Guided interactions with books

Number: 10850197
Published: 2020-12-01
Filed: 2019-05-13
Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
Inventors: Hellam; Taylor, Murdock; Malcolm, Poswal; Mohammad, Stewart; Shawnna
CPC: A63F13/47; B42D1/009; A63F13/30; A63F13/48; A63F13/80; G06F21/608; G06K19/06037; G06Q10/10
Verdict: Low Hardware
Source: Google Patents · FreePatentsOnline

The keeper's note

Tagged/instrumented physical book enabling guided interactive play (granted).

Abstract

A system for providing guided interactions with books includes a content delivery terminal communicatively coupled to a computing platform including a hardware processor and a memory storing a content delivery software code, a content registry, and a library of entries corresponding respectively to multiple interaction plans for guiding an interaction with a book. The hardware processor executes the content delivery software code to detect, via the content delivery terminal, a book corresponding to content included in the content registry, and to identify an interaction plan for the guided interaction based on one or more of the content and a user input received by the content delivery terminal. The content delivery software code further identifies a first portion of the content for use in initiating the interaction plan, and outputs the first portion of the content to the content delivery terminal for printing by the content delivery terminal in the book.

Background

BACKGROUND(1) The convenience of modern electronic based information technologies have increasingly lured attention from print media, and especially books, which typically require more time and attention to absorb. To the extent that electronic alternatives to the type of information previously available only in print enable the acquisition of knowledge with greater efficiency, those advances are beneficial. However, as we collectively turn with increasing frequency away from books and towards their electronic substitutes, we become estranged from an approach to knowledge and learning that has played a major role in shaping the foundations of our culture.(2) One advantage of books is that they may provide an easy intimacy with the written word that is not readily replaced by electronic information content, despite its utility. That may not be the case for some young people, however, for whom educational content, entertainment content, and even literature are increasingly electronically based. To many of today's technologically proficient children and young adults, books may be unfamiliar or even relatively unknown, and may be considered off-putting as a result. This is an undesirable state of affairs, however, because the relationship between books and human beings is special and symbolic, and to lose touch with books is to lose touch with a portion of our intellectual heritage.SUMMARY(3) There are provided systems and methods for providing guided interactions with books, sub

Claims

1. A system for providing a guided interaction, the system comprising: a content delivery terminal; a computing platform communicatively coupled to the content delivery terminal, the computing platform including a hardware processor and a memory; the memory storing a content delivery software code, a content registry, and a library of entries corresponding respectively to a plurality of interaction plans for the guided interaction; wherein the hardware processor is configured to execute the content delivery software code to: detect, via the content delivery terminal, a book corresponding to a content included in the content registry; identify an interaction plan of the plurality of interaction plans for the guided interaction based on at least one of the content or a user input received by the content delivery terminal; identify a first portion of the content for use in initiating the interaction plan; and output the first portion of the content to the content delivery terminal for printing by the content delivery terminal in the book. 11. A method for use by a system for providing a guided interaction, the system comprising a content delivery terminal communicatively coupled to a computing platform including a hardware processor and a memory storing a content delivery software code, a content registry, and a library of entries corresponding respectively to a plurality of interaction plans for the guided interaction, the method comprising: detecting via the content delivery terminal, by the content delivery software code executed by the hardware processor, a book corresponding to a content included in the content registry; identifying, by the content delivery software code executed by the hardware processor, an interaction plan of the plurality of interaction plans for the guided interaction based on at least one of the content or a user input received by the content delivery terminal; identifying, by the content delivery software code executed by the hardware processor, a first portion of the content for use in initiating the interaction plan; and outputting the first portion of the content, by the content delivery software code executed by the hardware processor, for printing by the content delivery terminal in the book.