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US 2022/0187934 A1Published application
Toys with capacitive touch features
AssigneeKids II Hape Joint Venture Limited
InventorsBradford REESE, Henrik JOHANSSON, Adam SHILLITO, Tsz Kin HO, Neil NI, Chun Chung YEUNG, Qi HE
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Abstract
A children's toy with touch interactivity. The children's toy generally includes a user input panel and one or more touch sensors. The user input panel may be formed from a natural organic material such as wood. The toy can be shaped and ornamented to resemble a toy tablet with buttons or icons incorporating images of one or more animals and configured to play animal sounds or information about the animals in response to user input applied to the user input panel and sensed by the touch sensors.
Claims29
A children's toy comprising:
- a user interface panel comprising a natural wood material and having a top surface and a bottom surface, the top surface defining a plurality of user input areas for touch contact by a user, at least one of the user input areas comprising an image of an animal;
- a plurality of capacitive touch sensors in operative contact with the bottom surface of the user interface panel, each capacitive touch sensor being in operative alignment with a corresponding user input area, whereby touch contact by the user on a selected user input area of the top surface of the user interface panel is sensed by the corresponding capacitive touch sensor to generate an input signal;
- an electronic input-output system configured to receive the input signal upon touch contact by the user on the selected user input area and generate a responsive output signal corresponding to the selected user input area;
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- a sound output device configured to receive the output signal from the electronic input-output system and generate a user-perceptible sound output corresponding to the selected user input area in response thereto, the user-perceptible sound output comprising a sound identifying the animal or simulating a sound of the animal.
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A children's toy comprising:
- a user input panel having a top surface and a bottom surface, the top surface defining a plurality of user input areas for touch contact by a user;
- a plurality of capacitive touch sensors in operative contact with the bottom surface of the user input panel, each capacitive touch sensor being in operative alignment with a corresponding user input area, whereby touch contact by the user on a selected user input area of the top surface of the user input panel is sensed by the corresponding capacitive touch sensor to generate an input signal;
- an electronic input-output control system configured to receive the input signal generated by the corresponding capacitive touch sensor upon touch contact by the user on the selected user input area and generate a responsive output signal corresponding to the selected user input area;
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- an output device configured to receive the output signal from the control system and generate a user-perceptible output corresponding to the selected user input area in response thereto;
- wherein the user input panel comprises a natural wood material.
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A children's toy comprising:
- a user input panel comprising a natural wood material and having a top surface and a bottom surface, the top surface defining a plurality of user input areas for touch contact by a user, each of the plurality of user input areas comprising an image of a different animal;
- a plurality of touch sensors in operative contact with the bottom surface of the user input panel, each touch sensor being in operative alignment with a corresponding user input area, whereby touch contact by the user on a selected user input area of the top surface of the user input panel is sensed by the corresponding touch sensor to generate an input signal;
- an electronic input-output system configured to receive the input signal generated by the corresponding touch sensor upon touch contact by the user on the selected user input area and generate a responsive output signal corresponding to the selected user input area;
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- a sound output device configured to receive the output signal from the electronic input-output system and generate a user-perceptible sound output corresponding to the selected user input area in response thereto, the user-perceptible sound output comprising a different sound identifying each animal or simulating a sound of each animal.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.