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7587306 Method and device for a source language to be understood by a listener mastering a target language  
The invention concerns a method for source language comprehension designed for a listener mastering a target language, which consists in causing the listener to listen to a statement, consisting of...
7237189 Offline e-learning system  
A learning system maintains an account of a student's information, courses, skills, and qualifications. The student may take courses offered by the learning system online or offline. To take a...
6975832 Photo album with provision for media playback  
A multi-media photograph album comprises a network of electrical conductors which connect with plural data storage devices storing audio data and/or image data. A user, via a user interface,...
6954199 Three dimensional interactive system  
A three-dimensional position locating system is disclosed. In one embodiment, the three-dimensional position locating system includes a housing including a substantially planar surface. The housing...
6930600 Image and audio data processing system  
An image and audio processing system includes a housing, a storage medium, a non-contact audio storage device installed inside the housing for storing audio data in the storage medium by wireless...
6661899 Book microphone system  
A book microphone system for allowing children to hear themselves read. The book microphone system includes a combination reading book and microphone system. The microphone system includes an...
6514078 Electronic educational device  
An electronic educational device for entertaining and educating a preschooler, in particular. The electronic educational device includes a housing assembly including a tubular housing having a top...
6449460 Teaching method and kit  
A method and kit for teaching disabled students, such as children with developmental delays and disabilities such as autism, through music. The method makes extensive use of an illustrated song...
6328570 Portable karaoke unit  
A portable, programmable karaoke unit that is flexible in its use. Data may be stored and retrieved in compressed digital data format from an internal memory or a removable storage medium. The unit...
6283764 Storage medium playback system and method  
A first reading unit reads data stored in a second storage area of a storage medium (including reproduction management information), and stores it in another storage medium. A first reproducing...
6174170 Display of text symbols associated with audio data reproducible from a recording disc  
Text symbols associated with audio data reproducible from a recording disc are displayed by downloading previously stored groups of text characters, each group representing a respective phrase of...
6108515 Interactive responsive apparatus with visual indicia, command codes, and comprehensive memory functions  
An interactive conversational apparatus provides seamless uninterrupted conversational responsiveness to a variety of user inputs utilizing a storage media having a plurality of temporally related...
5980262 Method and apparatus for generating musical accompaniment signals at a lower storage space requirement  
In a method and apparatus for generating musical accompaniment signals corresponding to a musical program, there is provided a recording medium which has an audio storage unit and a lyric storage...
5961333 Educational and training devices and methods  
User-actuated systems for retrieving and presenting information on a particular subject and/or information employable in a learn while doing mode on the performance of a specified task. The systems...
5957696 Karaoke apparatus alternately driving plural sound sources for noninterruptive play  
A karaoke apparatus is constructed to reproduce a karaoke music piece according to karaoke data composed of setup data and performance data. The karaoke apparatus utilizes a pair of sound source...
5931680 Score information display apparatus  
A score display apparatus shows beat marks in a number corresponding to the number of beats per measure during a performance by a musical instrument karaoke apparatus. Further, the score display...
5906494 Training apparatus for singing  
A vocal training apparatus accomplishes reproduction of a music signal recorded on an information medium, where the music signal includes a model vocal signal and an accompaniment signal. A model...
5902115 Recording medium on which attribute information on the playback data is recorded together with the playback data and a system for appropriately reproducing the playback data using the attribute information  
Karaoke data to be reproduced is stored in an optical disk as a video title set together with management information for managing karaoke data and a video object set. In the video object set, a...
5863206 Apparatus for reproducing video, audio, and accompanying characters and method of manufacture  
An apparatus for reproducing video, audio and accompanying characters, suitable for use as a sing-along or karaoke apparatus, uses pre-stored display patterns, such as animal figures, instead of...
5862108 Method and apparatus for recording and reproducing language learning information on/from a compact disk  
A method and apparatus for reproducing language learning information data from a compact disk. On a compact disk, audio data is recorded separately on left and right channels of a general signal...
5810600 Voice recording/reproducing apparatus  
A voice recording/reproducing apparatus suitable for use in a language laboratory operates with a disk on which are recorded text segments comprising sentences and a table of contents containing...
5781515 Disk information reproduction apparatus and method using avoid band control signals  
A method and an apparatus for disk reproduction are disclosed, in which information associated with an audio band signal for controlling the reproduction operation of the disk reproduction...
5766018 Disc playback system, karaoke system and disc playback method  
It is an object of this invention to provide a low-cost disc playback system which reduces the time the user has to wait for a disc to be played back. To achieve this objective, the system mounts a...
5683253 Disk recording medium and video-song accompaniment apparatus adopting the same  
A song program and a motion picture background image suitable for the mood of the song program are recorded on a recording medium. A video-song accompaniment apparatus employs the recording medium...
5634798 Compact disk player-incorporated television receiver having a monitor power control function  
A compact disk player incorporated television receiver includes a television signal receiver, a compact disk player having a song accompaniment function, a video signal processor for selectively...
