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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 27, 2000
Filed:
Oct. 23, 1997
David J Wohl, Kingston, RI (US);
Joseph F Truchsess, Ridgefield, CT (US);
Alexander L Baytman, N. Providence, RI (US);
Robert S Winslow, Newport, RI (US);
Hasbro, Inc., Pawtucket, RI (US);
Pragmatic Designs, Inc., Port Chester, NY (US);
Abstract
An electronic sound and music making device includes a memory that stores a plurality of sound segments, such as musical notes, animal noises, etc., a keypad having a series of keys, each of each indicates and is associated with a different one of the stored sound segments, and a set of visual indications, such as light emitting diodes (LEDs), that indicate when different ones of the sound segments are being played. The device repeats a programmable sequence of, for example, four of the stored sound segments to form a song while, simultaneously turning on different ones of the LEDs to indicate the different sound segments being played. The keypad enables a user to specify the identity and the order of the sound segments to be played and allows a user to substitute any of the sound segments stored in the memory with the sound segments being played so as to produce a new or different song.