FR2538711A1 - TALKING DOLL - Google Patents

Abstract

THE BODY OF THE DOLL 1 INCLUDES A RECEIVER 5 ASSOCIATED WITH A TRANSMITTER 9 AVAILABLE NEARBY AND LIKELY TO TRANSMIT BY HERTZIAN WAVES TO THE TRANSMITTER A SIGNAL REPRESENTATIVE OF AN AUDIBLE MESSAGE, COLLECTED AT THE OUTPUT OF A MICROPHONE 11 OR FROM A RECORD READING DEVICE 13.

Description

Talking doll.

  The invention relates to a talking doll

  ceptible-to play a r 8 the considerable in evolution

  affective and intellectual of the child.

  Today, the education of children takes a very important place The environment is more and more sophisticated and the child must be adapted from his

  youngest age in the world around him.

  The toy is an ideal intermediary in the

  education because it allows through the play of incul-

quer fundamental notions.

  We know talking dolls, but generally

  The dolls only have a very limited vocabulary and always the same, and / or the richness of the vocabulary.

  depends on the available number of recording media

  very preestablished (usually on discs) that you introduce

  in the doll in the first case, the concept

  tion of the system is too rudimentary for it to be

  possible to achieve a somewhat complex educational objective

  plex and evolutionary In the second case, the interest of the

  fant can be picked up by the audio message, but this

  only one source quickly appears to be insufficient to

  put the child to profitably assimilate a

  information other than purely audible, which limits

drastically the possibilities.

  In the French patent application N O 82 01258, the applicants have already proposed to produce an educational package with very varied possibilities, allowing

  especially to the child the acquisition of notions and mechanics

  complex intellectual nisms, based on a double visual and auditory perception More specifically, they proposed to make a doll whose elements allow the child to believe that it is learned, that is to say - say for example, that she has the ability to read, count, that she knows music theory, recognizes colors, animals, etc. There was provided for this, a set of reading cards, each card with a on the one hand, a graphic representation and, on the other hand, a sound recording associated with the graphic representation; the doll included a card reading station allowing the reception of a reading card and

  its passage in front of a read head connected to a group

  eg reading and broadcasting the sound recording,

  this group being placed inside the body of the doll.

  This achievement, perfectly satisfactory from an educational point of view, however, requires a relatively delicate technical adaptation of the body of

  doll to place the reading and training station

cards.

  The object of the present invention is in particular

  to offer a new talking doll whose realization

  The technical position is particularly simple, which is not fragile, and whose use, moreover, offers

  new possibilities to act on the affected evolution

the child's intellectual and intellectual life.

  This goal is achieved in that the body of the

  doll includes a receiver associated with a transmitter

  placed nearby and capable of transmitting by radio waves to the transmitter a signal representative of an audio message, collected at the output of a microphone or

  of a recording playback device.

  From the point of view of the manufacture of such a doll, we see that there is no difficulty, insofar as it is very easy to house a receiver for

  low volume in the body of any doll.

  We don't need to use dolls specially

molded for this.

  Advantageously, the receiver is housed in the articulated neck of the doll and the antenna in the head of

the doll.

  As the doll of the invention has neither

  complex mechanical movements or devices, we understand

takes that she is not fragile.

  There are many possibilities for use. Thus, the mother of the child can speak into the microphone while it is, for example, in the kitchen of his house, and the child listen to him in his bedroom through his doll. powerful emotional bond between the child and its doll which takes, in a magic way in the eyes of the child, the voice of its mom Thanks to the establishment of this emotional bond, the

  "message" broadcast by the doll will have much penetration

stronger blow.

  The mother can in this way, without ceasing to

  go about their business, tell a story to the

  fant Alternatively, instead of telling a story directly, in situation, she can have it recorded and pass it on a reading device such as a

  tape recorder to the output of which it connected the transmitter.

  It can also use pre-recorded texts and

  commercially available for this purpose.

