Patent ID: 6966779

Claim:
An educational audio/visual clock comprising: a) means for displaying the current time comprising an analog clock face having a front side and a rear side, numeric hour indicia on said front side of said clock face, a minute hand, an hour hand substantially shorter than said minute hand, a protective lens spaced apart from and covering said front side of said clock face and means for setting the time; b) means for visually displaying different images at pre-determined intervals as indicated by said time displaying means; c) means for playing an audio clip specific to the corresponding image that is displayed by said visual display means; d) means for coordinating each audio clip with a corresponding image; e) a power source; and f) said means for displaying images comprising: i) an image window adjacent each said numeric hour indicia; ii) an image plate rotatively positioned immediately behind said rear side of said clock face; iii) a first set of images on said image plate facing said clock face, each said image aligned with a corresponding image window, in a first position of said image plate; iv) a second set of images on said image plate adjacent to first set of images with each image of said second set of images arranged to align with a corresponding image window when said image plate is rotated by a predetermined amount to a second position of said image plate; v) means for selectively rotating said image plate back and forth between first and second positions to alternately align said first set of images with their respective image windows during AM hours and then align said second set of images with their respective image windows during PM hours, and continuously repeating the cycle; and vi) a plurality of light emitting diodes (LED) mounted behind said image plate with each LED positioned in alignment with an image window.