Customized audio playback storybook with light activation

• US 7,809,576 B2
• Filed: 07/16/2007
• Issued: 10/05/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 07/14/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Lucient G. Lallouz, Sharon J. Fixman-Lallouz
• Original Assignee: Lucient G. Lallouz, Sharon J. Fixman-Lallouz
• Inventors: Lallouz, Lucient G., Fixman-Lallouz, Sharon J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Lerner; Martin
• Application Number:
  US11/778,467
• Publication Number:
  US 20080015847A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,177 Days
• Field of Search: 704/260, 704/270, 704/271, 704/272, 434/178, 434/185, 434/317, 345/901
• US Class Current: 704/271
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/16 Combinations of two or more digital computers each having at least an arithmetic unit, a program unit and a register, e.g. for a simultaneous processing of several programs coordinating program control therefor G06F9/52; in regulating and control system G05B
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 345/901 Electronic book with display

Abstract

A unit for providing an interactive, light-activated, voice recorder unit for a book wherein said interactive voice recorder unit automatically initiates a playback mode when the front cover of a book is opened and light enters the unit.

Claims

1. A interactive digital recording and playback unit for providing audio to a book, said unit comprising;

a) a microphone;

b) an audio recording circuit for converting an audio signal input into said unit into a digital audio file;

c) a memory to receive and store said digital audio file;

d) an audio playback circuit;

e) a light sensing actuator for initiating said playback, wherein said light sensing actuator initiates audio playback when exposed to light and said audio playback continues to play audio independent of any continual source of light; and

f) a clip for securing said unit to said book.

2. The article of claim 1 wherein an actuator for said audio record circuit and an actuator for said audio playback are on opposite sides of said unit.

3. The unit of claim 1 wherein said light sensing actuator initiates an audio playback of prerecorded information.

4. The article of claim 1 wherein said unit with said clip is configured to fit on the inside cover of said book.

5. The article of claim 4 wherein said clip is formed of a single continuous piece dependant on a case of said unit.

6. The article of claim 1 wherein said audio record circuit comprises two distinct actuators in order to initiate a record sequence.

7. The unit of claim 6 wherein said distinct actuators are located on different sides of said unit.

8. The unit of claim 6 wherein one of said actuators is a multi-position switch and a second actuator is an electronic contact initiated by a push button.

9. The unit of claim 1 wherein said memory to receive said digital audio file is created outside the unit and is introduced to the unit for playback as an output of an audio sound file.

10. A method for providing a personalized audio for a book comprising the steps of:

a) initiating an audio recording in an interactive voice recorder unit;

b) starting and completing the reading of a story;

c) storing a digital audio file of said reading;

d) clipping said interactive voice recorder unit to the inside cover of said book by a clip dependant on said interactive voice recorder unit; and

d) opening the front cover of said book in which an interactive voice recorder unit comprising a light sensing actuator has been clipped, said opening of said book initiating an audio playback mode in said interactive voice recorder, wherein said light sensing actuator initiates audio playback when exposed to light and said audio playback continues to play audio independent of any continual source of light.

11. The method of claim 10 wherein said initiating said audio recording comprises initiating two separate actuators to commence said audio recording.