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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8136037 | Assistant for manually proofreading text documents A text document is parsed and re-ordered according to user-defined rules. The reordered text document is then presented to the user, thus requiring the user to read each section of the text document in a stand-alone manner. ... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8113842 | Systems and methods for providing educational structures and tools Systems and methods are disclosed for providing educational structures and tools to enhance the effectiveness of teaching multiple academic disciplines. Both age-level and subject-focused instructors may be provided; technical tools facilitate student-focused, indiv... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8109765 | Intelligent tutoring feedback Methods and related computer program products, systems, and devices for providing intelligent feedback to a user based on audio input associated with a user reading a passage are disclosed. The method can include assessing a level of fluency of a user's reading of t... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8070492 | Reading tool with display window for teaching eye tracking A device that assists students in reading by using an opaque sheet to cover an entire page. The sheet has a “window” slot in the center that highlights a single line on the page. The device also has a curved slider that is pivotably attached at the top of the sh... | 12/06/2011 |
| 7555713 | Writing and reading aid system A writing and reading assistant system helps a user to create a structured document and read a document. A structured document contains not only information as an ordinary document does but also properties and rules for holding, organizing and processing correspondi... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7455522 | Systems and methods for dynamic reading fluency instruction and improvement Techniques for dynamic personalized reading fluency instruction and improvement are provided by determining a user reading fluency level based on one or more spoken responses provided by the user during one or more reading aloud session of a text that has been evalu... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7422434 | Personalized story reading apparatus A personalized story reading apparatus. The apparatus includes a book holder, a picture holder, and a voice recorder. A person, for example, a parent or a grandparent, records his or her voice reading the book and places his or her photograph into the picture holder... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7402042 | Electronic learning device for an interactive multi-sensory reading system An electronic learning device configured to receive in a predetermined orientation a book having an arrangement of selectable mode icons, selectable content and a page identifier. Non-volatile memory in the electronic learning device has instructions associated with... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7367807 | Method for improving word processing skills using visual flash stimuli A computer system provides a series of visual flash stimuli to a user and then requires that the user process the visual stimuli to produce a verbalization that corresponds to the visual stimuli and/or a fine motor activity that corresponds to the visual stimuli. Th... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7364432 | Methods of selecting Lock-In Training courses and sessions A Lock-In Training system. The Lock-In Training system can include an appropriately programmed Web site and a user computer. The Lock-In Training system can also include an appropriately programmed stand-alone computer. Some embodiments of the invention allow studen... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7357640 | Lock-In Training system A Lock-In Training system. The Lock-In Training system can include an appropriately programmed Web site and a user computer. The Lock-In Training system can also include an appropriately programmed stand-alone computer. Some embodiments of the invention allow studen... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7354070 | Book with rotating device A book with at least one rotating device that allows the user to answer various questions and check whether his responses are correct that also may be used as an entertaining or easy to use reference source. ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7353164 | Representation of orthography in a continuous vector space An orthographic anchor for each word in a dictionary is created in an orthographic space by mapping the words and a set of letter patterns characteristic of the words into the orthographic space. In one aspect the orthographic anchors are row or column vectors resul... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352990 | Education support system, target presentation method, recording medium, and carrier wave An education support server generates test data representing a test using a test management database. At this time, the education support server derives a target score for a user who is to take the test represented by the generated test data in accordance with achie... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7351062 | Educational devices, systems and methods using optical character recognition 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 ca... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7330815 | Method and system for network-based speech recognition Methods and systems for handling speech recognition processing in effectively real-time, via the internet, in order that users do not experience noticeable delays from the start of an exercise until they receive responsive feedback. A user uses a client to access th... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7324944 | Systems and methods for dynamically analyzing temporality in speech Systems and methods for dynamically analyzing temporality in an individual's speech in order to selectively categorize the speech fluency of the individual and/or to selectively provide speech training based on the results of the dynamic analysis. Temporal variables... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7313513 | Method for editing and enhancing readability of authored documents Various methods are disclosed for improving the readability of authored documents. The methods generally involve scanning a sentence to check for specific signs of potential writing problems, and applying associated sign-dependent decision logic to assess whether pa... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7311524 | System and method assessing student achievement A system and method for assessing and monitoring student academic achievement levels for purposes of identifying students at risk for not meeting minimum academic standards as measured using standardized tests, and for tracking or monitoring student academic perform... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7292971 | Language phonetic system and method thereof A phonetic system having vowel phonetic symbols separated into full sound symbols and half sound symbols, and consonant phonetic symbols. The full sounds symbols are represented by letters in the English alphabet. The half sound symbols are represented by letters in... