Patent ID: 7201317
Filing Date: 2007-04-10
Classification: G06F,G09B

Abstract:
1. A system for illustrating sound and text comprising: a book having pages bound together between front and rear covers, said pages including indicia, at least some of said pages including a magnetic signature; a book holder accepting said book, said book holder having magnetic switches, a cartridge slot, a reading controller, a speaker, and a power supply; and a cartridge inserted in said cartridge slot, said cartridge including stored audio representations related to said indicia of said pages; wherein said magnetic switches are operated in response to the absence of said magnetic signature on said pages as they are turned by a user viewing said book, and wherein said reading controller interacts with said magnetic switches to determine a given page that said user is viewing responsive to said absence of detection between said magnetic switches and said magnetic signature on said given page, and to retrieve audio representations of said indicia stored on said cartridge corresponding to said page or pages being viewed by said user and to reproduce audible sounds relating to said retrieved audio representations of said indicia through said speaker for listening by said user.