In an example, printed circuitry comprises a digitally printed switch, the printed switch comprising a first contact element printed using conductive print agent on a first substrate portion and a second contact element printed using conductive print agent on a second substrate portion. An interposed non-conductive printed spacer element is overprinted on at least one of the first and the second substrate portions.

An electronic book using electromagnetic energy to detect page numbers includes a book and a base, the book includes a plurality of book pages, each of the book pages is respectively provided with an electromagnetic energy changing member, and the base is provided with at least one antenna coil and at least one control circuit. The electromagnetic energy changing member of each of the book pages is correspondingly disposed adjacent to a position of the antenna coil, and a magnetic flux generated by the antenna coil is transmitted to the electromagnetic energy changing members. The electromagnetic energy changing members generate magnetic variable fluxes to be received by the antenna coil for generating a page number prompt output command by conversion to control generation of a prompt function of the book page correspondingly disposed adjacent to the position of the antenna coil.

Systems and methods of use are presented for selecting and displaying media content on a display where the media content is determined by user manual manipulation of the content pages of a book positioned on a book reader. The display includes a video display screen and a media player. The media player has a storage drive configured to accept and store media content, and a processor configured to access the storage drive to transmit selected media content to the video display screen when signaled by the book reader to do so. The book reader includes a plurality of sensors divided into a plurality of right side sensors and a plurality of left side sensors that are configured to detect and determine which content page of the book is currently open and displayed on the book reader. When a content page is displayed and detected, a controller signals the processor.

A method for improving learning comprehension regarding a lesson includes modifying a fundamental illustrative model to illustrate a first set of learning assets of a first learning object using an illustration approach to produce a first learning illustrative model. The lesson includes learning objects which includes the first learning object. The fundamental illustrative model is based on illustrative assets of the lesson. The method further includes obtaining a first comprehension evaluation for the first learning illustrative model and modifying the illustration approach based on the first comprehension evaluation for the first learning illustrative model to produce an updated illustration approach. The method further includes modifying the fundamental illustrative model to illustrate a second set of learning assets of a second learning object using the updated illustration approach to produce a second learning illustrative model.

This disclosure presents a system and a method for providing a personalized book in which an interested matter is analyzed based on reading history, and a personalized book is generated which includes personalized contents and illustrations based on the interested matter. The presented system for providing a personalized book includes a reading history database which stores a reading history associating a user identifier and a book identifier with each other, a book information database which stores book information including a book identifier, text data, and image data, and a service server configured to deduce an interested matter of a user based on the reading history of the user stored in the reading history database in response to a personalized book generation request from a user terminal, and to generate a personalized book based on the interested matter and the book information stored in the book information database.

A method executed by a computing entity includes generating a virtual reality environment utilizing a group of object representations by rendering an assessment asset for a first set of object representations to produce first portrayal 3-D video frames of a first piece of information for the virtual reality environment. The method further includes obtaining a first conveyance effectiveness level with regards to the first piece of information based on the first portrayal 3-D video frames within the virtual reality environment. When the first conveyance effectiveness level is less than a minimum conveyance effectiveness threshold level, the method further includes rendering an updated first set of object representations based on the first set of object representations and the first conveyance effectiveness level to produce updated first portrayal 3-D video frames for the first piece of information within the virtual reality environment.

An editing method facilitates the task of adding background sound to speech-containing audio data so as to augment the listening experience. The editing method is executed by a processor in a computing device and comprises obtaining characterization data that characterizes time segments in the audio data by at least one of topic and sentiment; deriving, for a respective time segment in the audio data and based on the characterization data, a desired property of a background sound to be added to the audio data in the respective time segment, and providing the desired property for the respective time segment so as to enable the audio data to be combined, within the respective time segment, with background sound having the desired property. The background sound may be selected and added automatically or by manual user intervention.

A system for providing study plans to a user includes a topic catalog storing multiple topics and multiple keywords associated with each topic. The system also includes a plan generator configured to receive multiple sample study plans, each sample study plan having one or more resources, each resource having one or more portions, and each portion being assigned a duration. The plan generator uses the sample study plans and the topic catalog to train a topic model to identify which topics are associated with each resource, resulting in a trained topic model. The plan generator receives a profile of a student from a user, the profile having one or more selected topics the student desires to study and further having multiple preferences associated with the student. The plan generator uses the trained topic model and the profile to identify a subset of the resources that are associated with the selected topics, generates a customized study plan for the student using the subset of identified resources and the preferences, and provides the customized study plan to the user.

An educational apparatus has a controller linked with student devices, and a teacher device. Each student device is in the form of a desk with a board, a touch sensor array in the board, a display physically separate from the array, and permanent indicia. The apparatus recognises touch by a student on the board, and this is mapped to content of an overlay sheet of paper placed on the board. Moreover, multiple devices may be juxtaposed, and events may be recognised based on all of the group of devices together. An example is a paper sheet covering four devices together and having a map printed on it, in which the software recognised a particular location of touch on a particular device as being a specific region on the map.

Disclosed are techniques and systems to provide a narration of a text in multiple different voices. In some aspects, systems and methods described herein can include receiving a user-based selection of a first portion of words in a document where the document has a pre-associated first voice model and overwriting the association of the first voice model, by the one or more computers, with a second voice model for the first portion of words.