KR101290181B1 - Toy responsive to voice of kids and method for controlling operation of the same - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention, the voice receiver; speaker; And when the sound input through the voice receiver is a first sound that is a crying sound of an infant, the white noise is output through the speaker, and when the input sound is a second sound other than the first sound, the second sound corresponds to the second sound. And a control unit for outputting a response voice, which is a corrected sound having a different pronunciation or a different syllable number than the second sound, through the speaker.

Description

TOY RESPONSIVE TO VOICE OF KIDS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING OPERATION OF THE SAME}

The present invention relates to a toy that responds to an infant's voice and a control method thereof.

In general, infants refer to sucklings, and infants refer to children from one year of age to six years of age.

When an infant is crying or crying due to psychological instability, the mother finds emotional stability by giving her a hug or soothing voice. Therefore, mothers who raise infants cannot take enough time to take care of the infants themselves, and most of the time, they cannot take time for self-development or leisure use.

Recently, in order to relieve the burden of mothers raising infants, various technologies and devices for pacifying infants or inducing sleep have been researched and developed. A representative among them is a device that induces psychological stability of infants by telling infants the heartbeat of mothers.

It is an object of the present invention to provide an infant voice response toy and a control method thereof that can soothe an infant and emotionally stabilize or respond to the infant's words according to the infant's condition, and develop the intelligence of the infant.

Infant speech-aided toys related to an embodiment of the present invention for realizing the above object, the voice receiving unit; speaker; And when the sound input through the voice receiver is a first sound that is a crying sound of an infant, the white noise is output through the speaker, and when the input sound is a second sound other than the first sound, the second sound corresponds to the second sound. And a controller for outputting a response voice, which is a corrected sound having a different pronunciation or a different syllable number than the second sound, through the speaker.

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The apparatus may further include a memory configured to store basic voices, and the controller may further include a combiner configured to generate the response voice by combining the basic voices.

The apparatus may further include a memory, and the controller may store the sound input through the voice receiver as the memory to be output as the response voice.

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Here, the voice receiving unit, the control unit, the speaker is installed body; And a planar heating element layer which is formed on the body and generates heat by receiving power.

Here, the color change layer that is discolored by the color set by the heat generated by the heat generated when the planar heating element layer may be further included.

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According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of controlling an infant voice response toy, the method comprising: receiving a sound of an infant through a voice receiver; And if the input sound is a first sound that is a crying sound of an infant, the controller outputs white noise to the speaker. If the input sound is a second sound other than the first sound, the controller corresponds to the second sound. And outputting a response voice, which is a corrected sound having a different pronunciation or a different syllable number than the second sound, to the speaker.

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The method may further include receiving the response voice through the voice receiver and storing the received voice in a memory. The receiving of the response voice through the voice receiving unit and storing the received voice in the memory may include: outputting a comment requesting an input of the second sound through the speaker; And when the second sound is input through the voice receiver, the control unit may include outputting a comment requesting to input a response voice matching the input second sound through the speaker.

Here, if the input sound is a first sound that is a crying sound of an infant, the controller outputs white noise to the speaker, and if the input sound is a second sound other than the first sound, the controller corresponds to the second sound. And outputting a response voice, which is a corrected sound having a different pronunciation or a different syllable number than the second sound, to the speaker, if the input second sound is a word (s) of song lyrics stored in a memory. Outputting the stored song as a response voice.

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Here, if the input sound is a first sound that is a crying sound of an infant, the controller outputs white noise to the speaker, and if the input sound is a second sound other than the first sound, the controller corresponds to the second sound. And outputting a response voice, which is a corrected sound having a different pronunciation or a different syllable number than the second sound, to the speaker, outputting a part of a song stored in a memory through the speaker, and inputting the second sound. If is part of the next measure of the song may include outputting all of the corresponding measure.

Infant voice response toys according to another embodiment of the present invention, the body; A voice receiver installed on the body; A speaker installed in the body; A memory installed in the body; A response voice, which is installed in the body and corresponds to a voice of an infant, input through the voice receiver, and is a corrected sound having a pronunciation or a different syllable number different from that of the infant, and searches for the response voice in the memory. A controller configured to be output through a speaker; And a power supply unit installed in the body and supplying power for the operation of the voice receiver, the speaker, the memory, and the controller.

Here, the response voice may include an input received through the voice receiver and stored.

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According to the infant speech response toy and the control method thereof according to the present invention configured as described above, it is possible to soothe the infant in accordance with the state of the infant to stabilize emotionally or to respond to the words of the infant can develop the intelligence of the infant.

