KR20030066839A - Digital toy for education - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A digital educational toy is provided to supply audiovisual materials of various fields to preschool children by coupling regular hexahedron blocks and three-dimensional blocks including characters, numbers, and shapes of things. CONSTITUTION: A digital educational toy includes a toy block(100) and a learning toy(200). An operating key is formed on a surface of the toy block. The operating key includes a plurality of concavo-convex portions having code values of blocks corresponding to characters, numbers, pictures, a lion, an elephant, and an airplane. The learning toy includes a key input portion(210) and a key mattress. The toy block is inserted into the key input portion. The key mattress has a plurality of switch contact points. The learning toy is used for recognizing particular code values according to the states of the switch contact points and providing the voices corresponding to the particular code values.

Description

Digital toy for education {Digital toy for education}

The present invention relates to a digital educational toy, and more particularly, through a cube and a three-dimensional block represented by the shape of letters or numbers, visual materials such as combinations (words or sentences) and pictures, and pictures corresponding to the letters The present invention relates to educational toys that provide audio, which is an auditory material, to achieve both visual education and auditory education.

In general, a variety of videos, learning books, toys, and the like are provided to increase the creativity of the children, and toys, which are children's play equipment, tend to be made of various products for the purpose of brain development. In addition, among the toys popularized for the development of the brains of infants recently, LEGO block products, which use various blocks to form shapes of animals and spaceships, or shape blocks that fit various shape blocks into holes, are used for the brain development of infants. Is being provided.

As a block toy for early childhood education through various shapes of blocks as described above, Korean Utility Model Registration Application No. 1999-15722 (Registration No. 173474) is a block having a variety of shapes such as squares, triangles, and circles, and blocks having various colors. The present invention relates to a device designed to be formed differently and to enhance creativity, combination, and spatial perception of children by inserting the block into a plurality of insertion grooves corresponding to the shape of the block, and to utilize it as a sense of play.

However, the above-mentioned early childhood block toys do not cause interest to children over 4 years old because of the repetitive work of simply inserting the blocks into the insertion grooves such as fitting the blocks into the insertion grooves one by one. It has a disadvantage that is not suitable.

In addition, as filed in order to solve the above problems, the contents of the Republic of Korea Patent Application No. 2001-4958 (Publication No. 2001-44295) is summarized as follows.

When the block of the light emitting material or the acoustic material is inserted into the insert of the toy formed so that the block of the light emitting material or the acoustic material can be inserted in the lower direction, the circuit contact formed at the bottom thereof is shorted and the shorted contact is voiced. It is a block insertion type audio visual puzzle recognized by a reproduction semiconductor to output a corresponding lamp or sound to a speaker.

However, the above-mentioned block-type puzzle toys provide only letters, numbers, and pictures recorded on the surface of the block as voices, and thus, the blocks must be provided with various blocks such as language, repair, music, and object recognition. You will have a problem.

In addition, the block puzzle toy is only suitable for a variety of intelligence development of children, because the content of the variety of the content is not suitable for inserting a block into a fixed puzzle toy, and provides a corresponding voice, such as a single voice to one subject. It has disadvantages.

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention is a composite toy composed of block products that are most familiar to children, which is natural for various fields such as language, repair, music, object recognition, fairy tale and nursery rhyme according to each growth stage of the child. Its purpose is to make it available as an audiovisual teaching aid.

In addition, there is another purpose to be able to update from time to time the main educational materials necessary for the growth stage of the child online.

1 is a perspective view showing the appearance of a digital educational toy according to the present invention.

Figure 2 is a reference diagram illustrating the structure of an actuating key configured on the surface of the cube of the digital educational toy and the device according to the present invention.

Figure 3 is a reference diagram of a part extracted in a state in which the toy block and the learning toy of the digital educational toy according to the present invention.

4 is a reference diagram showing another embodiment of FIG.

Figure 5 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the device mounted inside the digital educational toy according to the present invention.

6 is a circuit diagram showing the configuration of a conceptual switch of the block recognition unit of the digital educational toy according to the present invention.

Figure 7 is a reference diagram showing a state in which the block recognition unit of the digital educational toy according to the present invention installed in the learning toy.

