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Details
Inventors: Pohl, Dirk;
Assignee:
Primary Examiner: Kuntz; Curtis A.
Assistant Examiner: Ramakrishnaiah; Melur
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Hutchins Wheeler & Dittmar

The invention concerns a communications device incorporated into a doll-like figure with at least one microphone, at least one speaker and communications module for exchange of data with a digital data network. The invention thus proceeds from a digital telephone, preferably a videophone. The invention creates a communications device suitable for recording and reproducing other signals in addition to conventional data, particularly sound signals. The doll-like figure containing the communications device has a base body with at least one moving part attached to the base body, and at least one adjusting motor for driving the part. The motor is controlled by a control device which receives control signals via the communications module from the data network. A movement sensor may be provided which detects a manual adjusting movement of the moving part and which is connected to the data network with a data line, thereby permitting the movement signals to be transmitted as control signals to the data network.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION The device according to the invention is a doll-like communications device constructed on a digital telephone, which records speech and tone data via a microphone, and introduces it to a digital data network via a communications module.
From the network, the data can be transmitted to a second communications device, which reproduces by its speaker the sound signals recorded with the first communications device after converting the data to voltage signals.
In the case of telephony, the communications device provides for communication between at least two devices, e.
g.
, for communication of a first to a second device and from the second to the first device.
The communications device of the invention is suitable for the recording and reproduction of other signals in addition to conventional data, particularly sound signals.
According to the invention, the communications device comprises a base unit with at least one moving part that is attached to the base unit, and at least one adjusting motor for driving the moving part.
The motor is controlled by a control device which receives control signals from the data network via the communications module.
Conventional and non-conventional sound signals thus can be introduced into the communications device for reproduction.
It is also possible to introduce control signals from the data network which produce movement of the moving part relative to the base part.
Preferably, the communications device according to the invention is a videophone and further comprises at least one camera and at least one video screen.
In the case of a particularly preferred embodiment, a movement sensor which detects a manual movement of the moving part is connected to the moving part, and the movement signals detected by the sensor can be transmitted via the communications module as control signals to the data network, where they are further conducted to a second, similar communications device, which in its turn reconstructs the manually produced adjusting movement in the second device



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