MULTI-LEARNING INCUBATOR

• US 20170193832A1
• Filed: 01/13/2015
• Published: 07/06/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 05/28/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Byungtae Kim
• Original Assignee: Byungtae Kim
• Inventors: KIM, Byungtae
• Application Number:
  US15/314,237
• Publication Number:
  US 20170193832A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: A01K 41/00 Incubators for poultry
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/00 Teaching not covered by other main groups of this subclass teaching or practice apparatus for gun-aiming or gun-laying F41G3/26
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/06 Foreign languages with audible presentation of material to be studied G09B5/04
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/06 with both visual and audible presentation of the material to be studied

Abstract

Provided is a multi-learning incubator, which includes: a virtual egg (200) including a case (210) having a shape of an egg as a whole, an egg connector (220) mounted on one side of the case (210) for inputting and outputting data, a memory (230) storing information about a character related to an animal whose egg is hatched, and an egg controller (240) connected to the egg connector (220) and managing input and output data; a main body (110) provided with a seating space (111) in which the virtual egg (200) is placed and a main body connector (112) is disposed wherein the main body connector (112) is electrically connected to the egg connector (220) to input and output data between the virtual egg 200 and the main body (110); a main body controller (120) mounted in the main body (110) and executing a multi-learning program for training and teaching the character of the virtual egg (200); a display (130 disposed at one side of the main body (110) and outputting the character and a predetermined learning image on a screen window (131) according to a control signal of the main body controller (120); and an input unit (140) disposed at the other side of the main body (110) and generating a learner input signal according to a learner'"'"'s manipulation and inputting the learner input signal to the main body controller (120).

Claims

1. A multi-learning incubator comprising:

a virtual egg (200) including a case (210) having a shape of an egg as a whole, an egg connector (220) mounted on one side of the case (210) for inputting and outputting data, a memory (230) storing information about a character related to an animal whose egg is hatched, and an egg controller (240) connected to the egg connector (220) and managing input and output data;

a main body (110) provided with a seating space (111) in which the virtual egg (200) is placed and a main body connector (112) is disposed wherein the main body connector (112) is electrically connected to the egg connector (220) to input and output data between the virtual egg 200 and the main body (110);

a main body controller (120) mounted in the main body (110) and executing a multi-learning program for training and teaching the character of the virtual egg (200);

a display (130 disposed at one side of the main body (110) and outputting the character and a predetermined learning image on a screen window (131) according to a control signal of the main body controller (120); and

an input unit (140) disposed at the other side of the main body (110) and generating a learner input signal according to a learner'"'"'s manipulation and inputting the learner input signal to the main body controller (120).

2. The multi-learning incubator according to claim 1, wherein the multi-learning program is a program that counts time from a point in time when the corresponding character has been generated and cultivates the character in correspondence to a hatching process in which an actual egg of the corresponding animal is hatched, and the main body controller (120) controls the display (130) to display photographs, moving images, and animations of the actual egg according to a state of cultivating of the character over time.

3. The multi-learning incubator according to claim 2, wherein the main body (110) further comprises:

a microphone (113) for inputting a learner'"'"'s voice signal; and

a speaker (114) for acoustically outputting a voice of the character, an operation state of the multi-learning incubator, and sound effects, and the main body controller (120) further comprises;

a voice input control module (122) for extracting predetermined word and sentence information from a learner voice signal inputted through the microphone (113); and

a database (121) including and storing answer information for displaying at least one of daily greetings, hatching learning information, curriculum learning information, language learning information, and hobby learning information in an interactive form in correspondence to words and sentences input by the input unit (140) or the voice input control module (122), wherein corresponding answer information is extracted from the database (121) in accordance with the learner input signal inputted through the input unit (140) or the data extracted from the voice input control module (122) and is outputted through the speaker (114).

4. The multi-learning incubator according to claim 3, wherein the virtual egg (200) is electrically connected to an interface connector of any one learner terminal such as a smartphone, a notebook PC, a tablet PC, or a general PC in which the multi-learning program is executed, to thus input and output data between the virtual egg (200) and the one learner terminal to thereby continuously train or teach the stored character in cooperation with the multi-learning incubator through the multi-learning program of the learner terminal.