公开(公告)号：US06190174B1

公开(公告)日：2001-02-20

申请号：US09324679

申请日：1999-06-03

申请人： Chi-Ming Lam

发明人： Chi-Ming Lam

IPC分类号： G09B500

CPC分类号： A63H33/42 ,  A63H2200/00

摘要： An interactive toy employs a plurality of figures which are employed by the user to tell a story. The figures are selected and placed at selected locations on a story board or a book. The selection and placement results in the device telling the story by synthesized speech and other visual communications. The device is also configured in a compact case for carrying and storage.

摘要翻译： 互动式玩具采用用户使用的多个图形来讲故事。 这些数字被选中并放置在故事板或书上的选定位置。 选择和布局导致设备通过合成语音和其他视觉通信讲故事。 该设备还配置在紧凑的外壳中，用于承载和存储。

公开(公告)号：US06802717B2

公开(公告)日：2004-10-12

申请号：US10127995

申请日：2002-04-23

申请人： Felix Castro

发明人： Felix Castro

IPC分类号： G09B500

CPC分类号： G09B11/00 ,  G09B5/062

摘要： A method of teaching writing and the alphabet using an electronic teaching device like a laptop computer having a touch screen for displaying a selected letter, a video screen for displaying an exemplary object with a name using the letter, and a speaker for delivering selected audio messages in connection with the displays on the touch screen and the video screen, wherein the selected letter is displayed and identified, the sequential strokes in creating the letter are shown in broken lines with directional indicators on the touch screen and traced by the user, the completed strokes are shown in solid lines, a representative object is displayed, and audio instructions are given for the object with the pronunciation of the letter and the name of the object.

摘要翻译： 一种使用诸如具有用于显示所选择的字母的触摸屏的膝上型计算机的电子教学装置来教授书写和字母表的方法，用于使用该字母显示具有名称的示例性对象的视频屏幕以及用于递送所选音频消息的扬声器 与触摸屏上的显示器和视频屏幕相关联，其中显示和识别所选择的字母，创建字母的顺序笔画以虚线示出，其中方向指示器在触摸屏上并由用户跟踪，完成 笔画以实线显示，显示代表性对象，并给出具有字母和对象名称的对象的音频指令。

公开(公告)号：US06582235B1

公开(公告)日：2003-06-24

申请号：US09717578

申请日：2000-11-21

申请人： Tom Jen Tsai ,  Masahiko Wakita

发明人： Tom Jen Tsai ,  Masahiko Wakita

IPC分类号： G09B500

CPC分类号： G10H1/361 ,  G09B5/02 ,  G09B15/00 ,  G10H1/38 ,  G10H2220/011 ,  G10H2240/325

摘要： Display device displays a character string of lyrics and accompaniment information. Characters or unit words of the lyrics corresponding to a current performance position and a next performance position are displayed in different display styles, in accordance with progression of the performance. Pieces of the accompaniment information corresponding to the current performance position and the next performance position may be displayed in different display styles, in accordance with the progression of the performance. Thus, even when the characters or unit words of the lyrics corresponding to the current and next performance position are displayed in an overlapping condition, a user is allowed to readily distinguish between the overlapping characters or unit words.

摘要翻译： 显示设备显示歌词和伴奏信息的字符串。 根据演奏的进展，以不同的显示方式显示与当前演奏位置和下一个演奏位置对应的歌词的字符或单位词。 可以根据演奏的进展以不同的显示方式显示与当前演奏位置和下一个演奏位置相对应的伴奏信息的片段。 因此，即使当以重叠条件显示与当前和下一个演奏位置相对应的歌词的字符或单位词时，允许用户容易地区分重叠字符或单位字。

公开(公告)号：US06561812B1

公开(公告)日：2003-05-13

申请号：US09699797

申请日：2000-10-30

申请人： Christopher Paul Burmester ,  Mary E. Dietz ,  Michael Graves ,  Corinne Wayshak

发明人： Christopher Paul Burmester ,  Mary E. Dietz ,  Michael Graves ,  Corinne Wayshak

