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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 26, 1995
Filed:
Aug. 11, 1994
Zeb Billings, Hartland, WI (US);
Harold D Pierce, Woodland Hills, CA (US);
Martin R Moore, Sr, Cedarburg, WI (US);
Western Publishing Co., Inc., Racine, WI (US);
Abstract
An audio-visual book includes a plurality of pages and a text portion on the plurality of pages. The text portion includes, on each of at least two of the pages, both a plurality of lines of text and a plurality of different predetermined graphic depictions related in concept to the subject matter of the text and interposed within the lines of text. A switching mechanism is disposed in predetermined relationship to the text portion and includes a plurality of individually actuable elements, each of the switches being associated with one of the graphic depictions. A digital sound generator, responsive to actuation of one of the switches, is provided for selectively effecting generation of a sound associated with the subject of the depiction associated with the one switch.