* Description of the symbols for the main parts of the drawings *

100: toy block 110: cube block

112: operation keys 114, 116, 118: irregularities

120: cubic block of three-dimensional model 200: toys for learning

210: key input unit 220: block recognition unit

222: mattress 224: switch contact

230: mode selection unit 240: control unit

250: memory unit 260: interface

270 voice output unit

In the learning toy consisting of toy blocks and learners as a means for achieving the present invention, it is formed to have a specific code value by a plurality of irregularities having a code value corresponding to letters, numbers and pictures or blocks such as lions, elephants and airplanes A toy block having an operation key formed on each surface; A key input part through which the toy block is inserted and a key mattress having a plurality of switch contacts to correspond to the operation key at a lower part thereof, and a specific code value according to a state in which the switch contact is shorted due to unevenness of the operation key; After the recognition, and made of a learning toy to provide a corresponding voice, the unevenness of the operation key is composed of the unevenness indicating the direction, the unevenness indicating the character and voice.

The learning toy includes a block recognition unit for recognizing a contact state of a key mattress having a plurality of switch contacts to correspond to an operation key; A mode selection unit having a plurality of modes to set learning stages according to ages, topics, and themes; A controller for checking a selected state of the block recognition unit and a mode selection unit, and controlling a memory unit having preset voice data according to the checked state; An interface connected to expand data of the memory unit through data communication by connecting to an external device, and a voice output unit configured to output a voice to the outside by a signal output from the controller, wherein the block recognition unit is output from the controller Each switch is mounted between at least two or more output lines and at least two or more input lines input to the controller, and each output line output from the controller is equipped with a diode to output a different signal to the output line. It is configured to prevent input to the line, and the mode selection unit further includes a contact having a function such as a power mode, a repetition mode, a question mode, a word / computation mode, a moving picture / movement selection mode, and a step selection mode.

The control unit may be programmed to induce re-entry of the block if the switch contact of the key mattress corresponding to the unevenness indicating the direction in the toy block is not shorted while the toy block is inserted in the learning toy. It is characterized by including a buffer register.

Hereinafter, a preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a perspective view showing the appearance of the digital educational toy according to the present invention.

Figure 2 is a reference diagram illustrating the structure of an actuating key formed on the surface of a cube for a digital educational toy and a device according to the present invention.

Figure 3 is a reference diagram of a part of the extract in a state in which the toy block and the learning toy of the digital educational toy according to the present invention.

4 is a reference diagram illustrating another embodiment of FIG. 3.

As shown in Figures 1 to 3, the configuration of the digital educational toy is divided into a toy block 100 and a doll-shaped learning toy 200, the toy block 100 is a cube block 110 and It is divided into three-dimensional cube cube 120, the surface of the cube block 110 is composed of letters, numbers and pictures, etc. The three-dimensional cube block 120 is composed of a three-dimensional shape, such as lions, elephants and airplanes It is configured to have a specific code value to implement the assimilation and fluctuation.

Each of the surface of the toy blocks (110, 120), such as a cube or a cube of a three-dimensional model is composed of a plurality of operation keys 112 made of irregularities, the irregularities formed on the surface of each block of the operation keys 112, letters, numbers, Represents pictures, fairy tales and nursery rhymes.

When the toy blocks 110 and 120 are inserted into the key input unit 210 formed on the upper part of the learning toy 200, the learning toy 200 has a code value corresponding to a plurality of irregularities on each surface of the inserted toy block 100. Read it and play the voice for the corresponding letters, numbers, pictures, fairy tales and nursery rhymes.

The operation key 112 includes unevenness (four; 116) for determining a direction, and unevenness (8) for displaying letters, numbers, pictures, moving pictures, and nursery rhymes (abbreviated as "text and voice"). 118), the numbers that can be represented by the operation keys 112 formed on each surface of the toy block 100 are preferably configured differently according to letters and voices.

In addition, the number of unevenness (4; 116) indicating the direction is set in advance in the learning toy 200, when the toy block 110, 120 is inserted when the toy block 110, 120 is inverted when the user is input The user is programmed to improve the learning ability of the toddler by inducing the correct input of the toy block by informing the user that a wrong input has been made.

The learning toy 200 for recognizing the unevenness 114 of the operation key 112 formed on the surface of the toy block 100 is a key input unit formed to insert the toy block 100 from the top to the bottom direction thereon Recognized by the block recognition unit 220 provided on the bottom surface of (210). The unevenness 116 indicating the direction is set in advance so that the unevenness 118 representing the text and the voice is configured differently, and the key mattress 222 is formed by the unevenness 114 representing the text and the voice of the operation key 112. By shorting the switch contact 224 of the will be to recognize the specific code value of the toy block (100).

That is, the block recognition unit 220 includes a plurality of switch contacts (corresponding to an operation key 112 for indicating a direction, a character, and a voice according to irregularities formed on the surface of the cube block 110 or the three-dimensional cube block 120). A code value is recognized by the key mattress 222 having a 224, and when the toy block 100 is inserted, the unevenness of the operation key 112 shorts the switch contact 224 of the key mattress 222. The short-circuit state identifies a particular code value.

