A teaching device that combines the senses of the sight and the ear. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)

摘要

A teaching device that combines the senses of sight and hearing to teach the manipulation of a keyboard, said devices comprising a) a keyboard model representative of the keyboard whose manipulation is to be taught; b) lighting means for selectively illuminating the individual keys of said keyboard model; c) means for detecting related auditory and visual data sets pertinent to the respective keys of said keyboard model, said data being stored by a data storage means, said detecting means being capable of converting said related data stored in output signals auditory and visual related, wherein said auditory and visual related signals in each stored data set are indicative of a particular key of said keyboard and are presented in a given time relationship with each other; d) sound reproducing means coupled to said detector means for receiving said audio frequency output signals derived from a given data set and for generating an auditory output pertinent to illumination of a particular key of said keyboard defined by the related data of said given data set, wherein said auditory output verbalizes the aforementioned particular key designation; e) a circuit coupled to said detector means for receiving said visual output signals, said circuit being capable of converting said visual output signals into an encoded output indicative of said particular key of said keyboard; f) data storage means coupled to the output of said circuit, capable of receiving and storing said encoded output as it is generated by said circuit; g) a set of elements in matrix coupled to said data storage means for receiving said stored coding output from said data storage means in order to apply activating signals to said lighting means in such a way that the particular key of said keyboard model, designated by said visual output signals; and h) a disabling circuit for generating an output signal capable of disabling said array of elements in matrix and thus preventing the illumination of said keyboard model while said data storage means is receiving said encoded output generated by said circuit, indicative of said particular key of said keyboard. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)