Patent ID: 6865367

Claim:
A voice book device, comprising: a voice book containing various pieces of information; and a book support comprising: a printed circuit board comprised of a storage unit for storing contents of the voice book in the form of digital voice data, an optical sensor unit for recognizing pages of the voice book, a decoder unit for receiving digital voice data stored in the storage unit and demodulating the digital voice data into analog voice signals, a voice output unit for receiving signals outputted from the decoder unit and outputting the signals, and a control unit operated in conjunction with the optical sensor unit to read digital voice data corresponding to desired pages of the voice book from the storage unit and to transmit the digital voice data to the decoder unit, and a housing including the printed circuit board; wherein each page of the voice book is comprised of a transparent part and a contents part; wherein an optical reflector is formed on the transparent part and one or more optical sensors are disposed in the book support, and the optical reflectors and the optical sensors are arranged in a one-to-one mapping relationship so that the pages of the voice book are automatically recognized by cooperation operation between the optical reflectors and the optical sensors.