Patents Assigned to Lego A/S
  • Patent number: 10812957
    Abstract: A method for establishing a wireless connection between a primary electronic device and a user-selectable one of a set of secondary electronic devices via a wireless communication channel; the primary electronic device comprising a display and a wireless communications interface, each of the set of secondary electronic devices comprising a user-activatable input and a wireless communications interface; wherein the method comprises: detecting at least a subset of said set of secondary electronic devices within a communication range of the primary electronic device; displaying, on the display of the primary electronic device, a list of the detected subset of secondary electronic devices; responsive to a user activation of a user-activatable input of a user-selected one of the subset of secondary electronic devices, sending an identification signal by the user-selected secondary electronic device, the identification signal identifying the user-selected secondary electronic device; responsive to receiving said id
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: LEGO A/S
    Inventor: Oliver Wallington
  • Patent number: 10799802
    Abstract: A game system, comprising: a data processing system configured to execute program instructions allowing a user to engage in digital game play; a physical toy; and a detection device configured to detect a presence of the toy within a detection area of the detection device; wherein the toy comprises two or more identification elements each detectable by the detection device when the identification element is positioned within the detection area, wherein the toy is configured to allow a user to selectively position the toy with a user-selected subset of one or more of said identification elements within the detection area; and wherein the data processing system is configured to control said digital game play responsive to the detected subset of identification elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: LEGO A/S
    Inventors: Jesper Carol Nielsen, Bjarke Pedersen
  • Patent number: 10759105
    Abstract: Injection-moulding mould configured for being mounted in an injection-moulding apparatus for automated moulding of work pieces from plastics, said injection-moulding mould comprising at least two separate mould parts that are separated by a mould separation face, and wherein at least one mould part 1 is configured with an outer frame 2 in which one or more spaces is/are configured that are open relative to the mould separation face, in which is mounted at least one exchangeable mould insert 3, and wherein the exchangeable mould insert 3 has a mould cavity side that faces towards the mould separation face, which mould cavity side is provided with one or more mould cavities, and wherein, in the mould insert 3, a set of cooling channels 14 is provided and at least two pipe couplings to which there is, for each pipe coupling, configured a cooling pipe 4 being, with its first end, mounted to the pipe coupling and extending therefrom, in its longitudinal direction, from the pipe coupling and out through a channel 8
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: LEGO A/S
    Inventor: Jens Stamp Lambæk
  • Patent number: 10646780
    Abstract: A game system comprising a data processing system and an identification toy element that includes information associated with the identification toy element; wherein the identification toy element is a toy construction element comprising one or more connectors configured for mechanically connecting one or more other toy construction elements to the identification toy element so as to allow a user to construct a toy construction model; and wherein the data processing system is configured to: detect a presence of the identification toy element in a detection area; create an association between a virtual object in a virtual environment and the detected identification toy element; access, when the identification toy element is again placed within a detection area, the information associated with the identification toy element; obtain, based on the accessed information, information about the virtual object associated with the identification toy element; present a representation of the associated virtual object; an
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: LEGO A/S
    Inventors: Jens Valentin Laulund, Joakim Kørner Nielsen, Morgan James Walker, Bjarke Pedersen
  • Patent number: 10650222
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for recognizing a plurality of real-world toy construction elements of a toy construction system assembled to form a real-world toy construction model, each real-world toy construction element comprising coupling members for detachably connecting the real-world toy construction element with one or more other real-world toy construction elements of the toy construction system so as to form the real-world toy construction model; wherein the method comprises: receiving at least one captured image of the real world toy construction model; processing the at least one captured image so as to at least preliminarily recognise at least a first real-world toy construction element in the at least one captured image as a first known real-world toy construction element from stored digital representations of a plurality of known real-world toy construction elements of the toy construction system, each digital representation comprising connectivity information indicative of how the correspondin
