Abstract: The invention concerns a dummy device for patient-assisted medication with medical and/or pharmaceutical and/or food supplement products for a patient. The dummy device includes a pictorial representation, true to the original, of at least one real package detail containing the actual products. The dummy device is constructed and designed for interactive communication by at least one handling element. The invention further concerns a system using a dummy device and a method for patient-assisted control of medication with medical and/or pharmaceutical and/or food supplement products for a patient.

Abstract: A presentation component (118) presents information from one or more data source(s) (102) to an assessor for assessment. A receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analyzer 120 uses an ROC analysis technique to evaluate the performance of the assessor. A feedback component (126) provides feedback as to the assessor's performance. A data manipulator (114) facilitates manipulation of the presented data.

Abstract: A showcasing system. The system includes a display board and a silhouetted 3D aesthetic component. The 3D aesthetic component includes (i) an unitary blank movable into a silhouetted 3D aesthetic surface, the 3D aesthetic component being attached to the display board and (ii) a plurality of die cutouts spaced along the longitudinal axis of the blank.

Abstract: An instructional aid comprises a mat shaped like a letter “U” and suitable, e.g., for placement on a floor. Pairs of cards may be provided for use with the mat. For example, one set may relate to “fruit,” and two cards in the set may bear matching pictures of apples, another pair may bear matching pictures of bananas, etc. The mat may comprise spaces, e.g., for placing such cards, and in one embodiment, the spaces may be clear pockets, corresponding to the size of the cards. Some embodiments of the invention may encourage, e.g., active play between a caregiver and a preschool-age child, stimulating, e.g., social interaction and development of the child's ability to speak and understand. Examples of such active play may include matching games, but are not limited to such games.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a portable LED interactive learning device for generating a series of displays to underage kids and method thereof. The portable LED interactive learning device in the present invention includes a motion detecting device, a tilt detecting device, a micro processer, and a LED set. The portable LED interactive learning device can detect the user's motion and demonstrate a corresponding figure on the LED set. The user can further select the function of playing game or drawing chart based on the memory capacity of the present invention. By using LED display system, the present invention can provide a comparable lower price device for kid's learning development.

Abstract: The invention provides a personal training system that delivers the benefits of personal training while overcoming the drawbacks cited above. The invention enables at least one trainee and at least one trainer to interact at mutually convenient times, and in a way that preserves the personal component of the training interaction. In that manner, the invention makes it possible for a trainer to deliver personal, interactive communication, personal support and timely motivation to a trainee. Thus the invention preserves the components of personal training that characterize successful personal training regimens, without imposing the inconveniences, expense and other drawbacks associated with on-site personal training approaches.

Abstract: In accordance with a number of embodiments, this document presents an innovative system and method which may be used to input data relating to any number of historical or scientific subjects, store the data in a collaborative format, and output data in any number of static or animated formats [FIG. 2]. In various embodiments, this method may provide a revolutionary means for encoding the entire history of the earth, encoding the entire history of human cultures, and for ensuring that all input data adhere to a universal data format. It provides and specifies a number of innovative and collaborative protocols for input [FIG. 3], storage [FIG. 4], classification [FIGS. 5A-5V], sorting [FIG. 6A], filtering [FIG. 6B], verifying [FIG. 6C], compiling [FIG. 8], updating [FIG. 9], customizing [FIG. 11], and publishing data [FIG. 12]. It may also provide a means for creating a revolutionary format of global historical collaborative animated map [FIGS 10A-10V, FIGS. 11A-11E].