IPC分类号： G09B500

CPC分类号： G09B7/02 ,  G09B5/06

摘要： A method of generating a correlation between a plurality of sets of educational requirements and learning activities, and identifying the educational requirements to which a learning component of the learning activities is correlated. Teachers and authors accessing the correlating system are able to author and select learning components to be correlated to the plurality of educational requirements sets. An educational requirements set can be a set of state educational standards, a set of school district educational standards or a set of corporate training or certification requirements. The correlation of educational components to the grouping of educational requirements and of learning components to a set of educational components are generated and stored by a server, preferably accessible over the internet through the public switched telephone network. Using the correlation system of the present invention, teachers and authors have the ability to develop lesson plans which are correlated to standards within the plurality of sets of educational requirements.

摘要翻译： 一种在多组教育要求和学习活动之间产生相关性的方法，以及识别学习活动的学习组件与之相关的教育要求。 访问相关系统的教师和作者能够创作和选择与多个教育需求集相关的学习组件。 教育要求可以是一套国家教育标准，一套学区教育标准或一套企业培训或认证要求。 教育组件与将教育要求和学习组件分组到一组教育组件的相关性由服务器生成和存储，优选地通过互联网通过公共交换电话网络可访问。 使用本发明的相关系统，教师和作者有能力开发与多组教育要求中的标准相关的课程计划。

公开(公告)号：US06551104B2

公开(公告)日：2003-04-22

申请号：US09800429

申请日：2001-03-05

申请人： Russell Craig Becker

发明人： Russell Craig Becker

IPC分类号： G09B500

CPC分类号： G09B19/02

摘要： The present invention includes an apparatus and a method for teaching relationships between numbers and how to perform certain types of mathematical operations. The system includes a television channel selection device, such as a remote control device with a visual display. The user selects a channel to view, and is presented with a mathematical problem involving the channel number. When the problem is correctly solved, the television switches to the selected channel. If an incorrect solution is entered, the user is given further opportunities to solve the problem before being prompted to a solution. The degree of difficulty of the problems can be adaptively adjusted, depending upon the accuracy of the user's answers.

公开(公告)号：US06525706B1

公开(公告)日：2003-02-25

申请号：US09739508

申请日：2000-12-19

申请人： Steven Rehkemper ,  Dennis J. O'Patka

发明人： Steven Rehkemper ,  Dennis J. O'Patka

IPC分类号： G09B500

CPC分类号： G09B5/06 ,  Y10S345/901

摘要： The electronic picture book of the present invention includes a plurality of pages graphically depicting or telling a story. The book further includes an LCD screen and a speaker to provide a reader with animation sequences and sounds that relate to the graphical pictures on the pages. A set of buttons is provided to trigger the animation sequences and sounds. While reading the book, each page indicates a button to depress. The reader, depressing the correct button, is then provided with animation sequences and sounds indicative to the graphic representations on the page.

摘要翻译： 本发明的电子图书书包括以图形方式描绘或讲述故事的多个页面。 本书还包括一个LCD屏幕和一个扬声器，为读者提供与页面上的图形图片相关的动画序列和声音。 提供一组按钮来触发动画序列和声音。 阅读本书时，每页都会显示一个按钮。 然后，读者按下正确的按钮，提供指示页面上的图形表示的动画序列和声音。

公开(公告)号：US06482010B1

公开(公告)日：2002-11-19

申请号：US09107339

申请日：1998-06-30

申请人： Beth A. Marcus ,  Timothy Osborne ,  Bin An ,  Brian Eberman

发明人： Beth A. Marcus ,  Timothy Osborne ,  Bin An ,  Brian Eberman

IPC分类号： G09B500

CPC分类号： A63F13/285 ,  A63F13/06 ,  A63F13/08 ,  A63F2300/1037 ,  A63F2300/8029 ,  G05G1/06 ,  G05G9/047 ,  G05G2009/0474 ,  G06F3/011 ,  G06F3/016 ,  G06F2203/013 ,  G06F2203/015 ,  G09B9/04 ,  G09B9/28

摘要： Interactive simulation including force feedback. The system includes a computer game display unit programmed with simulation rules. A control unit is connected to the computer and provides information and control signals to the computer to interact with the stored simulation rules and to receive information and control signals from the computer. A movable structure for movement in at least two degrees-of-freedom by an operator is interconnected to the control unit by actuators. A programmable unit processes signals and information from the computer to generate signals to drive the actuators so as to apply forces in the at least two degrees-of-freedom to the movable structure and thereby to the operator. The applied forces are based on internal programming within the programmable unit, events occurring in the simulation and movements of and forces applied to the movable structure by the operator. The system of the invention thereby provides continuous interaction among motion of and forces applied by the movable structure, the events in the simulation and forces applied to and applied by the movable structure.

