Subliminal recording device

• US 6,940,432 B1
• Filed: 12/22/2003
• Issued: 09/06/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 12/22/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Vern Hall
• Original Assignee: Vern Hall
• Inventors: Hall, Vern
• Primary Examiner(s): Williams, Howard L.
• Application Number:
  US10/743,477
• Time in Patent Office: 624 Days
• Field of Search: 341/110, 704/272, 446/142
• US Class Current: 341/110
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 3/003 specially adapted for a particular function not connected with dolls as electric lighting devices A63H3/006
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 3/02 made of fabrics or stuffed
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 3/28 Arrangements of sound-producing means in dolls; Means in dolls for producing sounds

Abstract

An apparatus for recording and replaying a message comprising a plurality of control buttons for controlling the apparatus; a processor connected to the record control button for communicating instructions to a memory; a memory connected to the processor for storing audio data; a microphone connected to the memory for providing audio data to the memory; and a speaker connected to the memory for producing audio output. Upon activation of a first of said plurality of control buttons a microphone is controlled to receive audio data. The microphone provides the received audio data to a memory for storing the audio data. Upon activation of a second of said plurality of control buttons the processor controls the memory to provide the stored audio data to the speaker for audiblizing at predetermined intervals.

Claims

1. An apparatus for recording and replaying an audio subliminal message comprising:

a) a housing containing a recording device, said housing mounted within a stuffed animal, said recording device having a plurality of control buttons for controlling the recording device comprising record and play buttons, a start button, a mode button, and a set button;

b) a processor in said recording device connected to the plurality of control buttons for communicating instructions to various parts of the recording device;

c) a memory connected to the processor for storing said subliminal message;

d) said recording device including a microphone connected to the memory for receiving said subliminal message and providing the subliminal message to the memory for storage;

e) a speaker connected to the memory for outputting the subliminal message wherein upon activation of the record button said microphone is controlled to receive said subliminal message and provide the received subliminal message to said memory for storing the subliminal message and upon activation of the play button said processor controls said memory to provide stored subliminal message for audiblizing by said speaker;

f) said start button upon activation causing the processor to signal the memory to replay said stored subliminal message repetitiously at each of preselected intervals of time stored in said memory;

g) said mode button upon being pressed for a predetermined amount of time causes said processor to instruct the recording device to enter into a clock setting mode, said set button upon being pressed causing time values to change; and

h) a plurality of control button extensions corresponding to each of said plurality of control buttons, said plurality of extensions being positioned on an outer surface of said stuffed animal.

2. The apparatus as recited in claim 1, farther comprising an LCD display connected to said processor for indicating an operating mode of said apparatus.

3. A method for recording and replaying an audio subliminal message comprising the steps of:

a) mounting a recording device within a stuffed animal, said recording device having a plurality of control buttons for controlling the recording device comprising record and play buttons, a start button, a mode button and a set button, said recording device receiving said subliminal message through a microphone upon activation of said record button, said plurality of control buttons having control button extensions corresponding to each of said plurality of control buttons, said button extensions being positioned on an outer surface of said stuffed animal;

b) storing the received subliminal message in a memory; and

c) providing the stored subliminal message to a speaker for audiblizing the stored subliminal message upon activation of said play button; and

d) activating said start button causing the processor to signal the memory to replay said stored subliminal message repetitiously at each of predetermined intervals of time stored in said memory.

4. The method as recited in claim 3, further comprising the step of converting the subliminal message from analog to digital form prior to said step of storing.

5. The method as recited in claim 4, wherein the predetermined intervals comprise audiblizing the subliminal message a first time, followed by twenty repetitions of the subliminal message one hour later, followed by twenty repetitions of the subliminal message two hours later.

6. The method as recited in claim 5, further comprising the step of repeating audiblizing of the subliminal message at twenty repetitions in two hour intervals.

7. The method as recited in claim 6, wherein repeating audiblizing of the subliminal message at twenty repetitions in two hour intervals ceases after the third interval.