LEITES LOPES LUIZ HUMBERTO (BR)
LEITES LOPES LUIZ HUMBERTO (BR)
US5825347A | 1998-10-20 | |||
US5464214A | 1995-11-07 |
The initiation of a child into the computer world can come from attracting the child to the computer, with no distance between the user and the reality (such distance that happens when we see the computer just like a machine).
Just as it has happened until now computers have been a reason for the parents'concern ; it appens cause they see their children being attracted by one of the most impetuous tentacles of the modern technology: computer science.
The proposal that this theme cover brings is to incorporate the computer to the child's world, in a very balanced way, meaning, reducing the suggestion that its presence, by itself, carries out a frantic operation, which causes the child to have his sensitiveness 'stolen"from the natural environment, setting apart the child from a healty growth.
The idea takes from through an object, called here the theme cover, which, depending on the customers choices, will make the computer looks like the chosen animal : a donkey, a cow, a dog, a cat, a monkey, etc.
For you to visualize the theme covers, you find enclosed the following illustrations : Picture 1-it's a front view of the cover. In this example, a cow design.
Picture 2-it's a back view of picture 1, showing on the inside, where the monitor will be put up.
Picture 3-It's a side/superior/front view of the cover, with the monitor in.
Picture 4-it's a front view, showing one of its several animals, a cow iad ; and a software program projecting an image on the screen to supplement the cow profile.
According to the pictures above, it shows a cover made of cloth or any other suitable material, which involves the monitor (M) in a way that the image on the screen matches with the designed"head", with its supplementary features.
Being"dressed"like that, the computer will be integrated into the child's room, and won't be something that communicates with the child only when it's turne on.
The side effects of using the machine (because of the constant desire of being connected with the virtual world) will be reduced by others pleasant sensations, which is the goal of the cover: making the machine more natural ; placing it on the child's time ; getting it closer to the child; stimulating the child sensitiveness for things that aren't frantic, eletric, impetuous, on the contrary, showing things related to nature, animals ; a friendly way to relax a child's mind.
In other situations, computers can create inhibition, or even fear of confrontig it This is a problem that afFects more grown up people who are afraid of technology (technofobia). Even in these situations, the theme cover will surely be like a therapy.
The theme cover can also be used in T. V. sets.
Conceived like this, the object of the patent fits in with the definition of theinvention.