In addition, as another embodiment of the actuation key, as shown in Figure 4, the inner surface of the toy block 100 is configured as an inlet groove (114 ') to be inserted into the actuation key 112, and the actuation key ( The groove 116 ′ indicating the direction at 112 is maintained in a preset state, and the groove 118 ′ representing the text and voice configures the number of grooves 118 ′ differently according to the text and the voice. By forming the switch contact 224 of the key mattress 222 corresponding to 118 'to protrude, the switch contact 224 is short-circuited when the toy block 100 is inserted into the learning toy 200. .

The configuration of the system mounted inside the learning toy 200 operated as described above will be described in more detail in the process described below with reference to FIGS. 5 to 7.

5 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a device mounted inside the digital educational toy according to the present invention.

6 is a circuit diagram showing the configuration of a conceptual switch of the block recognition unit of the digital educational toy according to the present invention.

7 is a reference diagram showing a state in which the block recognition unit of the digital educational toy according to the present invention installed in the learning toy.

As illustrated in FIG. 5, the components of the system mounted inside the learning toy of the present invention may include a block recognition unit 220, a mode selection unit 230, a control unit 240, a memory unit 250, and an interface 260. ) And a voice output unit 270.

The block recognition unit 220 is formed so that the toy block 100 is inserted in the upper direction of the learning toy 200 in the upper direction to the lower side of the plurality of the corresponding operation keys 112 of the blocks (110, 120) The key mattress 222 having a switch contact 224 is provided, the switch contact 224 of the key mattress 222 is short-circuited by the unevenness of the operation key 112 configured on the surface of the block, The shorted contact is connected to recognize the control unit 240.

The control unit 240 reads the contact point 224 shorted by the key mattress 222 of the block recognition unit 220 to read voice data corresponding to the read code value at the address address stored in the memory unit 250. To call, and to provide the voice signal to the outside through the voice data output unit 270.

In addition, the memory unit 250 may be connected to a USB or serial port of an external peripheral device (computer or wireless communication terminal) through an interface 260 and may be connected to a communication network (Internet). After accessing the network, the toy block 100 is connected to a web page of a manufacturer or a seller, and the voice data of the newly created text and sentence information is downloaded to the same value as the code value preset in the toy block 100, and the memory is downloaded. It is possible to expand the data stored in the system. The interface 260 may be configured as a USB or a serial port to enable wired / wireless data communication to peripheral devices.

The memory unit 250 may include a memory buffer register to easily transmit and receive data input from the outside through the interface 260 between the memory and the peripheral device.

The mode selector 230 includes a power mode 231, a repetition mode 232, a question mode 233, a word / operation mode 234, a moving picture / shake control mode 235, and a step selection mode 236. The power mode 231 is configured to control on / off and volume of power, and the repeat mode 232 is a specific code by an operation key 112 configured on the surface of the toy block 100. It provides a voice for the value or checks the previous state of the learning toy 200.

In addition, the question mode 233 is a currently operating mode, for example, when the user presses the question mode 233 with the toy block "A" inserted, the toy block "A" or the "A". Induces the input of the next toy block 100 to be a word in combination with the toy block 100, and accordingly the user inputs the toy block 100 called "N" of the "A" and "N" When the toy block becomes a word, the word "AN" is provided as a voice. If the user incorrectly inputs the toy block 100, the user outputs a message "Incorrect insertion of the toy block." Insert 100) to induce learning.

The fairy tale / movement selection mode 235 is for selecting a fairy tale or nursery rhyme, the word / operation selection mode 234 is for selecting to perform a word or operation, and the step selection mode 236 is an age-specific step of the infant. To choose. The mode selector 230 may provide a step-by-step learning suitable for the age by the user appropriately selecting each mode according to the age.

The power of the learning toy may be used by receiving a commercial power (AC) or by supplying driving power to a rechargeable battery (DC) power.

The operation of the present invention will be described in more detail with reference to FIGS. 6 and 7 showing the connection state of the mode selection unit 230 and the block recognition unit 220 of the learning toy.

As shown in FIGS. 6 and 7, the key mattress 222 of the block recognition unit 220 is disposed between four output lines output from the control unit 240 and three input lines input to the control unit 240. Each switch is mounted, and each output line output from the controller 240 is equipped with a diode D to prevent a signal output to the output line from being input to another output line.

