INTERACTING TOYS

• US 20110143631A1
• Filed: 01/21/2009
• Published: 06/16/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 07/19/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Steven Lipman
• Original Assignee: Hydrae Limited
• Inventors: Kilbride-Newman, Robert Frederick, Shmuel, Alon, Lipman, Steven
• Granted Patent: US 8,827,761 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 30/00 Remote-control arrangements specially adapted for toys, e.g. for toy vehicles steering mechanisms for toy vehicles A63H17/36; for model railways A63H19/24, A63H19/28
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 30/04 using wireless transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/566 Grouping or aggregating service requests, e.g. for unified processing

Abstract

There is provided a toy (A) adapted to have an interaction with at least one other such toy (B), comprising: a processor (1700) and a memory (1702) coupled to said processor; wherein said processor comprises: means (1704) for generating an output signal representative of an action to be performed; and means for generating a trigger (1706) signal, for reception at least one other such toy, to trigger said other such toy to perform an action before the said toy has completed its own action. Furthermore, the trigger signal is generated at pre-determined time interval after said toy has initiated its own action, or the trigger signal is generated at a pre-determined time interval before said toy has completed its own action.

Claims

1. A toy adapted to have an interaction with at least one other such toy, comprising:

a processor and

a memory coupled to said processor;

wherein the said processor comprises;

means for generating an output signal representative of an action to be performed; and

means for generating a trigger signal, for reception at least one other such toy, to trigger said at least one other such toy to perform an action before the said toy has completed its own action.

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