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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 24, 2002
Filed:
May. 16, 2001
Ronald Magers, Gloucester, MA (US);
Gerald A. McDonald, Gloucester, MA (US);
Michael Risso, Napa, CA (US);
Other;
Abstract
A musical hoop toy may be provided with a hoop structure, a sensing mechanism coupled to the hoop structure and being disposed on an interior side of the hoop structure such that, when the hoop structure is spun around a person's waist, the sensing mechanism will be periodically activated by a portion of the person's waist, an audio speaker coupled to the hoop structure, and a controller operatively coupled to the sensing mechanism and the audio speaker. The controller may include a processor, a memory, and a computer program stored in the memory. The computer program may have a computer program portion that causes a music sequence to be generated and a computer program portion that causes an audio sound effect to be generated in response to each activation of the sensing mechanism.