Audio signal reception type vocalizing toy and vocalizing toy apparatus

Abstract

An audio signal reception type vocalizing toy is worn and used by a user as a visitor in a customer attraction facility. A light receiving unit having a light receiving element for receiving visible light through a condensing lens is attached to the front of a wear type toy body. An amplifier and filter circuit are provided in the wear type toy body, the amplifier amplifying a signal output from the light receiving unit, and the filter circuit integrating a digital signal output from the amplifier into an analog audio signal and outputting it to a speaker(s). The speaker(s) is (are) attached into the wear type toy body. When the user wears the vocalizing toy and directs the light receiving unit in the front of the wear type toy body to a visible light source of a visible light transmitter for superimposing and projecting an audio signal on visible light in the customer attraction facilities, the light receiving unit receives the visible light and picks up the audio signal contained in the light reception signal, and sound containing music, voice, etc., is generated by the speaker.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0001]1. Field of the Invention[0002]The present invention relates to an audio signal reception type vocalizing toy which is built into goods sold or supplied in a customer attraction facility such as a theme park and receives an audio signal to generate voice, and a vocalizing toy apparatus including a visible light transmitter which is used together with the audio signal reception type vocalizing toy, is built into a mascot costume type image character of a customer attraction facility, etc., and transmits the audio signal to the vocalizing toy by visible light communication.[0003]2. Description of Related Art[0004]Recently, theme parks have been opened in various places, and many people have enjoyed facilities and attractions therein of the theme parks. In a theme park, a mascot costume type image character, etc., appears at the site and puts on a performance, etc., for many visitors for their enjoyment, with the aim of increasing park repeaters.[0005]H...

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Benefits of technology

[0011]It is an object of the present invention to provide an audio signal reception type vocalizing toy and vocalizing toy apparatus capable of realizing personalization of service for visitors of a customer attraction facility, allowing the visitors to sufficiently enjoy and thus realizing an increase in repeaters.

[0017]Since in this state, the projected visible light is, for example, blue light or white light and the blue light or white light is projected as a conical luminous flux, the visitor of the customer attraction facility can, by using the visible light as a mark, easily visually confirm a sending source of service by the image character.

[0019]Accordingly, compared with the conventional case of using generally adopted FM modulation, FSK modulation or the like when transmitting an audio signal by radio communication, neither a complicated demodulating circuit nor a wave detecting circuit is necessary for a receiver, and an electric circuit on the reception side can be extremely simplified while the sound quality of voice output by the receiver is kept excellent. Thus, the manufacturing cost of a visible light receiver, audio signal reception type vocalizing toy, is remarkably reduced, and an extremely low-priced vocalizing toy can be provided for users.

[0023]Additionally, the user of the vocalizing toy recognizes the voice of the greeting as not a common expression sent to the general public but as an expression of which the content is extremely naturally selected and which is sent from the image character only to him / her, and thus can obtain a great impression.

[0025]Thus, the user, when facing John or Mary who are image characters, can feel that the image characters are just talking to him / her, and thus natural service selection and personalization can be effectively presented to the visitor.

[0026]In the case where the user thus wears the audio signal reception type vocalizing toy and enters the customer attraction facility, the user can obtain a greater fresh and enjoyable experience compared with the case of putting the audio signal reception type vocalizing toy in his / her home, etc., and the experience can be obtained only in the customer attraction facility. Since this greatly inspires users to visit the customer attraction facility again, the aim of increasing repeaters can be realized by using such an audio signal reception type vocalizing toy in the customer attraction facility.

Problems solved by technology

However, such a mascot costume type image character that only puts on performances for visitors, is likely to lose the interest of the visitors, and does not always contribute to the acquisition of repeaters.

Additionally, although the theme park sells various goods such as stuffed toys and caps of various image characters so that the visitor has a sense of unity with and enjoys the theme and image characters of the theme park, such conventional goods do not always contribute to an increase in repeaters.

Further, such conventional goods become common as a sales period becomes longer, and new visitors are likely to lose interest in the theme park.

Therefore, if the stuffed toy is repeatedly used, users are also likely to lose interest.

In the case where such a conventional voice guidance apparatus is set up in a customer attraction facility such as a theme park, a receiver toy is created in a manner of building a receiver in, for example, character goods, a visitor brings the receiver toy to the customer attraction facility and simply listens to the voice guidance of the audio signals transmitted by infrared rays or radio waves from the voice guidance apparatus through the receiver toy as a user, the infrared rays or radio waves non-selectively reach the receiver of the user and voice cannot be selectively made to reach each visitor.

Thus, personalization cannot be performed for the visitor as natural selection of services and the visitor can hardly enjoy and obtain sufficient satisfaction, which makes the aim of increasing repeaters of customer attraction facilities difficult.

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