Patent ID: 8469535

Claim:
An article of footwear, comprising: an outsole, and an upper mounted to said outsole; an electrical circuit mounted to at least one of said outsole and said upper, said electrical circuit comprising: (i) a power source; (ii) a loudspeaker; (iii) an array of light sources; (iv) a controller coupled to said power source, to said loudspeaker and to said light sources; (v) a motion responsive switch coupled to said controller, said controller being effective in response to receipt of a first signal from said motion responsive switch to cause said light sources to illuminate without operating said loudspeaker; (vi) a manually operated switch coupled to said controller, said controller being effective in response to receipt of a second signal from said manually operated switch to cause said light sources to illuminate in a flashing pattern, and to cause said loudspeaker to sound on and off, both in a series of discrete sequences of operation from a first sequence of operation to a final sequence of operation, the frequency at which said light sources flash and said loudspeaker sounds progressively decreasing from said first sequence to said final sequence and at the end of said final sequence only one of said light sources remains illuminated, said controller being effective at the completion of said final sequence of operation and in response to receipt of another first signal from said motion responsive switch to cause said light sources to illuminate without operating said loudspeaker.