  To the previous examples of use, which it-

  more particularly shine the emotional and emotional impact

  tion of the invention, can be added to and can be combined with other examples of use making more use of the child's intellectual capacities. This is how the transmitter can be coupled to a card reading device in particular. , these cards

  comprising a sound recording associated with a representation

  graphic feeling, as described in the

  patent application 82 01258 In this case, the child will have

  near him both his doll and the card reader.

  When the child passes the cards through the reader,

  the doll will "speak" while giving the child the illusion

  full that she deciphers the texts, notes, figures, images, or any graphic representations that appear on the card To reinforce in the child the idea that the doll

  is "scholarly", the card reader can take the form

  me outside a desk, or a book, near which the child will install the doll. The invention will be better understood on reading

  of the description which will follow of two modes of realization

  sation Reference will be made to the appended drawings in which FIG. 1 represents a first embodiment of the invention,

  FIG. 2 represents a second embodiment of

  reading of the invention, FIGS. 3 and 4 are respectively

  electronic diagrams of a transmitter and a receiver.

  Figure 1 shows a doll 1 whose head 2 fits into the body 3 by the neck 4 In the neck is fixed in some way a radio receiver 5, with its speaker 6, and its receiving antenna 7 which can be deployed in the interior of

head and lean on it.

  Associated with the doll 1 is the transmission assembly 8, comprising the transmitter 9 proper (transmitting in amplitude or frequency modulation) and its transmitting antenna 10 The transmitter advantageously comprises a built-in microphone Il, and a socket standard 12 can

  be connected to the output of a reading device 13

  recording: tape player or

  discs, etc. A switch not shown on the transmitter

  tor 9 allows you to open the microphone channel Il or

reader 13.

  In FIG. 2, the headstock 1 is exactly the same as in FIG. I On the other hand, the transmission assembly 8 consists of a block comprising on the one hand the transmitter 9 concealed in a chosen form, and its antenna 10, and on the other hand a card reading device

  recorded 14 that the child -introduced into the device.

  For the detailed description of these maps and examples

  full of their training and reading resources, we

  refer to the aforementioned patent application No. 82 01 258.

  FIG. 3 illustrates a very simple transmitter assembly diagram in which the modulated signal coming from

  of the voice speaking on the microphone It and amplified by the ampli-

  low-frequency amplifier 15, or alternatively the signal from the reader 13, is applied to an oscillating circuit comprising a high-frequency oscillator 16, a high-frequency amplifier 17, a modulator 18,

  an amplifier 19 of the modulated signal and an antenna transmits

  T O The emission level can be maintained fairly

  low given the proximity of the transmitter and the

  receiver The oscillator 16 is adjusted according to the selected and / or available emission band: for example

27 M Hz for the toy in France.

  The radio receiver incorporated in the doll I

  is shown schematically in Figure 4 It consists of

  essentially consists of a tuning circuit comprising mainly

  usually a coil 20 and a detection mode 21, followed

  vi of an amplifier 22 capable of attacking the loudspeaker

  their 6 23 and cor-

section 24 are also provided.

Claims (4)

  1 Talking and learned doll, c a r a c t to r i-   s é e in that the body of the doll (1) comprises a   receiver (5) associated with a transmitter (9) arranged to pro-   xlimited and capable of transmitting by radio waves-   nes to the transmitter a signal representative of an audible message, collected at the output of a microphone (11) or   a recording playback device (13).   2 doll according to claim 1, c a r a c-   t é r i S é e in that the receiver (5) is housed in the neck (4) of the doll (1).   3 Doll according to any one of the claims.   tions I or 2, c a r a c t e r i S in that the an-   tenne (7) is housed in the head (2) of the doll (1).   4 Doll according to any one of the claims.   1 to 3, c a r c t e r i S e e in that the e-   director (9) is coupled to a card reading device (13) comprising a sound recording   associated with a graphic representation.