5611693 Image karaoke device  
A compact image karaoke device with only a small number of image disks which provides the impression of having a great many background images. Two players are provided for reading background images...
5609486 Karaoke reproducing apparatus  
A Karaoke apparatus in which after one Karaoke play was finished, a show-up effect according to the next Karaoke playing music piece is obtained for a period of time until the start of the next...
5588842 Karaoke control system for a plurality of karaoke devices  
When images of the image genre most suitable for the selected song are being reproduced (Yes in S14), the karaoke terminal picks up those image data from a channel over which they are transmitted....
5567162 Karaoke system capable of scoring singing of a singer on accompaniment thereof  
In a karaoke system capable of scoring a singing of singer on an accompaniment thereof, when a voice signal of the singer is inputted, an energy detector generates a first basic frequency signal...
5518408 Karaoke apparatus sounding instrumental accompaniment and back chorus  
A karaoke apparatus is comprised of a data supply, a tone generator, an ADPCM decoder and a pitch shifter for sounding a requested karaoke song containing an instrumental accompaniment and a back...
5499922 Backing chorus reproducing device in a karaoke device  
A backing chorus reproducing device is disclosed wherein human backing chorus is PCM coded and then combined with MIDI Standard based instrumental sound to produce karaoke music. In reproduction,...
5499921 Karaoke apparatus with visual assistance in physical vocalism  
A Karaoke apparatus reproduces an automatic instrumental accompaniment of a selected song during the course of a physical vocal performance of the selected song by a singer. A memory registers a...
5486141 Amusement machine and recording medium for use in the same  
An amusement machine including a display for displaying a picture, motion providing elements for providing a user with motion, a recording medium on which a video signal representing the picture to...
5484291 Apparatus and method of playing karaoke accompaniment  
A karaoke apparatus includes: a karaoke information reproducing unit for reproducing MIDI sound source control information stored in a storage unit; a MIDI sound source control unit for producing...
5454723 Karaoke apparatus and method for medley playback  
A karaoke apparatus for medley playback includes: playback unit for receiving playback information including MIDI sound source control information and producing acoustic sound of karaoke song on...
5447438 Music training apparatus  
A music training apparatus performs a two-part reproduction including first and second parts, in which the first part is like a trial part which allows a video signal to be reproduced on a display...
5364270 Apparatus having video display and display-synchronizing motion mechanism  
In an apparatus having a video display and display-synchronizing motion mechanism, various images can be easily selected and displayed, and a seat or the like is moved in synchronism with motions...
5280913 Apparatus and method of playing double chess game  
A modified chess game for play by two opposing players comprises a game board eight squares wide and sixteen squares deep, foldable at its midsection to create a carrying case for the pieces. Each...
5011156 Board game apparatus  
A game apparatus consists essentially of a game board, cards, set of playing pieces for each player, a compact disc with multiple tracks set up in such a way that the playing pieces, or tokens, for...
4959734 Prestored response processing system for branching control of interactive video disc systems  
An interactive control system including a wide bandwidth, random access recorder including a recording which contains sequentially recorded discete sets of co-located video, audio and digital...
4753597 Multiple segment nonsequential recording  
A recording has a plurality of segments, each of which is user selectable. The recording may be on any audio delivery medium including a phonograph record or a series of cassette tapes in which...
4749354 Interactive audio teaching aid  
An interactive compact disc system (10) having a teaching mode in addition to an entertainment mode is provided for the recovery of a predetermined aural response from predetermined randomly...
4664634 Electric self-teaching apparatus utilizing printed and auditory means  
Self-teaching apparatus is disclosed herein having a platform for supporting a card carrying printed indicia and a record disc. Information carried on the disc and the printed area is coordinated...
4552535 Mechanical assembly for audio-visual teaching machines  
An improved audio-visual machine for projecting visual information segments carried by a transparency holder in an audio-visual cartridge, and for reproducing corresponding narrative and control...
3883146 Hand-held playback device, system and method  
A hand-held playback device primarily useful for audio teaching of correct pronunciation of words for transducing mini-records from the pages of books and other sheet material upon which is shown...
3871112 Coordinated visual and audio reproducing apparatus  
A story-telling toy device providing for selection of a number of recorded message segments to be played in a plurality of different combinations, each recorded message segment being attributable...
3845250 MANUAL KEY OPERATED MESSAGE GENERATOR  
A flat circular disk of plastic material is impressed with parallel grooves, each extending over a substantial portion of the circumference of its track. The disk is mounted on a turn table and the...
3748748 VOICE PUZZLE GAME  
The essence of the invention resides in a voice puzzle having a board with a plurality of varied shaped openings therein. Each of said varied shaped openings having a word, sound or phrase...
3744150 SOUND ILLUSTRATED BOOK  
Pictures are printed in a book in horizontal rows simulating rows of printed matter. A recorded message describes each picture in a predetermined sequence corresponding to a reading pattern from...
3711964 ASK AND ANSWER TOY  
A phonograph toy with a pointer wheel that can be turned so that a pointer thereon points to a picture that represents a question, and which automatically selects a record groove that asks the...
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