Electronic training aide

• US 20040220686A1
• Filed: 06/27/2002
• Published: 11/04/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 06/27/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Altus Brands II LLC
• Original Assignee: Altus Brands II LLC
• Inventors: Cass, Steve
• Application Number:
  US10/184,292
• Publication Number:
  US 20040220686A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/94
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 23/36 for zoology

Abstract

An electronic training aide to assist an individual in the proper reproduction of wildlife sounds. Animals communicate with each other using different sounds. For example, a turkey may use as many as 15 different sounds to communicate. Some sounds may indicate danger, while other sounds signal safety. Hunters, photographers and wildlife aficionados spend countless hours trying to accurately replicate wildlife sounds on calls. The invention is an electronic device specific to the various calls of individual wildlife calls and sounds for a specific animal. The device includes a series of buttons and activating each button reproduces a specific call such as alarm call, lost call, feeding call, hail call, come back call, etc for each animal. The person could activate the particular call with a button and continue to learn each individual call by repetition.

Claims

1. An electronic device for the reproduction of wildlife sounds comprising:

a memory having digital audio sounds stored therein, said digital audio sounds comprising a plurality of different calls for the same particular species of animal;

activator means coupled to said memory adapted to play one or more of said different calls.

2. The electronic device of claim 1 wherein said plurality of different calls for the same particular species of animal comprises at least two of a lost call, assembly call, greeting call, alarm call, feeding call, yelp, cluck, purr, hail call, come back call and safety call.

3. The electronic device of claim 2 further comprising a speaker electronically coupled to said memory.

4. The electronic device of claim 1 further comprising an activator means coupled to said memory, said activator means comprising one or more buttons.

5. The electronic device of claim 4 wherein said one or more buttons are adapted to activate a particular call for the same species of animal.

6. The electronic device of claim 5 wherein said buttons comprise a first button and a second button, said first button being adapted to activate a first call of a particular species of animal and said second button being adapted to activate a second call of said species of animal.

7. The device of claim 6 wherein the device is adapted to interrupt the first call and play said second call when said second button is activated.

15. A method of training to reproduce various wildlife calls of the same species of animal comprising:

playing a first wildlife call of a species of animal using the electronic device of claim 1;

playing a second wildlife call of a species of animal using the electronic device of claim 1;

repeating at least one of said first and second call.

8. A method of facilitating the reproduction of wildlife calls comprising:

storing digital audio sounds comprising a plurality of different calls for the same particular species of animal within a memory;

coupling an activator means to said memory adapted to play said one or more different calls.

9. The method of claim 8 further comprising coupling a speaker to said memory means.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein said plurality of different calls for the same particular species of animal comprises at least two of a lost call, assembly call, greeting call, alarm call, feeding call, yelp, cluck, purr, hail call, come back call and safety call.

11. The method of claim 10 wherein said memory means coupled to said memory comprises one or more buttons.

12. The method of claim 11 wherein said one or more buttons are adapted to activate a particular call for the same species of animal.

13. The method of claim 12 wherein said buttons comprise a first button and a second button, said first button being adapted to activate a first call of a particular species of animal and said second button being adapted to activate a second call of said species of animal.

14. The method of claim 12 further comprising pressing said second button and interrupting said first call by said second call.