Furthermore, by playing the role of toys, it is possible to relieve the burden on the caregiver of infants and toddlers.

1 is a perspective view of an infant voice response toy 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a partial perspective view illustrating the user input unit 150 in more detail among the infant voice response toy 100 of FIG. 1.
FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating a control configuration of the infant voice-action toy 100 of FIG. 1.
4 is a flowchart illustrating a control method of the infant voice-acquisition toy 100 of FIG. 1.
FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating a process in which the infant voice response toy 100 of FIG. 1 receives a response voice corresponding to a second sound.

Hereinafter, an infant voice-acquisition toy according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention and a control method thereof will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In the present specification, the same or similar reference numerals are given to different embodiments in the same or similar configurations.

1 is a perspective view of an infant voice response toy 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to this figure, the infant voice response toy 100 may include a body 110, a voice receiver 120, a speaker 130, and a planar heating element layer 140.

Body 110 is a part that forms the basic skeleton of the infant voice response toy 100. The body 110 may be in the form of an animal, or may be in the form of a telephone or a car. This figure illustrates that the body 110 forms the shape of a rabbit which is one of the animals. In the present embodiment, the rabbit body 110 may include a head 111, an arm 112, a leg 113, a torso 114, and an ear 115.

The voice receiver 120 receives voices of users (infants and guardians). As in the present embodiment, the voice receiver 120 may be installed in a portion where the left eye of the rabbit is to be located.

The speaker 130 outputs a sound received from the voice receiver 120 or a pre-stored sound. Specifically, the sound output by the speaker 130 may be any one of white noise and a response voice. These will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 3. The speaker 130 may be installed at a portion where the right eye of the rabbit is to be positioned, as in the present embodiment.

The planar heating element layer 140 may be installed on the outer surface of the body 110 or inside the body 110 close to the outer surface. The planar heating element layer 140 generates heat by receiving electrical energy. In detail, the planar heating element layer 140 may include a carbon nanotube layer 141, a protective layer 142, a reflective layer 143, and a color change layer 144. In the present embodiment, the reflective layer 143, the carbon nanotube layer 141, the discoloration layer 144, and the protective layer 142 are sequentially formed in the direction from the inner side to the outer side of the body 110. have.

The carbon nanotube layer 141 is a heat generating layer formed by applying carbon nanotubes to the body 110. Carbon nanotubes have a hexagonal shape consisting of six carbons connected to each other to form a tubular shape. The diameter of the tube is only tens to tens of nanometers, which is called carbon nanotubes. Nanometers are one millionth of a meter, usually one hundredth of a hair's thickness. The electrical conductivity of carbon nanotubes is 100 to 1000 times better than copper, the thermal conductivity is the same as the best diamond in nature, and the strength is 100 times better than steel. Carbon fiber can be broken by only 1% deformation, while carbon nanotubes can withstand 15% deformation. Carbon nanotubes have excellent exothermic properties. Furthermore, it blocks 80-90% of ultraviolet rays. In addition, having a light transmittance of 80% or more, the visibility is not substantially limited by the carbon nanotubes. Carbon nanotubes may further have a property of emitting far infrared rays as they are heated. Far infrared rays help vitalize the body, deodorize, promote blood circulation and metabolism in the human body.

The protective layer 142 is formed to cover the carbon nanotube layer 141, so that the carbon nanotube layer 141 is not damaged by colliding with an external object or the like.

The reflective layer 143 may be formed in the carbon nanotube layer 141 so that heat directed toward the inside of the body 110 may be reflected in the direction toward the protective layer 142. The reflective layer 143 may be formed by applying ceramic to the heat insulator. At this time, the heat insulating material should be disposed to face the inner direction of the body (110).

The color change layer 144 is a layer formed of a material that is heated when the carbon nanotube layer 141 generates heat, and is heated to a predetermined temperature to change color to a color different from the original color. Zion ink may be used for the color change layer 144. Zion ink is a substance that changes color with temperature. Depending on the temperature, the structure of the molecule, the degree of bonding of the water molecules, or the arrangement of the molecules changes, so that the distribution of electrons changes the unique color. When you return to the original temperature, you can recover the original color if the structure of the molecule returns to its original shape. If the protective layer 142 is light transmissive, the changed color of the color change layer 144 will be visible from the outside. When the changed color is maintained, the user can visually recognize that the carbon nanotube layer 141 is properly heated. In addition, the color change due to the color change layer 144 may be enjoyed for infants. If the shape of the discoloration layer 144 is the same as the clothes, it may be implemented to change clothes such as appearing or disappearing a certain type of clothes by changing the color. For example, in the case of training a bowel movement to an infant, it may be expressed that the diaper shape is exposed or reversed by the discoloration layer 144.

