公开(公告)号：US10918962B2

公开(公告)日：2021-02-16

申请号：US16470031

申请日：2017-12-21

Applicant: LEGO A/S

Inventor： Jan Ryaa

IPC: A63H18/08 ,  A63H18/02

Abstract: A toy vehicle configured for running on rails, the toy vehicle comprises a chassis comprising a first end and a second end, two side faces extending in the longitudinal direction of the toy vehicle, a top portion, at least two axels each comprising two wheels, wherein the chassis comprises at least two flexible flanges being positioned opposite each other on both sides of the chassis on each side faces. Each flexible flange comprising a snap protrusion at the extremity of the flanges, such that the snap protrusions are adapted to slide past an outer surface of a set of rails.

公开(公告)号：US20200376402A1

公开(公告)日：2020-12-03

申请号：US16961293

申请日：2019-01-24

Applicant: LEGO A/S

Inventor： René Christensen WELLEJUS ,  Bjarke Holt PEDERSEN ,  Kevin Nørby ANDERSEN ,  Ralph HEMPEL ,  Pelle Normann BRIX

IPC: A63H33/04 ,  G06F13/20 ,  G05B19/4155

Abstract: A toy construction robotics system including a robotics control unit, the robotics control unit comprising: a housing comprising coupling elements configured for releasably interconnecting the robotics control unit with cooperating toy construction elements; a processor comprising programmed instructions; a plurality of I/O-ports connected to communicate with the processor; a plurality of separate light emitters arranged in a two-dimensional array on a front side of the housing, each of the light emitters being operable in response to instructions from the processor so as to produce at least two different indicator states; wherein the light emitters are aligned with respect to the I/O-ports such that each of the I/O-ports has an associated light emitter next to it. The light emitters may be operable, in response to instructions from the processor, to produce a machine readable code encoding data in respect of the robotics control unit. The machine readable code may comprise instructions for interaction between the robotics control unit and an external device.

公开(公告)号：US20200368633A1

公开(公告)日：2020-11-26

申请号：US16767229

申请日：2018-11-30

Applicant: LEGO A/S

Inventor： Louise Tosti JOHANSEN ,  Raphael SCHLICHTING ,  Ronen HADAR ,  René MIKKELSEN

IPC: A63H33/08 ,  B33Y80/00 ,  B33Y10/00 ,  B29C64/124 ,  B29C64/153

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the manufacture of a toy building element made of a polymeric material using an additive manufacturing technique as the manufacturing process. The present invention also relates to a toy building element produced by said additive manufacturing process.

公开(公告)号：US20200265646A1

公开(公告)日：2020-08-20

申请号：US16785111

申请日：2020-02-07

Applicant: LEGO A/S

Inventor： Anders Antoft SCHOU

IPC: G06T19/00 ,  G06K9/00 ,  A63F13/332 ,  A63F13/48 ,  A63F13/92 ,  A63F13/335

Abstract: According to one aspect, a toy system is adapted for use in a multiplayer game, the toy system comprising a primary user device, a secondary user device, and one or more toys; wherein the primary and secondary user devices are operable in a common multiplayer game session; wherein the primary user device is configured to capture video images of a real-world scene including the one or more toys from a primary view point and to display the captured video images as a primary view of the real-world scene; wherein the secondary user device is configured to display a secondary view of a scene corresponding to the real-world scene as seen from a secondary view point; wherein the one or more toys comprise at least one user-manipulable object adapted to selectively be brought into a user-selected one of a plurality of predetermined states, at least a first one of the predetermined states having a first visual appearance; wherein the primary user device is configured to detect said first predetermined state in a primary view including the user-manipulable object, based on the first visual appearance; and wherein the secondary user device is configured to produce user-perceptible output, in response to the detected first predetermined state. Corresponding methods and computer systems for implementing the method are also provided.

公开(公告)号：US20200078698A1

公开(公告)日：2020-03-12

申请号：US16492291

申请日：2018-02-27

Applicant: LEGO A/S

Inventor： Luka KAPETER ,  Jens Peter HAURUM ,  Nathalie Fernandez ALVAREZ ,  Steffen GØTSKE

IPC: A63H33/06

Abstract: A wearable toy system comprising a wearable component, a toy housing and at least one replaceable toy; wherein the wearable component comprises at least one fastening member for securing the wearable component to a part of a user's body; wherein the toy housing comprises a toy-receiving base and a cover, the toy-receiving base being adapted to receive at least a base member of the replaceable toy, the toy-receiving base and the cover together defining a void for accommodating at least a part of the replaceable toy when the base member is received by the toy-receiving base and when the cover is in a closed state; wherein the toy housing defines at least one opening when the cover is in the closed state, the opening allowing one or more parts of the replaceable toy to extend out of the toy housing.

