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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 12, 2012
Hallmark Cards, Incorporated, Kansas City, MO (US);
Jennifer R. Garbos, Kansas City, MO (US);
Timothy G. Bodendistel, Lenexa, KS (US);
Peter B. Friedmann, Westwood, KS (US);
Randy D. Smith, Lee's Summit, MO (US);
William L. Brown, Jr., Kansas City, MO (US);
Mary E. Gentry, Mission Hills, KS (US);
Kevin W. Swanson, Prairie Village, KS (US);
Robert E. Langley, Kansas City, MO (US);
HALLMARK CARDS INCORPORATED, Kansas City, MO (US);
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. In one embodiment, the toy is configured to detect only certain types of triggering prompts in certain states, such as, for example, triggering phrases or triggering terms. In this embodiment, and others, the toy is configured to switch between states such that it can at times respond to triggering terms and at other times respond to triggering phrases.