Media Enhanced Pop-Up Book

Abstract

This document describes a media enhanced pop-up book and techniques and devices for presenting media content to visually enhance a pop-up book. A media enhanced pop-up book includes physical pages and pop-pages attached to the physical pages. The media enhanced pop-up book further includes a pop-up system configured to cause the pop-up pages to pop-up in front of a display of a computing device as the physical pages are turned. A story controller, implemented at the computing device, detects a pop-up page of the media-enhanced pop-up book when the pop-up page pops-up in front of the display, and presents media content associated with the detected pop-up page on the display. The media content is viewable through the pop-up page and thus visually enhances the pop-up page.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A pop-up book, comprising:
 physical pages;   one or more pop-up pages attached to the physical pages; and   a pop-up system configured to cause the one or more pop-up pages to pop-up in front of a display of a computing device as the physical pages are turned.   
     
     
         2 . The pop-up book as recited in  claim 1 , wherein each pop-up page includes an electronic identifier embedded in the pop-up page. 
     
     
         3 . The pop-up book as recited in  claim 2 , wherein the pop-up system is further configured to cause the one or more pop-up pages to pop-up in front of the display of the computing device to cause the computing device to detect the electronic identifier embedded in the pop-up page. 
     
     
         4 . The pop-up book as recited in  claim 3 , wherein the pop-up system is further configured to cause the one or more pop-up pages to pop-up in front of the display of the computing device to cause the computing device to present media content associated with the pop-up page on the display responsive to detecting the electronic identifier embedded in the pop-up page. 
     
     
         5 . The pop-up book as recited in  claim 4 , wherein each pop-up page includes cut-outs that enable the media content presented on the display to be viewable through the cut-outs. 
     
     
         6 . The pop-up book as recited in  claim 2 , wherein the electronic identifier comprises an NFC tag that is detectable by an NFC sensor of the computing device. 
     
     
         7 . The pop-up book as recited in  claim 2 , wherein the display of the computing device comprises a multi-touch display, and wherein the electronic identifier comprises a pattern of touch input points that are detectable by the multi-touch display. 
     
     
         8 . The pop-up book as recited in  claim 1 , wherein the pop-up system includes a double-hinged page-turning mechanism. 
     
     
         9 . The pop-up book as recited in  claim 1 , wherein each pop-up page is associated with a first page positioned on the left when the book is open to the pop-up page and a second page positioned on the right when the book is open to the pop-up page. 
     
     
         10 . The pop-up book as recited in  claim 9 , wherein the pop-up system includes, for each pop-up page, a double-hinged page-turning mechanism comprising a first hinge that rotates on a first fulcrum to enable the first page to be turned, and a second hinge that rotates on a second fulcrum to enable the second page to be turned. 
     
     
         11 . The pop-up book as recited in  claim 9 , wherein the pop-up system includes, for each pop-up page, a pop-up mechanism configured to cause the pop-up page to pop-up in front of the display, the pop-up mechanism attached to the first page and to the pop-up page, and the pop-up page further attached to the second page. 
     
     
         12 . The pop-up book as recited in  claim 11 , wherein turning the first page forward in the book causes the pop-up page to pop-up in front of the display, wherein turning the first page backward in the book causes the pop-up page to fold down into the book, wherein turning the second page forward in the book causes the pop-up page to fold down into the book, and wherein turning the second page backward in the book causes the pop-up page to pop-up in front of the display. 
     
     
         13 . The pop-up book as recited in  claim 11 , wherein the positioning of the pop-up page relative to the display can be controlled by modifying the position at which the pop-up mechanism attaches to the first page. 
     
     
         14 . The pop-up book as recited in  claim 11 , wherein the pop-up mechanism is triangular-shaped. 
     
     
         15 . The pop-up book as recited in  claim 9 , wherein the orientation of the first page is skewed relative to the second page when the book is open to the first page and the second page. 
     
     
         16 . A method comprising:
 turning a first page of a book forward on a first hinge that rotates on a first fulcrum;   causing a pop-up page of the book to pop-up in front of a display of a computing device responsive to turning the first page of the book forward;   turning a second page of the book forward on a second hinge that rotates on a second fulcrum, the second page adjacent to the first page; and   causing the pop-up page to fold down into the book responsive to turning the second page of the book forward.   
     
     
         17 . The method as recited in  claim 16 , wherein the causing the pop-up page to pop-up in front of the display causes the computing device to detect an electronic identifier embedded in the pop-up page. 
     
     
         18 . The method as recited in  claim 16 , wherein the causing the pop-up page to pop-up in front of the display causes the computing device to present media content on the display. 
     
     
         19 . The method as recited in  claim 16 , further comprising:
 turning the second page of the book backward on the second hinge that rotates on the second fulcrum; and   causing the pop-up page to pop-up in front of the display responsive to turning the second page of the book backward.   
     
     
         20 . The method as recited in  claim 19 , further comprising:
 turning the first page of the book backward on the first hinge that rotates on the first fulcrum; and   causing the pop-up page to fold down into the book responsive to turning the first page of the book backward.