JPH0428640Y2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] [Industrial field of application] This invention relates to a picture book that produces sounds using an integrated circuit for audio storage.

[Conventional technology and its problems]

Traditionally, picture books were most commonly in the form of booklets of several pages printed in color on cardboard with pictures of various animals and characters from fairy tales, and simple words and sentences, and were used for children's emotional education or intellectual development. It has been widely used since ancient times as a powerful means of communication, and its content has become extremely rich. In such picture books, if sounds, such as animal sounds or stories, are made to accompany the pictures, the interest and effectiveness of the books would be significantly improved. For this reason, techniques have been disclosed in Japanese Utility Model Application Publication No. 60-120865, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 57-181896, etc. in which sounds corresponding to pictures in picture books are emitted.

However, in all of the above prior art techniques, each picture book has only one audio storage/playback unit, and the switch of each page is connected to the unit through the bend of each page. Therefore, the circuit is easily damaged and becomes inoperable when pages are opened and closed. In particular, picture books are used by infants and toddlers, so they tend to be handled roughly. Furthermore, since the connections between each switch and the unit are not removable, it is not possible to replace each page.

By the way, today integrated circuits for voice storage have become very cheap.

In view of the above points, this idea is highly durable,
The object of the present invention is to provide a picture book with sounds that can be replaced with pages.

[Means to solve the problem]

In order to solve the above problems, in this invention, each page of the picture book is equipped with an audio storage/playback unit stored in the cardboard that corresponds to the picture drawn on that page, and each The structure is such that a switch is provided at an appropriate position on the page to be connected to the unit on the same page and to operate that unit.

[Effect]

In the picture book of this invention constructed as described above, when a switch is pressed, the unit is activated to emit a sound corresponding to the switch, that is, a sound corresponding to the picture.

If each page is replaceable (a so-called loose-leaf type), each page is replaced. At this time, since an audio storage/playback unit is provided for each page, the same page replacement function as in the prior art is sufficient.

Also, even if you open and close each page roughly,
Since there is no need to provide an electric circuit at the bent portion, there are fewer failures in the sound generation circuit.

〔Example〕

An embodiment of the picture book with sounds of this invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

_The sound picture book of the embodiment _shown in _{FIG .}
A sound storage/playback unit 1 is embedded in the flesh of the cardboard of each page of a picture book shown in FIG.
Each audio storage/playback unit 1 consists of an integrated circuit (IC) 12 assembled on a printed wiring board 11, a battery 13, a diaphragm 14, and ancillary circuits such as a starting circuit (not shown).
A picture of a lion I ₁ is inserted through the switch circuit wiring W ₁ and W ₂ embedded in the flesh of the cardboard of P ₁ and P _2.
and the touch switches S ₁ and S ₂ installed on the trunk of the elephant picture I ₂ , respectively. Of course, the switch circuit wiring may be printed wiring.
Furthermore, instead of the battery 13, a solar cell that can operate even with indoor lighting can be used as appropriate.
Each IC stores audio data corresponding to the picture on each page, and when touch switches S ₁ and S ₂ are pressed, the sound corresponding to each picture is reproduced from the diaphragm 14.

Note that the above embodiment has been explained using a picture book about animals as an example, but for picture books such as fairy tales and stories, it is possible to implement an embodiment in which audio such as a simple story corresponding to each page is output. , an embodiment that outputs music and sounds of vehicles such as trains and automobiles is also possible.

[Effect of idea]

This invention is constructed as described above and has an audio storage/reproduction unit for each page, so pages can be replaced and durability is improved.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

The figure is a perspective view of an embodiment of the picture book with sounds of this invention. 1...Voice storage/playback unit, _P1 , _P2 ...
Page, S ₁ , S ₂ ... Touch switch, W ₁ , W ₂ ...
...Switch circuit wiring.

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] Each page of the picture _book is provided with an audio storage/playback unit 1 stored in the cardboard corresponding to the picture I ₁ , I _{2 ,} etc. drawn on that page, and Each page P ₁ , P _{2 .} . . is provided with switches S ₁ , S ₂ . Picture book.