Interactive toy

• US 6,959,166 B1
• Filed: 06/23/2000
• Issued: 10/25/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 04/16/1998
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Hasbro Inc.
• Original Assignee: Creator Limited
• Inventors: Gabai, Jacob, Sandlerman, Nimrod, Gabai, Oz
• Primary Examiner(s): Cheng, Joe H.
• Application Number:
  US09/602,892
• Time in Patent Office: 1,950 Days
• Field of Search: 434/118, 434/169, 434/185, 434/307.R, 434/308, 434/322, 434/323, 434/362, 434/365, 446/175, 446/280, 446/297, 446/298, 446/301, 446/302, 446/340, 446/341, 446/354, 446/397, 446/43, 446/91, 446/176, 446/299, 446/454, 463/1, 463/35, 463/39, 463/15, 463/23, 463/24, 463/29, 463/31, 345/50, 345/473, 345/474, 273/148.B, 273/460
• US Class Current: 434/308
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 13/005 with self-moving head or facial features with a choice of features A63H3/365; movable eyes A63H3/40
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 2200/00 Computerized interactive toys, e.g. dolls
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 3/28 Arrangements of sound-producing means in dolls; Means in dolls for producing sounds
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 3/40 movable
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/04 with audible presentation of the material to be studied sound recording or reproducing G11B
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/065 Combinations of audio and video presentations, e.g. videotapes, videodiscs, television systems

Abstract

The present invention relates to computer systems and methods generally and more particularly to development of interactive constructs, to techniques for teaching such development, and to verbally interactive toys.

Claims

1. A system of interactive toys comprising:

at least one toys, each individual toy having a fanciful physical appearance, a speaker mounted on the individual toy and a user input receiver operative to receive input from a user relating to that user'"'"'s interaction with said individual toy; and

a content controller operative to log information, received from said user input receivers, relating to individual past interactions between each user and toy, and to utilize said information relating to individual past interactions, to subsequently control at least one of the toys.

2. A system according to claim 1 wherein said content controller subsequently controls the selection of content to be output from the speaker of at least one of the toys.

3. A system according to claim 1 wherein the content controller identifies the user interacting with an individual toy.

4. An interactive toy method comprising:

providing at least one toys, each individual toy having a fanciful physical appearance, a speaker mounted on the individual toy and a user input receiver operative to receive input from a user relating to that user'"'"'s interaction with said individual toy; and

logging information, received from said user input receivers, relating to individual past interactions between each user and toy, and utilizing said information relating to individual past interactions, to subsequently control at least one of the toys.