Sony Corporation

Tetsuzo Kano

Ryuji Suzuki

Akira Masuda

Isao Matsumoto

Tamihei Hiramatsu

Shigeki Wakatani

Taiji Kitami

Yoshiko Matsushita

Shigenori Nomura

A group education system including a first memory for storing an original sentence group, a second memory for storing a starting address, an end address of a sentence block of an original sentence group stored in the first memory, a control circuit for controlling the selection of a playback mode and the reading order of the sentence blocks of the original sentence group stored in the first memory and the change of the pause times thereof and a third memory for storing the reading order, the starting address, the end address and the altered pause times of the selected sentence block under the control of the control circuit. Accordingly, it becomes possible to form with ease a sentence group in which the playback mode and the reproducing order of the selected sentence block are selected and the pause times between the sentence blocks are changed.

Group education system

An educational apparatus, of the language laboratory type, includes a master control unit operated by the teacher and which is associated with a plurality of student terminal control units so that the teacher can monitor the student's responses and immediately answer any questions by the students. Each terminal control unit includes any information signal input for receiving an information signal, such as a question from a student, an information signal transmitting circuit adapted to receive the information signal from the respective input and to transmit the same to a monitoring device, such as a headphone set, at the master control unit and a call signal input for supplying a call signal, as when a student has a question, to the respective transmitting circuit and also to a respective indicating device, such as a light emitting diode, at the master control unit, for indicating that a student has a question. The master control unit includes an incoming call switch for making operative the respective transmitting circuit when a call signal is supplied thereto, whereby to pass the respective information signal through the operated transmitting circuit to the monitoring device of the master control unit. The educational apparatus also includes a mobile control unit for controlling the operation of the master control unit, in the same manner as described above, while the teacher walks among and observes the students.

Educational apparatus with automatic terminal identification

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Yokohama, Japan

Tetsuzo Kano