EP1350215A2 - Jouet et jeux de reconnaissance d'objets - Google Patents

Jouet et jeux de reconnaissance d'objets

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EP1350215A2
EP1350215A2 EP01988237A EP01988237A EP1350215A2 EP 1350215 A2 EP1350215 A2 EP 1350215A2 EP 01988237 A EP01988237 A EP 01988237A EP 01988237 A EP01988237 A EP 01988237A EP 1350215 A2 EP1350215 A2 EP 1350215A2
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play
master
toy
tag
data
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EP1350215A4 (fr
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Stephen C. Beck
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4Kids Entertainement Licensing Inc
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4Kids Entertainement Licensing Inc
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63H—TOYS, e.g. TOPS, DOLLS, HOOPS OR BUILDING BLOCKS
    • A63H3/00—Dolls
    • A63H3/28—Arrangements of sound-producing means in dolls; Means in dolls for producing sounds
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63H—TOYS, e.g. TOPS, DOLLS, HOOPS OR BUILDING BLOCKS
    • A63H30/00—Remote-control arrangements specially adapted for toys, e.g. for toy vehicles
    • A63H30/02—Electrical arrangements
    • A63H30/04—Electrical arrangements using wireless transmission
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63H—TOYS, e.g. TOPS, DOLLS, HOOPS OR BUILDING BLOCKS
    • A63H33/00—Other toys
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63H—TOYS, e.g. TOPS, DOLLS, HOOPS OR BUILDING BLOCKS
    • A63H2200/00—Computerized interactive toys, e.g. dolls

Definitions

  • Toys which can respond to radio frequency signals, e.g., toy vehicles
  • a master/host/server toy or game unit can identify and recognize something that is placed
  • master/host/server toy or game unit need only contain a small RFID tag transponder
  • tag IC integrated circuit chip
  • RF antenna RF
  • Tag ICs can respond differently from one another when interrogated by an
  • the tag ICs transmit and
  • the tag ICs receive their operating power from the RF energy transmitted
  • tag IC chips can receive information in the form of many digital bits
  • non-volatile, electrically reprogrammable memory bits utilizing appropriately
  • This feature also could be used with a doll to simulate consumption and
  • replenishment of a resource such as pretend milk in a toy milk bottle given to the doll.
  • the doll can simulate drinking the milk, and the master/host/server can
  • master/host/server toy perhaps in the form of a cow or a dairy, so as to be "refilled" by
  • a trading card, or a flash card, or other small object can be provided with an embedded RFID tag chip and suitable antenna loop or coil, factory programmed with
  • This card can be recognized by a
  • talking doll for example, that can then recite information about the card.
  • the information can then recite information about the card.
  • the recited information may be stored on the card. This can greatly minimize the
  • a tag IC with a suitable small antenna loop or coil can also be placed inside a
  • Such master/host/server toy or game units can play games such as spelling games,
  • game units can be employed to recognize trading cards and other two and three
  • a master/host/server toy or game unit can act on a tag IC in a
  • Fig. 1A is a perspective view of one type of toy which can serve as a
  • Fig. IB is a perspective view of another type of toy which can serve as a
  • Fig. 2 is a functional schematic block diagram of a master/host/server toy and the
  • Fig. 3 A is an elevation view of another preferred embodiment of the invention.
  • Fig. 3B is a plan view of the preferred embodiment of the invention shown in Fig.
  • Fig. 3C is an elevation view of the preferred embodiment of the invention shown
  • FIG. 4A is a front elevation view of still another preferred embodiment of the
  • Fig. 4B is a side elevation view of the preferred embodiment of the invention.
  • RFID technology is used to make a doll
  • the doll asks a child to show or give the doll a
  • the doll has a small loop
  • doll can be located in different places, such as the head, or in a hand or foot, to localize
  • the doll could include not just one, but multiple sensing antennae coils, located in various places on the doll, and which are switched on and off by control of the
  • Such locations could include a coil in each hand of the doll,
  • Such a doll could play games with multiple objects, but might also play games with a
  • the doll In conjunction with the selectively switching of the active antenna coil, the doll
  • the doll can ask for specific shapes to be given to it,
  • Objects presented to the doll can have numbers or spelling words which can be
  • toy or game unit may be provided with recorded or synthesized music for playing
  • instrument sounds such as a trumpet or a flute, a violin or a trombone, and also with
  • unit can recognize and identify an object, flash card, token, or other thing with no
  • the toy or doll or game can recognize just one thing at
  • FIGs. 1A and IB of the drawings there are shown a girl doll 1 and a
  • baby doll 2 respectively, each of which can contain an "engine” in the form of a
  • antenna 5 a can be connected to the master/host/server toy or game unit 3 and mounted
  • Doll 1 is shown with added antenna 5b at a hand and 5c at a foot.
  • Each of the dolls 1 and 1 is shown interacting with an object 8 in the
  • FIG. 2 there are shown a plurality of play objects 8 that each
  • obj ect may be a flash card, a trading card, or small obj ect molded from a non-conducting,
  • Fig. 2 also shows a master/host/server toy or game unit 3 having an RF
  • This antenna may be of the
  • the master antenna primarily inductive coupling or primarily capacitive coupling type.
  • element or coil 5 is tuned to the resonant operating frequency of the RFID Tag ICs
  • the master antenna element or coils 5 are operatively operatively
  • the circuit 7 transmits power to, and receives
  • the circuit 7 may also transmit data to the
  • the play object 8 may typically be positioned about one to four inches from the
  • the master unit 3 uses that unique data to identify or "recognize” that object 8.
  • the reader/interrogator circuit 7 is operatively connected to a
  • microcontroller/microcomputer 13 The microcomputer 13 has a microprocessor.
  • microprocessor is connected to one or more ROMs (read-only memories) 14 that contain
  • the data from the tag IC "triggers" or
  • the microprocessor is also connected to RAM
  • the microcomputer 13 may
  • a voice/sound synthesizer circuit 19 is connected to the microcomputer 13 for
  • the sound circuit 19 may include CELP, ADPCM or the like. As noted
  • At least some, and possibly most or all, of the data signals generated may be data returned from the memory of the object 8.
  • the analog sound signals are then applied to
  • components including the microprocessor, the voice/sound synthesizer circuit 19, and
  • the amplifier 21 are powered by batteries contained in a power supply 25.
  • a power supply 25 For example,
  • DC operating power could also be supplied from 12
  • Smart trading cards are another toy or game application of RFID technology
  • Trading cards e.g., baseball cards, football cards, and other
  • collectibles can each contain an embedded RFID tag IC for enabling novel uses for
  • the master/host/server toy or game unit can then detect each collectible as it is added to the collection and maintain information about the
  • Each collectible can have, stored in its tag IC, data which
  • an RFID tag IC can be used to store
  • RFID tag ICs 108a and suitable antenna 108b can be embedded inside of play obj ects 108
  • the master/host/server and control engine 103 The master/host/server and control engine 103
  • the engine 103 includes the sensing antenna coil 105 in the surface 109, a reader/interrogator circuit 107, a
  • microcontroller 113 with voice/sound generator IC 119, an audio amplifier and speaker
  • the "magic tablet” 101 can recognize the play blocks 108 placed on it.
  • blocks 108 may have printed or molded legends 108d on one side of the cube, such as
  • the magic tablet 108 has a similar "engine” 3 as the doll previously described.
  • the magic tablet 108 has a similar "engine” 3 as the doll previously described.
  • control program could operate in many different modes.
  • the magic play blocks 108 and tablet 101 may have complementary Nelcro, or
  • the play block or object 208 could contain the
  • the tablet 101 can also ask a child to spell a word such as D-O-G and then detect
  • the circuit of the reader/interrogator 107 operates at the selected RF frequency of
  • the disclosed master/host/server toy or game unit 3 can deal with detecting
  • a doll 1 can ask to "see” three shapes in flash cards or play objects
  • the doll can ask for one of the shapes or
  • reader/interrogator circuit 7 to transmit RF energy to detect the possible presence of an
  • RFID tag IC 8a within the range of the master/host/server toy or game unit, such
  • the master control program can manage the
  • the discussed apparatus provide for the time multiplexed activation
  • a smart trading card master a smart trading card master
  • a trading card 308 can be slid into a mechanical slot 312 provided for the purpose of
  • the reader 303 has a reader/interrogator circuit 307 and antenna 305 for
  • the trading card control master 303 can read and write back selected data
  • microcontroller 313 can include the circuitry to drive segments and
  • batteries 325 may be provided by batteries 325.
  • microcontroller can include circuitry to communicate with an
  • words and phrases can be encoded
  • the word “HOUSE” can be encoded in 6 bit ASCII code, that is 6
  • containing this data bit pattern could be embedded inside a flash card, a trading card, or
  • a reader or other master/host/server toy or game unit programmed to recognize the
  • tag ICs contained in flash cards, trading cards, or other objects.
  • the major portion, if not all, of the spoken or displayed data may come from the
  • the main advantage of this implementation is that the toy or game unit
  • the toy or game unit need only have a text-to-speech
  • converter program in its control program, with proficiency in one or more spoken
  • Such a toy or game unit could be of use in learning and teaching various
  • the number of data bits in the RFID tag IC perhaps as many as one thousand bits
  • RFID tag IC equipped object could cause the doll, master/host/server toy or game unit

