Patent ID: 7338375

Claim:
A toy laser tag gun comprising: a housing having a trigger switch to initiate tag signals; a processor coupled to the trigger switch to process tag signals initiated by the trigger switch; a first transmitter coupled to the processor, the first transmitter being an infrared transmitter to transmit tag signals; a first receiver coupled to the processor, the first receiver being an infrared receiver to receive tag signals from another toy laser tag gun and couple the received tag signals to the processor; a speaker coupled to the processor to transduce receive voice signals into audible voice sounds and to transduce receive tag signals into audible tag sounds; a microphone to receive and transduce voice sounds into transmit voice signals; a second transmitter to couple to the microphone, the second transmitter to immediately transmit, without recording, the transmit voice signals as the transmit voice signals are received from the microphone; and, a second receiver to couple to the speaker, the second receiver to receive transmit voice signals from another toy laser tag gun and to immediately couple, without recording, the transmit voice signals from another toy laser tag gun to the speaker as the transmit voice signals from another toy laser tag gun are received.