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US 11,684,853 B1Granted
Interactive puzzle
OwnerDiane Tuckerinventor
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Abstract
The present disclosure is directed to an interactive puzzle. In particular, the methods and systems of the present disclosure may: generate data representing a graphical user interface (GUI); and receive user input via one or more user-manipulable control elements of the GUI such that one or more of a plurality of different, distinct, visibly distinguishable, continuous, and extensible line elements expand and/or contract along their one or more predetermined associated paths in an image area of the GUI to form a line drawing comprising at least a humanly discernible portion of at least one image, of a plurality of different and distinct images that may be rendered in the image area, that constitutes at least a portion of a solution to a user-solvable puzzle associated with the plurality of different and distinct images.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- generating and displaying, by one or more computing devices comprising at least one processor and memory, a graphical user interface (GUI) comprising:
- an image area for rendering a plurality of different and distinct images including at least one image that constitutes at least a portion of a solution to a user-solvable puzzle associated with the plurality of different and distinct images, and
- one or more user-manipulable control elements configured to cause one or more of a plurality of different, distinct, visibly distinguishable, continuous, and extensible line elements to expand and contract along one or more predetermined associated paths in the image area to form a line drawing comprising at least a humanly discernible portion of the at least one image that constitutes the at least a portion of the solution to the user-solvable puzzle associated with the plurality of different and distinct images, wherein each of the plurality of different, distinct, visibly distinguishable, continuous, and extensible line elements is associated with a different, distinct, and alternative narrative, story, theme, or scene associated with the user-solvable puzzle;
- receiving, by the one or more computing devices comprising the at least one processor and memory, user input via the one or more user-manipulable control elements such that the one or more of the plurality of different, distinct, visibly distinguishable, continuous, and extensible line elements expand and contract along their one or more predetermined associated paths in the image area to form the line drawing comprising at least the humanly discernible portion of the at least one image that constitutes the at least a portion of the solution to the user-solvable puzzle associated with the plurality of different and distinct images;
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- displaying in the image area, by the one or more computing devices comprising the at least one processor and memory, the line drawing comprising at least the humanly discernible portion of the at least one image that constitutes the at least a portion of the solution to the user-solvable puzzle associated with the plurality of different and distinct images.
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A system comprising:
- one or more processors;
- and
- a memory storing instructions that when executed by the one or more processors cause the system to perform operations comprising:
- generating and displaying a graphical user interface (GUI) comprising:
- an image area for rendering a plurality of different and distinct images including at least one image that constitutes at least a portion of a solution to a user-solvable puzzle associated with the plurality of different and distinct images, and
- one or more user-manipulable control elements configured to cause one or more of a plurality of different, distinct, visibly distinguishable, continuous, and extensible line elements to expand and contract along one or more predetermined associated paths in the image area to form a line drawing comprising at least a humanly discernible portion of the at least one image that constitutes the at least a portion of the solution to the user-solvable puzzle associated with the plurality of different and distinct images, wherein each of the plurality of different, distinct, visibly distinguishable, continuous, and extensible line elements is associated with a different, distinct, and alternative narrative, story, theme, or scene associated with the user-solvable puzzle;
- receiving user input via the one or more user-manipulable control elements such that the one or more of the plurality of different, distinct, visibly distinguishable, continuous, and extensible line elements expand and contract along their one or more predetermined associated paths in the image area to form the line drawing comprising at least the humanly discernible portion of the at least one image that constitutes the at least a portion of the solution to the user-solvable puzzle associated with the plurality of different and distinct images;
- and
- displaying, in the image area, the line drawing comprising at least the humanly discernible portion of the at least one image that constitutes at least a portion of the solution to the user-solvable puzzle associated with the plurality of different and distinct images.
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One or more non-transitory computer-readable media comprising instructions that when executed by one or more computing devices cause the one or more computing devices to perform operations comprising:
- generating and displaying a graphical user interface (GUI) comprising:
- an image area for rendering a plurality of different and distinct images including at least one image that constitutes at least a portion of a solution to a user-solvable puzzle associated with the plurality of different and distinct images, and
- one or more user-manipulable control elements configured to cause one or more of a plurality of different, distinct, visibly distinguishable, continuous, and extensible line elements to expand and contract along one or more predetermined associated paths in the image area to form a line drawing comprising at least a humanly discernible portion of the at least one image that constitutes the at least a portion of the solution to the user-solvable puzzle associated with the plurality of different and distinct images, wherein each of the plurality of different, distinct, visibly distinguishable, continuous, and extensible line elements is associated with a different, distinct, and alternative narrative, story, theme, or scene associated with the user-solvable puzzle;
- receiving user input via the one or more user-manipulable control elements such that the one or more of the plurality of different, distinct, visibly distinguishable, continuous, and extensible line elements expand and contract along their one or more predetermined associated paths in the image area to form the line drawing comprising at least the humanly discernible portion of the at least one image that constitutes the at least a portion of the solution to the user-solvable puzzle associated with the plurality of different and distinct images;
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- displaying, in the image area, the line drawing comprising at least the humanly discernible portion of the at least one image that constitutes the at least a portion of the solution to the user-solvable puzzle associated with the plurality of different and distinct images.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.