Patents by Inventor Victor Kwok-ho Ng

Victor Kwok-ho Ng has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Educational devices, systems and methods using optical character recognition
    Patent number: 7351062
    Abstract: Educational devices, educational systems, and methods of teaching and learning reading are provided. The devices, systems, and methods can include an indicium reader, such as an optical character recognition device, for reading indicium from objects. Such objects can be three-dimensional blocks and the indicium can be a letter, word, sentence, number, or some other type of readable character(s). The devices, systems, and methods can include a display for displaying the read indicium and an audio producing device for producing audio corresponding to the read indicium. The educational devices can be a self-contained, portable unit with the indicium reader, the display, and the audio producing device supported by a housing of the educational devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2008
    Assignee: Learning Resources, Inc.
    Inventors: Gayle E. Gordon, Victor Kwok-ho Ng, Barbara E. Plain, Po Man Yuen