Patent ID: 7025657
Filing Date: 2006-04-11
Classification: A63H

Abstract:
1. An electronic toy comprising: at least one sensor that detects an external stimulus applied to said electronic toy; an input interface that receives, from outside said electronic toy, control information for controlling said electronic toy; a memory that stores the control information received via said input interface; and a processor coupled with said memory and adapted to: wherein said control information received from outside said electronic toy and stored in said memory includes a program for causing said electronic toy to perform a predetermined operation, and wherein the program stored in said memory is selectively read out from said memory in accordance with a type of external stimulus detected by said sensor, wherein said processor is further adapted to generate an accumulative empirical value on the basis of the external stimulus detection signal generated by said sensor and read out control information from said memory in accordance with the empirical value, and wherein said input interface further receives, from outside said electronic toy, first instructing information that the received control information should be additionally stored in said memory.