Google Takes Books during the looking Glass With Augmented truth

Mark Sullivan March 04, 2016

know-how that might carry the experience of studying a guide into the 21st century—and no longer by means of replacing the book with a computer—was once patented these days by using Google, in line with filings posted nowadays on the U.S. Patent and Trademark place of work.

The technology outfits a physical guide with a lot of page sensors, contact sensors, and motion sensors to remember the reader’s movements. in accordance with these movements and the storyline of the e book, the device adds augmented fact components over the pages.Google calls the invention, merely, the “Storytelling device,” or “Interactive ebook.”

A small hamburger-shaped software plugs into an interface over the backbone of the guide and tasks imagery over the pages. And a small speaker provides sound to the experience.

Google has launched many patents for more than a few parts of the invention. as an example, one of the most patents released today describes how sensors realize the turning of a web page to trigger audiovisual occasions.

The expertise is fascinating as a result of it embraces an age-previous bodily medium and adds compelling digital audio and imagery on high. Let’s just hope there are not any ads.

In some other patent printed these days, we get a take a look at the “Media improved Pop-up e book,” an previous tackle the augmented ebook that uses a telephone or pill to so as to add to the reading experience. every web page of the e book has some other page that opens up vertically. A phone or tablet sits in the back of that web page and projects complementary pictures thru to the reader.