According to this configuration, the infant's voice is input through the voice receiver 120, and white noise or response voice corresponding to the input voice is output through the speaker 130. This will be described in more detail with reference to FIGS. 3 and 4.

In addition, by providing the planar heating element layer 140, infants playing with the toy 100 can feel the warmth. If the heating temperature of the surface heating element layer 140 to match the body temperature of a person, infants may feel like the mother's arms while sitting on the toy 100. In addition, after going out on a cold day, such as winter, when the heat generating layer 140 of the toy 100 is heated, the toy 100 can quickly melt the frozen body of the infant.

Next, the user input unit 150 of the infant voice-action toy 100 will be described with reference to FIG. 2. FIG. 2 is a partial perspective view illustrating the user input unit 150 in more detail among the infant voice response toy 100 of FIG. 1.

Referring to this figure, a part of the body 110, specifically, the ear 115 may be a user input unit 150 that receives a user's command. In this embodiment, both ears of the rabbit are able to rotate in both directions R1 and R2 about their respective extension axes.

The reference unit 151 may be displayed on the ear 115, and the option unit 152 may be displayed on the head 111. The option unit 152 represents a plurality of options. When the reference unit 151 matches any of the options of the option unit 152, the infant speech-aided toy 100 performs an operation corresponding to the option.

For example, the options of the option unit 152 corresponding to the rabbit's right ear 115 may be 'waiting', 'activating', 'off'. In the 'standby' option, the voice receiver 120 may be activated to receive the infant's voice, and in the 'off' option, the voice receiver 120 may be inactivated. This may also be the case for the speaker 130. In the 'operation' option, the song may be output through the speaker 130 regardless of the input of the voice through the voice receiver 120.

The first to third modes may be displayed on the option unit 152 corresponding to the left ear 115 of the rabbit. In the first mode, only white noise may be output. In the second mode, only the response voice may be output. In the third mode, both white noise and the response voice may be output. These first to third modes may be operated while the above 'standby' option is selected.

In the above description, the user input unit 150 is described as being mechanical by rotating the rabbit's ear 115, but the voice receiver 120 may also be the user input unit 150. This is because the user's command is received through the voice receiver 120, and the infant voice-action toy 100 may operate according to the command. Such a command may correspond to 'wait execution', 'operation execution', 'off execution', and the like, as described above with the option unit 152.

Next, a configuration for the control of the infant voice-action toy 100 will be described with reference to FIG. 3. FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating a control configuration of the infant voice-action toy 100 of FIG. 1.

Referring to the drawings, the infant voice-acquisition toy 100 includes the voice receiver 120, the speaker 130, the planar heating element layer 140, and the user input unit 150, and the power supply unit 160. ), A memory 170, and a controller 180 may be further included.

The power supply unit 160 supplies power for the operation of the voice receiver 120, the speaker 130, the planar heating element layer 140, the controller 180, and the like. The power supply unit 160 may specifically include a battery installed in a leg 113 of the body 110 (see FIG. 1).

The memory 170 may store a basic voice used in combination, or may store a response voice (word, song, etc.) received through the voice receiver 120. The memory 170 may also store sample data of a crying sound of an infant and a sound other than the crying sound (such as a sound of a word). The sample data may be a basis for determining whether the sound of the infant is the first sound or the second sound. The memory 170 may include a flash memory type, a hard disk type, a multimedia card micro type, a card type memory (for example, SD or XD memory), RAM (Random Access Memory, RAM), Static Random Access Memory (SRAM), Read-Only Memory (ROM), Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory (EEPROM), Programmable Read-Only Memory (PROM), Magnetic Memory, Magnetic It may include a storage medium of at least one type of disk, optical disk.

The controller 180 controls overall operations of the voice receiver 120, the speaker 130, the planar heating element layer 140, the user input unit 150, the power supply unit 160, and the memory 170. do. The controller 180 may specifically include a sound determination unit 181, an output control unit 182, and a combination unit 183. The sound discriminating unit 181 determines whether the sound input through the voice receiving unit 120 is the first sound according to the crying sound of the infant or the second sound according to the general word of the infant. In this process, a process of removing noise from an infant's voice signal may be added. The output adjuster 182 causes the white noise to be output for the first sound and the response voice for the second sound.

