Patent ID: 6264523
Filing Date: 2001-07-24
Classification: A63H

Abstract:
A communication system for a talking doll using infra-red signals, including a microprocessor and a keyboard, a first transceiver at the doll and a second transceiver at the keyboard, in which the microprocessor is programmed to respond to interrogation signals received at the second transceiver from the first transceiver to respond to user chosen consequential operations of the keyboard, and to cause comment signals to pass from the second transceiver to the first transceiver to enable the doll to verbally react to each chosen keyboard operation, wherein said communication system includes two or more manually operated power switches mounted to the doll to cooperatively ""wake up"" a power supply in the doll, the two or more manually operated power switches being mounted inside the doll and being operated by manually pressing against an outside surface of the doll.