Data processing: speech signal processing – linguistics – language – Speech signal processing – Application
Patent
1997-01-09
1998-06-30
Hudspeth, David R.
Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language
Speech signal processing
Application
381110, 40455, 369 19, G10L 906, G09F 2700
Patent
active
057748616
ABSTRACT:
A mirror and light box assembly installable in a crib or other enclosure occupied by an infant. The assembly which is interactive with the infant includes a light box on whose front face is mounted a semi-reflective mirror behind which is a film transparency having a photographic image of the infant's mother. When an electric light bulb in the box is energized to illuminate the transparency, the image of the mother becomes visible to the infant through the then effectively transparent mirror. Associated with the light box is a sound-activated switching device connected between the bulb and a power source. The switching device, when activated by crying sounds emanating from the infant, remains activated for a predetermined period to energize the bulb and illuminate the transparency. Also associated with the light box is a record playback unit having stored therein a voice message recorded by the mother addressed to her infant, the unit being rendered operative only when the bulb is energized. Hence when the infant cries, it is then presented with an image of its mother as it hears her comforting message, as a consequence of which the infant is induced to stop crying.
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Ebert Michael
Hudspeth David R.
Smits Talivaldis Ivars
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