Voice book device

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2005-03-08

2005-03-08

Cheng, Joe H. (Department: 3713)

Education and demonstration

Audio recording and visual means

Visual information in book form

C434S308000, C040S455000, C345S901000

Reexamination Certificate

active

06865367

ABSTRACT:
Disclosed herein is a voice book device. The voice book device includes voice book and a book support. The voice book contains various pieces of information. The book support includes a printed circuit board and a housing. The printed circuit board has a storage unit, an optical sensor unit, a decoder unit, a voice output unit, and a control unit. The housing includes the printed circuit board. Each page of the voice book consists of a transparent part and a contents part. An optical reflector is formed on the transparent part and one or more optical sensors are disposed in the book support, and the optical reflectors and the optical sensors are arranged in a one-to-one mapping relationship so that the pages of the voice book are automatically recognized by cooperation operation between the optical reflectors and the optical sensors.

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