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US 2013/0074379 A1Published application
Interactive electronic greeting cards with tap and touch activated effects
AssigneeAmerican Greetings Corporation
InventorsDavid MAYER, Catherine TASSE, Sarah C. EKLUND, Allison MARSH, Jerry GUO, Tiger QIAO
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Abstract
The interactive greeting card of the present disclosure and related inventions combines a traditional paper card with one or more special effects that are initiated by interaction between a user and the greeting card. One or more touch sensors are used to initiate effects including, but not limited to sound, light, movement or a combination thereof.
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An interactive greeting card comprising:
- a greeting card body having at least three panels;
- an electronics module contained within a cavity formed between two of the at least three panels of the greeting card body, the electronics module operative to store and playback at least two audio files;
- a slide switch which controls playback of a first audio file;
- a touch sensor switch which controls playback of a second audio file, the touch sensor switch being triggered by a human touching or tapping on an area of the greeting card above the touch sensor switch.
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An interactive greeting card comprising:
- a multi-panel greeting card body;
- a sound module attached to the multi-panel greeting card body, the sound module operative to store and playback at least one audio file;
- a touch sensitive switch contained beneath one of the panels of the multi-panel greeting card body;
- wherein touching an area of the multi-panel greeting card body above the touch sensitive switch triggers playback of the at least one audio file.
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An interactive greeting card comprising:
- a multi-panel greeting card body;
- a sound module operative to store and playback audio files saved thereon;
- a slide switch operative to control playback of a first audio file upon opening the greeting card;
- a touch sensitive switch operative to control playback of a second audio file upon a user touching or tapping an area of the greeting card body above the touch sensitive switch.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.