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Interactive communicating toy figure device

  • US 4,451,911 A
  • Filed: 02/03/1982
  • Issued: 05/29/1984
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/03/1982
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An interactive communicating device comprising:

  • (1) a housing in the shape of a figure toy;

    (2) means mounted in said housing for storing a plurality of audible messages;

    (3) play means connected to said message storing means for selectively playing individual ones of said plurality of audible messages;

    (4) a plurality of switches located on said housing; and

    (5) control means including a central processor, having a stored program of coded instructions, coupled to said plurality of switches and said play means, said control means also including;

    (a) means for operating said device in a first mode in which each of said switches within said plurality of switches causes said play means to play a particular respective one of said audible messages;

    (b) means for operating said device in a second mode in which a plurality of problem-solution pairs exist wherein a selected one of said messages is played announcing a problem and a corresponding one of said switches is exclusively selected to effect the corresponding proper solution upon activation by the user, including means for establishing a respective weighted probability of the occurrence of the announcement of each of said problems, and selection of said selected message is thereby established; and

    (c) mode control means for changing between said first and said second modes of operation.

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