摘要翻译： 交互式仿真，包括力反馈。 该系统包括用模拟规则编程的计算机游戏显示单元。 控制单元连接到计算机，并向计算机提供信息和控制信号以与存储的模拟规则进行交互并从计算机接收信息和控制信号。 用于由操作者在至少两个自由度中移动的可移动结构通过致动器与控制单元相互连接。 可编程单元处理来自计算机的信号和信息以产生信号以驱动致动器，以便将至少两个自由度的力施加到可移动结构，从而对操作者施加力。 所施加的力基于可编程单元内的内部编程，在仿真中发生的事件以及由操作者施加到可移动结构的运动和力。 因此，本发明的系统提供了由可移动结构施加的运动和力之间的连续的相互作用，模拟中的事件和施加到可移动结构并施加的力。

公开(公告)号：US06341959B1

公开(公告)日：2002-01-29

申请号：US09535472

申请日：2000-03-23

申请人： Sayling Wen ,  Fred H. Y. Chen ,  Great W. H. He ,  Hope H. R. Gao

发明人： Sayling Wen ,  Fred H. Y. Chen ,  Great W. H. He ,  Hope H. R. Gao

IPC分类号： G09B500

CPC分类号： G09B7/02 ,  G09B19/06 ,  Y10S706/927

摘要： This specification discloses a method and system for learning a language. This invention takes the language data selected by a learner or a default test base as the learning content and improves the learner's language ability through tests about the learning content. The learner is allowed to arbitrarily update the language data stored in a learning database. The system according to the present invention contains a grammar analysis engine. This engine analyzes the grammar of the language data in the learning database according to the grammatical rules collected and stored in a language grammar database, converts the language data in the learning database into test problems according to the problem models stored in a problem model database, and finally performs language tests using the grammar analysis processor and provides the test results (such as error analysis and explanation). This provides a language learning system that allows a learner to provide or update learning data and generates test problems accordingly.

摘要翻译： 本说明书公开了一种用于学习语言的方法和系统。 本发明采用学习者或默认测试基础选择的语言数据作为学习内容，通过对学习内容的测试提高学习者的语言能力。 允许学习者随意更新存储在学习数据库中的语言数据。 根据本发明的系统包含语法分析引擎。 该引擎根据收集并存储在语言语法数据库中的语法规则分析学习数据库中语言数据的语法，根据存储在问题模型数据库中的问题模型将学习数据库中的语言数据转换为测试问题， 最后使用语法分析处理器进行语言测试，并提供测试结果（如错误分析和解释）。 这提供了一种语言学习系统，允许学习者提供或更新学习数据并相应地生成测试问题。

公开(公告)号：US06327459B2

公开(公告)日：2001-12-04

申请号：US09013329

申请日：1998-01-26

申请人： Peter M. Redford ,  Donald S. Stern

发明人： Peter M. Redford ,  Donald S. Stern

IPC分类号： G09B500

CPC分类号： G06F3/04886 ,  G06F3/0238 ,  G09B5/062 ,  H01H9/0235 ,  H01H2239/056

摘要： A remote control includes a base and an insert that is attached in a detachable manner to the base. The base includes a remote control circuit, a button coupled to operate the remote control circuit and a fastener capable of holding the insert. The insert includes a printed publication (such as a card, a sheet of paper or a booklet) containing at least one leaf having human-understandable content (such as text and/or graphics). To assemble the remote control, a user attaches the insert to the fastener, so that the human-understandable content is laid over the button. Thereafter, when the user operates the button (e.g. by touching the leaf), the base transmits a remote control signal that causes a host device to visually display information related to the human-understandable content at the touched location. A base in the form of a three ring binder gives the user an intuitive feel of simply touching human-understandable content on a leaf in the binder to view a display of information related to the content. In addition to the human-understandable content, the insert can carry a predetermined pattern that can be sensed by a sensor during mounting of the insert on the base. The base transmits, in the remote control signal, a number determined from the redetermined pattern thereby to indicate to the host device the insert currently in the base.

