Apparatus, method and system for interacting amusement

• US 9,302,192 B2
• Filed: 07/23/2014
• Issued: 04/05/2016
• 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): Liddle, Jay
• Assistant Examiner(s): RADA, ALEX P
• Application Number:
  US14/339,222
• Publication Number:
  US 20140335756A1
• Time in Patent Office: 622 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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. A method for interacting amusement, the method comprising the steps of:

providing an external acoustic wave signal;

adding a high-frequency modulation signal to the external acoustic wave signal;

providing an interacting amusement apparatus having an acoustic receiver;

receiving the external acoustic wave signal using the interacting amusement apparatus;

decoding the high-frequency modulation signal into a complete packet message; and

generating an interaction according to the complete packet message using the interacting amusement apparatus,

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 external acoustic wave signal includes the high-frequency modulation signal, and the step of decoding the high-frequency modulation signal into the complete packet message further comprises;

converting the external acoustic wave signal into a digital signal;

analyzing a frequency spectrum of the digital signal to output a frequency envelope;

generating a binary data stream according to a clock signal and the frequency envelope; and

directly extracting the complete packet message from the binary data stream without any de-spreading processing.

2. The method 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 method according to claim 1, wherein the interacting amusement apparatus is a doll, and the interaction comprises moving at least one of extremities of the doll.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the interacting amusement apparatus is a doll, and the interaction comprises an acoustic message corresponding to the external acoustic wave signal.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the interacting amusement apparatus is a display apparatus, and the interaction comprises changing a display frame corresponding to the external acoustic wave signal.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the step of decoding the high-frequency modulation signal into the complete packet message comprises:

converting the external acoustic wave signal into a digital signal;

analyzing a frequency spectrum of the digital signal to output a frequency envelope;

generating two-bit data according to a clock signal and the frequency envelope; and

comparing the two-bit data with a predetermined packet header bit to extract the complete packet message.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein the step of decoding the high-frequency modulation signal into the complete packet message further comprises:

performing an error correction code calibration on the complete packet message to ensure correct contents of the complete packet message.