Abstract: A method, device, and kit that utilizes tabletop education displays to allow parents and educators to expose the basic fundamentals of Education to subjects throughout the early developmental stages of learning; then, building on the basics, exposes the subject to more complex ideas. It also has the advantage of being customized in the final stage to the interest or strength of a subject. This provides the parents or educator the ability to challenge and develop the subject in its area of interest.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a realistic service and system using a five senses integrated interface, and more particularly, to an apparatus and method for encoding the five senses and a system and method for providing realistic service using a five senses integrated interface, to allow a user to select a product to sensorially experience through an integrated interface in a remote location, which includes a integration recognizer detecting data selected by the user and recognizing an object, and transmitting five senses data of the object through a network, a five senses data analyzer receiving a five senses data packet including the five senses data of the object through the network, and extracting and analyzing the five senses data packet in terms of data on each of the five senses, and a five senses integration representer representing five senses using the data on each of the five senses.

Abstract: A training device for nasal hygiene comprises a facial tissue sheet; where the facial tissue sheet has a first side, and where the facial tissue sheet also has a second side having an opposing planar relationship to the first side. A first-side tissue graphic is visible on the first side of the facial tissue sheet. The first-side tissue graphic comprises a permanent graphic and/or an active graphic. In addition, the first-side tissue graphic is a training mark.

Abstract: An educational device having a two-dimensional setting having a smooth surface and at least one three-dimensional manipulative figure and/or object comprising a front side that is 3-dimensional in shape, a backside that is releasably adhereable to said setting. The manipulative can be posable into a desired configuration and can include an internal wire or wires embedded within the manipulative to help make the item posable and able to retain the posed configuration.

Abstract: A glare reducing lens is demonstrated by a holder with a half-mirrored plate and a graphic image mounted on the holder at an angle to the plate. The plate has another graphic image positioned behind it and visible through the plate. The holder is adapted for movement on the base over a range of positions for convenient viewing by tall and short persons. Such positioning of the holder is controlled by mechanical interconnecting surfaces. The viewer sees the graphic image transmitted through the mirrored plate as well as a superimposed image reflected onto the mirrored plate from the separate graphic image. When a viewer does not use a glare reducing lens, the two images visually interfere with each other, while by viewing through a lens the reflected image is eliminated leaving the directly viewed graphic image sharp and clear.

Abstract: The present invention provides an instructional exercise mat system comprising a mat having instructional indicia for performing at least one group of exercises, the mat including at least one visual display comprising a plurality of illustrations, selected ones of which represent an individual performing at least one of the exercises in the group. The at least one visual display is positioned on a surface of the instructional exercise mat, the system providing all of the information needed by an individual to perform the group(s) of exercises so as to complete at least one exercise routine without the need for additional instruction. Consistent with the present invention, one embodiment may utilize a plurality of such visual displays, and another embodiment may utilize both sides of the mat wherein each side includes one or more such displays. A method and center for performing the method are also provided.

Abstract: A desktop teaching aid which has a body having a top surface and an opposite bottom surface, the bottom surface comprising a magnetic material for securing the body to a desk, the body defining a frame around an aperture, educational information represented on the top surface of the body, and a replaceable name tag positioned within the aperture of the body.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to assign line break numbers to locations where line breaks have been made in order to separate a series of figures configured by connecting a number of figures into parts in a manner which makes it easy for a user to view a drawing including the series of figures, or a series of figures. In response to a line break operation for separating a series of figures configured by connecting a plurality of figures into parts, line break numbers displayed at line break locations are sorted based on a positional relationship of the line break locations. The series of figures with the sorted line break numbers assigned to the line break locations is displayed after performing the line break operation. The line numbers are therefore assigned in a consecutive manner for each series of figures.

Abstract: A ultra light presentation display case is a slim, lightweight portable case that can be easily carried to the site of a presentation. The case easily folds open to provide a multi surfaced, free standing exhibit display. The display case comprises three lightweight, rigid structural panels, each panel encapsulated by a rigid frame, the three panels hinged together, allowing the two outer panels to be folded towards the center panel, and a handle fixedly secured to the top of the center structural panel. Each of the panels is made from a rigid, lightweight polystyrene foam core. The front surface of the panels is covered with a Velcro® compatible loop material. The rear surface of the panels is covered with a thermoplastic polymer that is heated and formed to create a corrugated pattern providing both structural integrity and an embossed area wherein a logo or other advertising can be affixed.

