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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 1982
Filed:
Jan. 22, 1980
Roger H Stowell, East Aurora, NY (US);
Michael O Hirtle, East Aurora, NY (US);
Russell W Brown, Nepean, CA;
Arthur D Moore, Stittsville, CA;
The Quaker Oats Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
Vocalizing apparatus for use in a doll which has a synthesizer for producing speech sounds. The synthesizer is controlled by a digital controller having a memory which stores information representing a vocabulary of infant-like sounds. A motion detector, which may be in the form of a gravity-actuated switch, activates the controller so as to cause the synthesizer to produce a pattern of sound simulating happy infant sounds when the doll is moved and when it is cuddled, and fussing or crying sounds when it is thereafter not moved for a time. The electronic apparatus is shut down if the doll is left unmoved for a time after it no longer emits the fussing sounds but is automatically activated when again it is moved. The vocalizing apparatus is provided in a self-contained package, removable for laundering.