公开(公告)号：US10583354B2

公开(公告)日：2020-03-10

申请号：US15314407

申请日：2015-06-03

Applicant: LEGO A/S

Inventor： Siddharth Muthyala ,  Mikkel Holm Jensen ,  Jesper Søderberg ,  Ditte Bruun Pedersen ,  Michael Brorsen

IPC: A63F13/63 ,  A63F13/57 ,  A63H33/04 ,  A63H33/08 ,  A63F13/213 ,  A63F13/655

Abstract: A toy construction system comprising: a plurality of toy construction elements, each comprising one or more coupling members configured for releasably interconnecting the toy construction elements with each other; an image capturing device operable to capture one or more images of a toy construction model constructed from one or more of said toy construction elements; and a processor configured to extract a two-dimensional view of the toy construction model from the captured image; to create a virtual object in a virtual environment; and to create a three-dimensional graphical representation of the virtual object from the extracted two-dimensional view, wherein the created three-dimensional representation has a first view, seen along a first direction, defined by the extracted two-dimensional view, and a size along the first direction determined from a size of the extracted two-dimensional view.

公开(公告)号：US20200023269A1

公开(公告)日：2020-01-23

申请号：US16341742

申请日：2017-10-10

Applicant: LEGO A/S

Inventor： Roberto MARCHESI ,  Melissa Jane PICKERING ,  Maiken Hillerup FOGTMANN ,  Henrik Munk STORM ,  Rasmus HARR ,  Cephas Edgar HOWARD

IPC: A63F13/213 ,  A63F13/92 ,  A63H33/04

Abstract: A game system, comprising: a plurality of game tokens, an image capturing device and a processor; the image capturing device being operable to capture one or more images of one or more event tokens placed within a field of view of the image capturing device, the plurality of game tokens comprising a plurality of event tokens; wherein the processor is configured to: execute a digital game, the digital game comprising computer executable code configured to cause the processor to associate one or more individual game events with each of the plurality of event tokens; and to associate one or more further game events with each of a plurality of sets of event tokens, each set comprising two or more event tokens chosen from said plurality of event tokens; receive one or more images captured by said image capturing device; recognise one or more game tokens of the plurality of game tokens within the one or more images, the recognised one or more game tokens including one or more event token; responsive to recognising a single event token of the plurality of event tokens in the one or more images, cause the one or more individual game events associated with the recognised event token; responsive to recognising one of the plurality of sets of event tokens in the one or more images, where the event tokens of the recognised set are positioned in a predetermined spatial configuration relative to each other, cause the one or more further game events associated with the recognised set.

公开(公告)号：US10427063B2

公开(公告)日：2019-10-01

申请号：US14411218

申请日：2013-07-01

Applicant: LEGO A/S

Inventor： Rene Licht Bøtcher ,  Christina Hansen

IPC: A63H33/04 ,  B29C70/68 ,  B29C70/78 ,  B32B3/30 ,  B32B38/18 ,  B29C64/00

Abstract: A method for the manufacture of a plastics product (1) and a plastics product (1), which plastics product (1) comprises a first (2) and a second (3) component that are both manufactured completely or partially from molding plastics, and which first component (2) is manufactured by molding in a mold, such as by injection molding, and which second component (3) is made by a process in which it is built in a layer-by-layer fashion, such as by 3D-printing, and having a mounting surface (7); and wherein the first component (2) is ready-molded and ejected from the mold prior to it being joined with the second component (3) to form the plastics product (1). By the first layer of material formed in the 3D-printing process of manufacturing the second component (3) being formed on a surface having the same shape as the mounting surface (7) of the first component (2), it is enabled to manufacture a product with a high degree of design individuality, while simultaneously parts of the product can be made with very fine tolerances.

公开(公告)号：US10213692B2

公开(公告)日：2019-02-26

申请号：US15524944

申请日：2015-11-09

Applicant: LEGO A/S

Inventor： Marko Velic ,  Karsten Østergaard Noe ,  Jesper Mosegaard ,  Brian Bunch Christensen ,  Jens Rimestad

IPC: A63F9/00 ,  A63F13/65 ,  G06K9/00 ,  A63F13/213 ,  A63H33/08 ,  G06K9/62 ,  G06N3/04 ,  G06N3/08 ,  G06N5/04

Abstract: System and method for automatic computer aided optical recognition of toys, for example, construction toy elements, recognition of those elements on digital images and associating the elements with existing information is presented. The method and system may recognize toy elements of various sizes invariant of toy element distance from the image acquiring device for example camera, invariant of rotation of the toy element, invariant of angle of the camera, invariant of background, invariant of illumination and without the need of predefined region where a toy element should be placed. The system and method may detect more than one toy element on the image and identify them. The system is configured to learn to recognize and detect any number of various toy elements by training a deep convolutional neural network.

公开(公告)号：US10150045B2

公开(公告)日：2018-12-11

申请号：US15539571

申请日：2016-01-13

Applicant: LEGO A/S

Inventor： Arnaud Dubreuil

IPC: B43K29/00 ,  A63H33/06 ,  B43K23/06 ,  B43K7/00 ,  A63H33/08 ,  B43K23/008

Abstract: A writing instrument, comprising a tubular body having a longitudinal axis with a first and a second end, and with an opening arranged in the first end; a first building block having a body part with a substantially plane surface and one or more coupling knobs extending from the substantially plane surface, and where the first building block is fixed onto the outside of the tubular body so that the coupling knobs extend away from said longitudinal axis.