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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 12, 2011
James Russell Hornsby, Tampa, FL (US);
Joseph L. Mcgowan, St. Charles, MO (US);
Michael C. Reynolds, St. Louis, MO (US);
Steven Fink, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Robert W. Jeffway, Jr., South Deerfield, MA (US);
Steven R. Casino, Fort Thomas, KY (US);
James Russell Hornsby, Tampa, FL (US);
Joseph L. McGowan, St. Charles, MO (US);
Michael C. Reynolds, St. Louis, MO (US);
Steven Fink, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Robert W. Jeffway, Jr., South Deerfield, MA (US);
Steven R. Casino, Fort Thomas, KY (US);
Cepia, LLC, St. Louis, MO (US);
Abstract
An entertainment device is configured to receive a limited range wireless signal from at least one other entertainment device when adjacently arranged in close physical proximity to at least one other entertainment device, and to responsively operate in a first mode or a second mode based on whether the other entertainment device is adjacent a first side or second side. In the first mode, the entertainment device initiates one or more wireless activation signals to control an audio/visual element of another entertainment device. In the second mode, the entertainment device receives wireless activation signals from another entertainment device to control activation of an audio/visual element of the receiving entertainment device. Each device is interchangeable between operation in the first mode of controlling at least one other entertainment device and the second mode of being controlled by another entertainment device based on position of one entertainment device relative to the other.