Electronic interactive play environment for toy characters
CA 2376186 A1 · Owner: Shackelford, Judith A. · Inventors: Shackelford, Judith A.
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A child's electronic playset defines a setting or character environment (1) for various toy characters (57-62), play pieces representing persons or , fantasy characters which the player may move about that environment. Through its electronics (90) the environment possesses built-in intelligence and defines virtual beings through spoken messages which are attributed by the player to the toy characters, creating a virtual universe. Markers (65) identify each toy character to the environment when checked by the environment's sensors (90, S1-S48) enabling the environment to know which characters are present and to call up an appropriate dialog there between to broadcast through a …
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- Filed June 30, 2000. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended June 30, 2020.
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