Abstract: A deformable drawing tablet in which contiguous longitudinal edge portions of a stack of individual elongate strips which are confined for relative sliding movement to form a drawing surface. A user can shift individual strips longitudinally to deform the drawing surface thereby distorting an image drawn or preprinted on the drawing surface. Longitudinal end portions of the strips form a lateral edge of the tablet so that the lateral edge can be formed into profiles of different characters by shifting the strips longitudinally to different relative positions. An edge forming die includes a stencil for drawing character features. The strips are clamped in a coplanar stack by a transverse locating post, extending through slots in the strips and secured at opposite ends to a cap and a base which house an eraser and a drawing implement, respectively.

Abstract: A method of simulating the effects of one or more explosive events utilizes a mapping of graphically-valued dots to describe the explosive event at detonation at a plurality of (x,y) positions. A degradation rule is applied to the mapping of dots at each of times tn, for n=1 to N, to yield corresponding mappings of degraded value dots. The degradation rule specifies how the mapping of dots at detonation changes with time. The mapping at detonation and mappings of the degraded value dots are then simultaneously displayed in (x,y) registration with one another.

Abstract: An apparatus and method of generating acrostic mnemonic devices from finite data sets of customized areas of specific interest provided by the user to assist in improving the memory of the user. The apparatus provides a personalized mnemonic generating program embodied on a computer-readable medium for improving a users' memory of finite data sets based on the user's customized areas of interest to generate easy “to-be-remembered” acrostic mnemonic devices in the form of meaningful grammatically correct sentences. The method generates acrostic mnemonic devices from finite data sets whereby customized areas of specific interest are provided by the user to assist in improving the memory of the user which is executed by a computing device.

Abstract: Child/infant play and entertainment devices including electronic displays provide applications of display technology to the child/infant toy and entertainment industry. Flexible displays are used in infant items that require safety measures such as no sharp corners, hard structures or breakable parts. Battery powered devices provide portability and convenience and remote programming connections are be employed to provide wired or wireless reprogramming of the appearance and/or behavior of a child/infant play or entertainment device. Sound features may also be incorporated in synchrony with the visual display for further enhancing the play or entertainment experience.

Abstract: An image generating apparatus includes a pigment sheet having an array of translucent pigment clusters, each pigment cluster being formed of a number of pigment regions, each pigment region containing an individual pigment differing in radiated color from that of a pigment in another pigment region within the pigment cluster; an image display board perforated by an array of light transmission member wells and positioned above the pigment sheet so that the member wells are located over and substantially register with a corresponding pigment cluster; a number of translucent light transmission members, each light transmission member being mounted within one of the member wells so that each light transmission member is movable within its corresponding member well relative to the pigment sheet to any one of various light transmission member positions to selectively receive a selected radiated color from one of the pigment regions; and at least one artificial light source mounted below the pigment sheet.

Abstract: A method, program and system aligns students and teachers according to dominant learning and teaching styles. The invention creates a menu of learning styles, and a second menu of teaching styles. Students are then tested using each learning style contained in the first menu, and the test scores are entered into a student database. Teachers are also tested using each teaching style contained in the second menu, and a database is then created for the teacher test scores. Using the student and teacher test scores, the system calculates a best-fit match between students and teachers according to corresponding learning and teaching styles.

Abstract: A system and method for internet-based cognitive performance measurement is provided. Furthermore, a method is provided whereby improvements in statistical accuracy is obtained.

Abstract: Alertness level is predicted on computers or sliding charts by relationship of sleep drives and wake drives, which are separately moved relative to destination time and time zone differential. Wake drives are moved with home time. Sleep drive is moved with bedtime and sleep debt relative to times and a sleep debt scale, respectively. Resulting displays predict alertness, drowsiness, wake drives in relation to sleep drives, best bedtime, sleep debt and illumination recommendations.

