Apparatus, method and system for interacting amusement

• US 8,821,208 B2
• Filed: 03/26/2010
• Issued: 09/02/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/26/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Generalplus Technology Inc.
• Original Assignee: Generalplus Technology Inc.
• Inventors: Hsu, Chia-Sheng
• Primary Examiner(s): Brewster, William
• Assistant Examiner(s): RADA, ALEX P
• Application Number:
  US12/732,738
• Publication Number:
  US 20110237153A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,621 Days
• Field of Search: 446/175, 700/94, 846/71, 846/85, 375/260
• US Class Current: 446/175
• 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

Abstract

The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for interacting amusement. The apparatus includes an acoustic receiver, a decoder and an interaction generating apparatus. The acoustic receiver receives an external acoustic wave signal and transfers the external acoustic wave signal into an acoustic signal. The decoder receives the acoustic signal. When the external acoustic wave signal has a high-frequency modulation signal, the decoder decodes the high-frequency modulation signal into a complete packet message according to a specific decoding procedure. The interaction generating apparatus receives the complete packet message, and generates an interaction according to the message.

Claims

1. An apparatus for interacting amusement, comprising:

an acoustic receiver for receiving an external acoustic wave signal and transferring the external acoustic wave signal into an acoustic signal;

a decoder, which is coupled to the acoustic receiver and receives the acoustic signal, wherein the acoustic signal has a high-frequency modulation signal, the decoder decodes the high-frequency modulation signal into a complete packet message according to a specific decoding procedure; and

an interaction generating apparatus, which is coupled to the decoder, receives the complete packet message, and generates an interaction according to the message,

wherein a carrier frequency of the high-frequency modulation signal is higher than 17 KHz, and the high-frequency modulation signal is a narrow-band modulated signal,

wherein, the acoustic signal includes the high-frequency modulation signal, the decoder converts the acoustic signal into a digital signal, the decoder analyzes a frequency spectrum of the digital signal to output a frequency envelope, the decoder generates binary data stream according to a clock signal and the frequency envelope, and the decoder directly extracts the complete packet message from the binary data stream without any de-spreading processing.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the high-frequency modulation signal is modulated according to a frequency shift keying, and the specific decoding procedure is a frequency shift keying modulation decoding procedure.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the decoder comprises:

an analog-to-digital converter for receiving the acoustic signal and converting the acoustic signal into the digital signal;

a spectrum analyzer for receiving the digital signal, analyzing the frequency spectrum of the digital signal and outputting the frequency envelope;

a binary data decision circuit, which is coupled to the spectrum analyzer, receives the frequency envelope and the clock signal, and generates binary data stream according to the clock signal and the frequency envelope;

a package header comparing circuit, which is coupled to the binary data decision circuit, receives the binary data stream, and compares a predetermined packet header bit with the binary data stream to extract the complete packet message; and

an error correcting circuit, which is coupled to the package header comparing circuit, receives the complete packet message, and performs an error correction code calibration to ensure correct contents of the complete packet message.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1 being a doll, wherein the interaction comprises moving at least one of extremities of the doll.

5. The apparatus according to claim 1 being a doll, wherein the interaction comprises an acoustic message corresponding to the external acoustic wave signal.

6. The apparatus according to claim 1 being a display apparatus, wherein the interaction comprises changing a display frame corresponding to the external acoustic wave signal.

7. An interacting amusement system, comprising:

an external acoustic generating apparatus for generating an external acoustic wave signal, which is modulated to have a high-frequency modulation signal;

an interacting amusement apparatus, comprising;

an acoustic receiver for receiving the external acoustic wave signal, and transferring the external acoustic wave signal into an acoustic signal;

a decoder, which is coupled to the acoustic receiver, receives the acoustic signal, and decodes the high-frequency modulation signal into a complete packet message according to a specific decoding procedure the acoustic signal has the high-frequency modulation signal; and

an interaction generating apparatus, which is coupled to the decoder, receives the complete packet message, and generates an interaction according to the message,

wherein a carrier frequency of the high-frequency modulation signal is higher than 17 KHz, and the high-frequency modulation signal is a narrow-band modulated signal,

wherein, the acoustic signal includes the high-frequency modulation signal, the decoder converts the acoustic signal into a digital signal, the decoder analyzes a frequency spectrum of the digital signal to output a frequency envelope, the decoder generates binary data stream according to a clock signal and the frequency envelope, and the decoder directly extracts the complete packet message from the binary data stream without any de-spreading processing.

8. The system according to claim 7, wherein the high-frequency modulation signal is modulated according to a frequency shift keying, and the specific decoding procedure is a frequency shift keying modulation decoding procedure.

9. The system according to claim 7, wherein the decoder comprises:

an analog-to-digital converter for receiving the acoustic signal and converting the acoustic signal into the digital signal;

a spectrum analyzer for receiving the digital signal, analyzing the frequency spectrum of the digital signal and outputting the frequency envelope;

a binary data decision circuit, which is coupled to the spectrum analyzer, receives the frequency envelope and the clock signal, and generates binary data stream according to the clock signal and the frequency envelope;

a package header comparing circuit, which is coupled to the binary data decision circuit, receives the binary data stream, and compares a predetermined packet header bit with the binary data stream to extract the complete packet message; and

an error correcting circuit, which is coupled to the package header comparing circuit, receives the complete packet message, and performs an error correction code calibration to ensure correct contents of the complete packet message.

10. The system according to claim 7, wherein the interacting amusement apparatus is a doll, wherein the interaction comprises moving at least one of extremities of the doll.

11. The system according to claim 7, wherein the interacting amusement apparatus is a doll, wherein the interaction comprises an acoustic message corresponding to the external acoustic wave signal.

12. The system according to claim 7, wherein the interacting amusement apparatus is a display apparatus, wherein the interaction comprises changing a display frame corresponding to the external acoustic wave signal.

13. The system according to claim 7, wherein the external acoustic generating apparatus comprises a television, a DVD player, a CD player, a radio, a personal computer, a public audio broadcasting apparatus, another interacting amusement apparatus or any one of combinations thereof.