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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2024
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2019
Lego A/s, Billund, DK;
Thomas Alan Donaldson, Billund, DK;
Mark Ross Champkins, Billund, DK;
Silviu Toma, Cambridgeshire, GB;
Robert George Milner, Cambridgeshire, GB;
Simon Mark Jordan, Upper Cambourne, GB;
Simon John Turner, Cambridge, GB;
Mark Craig Brannan, Cambridgeshire, GB;
Martin Edward Brock, Cambridge, GB;
LEGO A/S, Billund, DK;
Abstract
A modular toy system comprising a plurality of separate electronic toy modules, each electronic toy module comprising a function device operable to perform a user-perceptible function and a control circuit for controlling the function device; wherein at least a first electronic toy module of the plurality of electronic toy modules comprises a first control circuit, a first function device and a sensor system configured for contactless detection of respective coordinate values of at least two coordinates, each coordinate being indicative of a position or an orientation of at least a second electronic toy module of the plurality of electronic toy modules relative to the first electronic toy module; and wherein the first control circuit is configured to control operation of the first function device based on one or more of the detected coordinate values.