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7290285 | Systems and methods for distributing and viewing electronic documents A system for distributing an electronic version of a printed document is disclosed. The system comprises a memory device storing at least one document file that is based at least in part on a source document, which is an electronic version of a printed document. The... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7288705 | Method for teaching musical notation and composition A method for teaching musical notation from rhythm. A musical rhythm is demonstrated to the pupils, and is associated with a worksheet having a plurality of blanks, the blanks each representing a beat of the rhythm and being grouped in accordance with the rhythm. Th... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7287984 | System and method for providing a visual language for non-reading sighted persons A method and system for communicating to sighted persons who cannot read a standard alphanumeric text, the informational content of that text includes an alphanumeric text is converted to a machine-readable set of informationally corresponding data, and then scanned... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7289084 | Computer display apparatus A computer display apparatus includes first and second display units operatively coupled to a display controller. The display controller receives imaging instructions for images and display mode instructions for displaying the images, and causes the display units to... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7270546 | System and method for interactive reading and language instruction A reading or language interactive system which utilizes a mechanism to permit a computer-based instruction program in reading or language instruction to implement a shared reading program, wherein portions of the text are read by the student and portions by the comp... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7271329 | Computer-aided learning system employing a pitch tracking line A computer-aided learning system to facilitate a human to control the pitch and rhythm of their voice. In a preferred embodiment for learning how to sing a song in tune, a display provides visual, real-time depiction of the singer's actual pitch compared to the “t... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7270329 | Design game with deductive component A game of deduction including game components and rules for playing a game for a plurality of players, a goal of which may be for one player to deduce, through a question and answer process, an image on a game card chosen by another player. A game board, multiple ga... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7263530 | Apparatus for and method of summarising text Apparatus for identifying topics of document data has: a word ranker (171) for ranking words that are present in or representative of the content of the document data; a co-occurrence ranker (172) for... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7255564 | Anatomical pocket model An anatomical pocket model adapted for transporting in one's pocket or the like comprises a flexible, bendable, framework and a flexible, bendable three-dimensional representation of an anatomical body part positioned thereon. The anatomical body part representation... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7242315 | Self contained device for displaying electronic information A periodical is shown having flexible pages whereon is affixed a thin flexible electronic display. The display includes a flexible membrane, control circuitry, and self-contained power source, which may be a thin flexible battery. A display may be affixed to one or ... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7234942 | Summarisation representation apparatus At least one topic in text data is determined by a topic determiner (4). A topic thread determiner (5) identifies in the text data context data associated with the at least one determined topic and provides topic representation data defining a graphica... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7229287 | Spatial memory assessment and associated methods A neuropsychological assessment includes cards having a first indicium on a top face and an index indicium on a bottom face. A display includes an arrangement of images, each image corresponding to one of the first indicia, the image number fewer than or equal to th... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7224934 | Talking book employing photoelectronics for autonomous page recognition Systems and methods of creating talking books that employ photo-electronics to realize autonomous page recognition, are provided. More particularly, systems and methods are provided for employing one or more light sensing components (e.g., photoresistors, phototrans... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7220125 | Multi modal speech cueing system The present invention is a speech cueing system that incorporates a multi modal (auditory, visual, tactile-kinesthetic) approach to teaching speech sounds and an accompanying apparatus. The system provides explicit instructions on how to utilize the apparatus in the... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7217132 | Educational medium for teaching children to interact with and recognize objects A unique educational medium for teaching children to recognize various objects by sight and touch including animals, vegetables, minerals, articles, items, and environmental features according to a thematic scene associated with the medium. The medium is preferably ... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7201317 | Method and system for illustrating sound and text A system for illustrating sound and text including a book with pages having illustrations and/or text, at least some of the pages including a magnetic signature; a book holder adapted to accept the book, the book holder having a reading surface with a magnetic signa... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7201402 | Book with spinning globe The book with spinning globe has a front cover, a back cover, and a spine or binding portion which binds the front cover, and the back cover. An earth globe is rotatably connected to a front cover, back cover, or spine so that the globe is rotatable about an axis ex... | 04/10/2007 |
| RE39542 | Preparation of agarose coated, solid agarose-collagen beads containing secretory cells Biological agents such as secretory cells are encapsulated in a hydrophilic gel made of agarose or collagen-agarose and gelatin sponge-agarose combinations. In a preferred embodiment, semi-solid beads are formed from a suspension containing collagen, agarose and sec... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7192283 | System and method for visual analysis of word frequency and distribution in a text A main computer processing system accesses a text, counts the number of times each word appears, and arranges the words on the display in a way that makes understanding the text easier. On the display, the user can see which words are used most frequently, and the p... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7182600 | Method and system for teaching vocabulary A method using a spatial-temporal software game for both teaching math concepts to a child and for scoring the child's proficiency in these math concepts. These scores are compared with the child's performance on a language-based test of the math concepts. If the ch... | 02/27/2007 |
