CONTEXT-BASED INTERACTIVE PLUSH TOY

Patent №

US 8,911,277

Granted

2014-12-16

Filed 2011

Owner

HALLMARK CARDS, INCORPORATED

Lab

AI components

5

ml · nlp · speech · kr · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

13116927

An interactive toy for interacting with a user while a story is being read aloud from a book or played from a movie/video. The toy includes a speech recognition unit that receives and detects certain triggering phrases as they are read aloud or played from a companion literary work. The triggering phrase read aloud from the book or played in the movie/video may have independent significance or may only have significance when combined with other phrases read aloud from the book or played in the movie/video.

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Speech0.99
AI hardware0.98
Knowledge representation0.63
Machine learning0.60
Vision0.08
Planning0.01
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

HALLMARK CARDS, INCORPORATED

assignment · 373050611

Assignors

GARBOS, JENNIFER R., BODENDISTEL, TIMOTHY G., FRIEDMANN, PETER B.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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