US 12,190,746 B2
Method and device for assisting reading and learning by focusing attention
Angela Sirigu, Lyons (FR); Alice Gomez, Chassieu (FR); Thomas Perret, Villeurbanne (FR); Guillaume Lio, Grenoble (FR); and Jean-René Duhamel, Lyons (FR)
Assigned to Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Villeurbanne (FR); and CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, Paris (FR)
Filed by Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Villeurbanne (FR); and CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, Paris (FR)
Filed on Jan. 31, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/588,642.
Claims priority of application No. 2100991 (FR), filed on Feb. 2, 2021; and application No. 2100992 (FR), filed on Feb. 2, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0262340 A1, Aug. 18, 2022
Int. Cl. G09B 17/00 (2006.01); G10L 15/02 (2006.01)
CPC G09B 17/006 (2013.01) [G10L 15/02 (2013.01); G10L 2015/025 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for assisting a user in reading and in learning to read, said method comprising causing a digital system to display a succession of graphemic entities on a screen, said displayed graphemic entities being displayed with first values for several display parameters so as to enable their detection or identification by said user, causing said digital system to detect when said user has pointed to a particular graphemic entity with said first values of said display parameters, causing said digital system to simultaneously display, on said screen, those graphemic entities that are adjacent to said particular graphemic entity with said first values of said display parameters and said particular graphemic entity with second values for said display parameters, at least one of said second values being different from one of said first values for a given display parameter so as to enable identification of said particular graphemic entity by said user and so as to cause said user to perceive a change in display, and causing said digital system to acoustically render a phonemic entity associated with said particular graphemic entity to which said user has pointed, wherein said first values of said display parameters cause said graphemic entities to be displayed with an alteration that enables said graphemic entities to be detected but not identified.