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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 20, 2004
Filed:
Apr. 25, 2000
Jin K. Song, Bedford, TX (US);
PIL, L.L.C., Lincolnwood, IL (US);
Abstract
A method and system ( ) for illustrating sound and text comprising a book ( ) with pages ( ) including illustrations and/or text, wherein at least some of the pages ( ) include magnetic signatures ( ). The system further includes a book holder ( ) adapted to accept the book ( ). As such, the book holder ( ) has a reading surface ( ) with a magnetic signature sensor ( ), a cartridge slot ( ), a reading controller ( ), a speaker ( ), and a power supply ( ). The system also comprises a cartridge ( ) adapted to be inserted in the cartridge slot ( ). The cartridge ( ) includes stored audio representations related to the illustrations and/or text of the pages ( ). The magnetic signature sensor ( ) is predisposed to detect the magnetic signatures ( ) on the pages ( ) as they are turned by a user viewing the book ( ). Furthermore, the reading controller ( ) is adapted to interact with the magnetic signature sensor ( ) to determine what page or pages ( ) the user is viewing and to retrieve the audio representations of the illustrations and/or text stored on the cartridge ( ) corresponding to the page or pages ( ) being viewed by the user. Thus, the reading controller ( ) reproduces the audible sounds related to the retrieved audio representations through the speaker ( ) for listening by the user.