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: LEGO A/S
    Inventors: Tim Gorm Kaas-Rasmussen Olsen, Tue Jakobsen, Jesper Søderberg, Fraser Lovatt
  • Patent number: 10649603
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of providing input to an electronic unit comprising a touch-sensitive surface that is configured for registering application of touch by a flexible unit and a toy comprising an electronic unit comprising a touch-sensitive surface and a structure; the structure configured from a material that cannot be registered by the touch-sensitive surface, and it comprises, either at the periphery or within the periphery, at least one marked position. One or more flexible units that comprise(s) material that can be registered by the touch-sensitive surface, wherein the one or more flexible units extend(s) past the top side of the structure and to the bottom side of the structure, to the effect that the registration of a flexible unit is conditioned by the configuration of the at least one marked position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: LEGO A/S
    Inventors: Maiken Hillerup Fogtmann, Jens Valentin Laulund, Daniel W. Mathiasen
  • Patent number: 10625173
    Abstract: A toy construction system comprising a plurality of interactive construction elements each comprising coupling members configured for releasably interconnecting the interactive construction elements with each other, the plurality of interactive construction elements comprising a plurality of function construction elements, and one or more input construction elements, each input construction element comprising a wireless transmitter for transmitting a control signal to at least a subset of the function construction elements; each function construction element comprising: a function device adapted to perform a controllable function; a wireless receiver for receiving the wireless control signal; and a control circuit connected to the wireless receiver and to the function device and adapted to control the controllable function responsive to the received control signal; wherein each interactive construction element comprises a user-operable selector allowing a user to select one of a predetermined set of group ide
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: LEGO A/S
    Inventors: Rasmus Bissenbakker Kærsgaard, Henrik Colfach Sørensen, Erik Hansen, Henrik Hautop Lund
  • Patent number: 10600240
    Abstract: A system for acquiring a 3D digital representation of a physical object, the system comprising: A scanning station comprising an object support for receiving a physical object; an image capturing device operable to capture two or more images of a physical object when the physical object is placed on the object support, wherein the two or more images are taken from different view points relative to the physical object; and a processor configured to process the captured two or more images and to create a 3D digital model of the physical object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: LEGO A/S
    Inventors: Morgan James Walker, Jonathan B. Bennink, Luka Kapeter, Henrik Munk Storm
  • Patent number: 10596479
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of generating a digital representation of a user-defined construction element connectable to pre-manufactured toy construction elements of a toy construction system, each pre-manufactured toy construction element comprising a number of coupling elements for coupling the pre-manufactured toy construction element with one or more other pre-manufactured toy construction elements of said toy construction system, the method comprising determining one or more positions for placement of one or more coupling elements to be included in the user-defined construction element; generating, responsive to input by a user indicative of a user-defined shape, a digital representation of a user-defined construction element, the user-defined construction element comprising said one or more coupling elements at said determined one or more positions; providing the digital representation for automated production of said user-defined construction element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: LEGO A/S
    Inventors: Erik Bach, Thomas Gjørup
  • Patent number: 10583354
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: LEGO A/S
    Inventors: Siddharth Muthyala, Mikkel Holm Jensen, Jesper Søderberg, Ditte Bruun Pedersen, Michael Brorsen
  • Patent number: 10549209
    Abstract: A toy construction system comprising a plurality of toy construction elements each comprising coupling means for releasably interconnecting the toy construction elements, one or more marker construction elements comprising such coupling means, configured to interconnect with the toy construction elements, and each having a visual appearance recognizable by an image processing system representing a distinct toy object, and a data processing system comprising a digital processor configured to process a captured image of a toy construction model to detect a position of the composite marker construction element within the captured image, and responsive to the detected position of the composite marker construction element, generate a computer-generated image. Direct or indirect interconnection of two or more of marker construction elements with each other or toy construction elements creates a composite marker construction element representing a combination of said distinct toy objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: LEGO A/S