White noise is a voice signal that has almost the same amount of all frequency components within an audible frequency and is commonly encountered around us, such as the "shh" sound from a television after a broadcast, the sound of a vacuum cleaner, the sound of a washing machine, the sound of a wave. The sound of rain, falls and falls. According to a study by a Korean researcher, the sound that is heard directly by the fetus indicates that most of the sounds that occur outside the uterus, including the sound of the mother's heartbeat, are absorbed inside the amniotic fluid surrounding the fetus and are rarely transmitted to the fetus. It turned out. On the other hand, when the mother strokes the tummy or when the clothing rubs on the tummy, the sound is most pronounced by the fetus because the fetus's ears are located close to the mother's tummy, and the irregular low frequency sounds in the process of passing through the tummy and amniotic fluid Since it is transmitted to the fetus in the form of white noise, it has been found that the white noise most frequently heard when in the womb has an excellent effect on the psychological stability of infants as compared to the mother's heartbeat or voice.

The response voice may be a sound that speaks a word corresponding to a word pronounced by an infant. For example, if the infant says 'daddy', the response voice may be 'daddy'. If the infant says 'dap' as 'ap', it may be corrected [by matching 'dap' to 'dap' and stored] so that 'dap' is output as a response voice. In addition, if the infant pronounced 'freezer' as the 'freezer,' the response voice may be corrected and output as 'freezer' rather than 'freezer'. As described above, when the corrected response voice having the correct pronunciation or the number of syllables is output in response to the second sound caused by the incorrect pronunciation of the infant, the problem that the infant learns the wrong language does not occur.

The combination unit 183 combines the basic voices stored in the memory 170 to generate a response voice corresponding to the first sound. For example, if the first sound is 'dad', the combination unit 183 makes 'dad' by combining 'a' and 'pa' which are basic voices.

The overall operation of the infant voice-acquisition toy 100 by this controlled configuration will be described with reference to FIG. 4. 4 is a flowchart illustrating a control method of the infant voice-acquisition toy 100 of FIG. 1.

Referring to this drawing [and FIG. 3], the control method of the infant voice-acquisition toy 100 may include white noise or white noise depending on the step of receiving the infant's sound and whether the infant's sound is the first sound or the second sound. Outputting a response voice.

Specifically, the sound (voice) of the infant is received through the voice receiver 120 (S1).

The controller 180 determines whether the received sound is a first sound, that is, a sound caused by an infant crying (S2). In detail, the controller 180 may determine the first sound when the frequency of the input voice signal falls within a frequency range of 350 Hz to 400 Hz corresponding to a general baby cry. Alternatively, the controller 180 may determine whether the received sound is a first sound or a second sound by comparing the received infant sound with a sample sound stored in the memory 170.

If it is determined as the first sound, the controller 180 causes the white noise stored in the memory 170 to be output to the speaker 130 (S3).

If the sound received by the voice receiver 120 is not the first sound, the controller 180 determines the sound as the second sound. Further, the controller 180 determines whether the second sound is part of the song lyrics stored in the memory 170 (S4). To this end, the controller 180 may search the lyrics of the song stored in the memory 170 and determine whether the second sound matches some of the lyrics.

If the second sound is part of the song lyrics, the song containing the lyrics is output (S5). In this case, all of the songs may be output or only the measures including the corresponding words may be output. For example, in the former case, when a second sound of 'good' is inputted, 'good child does not quarrel. No matter who says haha. Always the nicest child with friends is right on me! I! I! A song containing the word 'good', such as ',' in the lyrics may be output. In the latter case, if the second sound of 'dad' is input after the output of the phrase 'three bears are in one house', the phrase 'dad bear' is output. Subsequently, when a second sound of 'mom' is input, the phrase 'mother bear' may be output.

If the second sound is not part of the song lyrics, a word corresponding to the word may be output (S6). For example, when the 'dog' is input as the second sound, the 'dog' or the 'dog dog' may be output through the speaker 130 as the response voice.

According to this configuration, the emotional output of the infant is mainly promoted through the output of the white noise, and the emotional and intelligent development of the infant by maintaining the response to the infant who starts speaking mainly through the output of the response voice. It becomes possible to plan. Furthermore, if the response voice is recorded in the voice of the mother or the father, the emotional development of the infant and the baby may be less burdened by the parent.

Next, with respect to outputting the response voice above, a method of storing the response voice will be described with reference to FIG. 5. FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating a process in which the infant voice response toy 100 of FIG. 1 receives a response voice corresponding to a second sound.

