Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
434162000 | Writing or printing by hand | 20 |
20080261182 | Skip-a-space writing and composition paper - Writing and composition paper that is functional in helping students to write legibly and teachers to easily read their writing, thus helping teachers make more efficient use of their time. “Skip-A-Space Writing and Composition Paper” is a step above traditional writing paper because it allows students to produce legible handwriting and gives them a “built-in handwriting guide on each sheet of paper”. “Skip-A-Space Writing and Composition Paper” may contain a vertical line approximately one inch from the right and/or left sides of the edge of the paper and may be used for margin guides. A sheet of “Skip-A-Space Writing and Composition Paper” may be wide-ruled or college-ruled. It may also be available in loose leaf or composition notebook form and may contain holes on one side to allow insertion into a binder. | 10-23-2008 |
20080286732 | Method for Testing and Development of Hand Drawing Skills - A method of performing hand drawings analysis includes storing a plurality of hand drawing exercises. Each hand drawing exercise may be configured to test an ability to draw a symbol. A record may be stored. The record may include respondent information. One or more hand drawing exercises may be selected and possibly adapted based on the responded information. A response to each selected hand drawing exercise may be received via an optical-reader device. Each response may be evaluated. The record may be updated based on the evaluated responses. Information may be provided based on the evaluated responses. | 11-20-2008 |
20090068626 | NUMBER WRITING DEVELOPMENT GUIDE - A number writing development guide including a number guide sheet having sequential instruction indicia. The sequential instruction indicia includes discrete ordered steps that cue a user in proper writing strokes to write an associated number. At least one of the discrete ordered steps relates to a common childhood activity or experience to thereby form an association between the activity or experience and the sequential instruction indicia. The guide further includes a challenge sheet coupled to the number guide sheet and having number challenge indicia. The number challenge indicia cues the user to arrive at a numerical answer to the number challenge and write the numerical answer thereon. | 03-12-2009 |
20090253107 | Multi-Modal Learning System - An instruction is presented to a user for making a target gesture. The target gesture may be a portion of an exemplary or model symbol. The instruction may be presented in various ways, such as being printed on a writing surface or being played in audio format through a speaker of a smart pen device. A writing gesture made on a writing surface by the user is digitally captured using a smart pen device. The captured writing gesture is compared to the target gesture and feedback is determined based on this comparison. This feedback may indicate the correctness of the user's writing gesture. The feedback may be presented to the user through various means, including through the smart pen device. The comparison may also be used to determine a next instruction for the user to follow. | 10-08-2009 |
20100178638 | Method for teaching grammar through a series of steps - A method for teaching grammar where each lesson focuses on a different element of grammar id disclosed. These lessons are preferably arranged not by parts of speech, but rather are grouped such that subsequent lessons build on previously learned lessons. Identifying an element of grammar is achieved through a series of steps, whereby if these steps are followed exactly, the element of grammar can easily be identified. At least one of the steps includes a question, where the answer the question is the element of grammar to be identified by the user. | 07-15-2010 |
20110091843 | Handwriting instrument - A handwriting instrument to provide visual and tactile cues to teach and improve handwriting includes a writing medium, a rectangular writing box on the writing medium. The rectangular writing box consists of first and second vertical end lines connecting ends of an upper horizontal line, a lower raised horizontal line and a dashed line located between the upper and lower horizontal lines extending from the first vertical line to the second vertical line. The area between the lower raised horizontal line and the dashed horizontal line is shaded a different color than the writing medium to provide further visual cues for handwriting. | 04-21-2011 |
20120100511 | DRAWING CARTOONS TO LEARN CURSIVE WRITING - The present invention comprises a method for the instruction of handwriting through the use of cartoon items. Certain cartoons and other drawings may be introduced and students asked to reproduce the cartoon items a number of times; until a desired proficiency is reached. Subsequently, the student may be made aware that a portion or all of the cartoon item also includes a handwriting element. The student may then be instructed in the reproduction of the handwriting element alone. Through this method the student may acquire the necessary skills to reproduce the handwriting element alone, or in combination with other handwriting elements, to achieve proficiency at reproducing the handwriting element. The end result being that handwriting may be learned efficiently in a manner that retains the students' interest. | 04-26-2012 |
20130273510 | Handwriting method for teaching roman alphabet - A muscle movement handwriting teaching method for teaching handwriting using a novel lettering guide and an method of instruction which takes advantage of the similar hand movements used with-in particular groups of letters. The learning of these letters is organized so that after one letter is mastered, another letter is learned based on the similarities of hand movements used in printing a learned letter and the next letter being taught. The handwriting method facilitates learning how to read and write in new languages. | 10-17-2013 |
20130288209 | BOOKLET ASSEMBLY WITH GRID BOX AND METHOD TO HELP CHILDREN TO WRITE AND CREATE - The current invention discloses a grid box that may be printed in a booklet to help children to learn writing, improve handwriting, and create their own content. The grid box has four parallel lines defining three spaces that may be used for standardized handwriting of English and Spanish words and letters. The middle space of the grid box is shaded to facilitate the process to standardize handwriting. The grid boxes are preferably printed in a booklet assembly having two or more booklets stacked together. These booklets have different lengths and widths, while the bigger booklets are positioned beneath the smaller booklets, making a stepped arrangement. With picturing pasting sections and leading texts, the children learning to write may be prompted to handwrite letters and words in the grid boxes while completing a story. | 10-31-2013 |