    Inventors: Siddharth Muthyala, Harm Jan Van Beek, Nicolas David Alain Guyon, Frantz Lasorne, Mikkel Holm Jensen
  • Patent number: 10537820
    Abstract: A toy construction system comprising toy construction elements comprising coupling members (20) for detachably interconnecting the toy construction elements to create spatial structures (40), the toy construction system comprises at least a first type of toy construction elements (10), the first type of toy construction elements can be coupled to each other, wherein that the first type of toy construction elements is configured to be detected by a touch screen (60), and when toy construction elements are coupled to each other so as to form a spatial structure, the toy construction elements of the first type define a touch point pattern recognizable by the touch screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: LEGO A/S
    Inventor: Laurence James Dawes
  • Patent number: 10518191
    Abstract: A structure comprising two shell parts connected to each other with at least one snap connection, the two shell parts comprising, on the inner side, mutually complementary male and female snap means configured to form a snap connection, and complementarily configured abutment faces that abut on each other when the male and female snap means are interconnected. The male and female snap means comprise an external spiral-shaped protrusion configured on the male snap means, and a complementarily configured, internal, spiral-shaped protrusion configured on the female snap means configured to engage. The structure comprises rotation-preventive means configured such that the two shell parts are unable to rotate relative to each other when the male and female snap means are interconnected to form at least one snap connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: LEGO A/S
    Inventors: Mikkel Schildknecht Hoé, Per Mortensen
  • Patent number: 10509432
    Abstract: A toy construction system comprising toy construction elements (60) and at least one remote control device (10) and one or more remote controllable actuators (50); said remote control device (10) being configured for transmitting signals for controlling said one or more remote controllable actuators (50); said toy construction elements (60) comprising coupling members for detachably interconnecting the toy construction elements to create spatial structures comprising said one or more remote controllable actuators (50); said remote control device comprising one or more control units (21) configured such that a user may activate the remote control device by activating said one or more control units (21); wherein said one or more control units (21) are adjustable, such that a user can change the orientation of the control unit with respect to the housing of the remote control device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: LEGO A/S
    Inventors: Jeppe Juul Jensen, René Bagnkop Wellejus, Kasper Mygind Pedersen
  • Publication number: 20190321740
    Abstract: A vehicle (10) comprising a body (20), a first wheel axle (31) and a second wheel axle (41), whereon one or more wheels (30, 40) is/are mounted, an electric motor (51) and a control unit (52); and wherein the electric motor is connected to the second wheel axle (41); and wherein the electric motor is configured for driving the one or more wheels (40) that is/are mounted on the second wheel axle (41), wherein said vehicle (10) comprises a movement detection unit configured for detecting a movement in the form of a rotation of the vehicle's wheels (30, 40) and/or wheel axles (31, 41); and wherein the control unit (52) is configured for receiving a signal from the movement detection unit when it detects a movement of the vehicle; and wherein the control unit (52) is configured for transmitting a signal to the electric motor (51) when the movement detection unit detects a movement in the form of a rotation of the vehicle's wheels and such that the electric motor (52) continuously powers the one or more wheels (40
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Applicant: LEGO A/S
    Inventors: Kasper Mygind PEDERSEN, Henning MIKKELSEN, Henning Sand KIRK, Orkan KILIC
  • Patent number: D861801
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: LEGO A/S
    Inventors: Rikke Høgstrup Mølgaard, Søren Hansen Hinge, Søren Holm
  • Patent number: D864308
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: LEGO A/S
    Inventors: Rikke Høgstrup Mølgaard, Søren Hansen Hinge, Søren Holm
  • Patent number: D868904
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: LEGO A/S
    Inventors: Rikke Høgstrup Mølgaard, Søren Hansen Hinge, Søren Holm
  • Patent number: D887499
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: LEGO A/S
    Inventors: Cerim Manovi, Aske Klejnstrup Garling, Leonardo Francisco Lopez, Jaime Sanchez Potter
  • Patent number: D900249
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: LEGO A/S
    Inventors: Byeongjun Hwang, Kyoungbae Na