Referring to FIG. 3 (and FIG. 3), the controller 180 may receive a signal for selecting a mode for inputting a response voice through the user input unit 150 (S11). The mode of inputting the response voice will be mainly used by infant rearers.

When proceeding to the response voice input mode, the controller 180 outputs a comment for inputting the second sound through the speaker 130 (S12).

Accordingly, the second sound may be received through the voice receiver 120 (S13). In this case, as the second sound, for example, 'cold' may be received.

When the second sound is received, the controller 180 outputs a guide comment for inputting a response voice corresponding to the received second sound through the speaker 130 (S14).

Accordingly, the response voice may be input through the voice receiver 120 (S15). In response to the second sound 'freezer', the caregiver will enter the 'fridge' as the response voice for an accurate response. 'Freezing' refers to the refrigerator, which can be understood by the caregiver's usual observation of infants.

For example, the controller 180 matches the 'fridge' as the response voice with respect to the second sound of the 'freezer' and stores it in the memory 170 (S16). Accordingly, when the infant is pronounced 'freezer', the toy receiving the same may output a response voice as 'fridge' as described with reference to FIG.

The infant voice-action toy as described above and its control method are not limited to the configuration and operation of the embodiments described above. The above embodiments may be configured such that various modifications may be made by selectively combining all or part of the embodiments.

100: infant voice response toy 110: body
120: voice receiver 130: speaker
140: planar heating element layer 141: carbon nanotube layer
144: discoloration layer 150: user input unit
151: reference portion 152: option portion
160: power supply unit 170: memory
180:

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A voice receiver;
speaker; And
If the sound inputted through the voice receiver is a first sound that is a crying sound of an infant, white noise is output through the speaker. If the input sound is a second sound other than the first sound, the second sound corresponds to the second sound. And a control unit for outputting, through the speaker, a response voice which is a corrected sound having a different pronunciation or a different syllable number than the second sound.
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Further includes a memory for storing basic voices,
The control unit may further include a combination unit for generating the response voice by combining the basic voices.
The method of claim 1,
Further comprising a memory,
And the control unit stores the sound input through the voice receiving unit in the memory and outputs the response voice as the response voice.
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A body in which the voice receiver, the controller, and the speaker are installed; And
It is formed in the body, further comprising a surface heating element layer for generating heat generated by the power supply, infant voice response toys.
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When the heat generation of the planar heating element layer further comprises a discoloration layer that is discolored by the color set by the heat according to the heat, infant negative response toy.
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If the input sound is a first sound that is a crying sound of an infant, the control unit outputs white noise to a speaker. If the input sound is a second sound other than the first sound, the control unit corresponds to the second sound. And outputting, to the speaker, a response voice, which is a corrected sound having a different pronunciation or a different syllable number than a second sound, to the speaker.
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And receiving the response voice through the voice receiver and storing the received voice in a memory.
The method of claim 12,
Receiving the response voice through the voice receiving unit and storing in the memory,
Allowing the controller to output a comment requesting an input of the second sound through the speaker; And
When the second sound is input through the voice receiving unit, the controller may include outputting a comment requesting to input a response voice matching the input second sound through the speaker. How to control the motion of toys.
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If the input sound is a first sound that is a crying sound of an infant, the control unit outputs white noise to a speaker. If the input sound is a second sound other than the first sound, the control unit corresponds to the second sound. The outputting of the response voice, which is a corrected sound having a different pronunciation or a different syllable number than the second sound, may be output to the speaker.
And outputting the stored song as the response voice if the input second sound is a word (s) of song lyrics stored in a memory.
The method of claim 10,
If the input sound is a first sound that is a crying sound of an infant, the control unit outputs white noise to a speaker. If the input sound is a second sound other than the first sound, the control unit corresponds to the second sound. The outputting of the response voice, which is a corrected sound having a different pronunciation or a different syllable number than the second sound, may be output to the speaker.
Outputting a part of a song stored in a memory through the speaker, and outputting all of the corresponding words when the input second sound is part of a next measure of the song. .
Body;
A voice receiver installed on the body;
A speaker installed in the body;
A memory installed in the body;
A response voice, which is installed in the body and corresponds to a voice of an infant, input through the voice receiver, and is a corrected sound having a pronunciation or a different syllable number different from that of the infant, and searches for the response voice in the memory. A controller configured to be output through a speaker; And
Is installed on the body, including the voice receiving unit, the speaker, the memory, and a power supply for supplying power for the operation of the control unit, infant voice response toy.
18. The method of claim 17,
The response voice is received and stored through the voice receiver, infant voice response toy.
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