In addition, A, B, C, D of the mattress 222 is a switch contact 224 for selecting the direction of the toy block 100 and 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 are toys Switch contacts 224 for reading code values capable of reading text and voice configured on the surface of block 100.

The block recognition unit 220 of the learning toy 200 is a concave-convex (A, B, C, D, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, to display the direction and letters and voice on the operation key 112) 7,8) when the specific switch contact 224 of the key mattress 222 is short-circuited and outputs a "HIGH" level signal to each output line of the control unit 240 to switch the specific switch contact for direction, text and voice. The short-circuit state is checked, voice data corresponding to a preset direction, text, and voice is called from the memory unit 250, and the voice data is provided to the voice output unit 270. In addition, the control unit 240 checks whether the contacts A, B, and D, which are preset at the contacts A, B, C, and D indicating the direction, and confirm that the toy block is correctly input, are short-circuited, If (A, B, D) is not short-circuited, the block is incorrectly inserted. Therefore, it is possible to improve the learning ability of the infant by inducing the correct input of the toy block 100.

Although the preferred embodiments of the present invention have been illustrated and described, the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments without departing from the spirit of the present invention as claimed in the claims. Various modifications can be made by those skilled in the art, and such modifications are intended to fall within the scope of the appended claims.

As described above, the digital educational toy of the present invention is a natural audiovisual textbook in various fields such as language, numeracy, music, object recognition, assimilation and agitation according to each growth stage of the child through a cube or a cubic cube. It can be used, and the letters, numbers, and pictures have the effect of improving the learning ability of the children by inducing the correct input of the toy block shown.

In addition, since various data consisting of code values such as letters, numbers, pictures, fairy tales and nursery rhymes are downloaded to the memory through the interface, the memory unit is expanded to provide various educational materials. It will have the advantage of providing various educational effects while inducing the curiosity of the growing children, such as themes by theme and themes.

Claims (8)

In the toy for learning with toy blocks and learners, Toy block 100 formed on each surface of the operation key 112 formed to have a specific code value by a plurality of irregularities 114 having a code value corresponding to the letters, numbers and pictures or blocks such as lions, elephants and airplanes )and; The key block 210 is inserted into the toy block 100 and a key mattress 222 having a plurality of switch contacts 224 to correspond to the operation key 112 at the bottom thereof, and the operation key ( Digital educational toy, characterized in that consisting of learning toys to recognize a specific code value according to the state of the switch contact 224 is short-circuited by the unevenness 114 of 112, and to provide a corresponding voice. 2. The digital educational toy according to claim 1, wherein the unevenness (114) of the operation key (112) comprises an unevenness (116) indicating a direction and an unevenness (118) indicating a character and a voice. According to claim 1, Learning toy 200 includes a block recognition unit 220 for recognizing the contact state of the key mattress 222 having a plurality of switch contacts 224 to correspond to the operation key 112; A mode selection unit 230 having a plurality of modes to set learning stages according to ages, topics, and themes; A controller 240 for checking a selected state of the block recognition unit 220 and the mode selection unit 230 and controlling a memory unit 260 having preset voice data according to the checked state; An interface 260 connected to an external communication network so as to extend data of the memory unit 260 through data communication; Digital learning toy, characterized in that the device is further mounted therein further comprises a voice output unit for outputting the voice to the outside by the signal output from the control unit (240). According to claim 3, Block recognition unit 220 is each switch is mounted between at least two or more output lines output from the control unit 240 and at least two or more input lines input to the control unit 240, Each output line output from the control unit 240 is equipped with a diode (D) is a digital learning toy, characterized in that configured to prevent the signal output to the output line is input to another output line. 4. The mode selector 230 includes a power mode 231, a repetition mode 232, a question mode 233, a word / computation mode 234, a moving picture / movement selection mode 235, and a step selection. Digital learning toys, characterized in that further comprises a mode contact to perform each function such as mode (236). The method of claim 3, wherein the control unit 240 outputs a "HIGH" level signal to each output line when the toy block 100 is inserted into the learning toy 200, the switch contact 224 of the key mattress 222 Digital educational toys, characterized in that for reading the specific code value of the operation key 112 in accordance with the signal input to the input line via. According to claim 3 and 6, wherein the control unit 240 and the uneven (A, B, D) indicating the direction in the toy block 100 in a state in which the toy block 100 is inserted into the learning toy 200 And the switch contact (A, B, D) of the corresponding key mattress 222 is programmed to induce re-entry of the block if the switch contacts (A, B, D) are not shorted. 4. The digital educational toy as claimed in claim 3, wherein the memory unit includes a memory buffer register.