Music – Instruments – Electrical musical tone generation
Patent
1994-08-24
1996-10-29
Witkowski, Stanley J.
Music
Instruments
Electrical musical tone generation
434169, 446397, G09B 500, G10H 100, G10H 500
Patent
active
055698689
ABSTRACT:
A plurality of sensors, including transmitters and receivers, are positioned at various sections of a book for triggering sound generation. In an embodiment of the invention the sensor is a capacitive sensor wherein the transmitter and receiver are capacitive plates allowing electrical signals to be capacitively coupled therebetween when the book pages are in a closed position. The strobing or scanning of the plurality of sensors allows the book, under computer control, to determine the page to which the book is opened and accordingly trigger particularized sounds relating to the appropriate talking section.
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The My Talking Storybook Library, Copyright 1990 Golden Sound Story, The Walt Disney Company, 1991.
Tiger Electronics, Inc.
Witkowski Stanley J.
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