising:

a medium having a word thereon, said word having a plurality of alphabet characters,

an alphabet character of said plurality of alphabet characters having an alphabet shape and having an alphabet color, said alphabet color being one of a root color, a soft sound color and a silent sound color,

said alphabet character being one of a vowel, a different vowel and a consonant, said root color of said vowel being different than said root color of said consonant, said root color of said vowel being different than said root color of said different vowel,

said alphabet character positioned on said medium within said word representing a sound made during human speech, said sound made during human speech being one of a root sound, a relative sound, a soft sound and a silent sound,

a reading mark being a symbol that is disposed on said medium above or below said alphabet character,

said root sound being depicted on said medium within said word by the absence of said reading mark in combination with said alphabet shape and said root color,

said relative sound being depicted on said medium within said word by the disposition of said reading mark in combination with said alphabet shape and said root color,

said soft sound being depicted on said medium within said word by said soft sound color, said soft sound color differing from said root color,

said silent sound being depicted on said medium within said word by said silent sound color, said silent sound color differing from said soft sound color and said root color.

2. A system of claim 1, wherein said root sound differs from said relative sound, said soft sound and said silent sound.

3. A system of claim 1, wherein said relative sound differs from said root sound, said soft sound and said silent sound.

4. A system of claim 1, wherein said soft sound is a schwa sound made during human speech, said soft sound differing from said root sound, said relative sound and said silent sound.

5. A system of claim 1, wherein said silent sound is when no sound is made during human speech, said silent sound differing from said root sound, said relative sound and said soft sound.

6. A system of claim 1, wherein another alphabet character is disposed within said word, said another alphabet character having a color different from said root color.

7. A system of claim 1, wherein another symbol on said medium disposed adjacent said reading mark further depicts said relative sound.

8. A system of claim 1, wherein said alphabet character has a different relative sound, said different relative sound being distinct from said relative sound.

9. A system of claim 1, wherein said alphabet shape is a shape of said alphabet character.

10. A system of claim 1, wherein said alphabet color represents said root sound.

11. A system of claim 1, wherein said alphabet character in combination with said alphabet color and the disposition of said reading mark represents said relative sound.

12. A system of claim 1, wherein said alphabet color is gray when said relative sound or said root sound is a silent sound.

13. A system of claim 1, wherein said alphabet color depicting said root sound is different from another color depicting a schwa sound.

14. A system of claim 1, wherein said medium is a video or film display.

15. A system of claim 1, wherein said medium is vocalized.

16. A system of claim 1, wherein said medium is incorporated within a digital medium.

17. An alphabet image reading system comprising:

a medium having a word thereon, said word having a plurality of alphabet characters,

an alphabet character of said plurality of alphabet characters having an alphabet shape and having an alphabet color, said alphabet color being one of a root color, a soft sound color and a silent sound color,

said alphabet character being one of a vowel, a different vowel and a consonant, said root color of said vowel being different than said root color of said consonant, said root color of said vowel-being different than said root color of said different vowel,

said alphabet character positioned on said medium within said word representing a sound made during human speech, said sound made during human speech being one of a root sound, a relative sound, a soft sound and a silent sound,

a reading mark being a symbol that is disposed on said medium above or below said alphabet character,

said root sound being depicted on said medium within said word by the absence of said reading mark in combination with said alphabet shape and said root color,

said relative sound being depicted on said medium within said word by the disposition of said reading mark in combination with said alphabet shape and said root color.