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Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 2014

Filed:

May. 26, 2011
Applicants:

Jennifer R. Garbos, Kansas City, MO (US);

Timothy G. Bodendistel, Lenexa, KS (US);

Peter B. Friedmann, Westwood, KS (US);

Inventors:

Jennifer R. Garbos, Kansas City, MO (US);

Timothy G. Bodendistel, Lenexa, KS (US);

Peter B. Friedmann, Westwood, KS (US);

Assignee:

Hallmark Cards, Incorporated, Kansas City, MO (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A63H 30/00 (2006.01); A63H 33/38 (2006.01); A63H 3/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A63H 3/28 (2013.01); A63H 33/38 (2013.01); A63H 2200/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

An interactive toy for interacting with a user while a story is being read aloud from a book or played from a movie/video. The toy includes a speech recognition unit that receives and detects certain triggering phrases as they are read aloud or played from a companion literary work. The triggering phrase read aloud from the book or played in the movie/video may have independent significance or may only have significance when combined with other phrases read aloud from the book or played in the movie/video.


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