20140080104 | KANJI STROKE ORDER LEARNING DEVICE, KANJI STROKE ORDER LEARNING SUPPORT METHOD, KANJI STROKE ORDER LEARNING SYSTEM AND RECORDING MEDIUM IN WHICH KANJI STROKE ORDER LEARNING PROGRAM IS RECORDED - Disclosed is a kanji stroke order learning device including a kanji part stroke order storage unit which stores a plurality of stroke order data of kanji parts, a kanji part combination storage unit which stores kanji and kanji parts included in the kanji in association to each other, a kanji specifying unit which specifies any kanji as a specified kanji, a stroke order input unit which inputs stroke order of the specified kanji, a kanji part stroke order determination unit which determines whether the stroke order of the specified kanji input by the stroke order input unit is correct or incorrect for each kanji part included in the specified kanji, and a kanji part stroke order correct/incorrect display control unit which displays a determination result obtained by the kanji part stroke order determination unit for each kanji part included in the specified kanji. | 03-20-2014 |
20140093845 | EXAMPLE-BASED ERROR DETECTION SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC EVALUATION OF WRITING, METHOD FOR SAME, AND ERROR DETECTION APPARATUS FOR SAME - An error detection system for automatically evaluating writing includes: an example construction apparatus to collect example sentences including various literary styles, to break up the collected example sentences in units of morphemes, and to construct the example sentences in an example-based index database (DB); and an error detection apparatus to break up an input sentence in units of morphemes, to generate one or more morpheme sequences bound in arbitrary window sizes based on one or more of morphemes of the broken-up input sentence, to search the example-based index DB for each of the generated morpheme sequences, and to detect an error according to a frequency at which said each morpheme is arranged in a corresponding morpheme sequence among morpheme sequences searched for through the example-based index DB. | 04-03-2014 |
434163000 | Tracing | 3 |
20140342322 | Securing device for bound component - A writing or display system including a case having an opening configured to receive an insert therein. The insert includes a plurality of pages bound together by a binding device, and the case includes a generally clear, transparent or translucent panel configured such that an outer-most page of the insert is viewable therethrough when the insert is received in the opening. The case further includes a coupling device configured to selectively engage the binding device or an outer surface of the pages to retain the insert in the case. | 11-20-2014 |
20160071427 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TEACHING HANDWRITING - The present teachings are directed towards a method of teaching handwriting to a student. The method can include playing a first audio cue from a plurality of different audio cues. Each audio cue can include at least one musical note and can correspond to a specific one of a plurality of letter formation strokes. The method can include instructing the student to perform a first movement in response to the student hearing the first audio cue. The first movement can correspond to a first one of the letter formation strokes. | 03-10-2016 |
434164000 | Slotted or grooved path | 1 |
20150302757 | LEARNING AID - A learning aid ( | 10-22-2015 |
434166000 | Mechanical means for teaching proper position of body part while writing | 6 |
20080254418 | Corrective writing aid to facilitate proper grip - The present invention provides a hand held elongated writing aid to facilitate a mature tripod grasp. The writing aid comprises a writing tool, a string and an object. The string is attached to the upper end of the writing tool, and the object is attached to the other end of the string. By holding the object between the fourth and fifth digits, the student is induced to hold the writing tool between the thumb and second and third digit. | 10-16-2008 |
20100209894 | HAND-INSCRIBABLE SURFACE AND METHOD - A hand-inscribable surface has a pattern on its surface to assist a user to handwrite in correct alignment. The pattern includes an arrangement of linear paths with linear regions in between. The uses writes in the linear regions relying on the linear paths as alignment guides. Within each linear region, there is a separation-boundary that is located between: i) a clear primary linear strip which is substantially devoid of indications and in which clear primary linear strip, in use, a majority of typical handwriting will be inscribed; and ii) at least one secondary linear strip in which only a minority of typical handwriting will be inscribed. The separation-boundary is biased towards one of the linear paths, between which it lies. In other words, the separation-boundary is not located centrally between the linear paths, and the primary linear strip is substantially wider than the secondary linear strip. | 08-19-2010 |
20110217680 | WRITING INSTRUMENT GRIPPING AID - A gripping aid for use in connection with a hand-held writing, drawing and painting instrument comprising a single unitary body having a radial section capable of supporting the radial section of the hand fixedly connected to an ulnar section capable of supporting the ulnar section of the hand. | 09-08-2011 |
20140322679 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR WRITING FORM TRAINING - An apparatus and method for training writing position can be implemented in the form of a glove with fasteners that secure a thumb, forefinger and middle finger together in a desired writing grip position. A protrusion can be applied to an outer lateral portion of the user's writing hand between a pinky finger and a wrist area, which can be mounted on a glove worn by the user, to prop up the writing hand of the user at a desired angle for writing. The protrusion can be implemented in the form of a ball that is fastened to the outer lateral portion of the glove worn on the writer's hand. The glove can be configured to be customized for a given user, such as by selecting a desired glove size, fastener position and/or position of a protrusion on the outer lateral portion of the glove between the pinky finger and the wrist. The glove is potentially useful for training a desired writing position of the user's writing hand as may be helpful in overcoming some of the challenges related to dysgraphia. | 10-30-2014 |
20150064665 | Write Start - Write Start is a device designed to help young students to hold a writing instrument correctly when learning how to write. The device consists of a stretchable pen or pencil holder that fits around the thumb and index finger. | 03-05-2015 |
20160019809 | GRIPPING AID - A gripping aid for hand held implements such as writing implements or eating utensils, which includes a bracelet portion configured and dimensioned to fit around the wrist of a person and a support band adjustably attached to the bracelet portion to provide an adjustably sized loop for engaging the hand held implement. | 01-21-2016 |