Abstract: The invention provides a method and system for entry and editing of multimedia objects for communication and presentation, associating multimedia objects with received sequences of keystroke or mouse action abbreviations. When an abbreviation is detected, the abbreviation is replaced with the associated multimedia object. Each multimedia object has editable properties, and each set of multimedia objects can be collected into an ensemble, which itself can have editable properties. One such ensemble property is a “theme,” which presents a variant of each multimedia object consistent with the theme.

Abstract: The present invention is a photodisplaying crib bumper which is positioned in the interior walls of a crib and allows such things, as, photographs and drawings to be removably displayed therein.

Abstract: A moisture actuated imaging device comprising a base sheet having a latent image provided on the surface of the sheet, a water soluble colorant material adapted to expose the latent image and an attractant for inducing a pet animal to lick the base sheet whereby the water soluble colorant is caused to render the latent image visible.

Abstract: An educational system is disclosed for educating learners by having them perform self-directed activities. The preferred system includes a set of distinct pictorial symbols and a training program that trains the learners to associate each of the pictorial symbols with a specific instruction. The system further includes a plurality of activity sheets that each have instructional indicia comprising a plurality of the pictorial symbols arranged to instruct the learners to perform one of the activities. The activity sheets are arranged in sets so that the learners perform a series of activities related in educational content when presented with each set. An educational method is also disclosed. The preferred educational method involves training the learners to associate each of the pictorial symbols with the corresponding instruction, using a plurality of the symbols to instruct the learners to perform the desired educational activity, and having the learners perform the that activity.

Abstract: An apparatus for educational and/or recreational learning provides a means for stimulus or query to test skill and knowledge, generate a response to the stimulus or query, and rewards correct responses to reinforce learning. The educational and/or recreational apparatus has at least one housing containing at least one compartment. The housing has a modular exterior surface appropriate for joining with other housings. Each compartment in each housing is associated with a first opening on a surface of the housing. At the first opening of each compartment is a removable cover. Each removable cover at each compartment is placed at each first opening to selectively expose and conceal an interior of each compartment. The educational and/or recreational apparatus further has at least one display device such as a shelf or a transparent pocket to display member or information card.

Abstract: A magnetic writing device including a magnetically responsive writing tablet operatively connected to an automated output is disclosed. In one embodiment, the automated output is a sound produced as the user presses on the magnetic writing tablet. The writing tablet may be rotatably supported within a housing such that as a user presses on the writing tablet with a magnetically attractive stylus, the tablet rotates and engages a switch to activate the output device. In an exemplary embodiment, the switch is an elastomeric switch which activates an electronic sound unit in the housing to produce electronic sounds. The writing device may also include a magnetic eraser rotatably supported within the housing so as to rotate with the tablet. The magnetic eraser preferably engages an eraser surface of the tablet and is slidable there along so as to “erase” an image formed on the writing surface of the tablet.

Abstract: A pre-recorded video of a master's swing motion is stored as first frame sequences in computer memory. Target cues indicative of motion progress are associated with each first frame sequence. A video recording of the student performing the swing motion is stored in computer memory as second frame sequences. Reference cues indicating motion progress of the student are inserted into or associated with each student frame. The first frames are aligned with and normalized to the second frames, and then the first frames are synchronized to corresponding second frames using the target cues and the reference cues. The corresponding first and second frame pairs are superimposed, and immediately thereafter displayed to allow the student to analyze differences between his swing motion and the master's swing motion.

Abstract: The toy kitchen of the invention has a variety of play features, including a countertop, a stove top arrangement, a sink, an answering machine and telephone, and a cookbook. The toy kitchen includes a control system that receives and processes inputs from several switches associated with the various play features. The disclosed stove top arrangement includes a pair of simulated burners on which a child may place a utensil. A switch is placed beneath each burner to sense an object that has been placed on a burner. A simulated cookbook is mounted on the countertop. The cookbook includes a page that is pivotally mounted to the cookbook base so that it can be turned by the child user. When the page is turned to either side of the cookbook, it engages a switch on the cookbook base. When an object is placed on one of the burners, the sound output by the control system varies depending on which side of the page engages the switch.

