Interactive toy
CA 2260160 C · Owner: Hampton, David Mark · Inventors: Hampton, David Mark; Chung, Caleb
Overview
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A very compact interactive toy is provided that provides highly life-like and intelligent seeming interaction with the user thereof. The toy can take the form of a small animal-like creature having a variety of moving body parts that have very precisely controlled and coordinated movements thereof so as to provide the toy with life-like mannerisms. The toy utilizes sensors for detecting sensory inputs which dictate the movements of the body parts in response to the sensed inputs. The sensors also allow several of the toys to interact with each other. The body parts are driven for movement by a single motor which is relatively small in terms of its power requirements given the large number …
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- Filed February 1, 1999 and granted December 4, 2001. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended February 1, 2019.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by February 1, 2021.
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