Toy system with manually operated scanner
AssigneeHasbro, Inc.
InventorsNicholas Reid, William Gajda, Benjamin Parry Taylor
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Abstract
A toy assembly includes: a platform configured to receive an object in a space extending from the platform; a dock configured to receive and hold a portable imaging device associated with a field of view, the dock being positioned relative to the platform such that the space extending from the platform overlaps with the field of view of the imaging device when the imaging device is received and held in the dock; a physical input configured to move in response to an applied manual force; and a movable connection between the physical input and the platform, the movable connection configured to move the platform relative to the imaging device in response to receiving a manual force.
Claims19
A method comprising:
- detecting a representation of a symbol in an image obtained by a portable electronic device, the representation of the symbol being associated with a particular region of a platform received at a toy system;
- obtaining, with an imaging device of the portable electronic device, a first image of an object received in a space that extends from the platform in response to detecting the representation of the symbol, the first image being obtained at a first time;
- moving the platform of the toy system in response to application of a manual force, wherein moving the platform moves the object relative to the imaging device;
- obtaining a second image of the object at a second time, a position of the object relative to the imaging device being different at the second time than at the first time;
- generating a virtual environment that includes a representation of the object based on the first and second images;
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- visually presenting the virtual environment at the portable electronic device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.