Abstract: A developed film is illuminated to project its image onto a rear projection screen. A transparent case with a clear liquid filled therein is arranged, and the film is accommodated in the case. A writable transparent or translucent sheet is arranged over a front side of the rear projection screen.

Abstract: An educational desk mat, system and method for motivating and instructing students includes a merit indicator on a desk mat that is readily visible on a student's desk. The system includes a desk mat for each student and a behavior chart for a teacher. Individual merit indications from the desk mats are recorded on one or more behavior charts, permitting the teacher to track the merit indicators of each student over a school term or other time period. The education desk mat, system and method are also useful in home or home-schooling environments.

Abstract: A child's 3D amusement book is created by forming at least two holes through the book and threading a string therethrough, or otherwise offixing a cord to opposing pages of a book or card. Parallel string segments are coordinated with drawings on the inner pages to create 3D and/or moving images.

Abstract: Provided is an audio or image processing system capable of realizing virtual cooking such that a child may comprehensively enjoy and learn cooking in general while following the cooking steps. The audio or image processing system to be used for playing a game of virtual cooking comprises a plurality of input devices for respectively conducting different forms of virtual cooking, and an audio or image processing device for performing audio or image processing corresponding to the respective input devices based on data input therefrom and outputting the result thereof to an output playback device.

Abstract: A method of analyzing data generated by the response of a subject person to certain stimuli in the nature of cartoon images, to an extent sufficient to judge quickly the common meaning of the data in an objective manner. According to the method, data is generated and collated by presenting a cartoon comprising several frames constituting a story to a subject person and collecting several kinds of dictionary data that result from the response of the subject person to the cartoons. The coincidence of each dictionary data is judged. Finally, points of respective analyzed elements correspond to or not corresponding to each dictionary data is calculated, and the data is analyzed.

Abstract: A light-drawing type display apparatus according to the present invention is formed by: a plate provided in the front side of the apparatus and having a plurality of light-transmitting small holes and standing upright; each light-cutting member is provided to each of the small holes of the plate in order to open or close each of the small holes; and a light source provided to the rear of the light-cutting members for irradiating the whole of the plate; wherein the light-cutting members are moved by using a predetermined writing means so that the light-transmitting small holes are opened, and the light from the light source is transmitted to the front side, then, characters or pictures are drawn on the plate; and wherein the light-cutting members are moved by using a predetermined erasing means so that the light-transmitting small holes are closed, and the light from the light source is cut off, then, characters or pictures are erased from the plate.

Abstract: A video coloring book includes a processor, a display device and a selecting device. The processor displays a coloring picture on the display device. The coloring picture has a plurality of selectable coloring regions. The processor further displays a plurality of selectable colors on the display device. The processor receives a first selection of one of the colors and a second selection of one of the coloring regions from the selecting device. The processor then fills the selected region with the selected color. Additional colors and/or regions can be selected. When a predetermined time expires, the processor animates the coloring picture.

Abstract: The invention includes a pocketbook adapted to be customized by a consumer. The pocketbook has a plurality of pages and a pocket adapted to hold the pages. The pages are removably held in the pocket. The pages typically have a subject so that the consumer may select pages according to the subject. The pages and the pocket may include a common theme. One embodiment of the invention includes a pocketbook assembly adapted to allow a consumer to assemble a customized pocketbook. The assembly typically includes a page display; a plurality of pages removably supported by the page display; and a plurality of pockets. Generally, each pocket is adapted to hold at least one of the pages. And the pockets are generally available near, or on, the page display. In another embodiment the invention includes a pocketbook kit adapted to allow a consumer to assemble a pocketbook. The kit generally includes a plurality of pages, the pages having a subject; and a pocket for removably holding the pages.

