Education and demonstration – Language – Spelling – phonics – word recognition – or sentence formation
Patent
1996-02-27
1998-05-05
Apley, Richard J.
Education and demonstration
Language
Spelling, phonics, word recognition, or sentence formation
434307R, 434320, 434322, 434351, 434393, 446298, 369 31, 369 63, G09B 500, G09B 300, A63H 328, G11B 1722
Patent
active
057466025
ABSTRACT:
An interactive system for teaching, entertaining, and habituating a child utilizes an interactive entity such as a doll, the doll having a microphone, a speaker, and control circuitry adapted for driving the speaker and microphone and a bidirectional 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. In alternative embodiments the interactive doll has also 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.
REFERENCES:
patent: 5029214 (1991-07-01), Hollander
patent: 5493185 (1996-02-01), Mohr et al.
patent: 5636994 (1997-06-01), Tong
Apley Richard J.
Boys Donald R.
Rovnak John
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