Talking book and interactive talking toy figure
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Abstract
A talking book is combined with a talking, animated toy figure. Each includes a sound synthesizer, a digital memory including at least some speech data to be used by the synthesizer to produce speech and a processor to control the operations of the synthesizer. Each includes a speaker coupled with the synthesizer to actually produce speech and other sounds. The book includes two outer covers and two inner pages, each with some printing. Depressible switches are provided on the inner covers to cue the processor to generate sounds appropriate to the print near the depressed cover switch. Switches in a hinge pin received in hinge rings provided each cover and page to join the covers and pages together are depressed by cam surfaces inside the ring of the front cover and each page and signal, the processor the configuration of the book. In addition to generating its own speech, the book processor transmits a control signal to the processor of the toy figure cuing that processor to generate control signals to generate the appropriate sound and/or sound by the figure synthesizer and/or animation control signals to animate the toy figure. Thus, actions of the toy figure are coordinated with the information provided in the book.
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37 Claims
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1-12. -12 (Canceled).
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13. A talking book comprising:
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a hinge pin;
a plurality of book leaves, the leaves including a front leaf, a back leaf, and at least one leaf therebetween, wherein at least two of the plurality of leaves are pivotably engaged with the hinge pin at one end of each leaf, each pivotably mounted leaf being movable between two positions on first and second lateral sides of the hinge pin;
a processor configured to generate at least a first control signal and a second control signal to at least initiate speech generation by the talking book;
at least a first leaf position indicating switch operably coupled with the processor and responsive to a pivotal position of at least a first one of the pivotably engaged leaves with respect to the hinge pin, wherein the at least first leaf position indicating switch indicates whether the first one of the leaves is on one of the first and second lateral sides;
at least first and second mode switches operably coupled with the processor;
a memory operably coupled with the processor and containing at least some speech data; and
a speaker operably coupled with the processor to reproduce sound including speech. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37)
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