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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 21, 2017
Filed:
May. 22, 2012
Siddharth Muthyala, Billund, DK;
Harm Jan Van Beek, Rotterdam, NL;
Nicolas David Alain Guyon, St. Barthelemy d'Anjou, FR;
Frantz Lasorne, Nantes, FR;
Mikkel Holm Jensen, Aarhus, DK;
Siddharth Muthyala, Billund, DK;
Harm Jan Van Beek, Rotterdam, NL;
Nicolas David Alain Guyon, St. Barthelemy d'Anjou, FR;
Frantz Lasorne, Nantes, FR;
Mikkel Holm Jensen, Aarhus, DK;
LEGO A/S, Billund, DK;
Abstract
A toy construction system comprising a set of toy construction elements with coupling means for releasably interconnecting the toy construction elements; and a data processing system comprising image capturing means, processing means, and display means, wherein the data processing system is adapted to capture an image of a partial toy construction model constructed from a subset of the toy construction elements; process the captured image to detect at least a position and an orientation of the partial toy construction model; identify a user selection indicative of a user selection of at least one of a set of subsequent construction elements, each subsequent construction element being connectable to the partial toy construction model; responsive to the detected position and orientation of the partial toy construction model, display on said display means a composite image comprising the captured image having superimposed an image of at least the selected subsequent construction element.