Visual scenes for teaching a plurality of polysemous symbol sequences and corresponding rationales

• US 9,183,655 B2
• Filed: 03/14/2013
• Issued: 11/10/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/27/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Prentke Romich Company
• Original Assignee: Semantic Compaction Systems Incorporated
• Inventors: Baker, Bruce R., Kovacs, Thomas R., Witkowski, Deborah L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Wang, Jin-Cheng
• Application Number:
  US13/827,937
• Publication Number:
  US 20140028723A1
• Time in Patent Office: 971 Days
• Field of Search: 345/629, 345/173, 345/168, 345/172, 345/169, 345/589, 345/592, D14/485, D14/489, D14/492, 178/18.01, 178/18.03, 704/10, 704/276, 704/235, 704/260, 704/271, 715/835, 715/259, 715/763, 715/764, 715/771, 715/773, 715/808, 715/825, 715/840, 715/866
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24 Querying
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/332 Query formulation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/242 Dictionaries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/253 Grammatical analysis; Style critique
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/12 Overlay of images, i.e. displayed pixel being the result of switching between the corresponding input pixels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2354/00 Aspects of interface with display user
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/14 Display of multiple viewports
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/377 for mixing or overlaying two or more graphic patterns G09G5/02, G09G5/397 take precedence

Abstract

A method includes displaying a second electronic screen overlay on a display, in response to an initial selection of one of provided polysemous symbols, the second electronic screen overlay being the electronic screen overlay associated with the selected polysemous symbol; storing, in the memory, a plurality of visual scenes, each respective one of the plurality of visual scenes being stored in association with at least two symbol sequences beginning with the initially selected polysemous symbol; and displaying one of the plurality of visual scenes on the display, in response to selection of one of the symbols on the displayed second electronic screen overlay, the displayed visual scene being stored in the memory in association with at least two symbol sequences including, in sequence, the initially selected polysemous symbol and the selected one of the symbols on the displayed second electronic screen overlay.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

providing polysemous symbols for selection on an initial electronic screen overlay displayed on a display, a plurality of the polysemous symbols being displayed with at least one word;

storing, in a memory, a plurality of the selectable polysemous symbols in association with a pointer identifying display of an electronic screen overlay which is different from the initial electronic screen overlay;

displaying on the display, in response to initial selection of one of the provided polysemous symbols, a second electronic screen overlay different from the initial electronic screen overlay and including a plurality of symbols, each of the plurality of symbols of the second electronic screen overlay being associated with the selected polysemous symbol and at least one of the plurality of the polysemous symbols of the second electronic screen overlay being displayed with at least one word different from the at least one word displayed with a similarly situated polysemous symbol previously displayed for selection on the initial electronic screen overlay;

storing, in the memory, a plurality of visual scenes, each respective one of the plurality of visual scenes being stored in association with at least two symbol sequences beginning with the initially selected polysemous symbol; and

displaying one of the plurality of visual scenes on the display, in response to selection of one of the symbols on the displayed second electronic screen overlay, the displayed visual scene being stored in the memory in association with at least two symbol sequences including, in sequence, the initially selected polysemous symbol and the selected one of the symbols on the displayed second electronic screen overlay.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the second electronic screen overlay is displayed in place of the initial electronic screen overlay.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the plurality of visual scenes each respectively relate each of a corresponding two or more symbol sequences to an associated stored at least one word, sentence, phoneme, message, letter, number, morpheme, command and phrase.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of visual scenes each respectively relate each of a corresponding two or more symbol sequences to an associated stored at least one word, sentence, phoneme, message, letter, number, morpheme, command and phrase.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein each of the respective at least two symbol sequences are stored in the memory in association with a corresponding one of the plurality of visual scenes and at least one associated word, sentence, phoneme, message, letter, number, morpheme, command and phrase.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the visual scene includes a graphic illustration of a relationship between each of the respective at least two symbol sequences and the at least one respective associated word, sentence, phoneme, message, letter, number, morpheme, command and phrase.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the graphic illustration is usable to explain a rationale between each of the at least two symbol sequences and the at least one respective associated word, sentence, phoneme, message, letter, number, morpheme, command and phrase.

8. A non-transitory computer readable medium including program segments for, when executed on computer system, causing the computer system to implement the method of claim 1.

9. An apparatus, comprising:

an integrated input and display device configured to provide polysemous symbols for selection on an initial electronic screen overlay displayed on a display, a plurality of the polysemous symbols being displayed with at least one word;

a memory to store a plurality of the selectable polysemous symbols in association with a pointer identifying display of an electronic screen overlay which is different from the initial electronic screen overlay; and

a processor configured to

control display of a second electronic screen overlay on the integrated input and display device, in response to an initial selection of one of the provided polysemous symbols, the second electronic screen overlay being different from the initial electronic screen overlay and including a plurality of symbols, each of the plurality of symbols of the electronic screen overlay being associated with the selected polysemous symbol and at least one of the plurality of the polysemous symbols of the second electronic screen overlay being displayed with at least one word different from the at least one word displayed with a similarly situated polysemous symbol previously displayed for selection on the initial electronic screen overlay, the memory being further configured to store a plurality of visual scenes, each respective one of the plurality of visual scenes being stored in association with at least two symbol sequences beginning with the initially selected polysemous symbol, and

control display of one of the plurality of visual scenes on the integrated input and display device, in response to selection of one of the symbols on the displayed second electronic screen overlay, the displayed visual scene being stored in the memory in association with at least two symbol sequences including, in sequence, the initially selected polysemous symbol and the selected one of the symbols on the displayed second electronic screen overlay.

10. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the processor is further configured to control display of the second electronic screen overlay on the integrated input and display device in place of the initial electronic screen overlay.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the plurality of visual scenes each respectively relate each of a corresponding two or more symbol sequences to an associated stored at least one word, sentence, phoneme, message, letter, number, morpheme, command and phrase.

12. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the plurality of visual scenes each respectively relate each of a corresponding two or more symbol sequences to an associated stored at least one word, sentence, phoneme, message, letter, number, morpheme, command and phrase.

13. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein each of the respective at least two symbol sequences are stored in the memory in association with a corresponding one of the plurality of visual scenes and at least one associated word, sentence, phoneme, message, letter, number, morpheme, command and phrase.

14. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the visual scene includes a graphic illustration of a relationship between each of the respective at least two symbol sequences and the at least one respective associated word, sentence, phoneme, message, letter, number, morpheme, command and phrase.

15. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the graphic illustration is usable to explain a rationale between each of the at least two symbol sequences and the at least one respective associated word, sentence, phoneme, message, letter, number, morpheme, command and phrase.