Toy construction system and a method for a spatial structure to be detected by an electronic device comprising a touch screen
AssigneeLego A/S
InventorLaurence James Dawes
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Abstract
A toy construction system comprising toy construction elements comprising coupling members (20) for detachably interconnecting the toy construction elements to create spatial structures (40), the toy construction system comprises at least a first type of toy construction elements (10), the first type of toy construction elements can be coupled to each other, wherein that the first type of toy construction elements is configured to be detected by a touch screen (60), and when toy construction elements are coupled to each other so as to form a spatial structure, the toy construction elements of the first type define a touch point pattern recognizable by the touch screen.
Claims12
A toy construction system comprising:
- an electronic device and toy construction elements, the toy construction elements comprising coupling members for detachably interconnecting the toy construction elements in at least two configurations to create a plurality of spatial structures the coupling members comprising coupling studs and stud-receiving recesses, the electronic device comprising a touch screen;
- wherein the toy construction system comprises at least two of a first type of toy construction elements and at least one of a second type of toy construction element, each of the first type of toy construction elements being interconnectable with one or more other toy construction elements of the first type and at least one toy construction element of the second type;
- wherein the second type of toy construction element is configured not to be detected by the touch screen;
- wherein each of the at least two of a first type of toy construction element comprises a touch point, the touch points configured to be detected by a touch screen upon interaction therewith and to form, when the at least two of the first type of toy construction elements are interconnected with one or more of the first or second type of toy construction elements so as to form one of a plurality of spatial structures, a touch point pattern recognizable by the touch screen, the touch point pattern corresponding to the spatial structure;
- wherein the electronic device comprises a processor configured to recognize the touch point pattern and to generate at least one or more effects or responses on the touch screen based on a recognized touch point pattern;
- wherein the processor is configured to perform a function responsive to the recognized touch point pattern, where respective functions are associated with different touch point patterns;
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- wherein the toy construction system is movable relative to the touch screen such that the processor is configured to recognize and register the movement of the touch point pattern.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.