Abstract: A storytelling book with clear loose-leaf page holders is provided so that a person, such as a child, can illustrate and narrate with text a story of his or her own invention on a series of insertion pages and then present that story to an audience. A selected number of pages comprising the insertion pages created by the storyteller, and corresponding insertion pages, are arranged in book-like fashion and bound together so that the book may be disposed either with the pages flat on a support or in easel-like disposition. A first side of one of the pages is disposed in proximity to a second side of an adjacent page when the book-like arrangement is in a closed condition. The pages are disposed so that the person listening to the story sees the first sides and their respective illustrations or pictures while the storyteller or reader sees the second page sides and their corresponding text.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to an activity book designed to make reading more enjoyable and educational for young readers. The activity book of the present invention comprises at least one illustrated page with at least one opening on the page through which a moldable material such as modeling clay is forced or extruded by the reader as through a die. The moldable material is forced through the opening(s) by the reader compressing the illustrated page against an area located on a hard flat surface such as a table or another page of the book. The moldable material passing through the opening(s) completes the illustration on the page. The shape of the opening(s) compliments the illustration and facilitates the completion of the illustration when a moldable material is extruded through the opening.

Abstract: An association game including an overall image a portion of which is in latent invisible form to be developed by a marking means to provide an identifying configuration for a visible portion movably compatible with the latent image developed portion.

Abstract: A board base provides a storage and display unit for a plurality of markable white erasable presentation panels. Such presentation panels can be used with erasable marker pens. The board base can display one presentation panel and store four additional presentation panels. The board base can be adapted to permit either first side removal, second side removal, or top side removal. Set screws are provided for releasably securing these members. Indicia, such as color coded or numbered tabs permit ready identification by the user, and provide an accessible manual gripping portion for removal of each presentation panel. In operation, a selected presentation panel is removed from the framework in the board base, and the presentation panel is inserted into a front presentation slot in the lower track member. The presentation panel is positioned flush with the front board for ease of marking and viewing.

Abstract: A developed film is illuminated to project its image onto a rear projection screen. A transparent case with a clear liquid filled therein is arranged, and the film is accommodated in the case. A writable transparent or translucent sheet is arranged over a front side of the rear projection screen.

Abstract: A flexible photo album has a flexible front cover, a flexible back cover and a plurality of pages disposed between the front and back covers. Each page has a front section and a back section coupled together by a fabric seam to form a pouch for holding photographs or other substantially flat objects. A portion of at least the front or back sections of the page is substantially transparent to allow the object within the pouch to be viewed through the front or back section.

Abstract: Representations of letters of the alphabet have surfaces which have a feel on being touched which are different from the feel of surfaces of other letters. The letters may be presented in a book having a plurality of pages, each page displaying a letter of the alphabet, the surface of the letter having a feel on being touched which is different from the feel of its page and from the feel of other letters. The letters may also have a different appearance from the appearance of other letters. Each letter may have a combination of feel and appearance which is different from the combination of feel and appearance of each of the other letters. The letters may be disposed in a plane which is offset from a plane defined by its page. Each page is preferably split into a first portion which displays the uppercase form of the letter and a second portion which displays the lowercase form of the letter, the first and second portions being capable of being turned independently of one another.

Abstract: Described herein is a collaborative drawing device having a support surface configured to support a drawing medium for drawing thereupon by a human user. The drawing device includes a printer that prints prepared graphics on the drawing medium and a scanner that scans documents that have been printed, drawn by hand, and annotated by hand.

Abstract: A method for providing a system of feminine hygiene products for use by individuals. The method includes collecting information from a consumer regarding her menstrual cycle using a computer, selecting a system of feminine hygiene products based upon the information collected where the system contains at least one tampon and one sanitary napkin. The method further includes a step of providing information back to said consumer identifying the products which make up the selected system.

Abstract: An order-taking terminal device enables a customer to order food, but can respond rapidly to changes and additions to the menu. When this terminal device starts up, it receives an operating program and image data from main management equipment. The order-taking terminal device stores the thus received operating program and image data and displays a menu screen on a display screen on the basis of the thus stored operating program and image data.