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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 01, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 01, 2014
Disney Enterprises, Inc., Burbank, CA (US);
Timothy J. Eck, Winter Garden, FL (US);
Holger Irmler, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Asa Kalama, Glendale, CA (US);
James Robertson, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Christopher Cameron Stuart, Orlando, FL (US);
DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC., Burbank, CA (US);
Abstract
A control system for interactively operating a show control system (audio plus data) provided in a walk-around character costume. The system includes an interactive controller wearable with the walk-around character costume. The system includes an audio base station and a host controller communicatively linked to the audio base station. The interactive controller and the audio base station communicate via a wireless communications link. The control system includes a speaker controlled by the interactive controller, and the host controller transmits data over the wireless communications link via the audio base station including commands to play an audio file and an animation file, stored in memory accessible by the interactive controller, with the speaker. The control system includes microphones, linked to the interactive controller, capturing sounds near the walk-around character costume, and the interactive controller transmits the captured sounds over the communications link to the host controller via the audio base station.