Patent ID: 6585556
Filing Date: 2003-07-01
Classification: A63H

Abstract:
A talking toy comprising:a housing determining the form and appearance of said talking toy; sound reproducing means for audible message reproduction; a plurality of external activation sensors; first storage means for storing audible messages, wherein each of said audible messages has a number, and said number is arranged so that a change of said number in an audible message corresponds to a change of the mood of the character represented by said talking toy, where said mood is expressed through said audible message; second storage means for storing at least one number for each of said plurality of external activation sensors, wherein said number characterizes the effect of an external activation detected by said external activation sensor on the mood of the character represented by said talking toy; and message selection means, connected to said sound reproducing means, to said first storage means, to said second storage means, and to said plurality of external activation sensors and capable in respond to activating of at least one of said plurality of external activation sensors, for: reading a first number corresponding to said at least one external activation sensor from said second storage means; selecting a second number which is a random number; determining the selected number of an audible message as a sum of said first and said second numbers; and selecting an audible message from said first storage means in accordance with said selected number and forwarding said audible message to said sound reproducing means for audible message reproduction.