Music – Instruments – Electrical musical tone generation
Patent
1988-11-30
1990-08-07
Witkowski, Stanley J.
Music
Instruments
Electrical musical tone generation
84625, 84697, 84712, 381 51, G10H 108, G10H 136, G10H 700
Patent
active
049458051
ABSTRACT:
An electronic music and sound mixing device, to be combined with a doll or a toy animal. The device comprising a mix ROM and a speech ROM for storing digital data of melodies, accompaniments and animal voices, a logical control circuit for controlling the operation of this device responsive to external signals to play a single song or all of the stored songs, once or continuously. The devices further include melody and accompaniment generators for treating the digital data read from the mix ROM and couples their output to a mix circuit which mixes the signals and shapes them into square waves for coupling to an amplifier for generating an audio output. The device can also output synchronized signals simultaneously to drive a motor to give facial expressions and limb movements to the toy animal in accordance with the song played.
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Klein David I.
Rosenberg Morton J.
Witkowski Stanley J.
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