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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110023331 | SHOE WITH ACTION ACTIVATED ELECTRONIC AUDIO SOUND GENERATOR A shoe includes an electronic audio sound generator built into the sole. The electronic audio sound generator is mounted between the inner sole and the outer sole, and may be selectively turned ON for transmitting an audio signal to a speaker in communication with the e... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20100115799 | Shoe Apparatus A shoe apparatus includes a shoe sole and a shoe upper atop the shoe sole. The shoe apparatus includes at least one sensor for determining when at least a portion of the shoe sole is compressed and includes at least one speaker. A processor is in data communication with... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20090282703 | PSYCHOACOUSTIC FOOTWEAR Psychoacoustic footwear includes a heel adapted to generate a sound during walking. The sound may be produced electronically or mechanically. In a mechanical implementation, the heel may include a chamber with an opening. A vibrating object within the heel, such as a tu... | 11/19/2009 |
| 20090260261 | OVER-THE-SHOE DANCE TAP ATTACHMENT An over-the-shoe tap plate carrying accessory slipper for tap dancers is a unitary molded slipper made of a stretchable elastic material having a top strap held relative to a sole by upright straps, and being stretchable to fit over a street shoe. The accessory slipper ... | 10/22/2009 |
| 20090238400 | Sound generating apparatus embedded into shoe and its shoes The present invention relates to a sound generating apparatus embedded into a shoe and its shoes, the sound generating apparatus having a sensor embedded into the shoe to generate simple sounds, numeral voices together with the simple sounds or numeral voices in a multi... | 09/24/2009 |
| 20090178305 | Footwear for use in connection with teaching The present application is generally directed to an arrangement of first and second articles of footwear which may be used in a system or method for teaching a user a plurality of individual units according to a predetermined order. The arrangement is configured to sens... | 07/16/2009 |
| 20070151126 | Shoes for walking reform This design is regarded to shoes for rightwalking reform and the shoes are characterized as the shoes for walking reform, such as if the walking is not right at going on foot and gives a alert sound, then let a pedestrian have a self-consciousnessin order to reform walk... | 07/05/2007 |
| 20070089320 | VEHICLE SHAPED FOOTWEAR Children's footwear configured to have the appearance of a motor vehicle. The footwear has a light emitting device, a sound emitting device, and a remote transmitter for controlling the light emitting device and the sound emitting device. The footwear may come in a vari... | 04/26/2007 |
| 20060107554 | Ornamental medicine alarm timer slipper A slipper member has a holder formed therein, and an interchangeable unitary assembly that is an alarm timer, is easily slid within the holder and is retained in between upper and lower layers of encircling slipper member that is conjoined with a fastening mechanism. Th... | 05/25/2006 |
| 20060104046 | Article of footwear with remote sound activating unit An article of footwear such as a shoe having an array of light sources and at least one loudspeaker is provided in combination with a separate device having a recording unit which records sound and a transmitter which transmits an RF signal representative of the sound r... | 05/18/2006 |
| 20060080868 | Call display and vibration-sensed light emitting shoe heel A call display and vibration-sensed light emitting shoe heel comprises: a shoe body; a shoe heel having an opened receiving portion at a bottom of the heel. A vibration detecting circuit board with an light emitting diode (LED), a battery portion for supplying power to ... | 04/20/2006 |
| 20060026869 | Smart shoe The present invention provides a children shoe that enables children to put shoes on the right feet by matching up the shoe big toe to big toe or heel to heel before putting on the shoe. The smart shoe essentially comprises an engaging portion on the outside of shoe wit... | 02/09/2006 |
| 20050223603 | Music shoe A music shoe includes a shoe body for covering a person's foot, and a sound control unit installed in the shoe body. The sound control unit has a control circuit board with a voice database containing voice data, a speaker electrically connected to the control circuit b... | 10/13/2005 |
| 20050183294 | Shoe with light and sound activated manually and automatically This invention is directed to an article of footwear having both one or more light sources such as LEDs, and a loudspeaker, which are activated either by a manual switch or an inertia switch. Indicia mounted to the shoe, or to the manual switches carried by the shoe, co... | 08/25/2005 |
| 20050150139 | Footwear with externally activated switch An article of footwear includes an electrical circuit having a battery, one or more integrated circuits connected to an array of LEDs and to a loudspeaker, and, a number of switches which are operative to activate the integrated circuit(s) in response to motion of the f... | 07/14/2005 |
| 20050150138 | Clothing with externally activated switch An article of clothing includes an electrical circuit having a battery, one or more integrated circuits connected to a signal device such as an array of LEDs and/or a loudspeaker, and, at least one switch which is operative to activate the integrated circuit(s) in respo... | 07/14/2005 |
