Interactive multimedia book
First Claim
1. A method of presenting an interactive multimedia book on a computer system comprising the steps of:
- recognizing a voiced word spoken by the user of the book as an active hyperlink;
responding to a voiced word which is an active hyperlink by first storing a current page number in a last in, first out register before moving to a second page of the book which contains an anchor for the hyperlink, the current page being an origin page, and then moving to said second page of the book which contains the anchor for the hyperlink;
recognizing a voiced command spoken by the user of the book to return to the origin page;
responding to the voiced command to return to the origin page by moving back to the origin page; and
deleting the origin page from the last in, first out register after moving back to the origin page.
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Abstract
An interactive multimedia book provides hands-on multimedia instruction to the user in response to voiced commands. The book is implemented on a computer system and includes both text and audio/video clips. The interactive multimedia book is accessed by voiced commands and natural language queries as the primary user input. The displayed text is written in a markup language and contains hyperlinks which link the current topic with other related topics. The user may command the book to read the text and, as the text is read by the voice synthesizer, a word which is also a hyperlink will change its attributes upon being spoken. The user will be able to observe or hear this and simply utter the word which is the hyperlink to navigate to the linked topic.
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11 Claims
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1. A method of presenting an interactive multimedia book on a computer system comprising the steps of:
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recognizing a voiced word spoken by the user of the book as an active hyperlink; responding to a voiced word which is an active hyperlink by first storing a current page number in a last in, first out register before moving to a second page of the book which contains an anchor for the hyperlink, the current page being an origin page, and then moving to said second page of the book which contains the anchor for the hyperlink; recognizing a voiced command spoken by the user of the book to return to the origin page; responding to the voiced command to return to the origin page by moving back to the origin page; and deleting the origin page from the last in, first out register after moving back to the origin page. - View Dependent Claims (2)
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3. A method of presenting an interactive multimedia book on a computer system comprising the steps of:
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generating a multimedia book as a digital file containing text, images, graphics and video clips; displaying a simulated page of the multimedia book to a user of the book, a simulated page containing at least one of said text, images, graphics and video clips and selected pages containing one or more active hyperlinks pointing to a corresponding anchor located on a different simulated page; recognizing a voiced word spoken by the user of the book as an active hyperlink; responding to a voiced word spoken by the user of the book as an active hyperlink of a currently displayed simulated page by first storing the current page number in a last in, first out register before moving to a second page of the book which contains the anchor for the hyperlink, the current page being an origin page, and then moving to said second page of the book which contains the anchor for the hyperlink; recognizing a voiced command spoken by the user of the book to return to the origin page; and responding to the voiced command to return to the origin page by accessing the last in, first out register to determine the origin page and moving back to the origin page. - View Dependent Claims (4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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