CN1454376A

CN1454376A - An educational device

Info

Publication number: CN1454376A
Application number: CN00819653.2A
Authority: CN
Inventors: B·J·L·谭
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 2000-06-13
Filing date: 2000-06-13
Publication date: 2003-11-05
Anticipated expiration: 2020-06-13
Also published as: HK1062069A1; AU2000254379A1; WO2001097198A1; MY135740A; CN1279502C

Abstract

An educational device includes an output device and a remote input device coupled to the output device. The input device includes a character input device and the output device comprising a character output device. The output device is in the form of a toy.

Description

Educational facilities

Technical field

The present invention relates to a kind of educational facilities, in particular to the educational facilities that is used for the child.

Background technology

Children, particularly those are in the infant children in period, are rule, mode, composition by their world around of perception, understand their residing environment.This mode of learning is the inherent a kind of instincts of all children, and is not to be a kind of conscious behavior.Children are exactly in the middle of the language of saying around them, learn the rule of language.As long as can provide enough information effectively at a residing environment of children, he just can very natural learning by this way.Be born beginning, children receive the auditory language stimulation earlier to receive the visual language stimulation thereafter again.So children understand that earlier listening word then to understand reads again.

Therefore,, can consider to allow them accept language and social communicative competence as early as possible, allow them receive the stimulation of the sense of hearing and visual language simultaneously in order to allow child develop language ability as early as possible.

Traditional educational facilities all is to rely on the own operating equipment of user to reach the purpose that learns a language, and this needs operator itself that enough knowledge and ability are arranged.And for those children, because they lack enough knowledge and ability is come operating equipment effectively, such language learning equipment obviously is not suitable for.

Summary of the invention

According to the present invention, a kind of educational facilities comprises output unit and the remote entry unit that is coupled with described output unit, and described input media comprises character entry apparatus, and described output unit comprises the character output unit.

Preferably, described character output unit comprises sound generating apparatus, such as loudspeaker.

Be typically, described character output unit comprises display device.Except character, described display device also can be used for display graphics.For example, shown figure can be with the corresponding figure of character or form a series of characters of word.Be typically, can be from memory search to this figure, described memory bit is coupled in described input media or output unit or with the described device that inputs or outputs.

Preferably, described character output unit comprises sound generating apparatus and display device, and described display device shows the character by described sound generating apparatus output simultaneously.

Preferably described character entry apparatus can comprise literal and digital or other characters, keyboard.Yet the language input media can comprise any other proper device, and such as touch-screen, it allows by on this screen alphanumeric or other characters being write input media.For example, other characters can not be based on the language of the Latin alphabet, such as, can be Russian, Arabic, Chinese or Japanese.

Be typically, described input media can be coupled with output unit by the electric wire connection, also can be suitable wireless connections.

Preferably described output unit is the form of toy for children.Be typically, described toy can be the form of robot, also can comprise for example in response to the part that moves by the order of input media input.

Be typically, described input media can comprise that microphone is to allow oral input character.

Description of drawings

With reference to accompanying drawing, the embodiment according to educational facilities of the present invention is described, wherein:

Fig. 1 is the synoptic diagram of input media.

Fig. 2 is the front elevation of the Educational toy that is coupled of the input media with Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is the block scheme of input media shown in Figure 1.

Fig. 4 is the block scheme of Educational toy shown in Figure 2;

Fig. 5 is the process flow diagram of Fig. 1 language manipulation when linking to each other with the Educational toy shown in 4 with Fig. 2 with the input media shown in 3.

Embodiment

Fig. 1 illustrates input media 1, and it comprises conventional keyboard 2 with the form of portable or above-knee device, and this keyboard has numeral, letter, punctuation mark (for example comma, fullstop, branch), and editing key.Device 1 also comprises one 50 character back projection type LCD display 3, and this display can show the character with keyboard 2 inputs.In addition, also be provided with a cover control knob 4, switch 5, the shift knob 6 of control display 3 rear-projection lamps, and the respective display (see figure 2) on the Educational toy 10, the toggle switch 7 and the microphone 8 of conversion between automatic mode and voice termination.Input media 1 is coupled by lead 9 and Educational toy 10.On the other hand, can connect with toy 10 by any traditional wireless mode.

Toy 10 can be designed to the appearance of popular at present robot, the both arms 12 that can independently move that there is health 11 in this robot and links to each other with health 11, and arm 12 just can move up and down like this.Health 11 comprises 13, two loudspeakers 14 of back projection type (backlit) LCD display, 15, two signal lamps made from light emitting diode 16 of volume control.In addition, body 11 also comprises the battery compartment (not shown) that is used to place to Educational toy 10 supplying cells.The battery here can be general battery, can be TunePower.Except that using powered battery, toy apparatus 10 also can link to each other with external power, such as, supply socket.

Fig. 3 is the synoptic diagram of input media 1 and parts shown in Figure 1, and input media 1 also comprises microprocessor 20, lcd driver 21, ROM (read-only memory) (ROM) 22 and random-access memory (ram) 23.All keys shown in Figure 1 and

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2,4,5,6,7 are unified with label 24 expressions in Fig. 3.ROM22 stores a dictionary and is used for spell check.When by keyboard 2 inputs one character, processor 20 instruction lcd drivers 21 show this character on display 3.In addition, processor 20 also contrasts the dictionary that is stored among the ROM22, checks each word with keyboard 2 inputs.This spell check was carried out before operator's " carriage return " input of character string, and " carriage return " can make the character string of input be sent to toy microprocessor 20.Fig. 4 illustrates the schematic block diagram of Educational toy 10.Toy 10 comprises microprocessor 30, by line 9, receives the instruction from input media 1.This microprocessor 30 also links to each other with the lcd driver 31 that drives LCD display 13, the audio drivers 32 that drives loudspeaker 14, random-access memory (ram) 33 and ROM (read-only memory) (ROM) 34.ROM34 comprises text-speech conversion software, and when toggle switch 7 placed automatic mode, this software allowed the text-converted of input media 1 input is become voice signal.Show that on LCD display 13 loudspeaker 14 will be read out this character string by right pronunciation in the character string of being imported.Also having a kind of software among the ROM34 is used in the loudspeaker pronunciation character string that shows on the display 13 being shown with " high-lightness ".

