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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 08, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 09, 2018
Hallmark Cards, Incorporated, Kansas City, MO (US);
Jennifer R. Garbos, Kansas City, MO (US);
Tyler James Richmond, Roeland Park, KS (US);
Christopher Jason Shields, Kansas City, MO (US);
Nicholas Pedersen, Lawrence, KS (US);
Danielle M. Caldwell, Kansas City, MO (US);
HALLMARK CARDS, INCORPORATED, Kansas City, MO (US);
Abstract
A greeting card and associated techniques for storing audio tracks corresponding to definable touch zones of the greeting card is provided. In one aspect, the greeting card includes a body for securing a photograph thereon. A sensor array can be disposed within the body of the greeting card to detect touch gestures through the secured photograph, among other things. The greeting card can include a microprocessor that enables touch zones to be defined via the sensor array, such that a touch zone can correspond to various objects depicted on the card or a photograph secured thereon. Among other things, the greeting card can include a microphone for recording an audio track corresponding to each generated touch zone, a speaker for playing back an audio track corresponding to a selected touch zone, and a memory for storing touch zones and/or associated audio tracks.