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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 20, 1989
Filed:
Dec. 02, 1987
William J Rose, West Hartford, CT (US);
Coleco Industries, Inc., West Hartford, CT (US);
Abstract
A doll cooperates with a remote signal source which provides a narration with which the doll interacts, and it has a vocabulary stored in digital data in a memory which may be accessed to cause a speech synthesizer in the doll to simulate speech. The doll has a radio frequency receiver which receives encoded data from the remote signal source, and a central processing unit which accesses the memory for selected speech data to simulate the doll's response to portions of the narration from the remote signal source. The remote source provides a narrative and substantially simultaneously transmits a radio frequency signal providing binary coded data which, when analyzed by the logic of the doll, elicits an intelligent or responsive statement from the doll. In one embodiment, the remote source includes a cassette tape player for providing the narration and the encoded signals. In another embodiment, the remote source includes a TV for outputting a coded light pattern, and a photo sensor for recognizing the light pattern and allowing the remote source to transmit a coded signal to the doll.