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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 19, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 10, 2017
Lego A/s, Billund, DK;
Roberto Marchesi, Vejle, DK;
Melissa Jane Pickering, Vejle, DK;
Maiken Hillerup Fogtmann, Vejle, DK;
Henrik Munk Storm, Randbøl, DK;
Rasmus Harr, Vejle, DK;
Cephas Edgar Howard, Billund, DK;
LEGO A/S, Billind, DK;
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.