Microphone 8 directly links to each other with loudspeaker 14 by line 9, and when switch 7 placed " voice termination " pattern, microphone function just was activated.Under this pattern, text-speech conversion software, and " high-lightness " software is with inoperative.

In addition, the signal that microprocessor 30 receives from control knob 4, and respond this signal, control motor (not shown) makes toy 10 advance to different directions, and mobile arm 12.

In concrete the use, user such as, teacher perhaps wants to teach child to use other adults of toy 1 as long as open shift knob 39 on the input media 1, just can start Educational toy 2.When input media 1 started with toy 2, the microprocessor 20 on the input media 1 will remind the operator to import data 40 by display device 3.So the operator can pass through keyboard 2 input characters 41.When the user uses keyboard 2 input characters 41, on LCD display device 3, show the character of being imported.This character that makes the user to check to be imported to be guaranteeing that they are correct, and can carry out any modification.In addition, microprocessor 20 is checked the spelling of all words with reference to the dictionary that is stored among the ROM22.

After the user checked that character that affirmation imports is accurate, the user pressed " carriage return " key, allows processor that character string is sent to toy 10 by lead 9.Processor 30 receives the character string from input media 1, and shows on display 13 by lcd driver 31.Simultaneously, processor 30 is used in the text-voice software among the ROM34, will become voice command from the character conversion that input media 1 receives, and send to audio drivers 32, with driving loudspeaker 14, thereby in the time of display 13 character display, loudspeaker 14 is read out shown character.

When being in when touching formula automatically, if word can be formed in character, the sound that is sent by loudspeaker 14 will be the pronunciation of word.Otherwise the sound that is sent is corresponding sound pronunciation.In addition, when when loudspeaker 14 output characters, processor 30 is stored in high-lightness software for display among the ROM34 with operation, and high-lightness shows the character that pronounced simultaneously on display 13.

Except that automatic mode, the user can select " voice termination " pattern by switch 7.This makes that text-speech conversion function is inoperative, and the user can directly read out in the character string that shows on the display 13 facing to microphone 8.Voice signal will directly be sent to loudspeaker 14 by lead 9, and by loudspeaker 14 outputs.In addition, the high-lightness software for display in ROM34 is also inoperative.

In addition, the user can control the activity of Educational toy 10 by control knob 4, for example, moves up and down arm 12; Make the LED16 flicker; And if Educational toy 10 is equipped with powder operation device (such as wheel), can allow the toy all around, along rotating counterclockwise.

Except character display, display device 13 also can be used for the display graphics image.Be typically, ROM34 also can comprise picture library (graphics library), and processor 30 can send to the corresponding graph image of word of processor from the ROM34 retrieval and by input media, and shows this graph image on display device 13.

An advantage of the invention is: the user can utilize Educational toy 10 and student, such as, the child carries out interaction, and makes 10 couples of students' of Educational toy reaction make suitable response.In addition, when the student pronounces, can help the student that concrete pronunciation and concrete font are connected by these words, read and language ability thereby improve by on display 13, showing.

In addition, the student does not need oneself this equipment of operation, and therefore, the present invention is to child and those hand skills incomplete development or operate the inconvenient student's particularly suitable of this equipment also.

By user's remote control, the present invention can realize toy 10 and student's interaction in a plurality of reality scenes.A benefit of doing like this is that reality scene can be determined in real time by toy and student, and be not to preestablish.

This device also can be used as student's virtual playfellow and/or animation puppet, allows the relation between active development student and the toy, and development robot toy's personalization.Therefore, help to cultivate student's imagination.

Claims

1. educational facilities, it is characterized in that, comprise output unit and the remote entry unit that is coupled with described output unit, described input media comprises character entry apparatus, and described output unit comprises the character output unit, described character output unit output is at the character of input media place input, and wherein said output unit is the toy form.

2. educational facilities according to claim 1 is characterized in that, when described character output unit comprises sound generating apparatus, for example a loudspeaker.

3. educational facilities according to claim 2 is characterized in that, described character output unit also comprises the display device that shows simultaneously by this character output of sound generating apparatus.

4. educational facilities according to claim 3 is characterized in that, but described display device display graphics image.

5. according to the described educational facilities of above-mentioned arbitrary claim, it is characterized in that described character entry apparatus comprises keyboard.

6. according to the described educational facilities of above-mentioned arbitrary claim, it is characterized in that described character entry apparatus comprises touch-screen.

7. according to the described educational facilities of above-mentioned arbitrary claim, it is characterized in that described toy is the image with robot.

8. according to the described educational facilities of above-mentioned arbitrary claim, it is characterized in that described input media comprises microphone.

9. the method that the described educational facilities of arbitrary claim is educated the student in utilization such as the claim 1 to 8, it is characterized in that, described method comprises the position that described output unit is placed on close student, by described character entry apparatus input character and by described character output unit output, thereby received by the student.