Abstract

L'invention concerne un jouet ou un dispositif de jeu ou un procédé comprenant un élément hôte animé tel qu'une poupée ou une tablette qui fonctionne de manière interactive avec un ou plusieurs objets de jeu non animés. L'hôte contient un microcontrôleur préprogrammé et un circuit de lecture/interrogation d'identification par radiofréquence (RFID) comprenant au moins une antenne. Chaque objet de jeu est équipé d'une étiquette d'identification par radiofréquence (RFID) comprenant un circuit imprimé (CI) et d'une antenne. Chaque CI d'étiquette contient des données qui comprennent au moins une information d'identification (ID) différente de celle des autres objets du jeu. Lorsque l'hôte et un objet de jeu sont placés de manière à permettre une communication RF entre leurs antennes, l'hôte transmet de l'énergie activant le CI de l'étiquette de l'objet. Le CI de l'étiquette de l'objet transmet alors au moins les données d'information ID à l'hôte. L'hôte reconnaît les données transmises et effectue à l'intention de l'utilisateur une présentation déclenchée par les données transmises. Une partie ou toute la présentation peut être constitué par les données transmises par l'objet de jeu. Dans un premier mode de fonctionnement, l'hôte peut donner des indications à l'utilisateur afin que ce dernier place un ou plusieurs objets de jeu désignés à un emplacement défini relativement à l'hôte, reconnaître si les objets ont été placés correctement, et donner des conseils à l'utilisateur en fonction de cette reconnaissance. L'hôte peut comprendre une pluralité d'antennes disposées à des emplacements distincts, et peut guider l'utilisateur, reconnaître les objets et fournir des conseils relatifs aux objets de jeu à chacun de ces emplacements.
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