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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 04, 2022
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2017
The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Rahul Mangharam, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Matthew Edward O'Kelly, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Vincent Scott Pacelli, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Matthew Anthony Brady, Coatesville, PA (US);
THE TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Abstract
A system of stacking interlocking blocks can be configured into a series of states in order to capture and display both physical and virtual events or content. In some examples, the system includes the stacking interlocking blocks, a grid base having the stacking interlocking blocks stacked on top of the grid base in a physical configuration, and a user system. Each stacking interlocking block includes a block circuit. The grid base includes an embedded computing system configured, by virtue of communicating with each of the block circuits, to determine a position of each stacking interlocking block with respect to the grid base and in some cases both the grid base and the other blocks which have been detected by the grid base.