摘要翻译： 遥控器包括底座和以可拆卸的方式连接到底座的插入件。 基座包括遥控电路，耦合以操作遥控电路的按钮和能够保持插入件的紧固件。 插入物包括包含至少一个具有可人为理解的内容（例如文本和/或图形）的叶片的印刷出版物（例如卡片，纸张或小册子）。 为了组装遥控器，用户将插入件附接到紧固件，使得人可理解的内容放置在按钮上。 此后，当用户操作按钮（例如通过触摸叶片）时，基座发送远程控制信号，该远程控制信号使得主机设备在触摸的位置可视地显示与人可理解的内容有关的信息。 三环形活页夹形式的底座为使用者提供了一种直观的感觉，只需触摸装订器中叶子上的人类可理解的内容即可查看与内容相关的信息的显示。 除了人类可理解的内容之外，插入件可以承载预定图案，其可以在将插入件安装在基座上时由传感器感测到。 基站在远程控制信号中发送从重新确定的模式确定的数字，从而向主机设备指示当前在基站中的插入。

公开(公告)号：US06319010B1

公开(公告)日：2001-11-20

申请号：US09207440

申请日：1998-12-07

申请人： Dan Kikinis

发明人： Dan Kikinis

IPC分类号： G09B500

CPC分类号： H04L67/2823 ,  A63H3/48 ,  A63H30/04 ,  A63H2200/00 ,  G06F17/30905 ,  G09B5/065 ,  H04L29/06 ,  H04L67/2828 ,  H04L67/2833 ,  H04L67/2847 ,  H04L67/2852 ,  H04L67/303 ,  H04L67/42 ,  H04L69/08 ,  H04L69/329 ,  H04M1/72519 ,  H04M1/72561 ,  H04W64/00 ,  H04W80/04

摘要： An interactive system for teaching, entertaining, and habituating a child utilizes an interactive entity such as a doll, the doll having input and output elements and control circuitry adapted for driving the I/O elements, and a bi-directional communication link to a personal computer (PC). Scripted data stored at the computer directs doll activity and verbal articulation, and utilizes response from the child through the doll to the PC in directing output to the doll. The communication between the doll and the PC treats the doll as a peripheral device. In specific embodiments the interactive doll has servo-mechanisms for providing doll motion, such as eye and mouth and limb movement, which may be coordinated with verbalization in different scripts by commands retrieved at the computer and sent to the doll. In a preferred embodiment environments and applications are provided on CD-ROM disks which may also provide the operating application for the interactive doll system. Systems may be adapted for a broad range of functionality, such as acquaintance of a child with foreign languages, story telling, indirect interaction between an adult and a child through the medium of the doll, and much more.

摘要翻译： 用于教导，娱乐和习惯儿童的交互系统利用诸如娃娃的交互实体，具有输入和输出元素的娃娃和适于驱动I / O元件的控制电路，以及到个人的双向通信链接 电脑（PC）。 存储在计算机上的脚本数据指示娃娃活动和口头表达，并且将孩子通过娃娃的响应通过PC引导到玩偶的输出。 娃娃和PC之间的通信将娃娃视为外围设备。 在具体实施例中，交互式娃娃具有用于提供娃娃运动的伺服机构，例如眼睛和嘴巴和肢体运动，其可以通过在计算机处检索并发送给娃娃的命令在不同脚本中进行语言化协调。 在优选实施例中，环境和应用被提供在CD-ROM盘上，其还可以为交互式娃娃系统提供操作应用。 系统可以适应广泛的功能，例如通过娃娃的介质熟悉外国语言的孩子，故事讲述，成人和孩子之间的间接相互作用等等。