Patent ID: 9569977
Date: 2017-02-14
CPC Classifications: G06T,G09B

Claim:
1. A responsive book system comprising: a book comprising a binding and a plurality of detectable pages and a detecting system for detecting a current page from the plurality of detectable pages of said book, said detecting system including distinctive zones on the cross-sectional area of said book, each distinctive zone uniquely associated with one of said plurality of detectable pages, and including a detectable mark on each of said plurality of pages, each of said detectable marks located in said distinctive zone thereof, for providing said association, each detectable mark including a first magnet; a storage in the book, for storing content associated with each of said detectable pages, the content of the plurality of detectable pages combining together to form a combined story of the book; a plurality of remote responders, for playing the content associated with said current page, wherein each of said remote responders comprises a doll having a receiver embedded therein and having a processing unit with access to the storage, the content including audio associated with the current page and movement, if any, of the plurality of dolls accompanying the audio; and the detecting system in the book also having an array of sensors at locations in one of (i) the binding or (ii) a book cover, uniquely associated with a current page for detecting the detectable marks and for sensing changes in a magnitude of an electromagnetic field as said current page is turned by a user, the magnitude of the electromagnetic field as the current page is turned being proportionate to a distance between (i) a sensor, of the array of sensors, uniquely associated with the current page and (ii) a first magnet located in the distinctive zone uniquely associated with said current page, so as to identify a particular page of the book as the current page, wherein each page of the plurality of detectable pages includes a top and bottom surface configured to present the contents of the book in words and/or pictures, each of the top and bottom surfaces having a surface area, wherein the detectable marks are embedded within the plurality of detectable pages, and wherein the detecting system is embedded within the plurality of detectable pages and at least one of the cover page and binding, such that incorporation of the detecting system into the book does not interrupt the surface area of any page of the plurality of detectable pages and does not extend the surface area of any page of the plurality outward away from the binding; the book also having at least one transmitter configured to transmit to said plurality of dolls a plurality of signals providing information from the storage including a first signal to the first doll concerning said current page and including a separate and independent second signal to the second doll concerning said current page; and each of said one or more receivers configured to receive said separate first or second respective signal of the plurality of signals, the processing unit of each particular doll of the plurality of dolls for selecting the response of the particular doll to the current page, wherein the responsive book system is configured to allow a user to turn current pages of the book and thereby hear the plurality of dolls play contents of the current pages by using a single source of content from the storage to simultaneously provide a plurality of separate and independent signals of the plurality of signals respectively to the plurality of dolls wherein a content played by the first doll is not determined from a content played by the second doll or from an identity of the second doll.